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Atomicon & Memorial Day Get-Togethers!

Written by Laura Victor on May 8, 2010. Posted in Challenger News

THOUSANDS of COMICS (from Golden Age to Present), HUNDREDS of DVDs, TOYS, ACTION FIGURES and Other COMICS COLLECTIBLES will be available for sale! Guest ARTISTS and WRITERS will be present to meet & greet their fans, sign autographs, do sketches, and exhibit-and-sell Original Art! For an Updated Guest List ONE WEEK before the show, check our online listing at ConventionScene.com!

DOOR PRIZES as always! Classic 60s Monster Magazine Giveaway! Super-Hero Movie Tickets Giveaway (see IRON MAN 2 on us)! The ever present Mystery Box ‘O’ Stuff (what’s in it? Even Kreskin doesn’t know!! But the retail price of the contents EXCEEDS $100!!)…and, fresh from the First National Bank of Gotham City: Bat-Bux $howca$h (good anywhere in the room…for just that afternoon)! PLUS…some NEW surprises!

FREE-FREE-FREE!: FREE Admission for Kids 12-and-under! FREE Parking for their parents!! FREE Comics for the First 100 Attendees through the door!!! Admission for Adults & Teens is STILL (after 10 YEARS of doing shows) Only $2!

Is it a FIFTH SUNDAY? You can bet your Repulsor Rays, there’s an ATOMICON goin’ on! Always Affordable Family Entertainment (we keep it clean, jellybean!)…and a MegaTON of ComicBook FUN!!

Forsooth! Remember yon Erstwhile Inhabitant of Ethereal Asgard: the Immortal Jack Abel…and His Eternal, Kirby-like Command: “Be Thou THERE…or Be Ye SQUARE!!!”

For further details on this fun filled weekend plan, give a buzz to 732-830-3262 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              732-830-3262      end_of_the_skype_highlighting or send an e-mail to co@usschallenger.org

Adm. Bob Vosseller
CO USS Challenger
VRC Region 7

It’s Iron Man Weekend!

Written by Laura Victor on May 6, 2010. Posted in Challenger News

Lets meet up on Saturday at the Marquee Marquee Cinemas on Route 37 in Toms River, NJ for the 3 pm show, and then hit either the buffet orsome other eatery afterwards.

Who is in for our rockem’ sockem’ Iron Man adventure on Saturday? Email the Challenger list at starfleetusschallenger@yahoo.com or email Bob at co@usschallenger.org!

10 Questions – Laura Victor

Written by Laura Victor on April 20, 2010. Posted in 10 Questions

madmen_lauraPosition onboard?

Chief Communications Officer and Webmaster.

How long have you been a member?

Joined Challenger in 2006 (been a member of STARFLEET since 1999!)

Favorite Star Trek Series?

Deep Space Nine. Great sets, best uniforms, everyone drank coffee, and it had the best sci-fi bar, hands-down. Quark had fabulous fashion sense, and wasn’t afraid to wear coattails after noon.

Favorite Trek Character?

Odo and Seven of Nine. Both are made of awesome. I wonder what their offspring would look like.

Favorite Sci-Fi, Non-Trek Series?

The new Battlestar Galactica (when I’m in a serious mood) and Red Dwarf (when I’m being myself.)

Favorite TV Show Overall?

Mad Men. Partly because it’s a thought-provoking, introspective baby-boomer’s sentimental meditation on postmodern urban culture. But mostly for the fabulous hairdo’s and clothes.

Favorite Movie?

The original Star Wars trilogy, Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek: First Contact, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Alien & Aliens, and Terminarors 1 and 2.

Favorite Book or Book Series?

Seven Years of Highly Defective People, by Dilbert author Scott Adams. He predicted that the Holodeck “would be mankind’s greatest invention… and its last.”

Other things you like to do outside of the club?

Design Web sites, both professionally and just for kicks, baby, KICKS!

I’m also an avid cook, a budding gardener, and quite possibly the worst player in the entire world of “Star Trek:Online.”

Why did you join Challenger?

I’ve been friends with Challenger ever since joining STARFLEET, and when the time came to retire to regular Joe Member status, they welcomed me with open arms! The fact that my fiancee was a longtime member may have had something to do with it too… 😉