DC All Access host Jason Inman has joined forces with Operation Gratitude to give comic books to US military members through the Third Annual Jawiin Comic Book Drive.

Operation Gratitude sends 250,000+ individually addressed care packages to Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines deployed overseas, to their children left behind, and to New Recruits, Veterans, First Responders, Wounded Heroes and their Caregivers. Each package contains food, hygiene products, entertainment and handmade items, as well as personal letters of support.

The Jawiin Comic Book Drive has collected over 22,000 comics for Operation Gratitude in the past two years. This year, from November 1st through the 30th, Jason is looking to send another 22,000 comics for our service members. DC Publisher Dan Didio has already donated 10,000 comics to get the drive going!

If you’d like to donate any of new or good condition comic books, follow the steps below! Feel free to include letters or postcards along with your comic donations!

1. Fill out the donation form at https://www.operationgratitude.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Donor-Form_2017_OCT.pdf
Put “Jawiin Comic Drive for Soldiers” in Group Title and the comic drive email on the form. The rest of the form is pretty self-explanatory.
2. Box and ship the comics and the donation form to
Operation Gratitude
21100 Lassen St.
Chatsworth, CA 91311
Please include a donation form in EVERY box even if they’re part of the same donation. Sometimes cartons don’t all arrive at the same time.
3. Send a picture of your comics and the number of books you are donating to jawiincomicdrive@gmail.com.
(If you don’t send your number to the email, they will have an inaccurate count and the drive could fail. Let’s get these soldiers some comics for the new year!)

Let’s see how many comics we Geekscapists can muster!

 

Nerdist Industries has just launched the first chapter in a hilarious new webseries promoting this year’s Course of the Force. The six-part series follows Matt Mira, a man tasked with the nigh-impossible duty of recovering the stolen Course of the Force Lightsaber.

The series looks to be an absolute riot, but it’s also very important. The webseries exists to spread the word about Course of the Force, an amazing partnership between Lucasfilm, Nerdist Industries, and Octagon, that hosts an olympic-style lightsaber relay in the days leading up to San Diego Comic Con.

The 2013 Course of the Force event will take place from July 9th to 16th, and span the distance between Skywalker Ranch and SDCC. Anyone can participate in the event, and proceeds help support the incredible work of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Registration to the event is $150, and includes a customized Hasbro lightsaber, a Course of the Force swag bag, and of course entry into the experience of a lifetime.

It sounds like everyone involved is doing some amazing work, and the 2013 Course of the Force relay is already well on its way to eclipsing last year’s impressive event. Watch the first chapter of the series below, and head here for more information on the relay. Even if you can’t make it, spread the word, these guys deserve it!