October is coming...

Summer movies have been long gone, the students are back in school, and in most parts of the world not named Florida the weather is beginning to cool and the leaves are changing colors. Fall is officially here! But, you know what else is just around the corner?

The month of October!

Now, I am biased, considering how I was born in the month of October. But that’s not the main reason why I’m stoked for October. No, instead I’m stoked for what October tends to bring around every year, particularly recently, I’ve noticed.

First, on the sports side of things (sports, I know, I’m talking about sports for once!) we get football coming into the full swing of things, as in now is going to be the time where the College Football Playoff committee has to get serious and start picking teams to go into the Final Four. Granted the tournament won’t start until New Year, but most of the cupcake games are done now, the real schedules start now.

I would talk about the baseball playoffs but since the Yankees are out what’s the point, you know? In regards to baseball October is pretty much dead to me.

But enough about sports, let’s move onto more fun topics. Like Green Arrow. Just, Green Arrow in general. The first week of October features his next big storyline kicking up with the writers of the show Arrow to be the new creative team, and they have promised us the introduction of Felicity Smoak. Given how great she is on the show I’m looking forward to seeing her on the page, especially with hothead Emiko running around trying to become the new Green Arrow. Not only that, but the latest Green Arrow arc, “The Outsiders War,” is also coming out in trade form on the fourteenth. It’s cheap on Amazon, I definitely recommend buying it. And finally, season 3 of Arrow starts back up on October 8^th and you best believe I’m excited as heck for it to be coming back!

Speaking of comic book TV shows, though, we’re not nearly done. The Flash debuts the day before Arrow to give us a speedster to go along with our archer. The show is going to delve more into the supernatural and have it make sense for us to see actually super villains in the DC television universe of the CW. Another DC supernatural show is kicking off later on in the month, on the twenty-fourth, Constantine. I don’t much about the guy except that he deals with like…demons and stuff. But I do know that Jim Corrigan is gonna be on it. Justice League Dark maybe? Who knows!

Finally rounding off the comic book TV shows is AMC’s The Walking Dead kicking off its fifth season! That’s crazy! I’m very much excited for the return of Rick’s stuff and thangs as our group takes on Terminus…for apparently only the pilot. I’m gonna guess that what we all thought was going to take up the majority of the season is going to just be a quick part of the premier and then they’ll jump to a new storyline. Either way, it looks very promising.

To round off the side of TV shows, The 100 is coming off a surprisingly amazing first season on the CW and is premiering it’s second season on the twenty-second, so if you haven’t already watch it, definitely check it out. It was one of those sleeper shows that turned out to be amazing. But, the month of October will also feature the end of a beloved franchise: Legend of Korra is debuting its fourth and final season on the third, meaning this will be the final time we see an iteration of Team Avatar. Set three years in the future, I’m actually very intrigued where this can go, as the time skip provides us with hopefully more interesting characterization…and maybe even…the return of Amon. Probably not, but, I can dream.

However there is another great thing that happens on October 3^rd: Super Smash Bros. for the 3DS is coming out! I am so pumped for this as now I don’t have to actually invest in a Nintendo console to play a game from one of their best franchises. I’ve gotten the chance to play the demo for a little bit and I’m super stoked to get to play it. From what I’ve seen on live streams (the JWittz livestream, which everyone should tune into if you’re a Nintendo fan, follow him on Twitch!) it looks like it’ll be days worth of fun. I’ll have trouble switching between that and Soul Calibur 4, without a doubt.

But let’s not forget the classic collection we’re gonna be receiving on the twenty-third. I love America as much as the next patriot, and I love Assassin’s Creed as much as the next nerd. Put the two together and you get hours and hours of taking down Templar and standing up for good old AMERICA! Well, good old Ubisoft decided to make Assassin’s Creed: America Edition for I believe all consoles, and it will collect all the main America games out so far, so AC3, AC3: Liberation, and the groundbreaking AC4: Black Flag. Even if you have all the games, I would so pick this up just because it’s Assassin’s Creed and come on. You know you want to.

I almost forgot to mention the rest of the comics coming out this month! Avengers and X-Men: AXIS, Marvel’s next big event comic, is kicking off. I’ve really got no idea what it’s supposed to be about besides the fact that Dr. Doom, Loki, Red Onslaught (Red Skull), Carnage, Hob Goblin, and Sabretooth are gonna be heavily featured, and the new-look Avengers, along with some other dudes of course, are gonna be taking them on. And in a post-“Original Sin” world, there is no help from the Watcher. Ruh-ro. (Also “Original Sin” might be coming out in a trade this month, featuring Original Sin #0-8 and Original Sins #1-5 but don’t quote me on that). Spider-Man also continues to set up for Spider-Verse in his seventh and eighth issues, but sadly, no more Superior Spider-Man for the time being…And my final news in comics is more of a manga thing but hey…I don’t care. Attack on Titan: No Regrets gets it second volume, in which Levi and Erwin have met and now it’s a matter of taming the young Levi and seeing if he is worthy of wearing the Wings of Freedom. Plus, Levi origins are cool, right?

Finally, and this is probably more for just me but if you like it to then you are awesome, Konami FINALLY decided to release a Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds Legendary Collection coming out on the twenty-fourth with guaranteed cards such as Shooting Quasar Dragon and Black Rose Dragon! Undoubtedly we’ll be seeing some other great Synchros like Trishula and Dark Strike Fighter, so, I’m so getting that.

There is probably a butt-load of stuff I’m missing from October but as it comes I’ll be sure to tweet about it. Based off of all this, though, I am most definitely excited for what October is bringing to us, like I am every year. Because October is the best month, period.

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