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Two days remaining for nominating and seconding.

Here is my full write up of the new wing: https://embraceyourgeeknesseyg.com/2023/11/12/eyg-hall-of-fame-cinema-wing/ Throughout the year, I induct worthy nominees into the Embrace Your Geekness Hall of Fame. Whether it be the regular vote on the ballot by the EYG Nation, the Legends nominees, the Comic Issue Wing or special inductees, the EYG Hall of Fame is very active. I decided that it was time to open a new wing of the EYG Hall of Fame. One of the biggest ‘geeks’ that many people have is movies. There are some movies that have made it into the EYG Hall of Fame, but I have always felt like there had not been enough considering how many amazing movies there have been over the years. This first class of the EYG Cinema Wing are as follows: 1920: Nosferatu (1922) 1930: King Kong (1933) 1940: Citizen Kane (1941) 1950: Seven Samurai (1954) 1960: Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 1970: The Godfather (1972) 1980: Blade Runner (1982) 1990: Silence of the Lambs (1991) Aughts: Psycho (1960) Death Tribble was invaluable in his work in accomplishing this class of films. He provided lists for each decade of films (which was an idea that he suggested) and helped provide info and facts about the films. Then the two of us discussed which films should be dropped, leading to our final choices. I thank him for all of his work and effort in this venture. I plan on continuing with the Cinema Wing around the start of summer movie season (probably early May). How that will look is still up in the air, but I am pleased with how this came out. The films that have already been inducted into the EYG HoF are as follows: The Princess Bride, Star wars: A New Hope, Ghostbusters, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Planet of the Apes (1968), Marvel’s The Avengers, Back to the Future, The Terminator, The Empire Strikes Back, Jaws, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Wizard of Oz, Marvel’s Black Panther, Die Hard, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Return of the Jedi, and Jurassic Park.

I want to second Art Adams

So I need some seconding too for them to make the final vote. I'll second: Curt Swan Todd McFarlane Brian Bolland Mark Waid Dave Cockrum Chuck Dixon Gerry Conway Jim Mooney

I'll start off by nominating: Frank Miller Frank Frazetta Gene Colon Wally Wood

Good day to everyone here at NGD! As some of you may know, I run a website called Embrace Your Geekness and at that website, we have a Hall of Fame. We do a poll every year where we at EYG nominate several items, people, characters, movies etc. and the top vote getters are inducted into the EYG Hall of Fame. This is the EYG Hero Games NGD Award that we do every year (this is the eighth year for this award) How this works: I am looking for nominations from the community of NGD for the best comic book artists or comic book writers of all time. I would ask that you nominate those creators who you think have done enough work that they could be enshrined in the EYG Hall of Fame. I require that those artists/writers be nominated by one poster and seconded by another in order to make the final poll After that, I will take those nominees who have been seconded and place them into a poll. The top three creators in vote total will be inducted under the "Hero Games Forum NGD Award". We do have a few comic creators already in the EYG Hall of Fame. Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Will Eisner, Osamu Tezuka, George Perez, Kurt Busiek, Chris Claremont, Neil Gaiman, Bill Finger, Bob Kane, Shuster & Seigel, Sergio Aragones, Carmine Infantino, Walt Simonson, John Romita Sr., Marv Wolfman, Marie Severin, Roy Thomas, Steve Gerber, Joe Kubert, John Byrne, William Moulton Marston, Mark Gruenwald, Peter David, Jim Shooter, Alan Moore, Hayao Miyazaki, Gail Simone, Al Jaffee, Alex Ross, Neal Adams, Jolly Blackburn, Ben Edlund, Jim Starlin, and Louise Simonson are already members of the EYG Hall of Fame so I will not take any nominations for them. I am going to open the nomination and seconding process up and will allow it to run until November 17 at 6 PM Eastern. I will then put up a poll for the NGD to vote for the nominees. I appreciate your involvement in this process. The Non-Gaming Discussion board has always been an awesome place with some wonderful people. I have enjoyed my time here. That is why I wanted to get the input from you for this award for the EYG Hall of Fame, which is something that I have really been proud of doing for all these years. Thank you for your time and consideration in this process. Oh, by the way... please only nominate those individuals who made their fame in the realm of comic books, not comic strips.

Puff the Magic Dragon

Ship

Peter Loew

Madcap

Jonquil

The poll is officially closed. 2023 inductees Barbie Doll Frankenstein’s Monster Return of the Jedi (movie) time travel Loch Ness Monster Jurassic Park (movie) John Wick (character) Smokey Bear UFOs Wheel of Time book series Coelacanth

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With the movies, we started out with those mainly considered 'geek' films. I do absolutely believe something like Citizen Kane has a place. Bazza, Metropolis was on the ballot one year, but failed to receive enough votes. Perhaps what I should do is form a wing of the HoF (like I do with Comic Issues) for Movies. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of films that could be inducted. I would limit the number inducted each year and have one time a year to put in worthwhile films. In fact, I would love to have a board to make the nominations. 2-3 people along with me to induct 1-2 movies each every year. We could start right after the ballot ends this year and then set it every year around Oscar time. DT- would you be interested to be a part of the board? Maybe you too Bazza? It would give a more international flavor to the choices, potentially. Let me know if you guys are interested or if there are anyone else you might like to join me. I think I am absolutely going to create this Cinema Wing of the EYG HoF even if it is just me making the choices.

I am also a film geek and so I think any movie that could be considered successful or influential could/should be considered. Board games are available. If I remember correctly, Monopoly is in. Clue would be an excellent possibility. And don't worry about taking up the conversation. I do not think that is bad here.

I have written them all down on my list. I appreciate the ideas. Honestly, a few of them I have never heard of before (Skippy the Bush Kangaroo?) but I look forward to learning more about them. I do induct Legends three times during a year as I also do a Jan 1 group with the same category (this year was Muppets) and some of these would work for those inductions too. Thanks for your participation!

All excellent suggestions. I'll keep them in mind. We definitely have a lack of movies in the EYG HoF for whatever reason.

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I take the top vote getter. That vote count I determine 75% of it and every one that is above that gets in. So for example... Barbie has 66 votes right now. 75% of that is 50 votes. All above 50 make the cut.

Here is the 2023 ballot for the EYG Hall of Fame. Feel free to vote for as many of the nominees that you want and as often as you would like. Ballot stays active until Talk Like A Pirate Day. https://embraceyourgeeknesseyg.com/

Cybertronian

I have struggled with my final bonus interference pick. Here we go... Mister Rancor had been steaming. Ever since Alitheon had gifted the world lie detection, Rancor had been searching the depths of his dark heart for a way to overcome the so called gift. He had come up empty, which spurred on the feelings of vengeance within his mind. Then, Alitheon dared to gift him 'white, hot fury' That was all Mister Rancor could stand. "How dare he believe that he could present me with more fury? Does he not know that no one has more fury than the God of Hate! It is a slap in my face!" Was there a way he could directly deal with Alitheon? No, it did not seem he could. So the vengeance would have to take a different path. "I do not need 'WHITE HOT FURY' as I am the center of that. So... I feel the need to share the Gift of Alitheon with all!" Interference (bonus): Mister Rancor shares the WHITE HOT FURY gift from Alitheon with every living creature of the Chimney.

Bonus Mythic Monster: Cetus Mister Rancor thought that there needed to be something special in all of these living rivers floating around the chimney.

Can we do picks with the bonus picks on weekend?