When Fanboy Comics is not providing you with the latest in geek news and entertainment, the FBC staff hopes to offer our readers a myriad of opportunities to give back to the community. We love reading comics, watching movies, and playing video games, but we are never happier than when we are able to help others in need. With Geeks Care: How You Can Help, FBC will provide you a variety of causes that would greatly appreciate your time.


Happy New Year, Fanboy Comics readers!  As 2015 is already off and running, the FBC staff is eager to bring you its weekly listing of amazing and worthwhile organizations and events that offer opportunities to give back to your community.  In the first Geeks Care: How You Can Help installment of the year, we once again shine a spotlight on the fine folks at Blastoff Comics, a top-of-the-line comic book shop in North Hollywood, CA. Blastoff stocks both current comics and graphic novels, as well as an astonishing collection of vintage comics for sale, providing customers with rarities that they just cannot find anywhere else. What truly makes Blastoff and its owners, Jud Meyers and Scott Tipton, stand out is their commitment to helping others in need. A portion of all of their proceeds are donated to charity, with the recipients changing on a monthly basis. This month, Meyers and Tipton have chosen to highlight The Movember Foundation, and we want to join Blastoff Comics in educating our readers about this important organization.

At Fanboy Comics, we relish the opportunity to share unique, interesting, and promising crowdfunding campaigns with our readers in an effort to provide creators of all mediums with the chance to reach a larger audience.  While many of our previous "Kickstarter Reports" and "Indiegogo Reports" have focused on comic books and gaming, it is always a pleasure to expand outside of that reach.  In this edition of "The Indiegogo Report," I will be focusing on I Will Love You, Always., a short film by Summera Howell that subtly blends fantasy with reality. The film explores love and loss in the 21st century and uses strong visuals to bring the audience into the emotions of the characters. It's a deeply personal film about the choice to move on.  Hoping to bring this personal story to life, Howell launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise the necessary funds for the film, and she needs your help to make her dream a reality!

In Paragon #3, readers continue the story of Ben, a young man who originally lived in a dimension free of poverty, sickness, and general unhappiness but was pulled into an alternate world of crime, disease, and misery when his father passed away.  In this latest issue, Ben struggles to form a relationship with his alternate reality father, while finding his own place and purpose in the new society that is in desperate need of a hero.  By turning to his own savior, a shelter worker who cared for him during his initial arrival in the dimension, he finds a renewed strength to fight the injustices that plague his new home.

Shadow Cuts is an indie film that is part procedural, part The Sixth Sense, and part superhero story.  The film tells the story of Jennifer, an unemployed woman who can see the echos of past spirits and can solve their murders; however, every time that she uses her power, she is pursued by an unknown evil. In order to make this indie film a reality, the filmmakers launched their own Kickstarter campaign to raise the necessary production costs for the film, and they need your help!