The Winner of The Venture Home News August Give-away is Brian Eidolon!

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Good afternoon Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at Sea!
Brian Eidolon, the winner of The Venture Home News August Pre-Dragon Con. give-away Contest has received his prize!
Brian shown here, with his new Bif Bang Pow, Entertainment Earth, SDCC exclusive Bloody Brock Samson figure is said to be elated. We wish the duo every happiness in the world in their new life together!
Check back in September when the Venture Home news will be bringing it's readers another exciting give-away contest,(that is if we don't give it all away at Dragon*Con). Until then keep reading The Venture Home News where every contest is guaranteed to have a winner, and as always.
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The Vewnture Home News August Pre-Dragon*Con Give-away!

*The Venture Home News August Pre-Dragon*Con. Give-away contest is here*

The Venture Home News in Appreciation of all its fans is giving away This SDCC exclusive Bloody Brock Samson figure by Bif Bang Pow to one lucky reader!
All you have to do to enter is comment on this post, you will be assigned a number in the order that you comment. Then on August 15th. I'll close this Contest, put all the numbers in a hat and my son Simon will draw out the Winner. I will then FB message the winner,(The winner will then have 24 hours to respond, if at the end of 24 hours the winner does not respond another number will be drawn) then I'll mail you the figure. No strings attached, and unlike other recent contests by some I could mention this contest is not rigged. All you have to do is when the figure arrives take a photo of yourself, and post that photo on The Venture Home News as soon as possible. Only one entry will be accepted per person. Brought to you by The Venture Home News where every contest is guaranteed to have a winner. So Come on over to The Venture Home News on Facebook and enter.
Good Luck, and GO TEAM VENTURE!

Doc Hammer and James Urbaniak to be at Dragon*Con 2012

It's finally official Venture Bros.fans!

Good news Venture Bros. fans...Doc Hammer and James Urbaniak join us for more Dragon*Con fun!

Deany V. at The White House.

Hello again faithful readers of The Venture Home News,

Deany V. here at The White House, well this is as close as I got to The White House because when we pulled up to the gate and Brock showed them his I.D. the guard made a phone call and all of a sudden Secret Service agent Hauser came running out waving a gun and shouting. After a heated argument with Brock and Pop agent Hauser told us it would be a cold day in H-E double hockey sticks before we ever were allowed back in The White House after that whole disaster that happened during the Breyer administration! So after impounding our vehicle and strip searching us all, (even H.E.L.P.eR), they finally let us go. So in today’s photo I’m on foot in front of The White House with the rest of the raggedy butt masses, as Pop called them, only he didn’t say butt.  The White House was designed by James Hoban and was supposedly patterned after a building called The Leinster House in Dublin Ireland. It was built between 1792 and 1800 which seems like a long time to build one house, the first President to live there was John Adams.  President Thomas Jefferson was the first to have a Water Closet installed, (Hank wanted to know why ancient people kept their water in a closet, Yeesh), In 1814 during The War of 1812 those mean old British, (probably some of Uncle Gentleman’s relatives), burned it down, afterwards there was talk in the Congress of moving the Capitol to Cincinnati, boy am I glad that cooler heads prevailed. Reconstruction began almost immediately and President James Monroe moved in, in 1817. Between 1818 and the late 1970’s it was painted white more than forty times. It wasn’t always called The White House, in the beginning it was called the Presidential Palace, then The Executive Mansion, not until Teddy Roosevelt, by executive order changed the name and, had the words White House engraved on the official stationary in 1901 did the name change for good. It took me two hours to explain to Hank that Teddy Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt were not the same person, I’m not sure if he believes me even now. By 1948 the house was declared to be in danger of collapse, so President Harry Truman moved into the Blair House and a  restoration was began, in the end it would cost nearly six million dollars and take four years to complete. The walls were stripped bare of all the fixtures, and murals and the whole place was gutted, with nothing left of the original but the outside walls. The only thing they couldn’t clean out was the Ghost of Mr. Lincoln, (Pop said, “It was because he didn’t want to spend eternity with his nut job wife”, but I don’t think he had much choice. Everything on the inside was replaced with steel and concrete, it was fire proofed, and air conditioned, and all those cool underground Umbrella Corporation type bunkers were installed. Then all the old junk they had been so careful removing was replaced so it looked just like it had before they started. Sort of a facelift only on the inside, leaving us with what we basically have today not so much a house as a fortress disguised as a house. Today they use some really cool missiles called NASAMS to protect the White House, and the airspace above The White House is restricted. A fact which Brock pointed out to Pop when Pop wanted to buzz The White House with the X1 on our way out of Washington.

All in all I had a great time visiting our nation’s capitol, and I suggest all Americans make the time to visit, although I think Hank would have probably rather stayed home and practiced his bass with Dermott. I’m not really sure if the trip was successful for Pop or not since he’s been rather quiet since the cavity search that he and Brock got from White House security. Well we’re flying back to the compound now, and I can’t help but wonder why we never found that statue of Grandpa Jonas that I was sure would be in Washington since he was the greatest super-scientist of his day. I’m sure he was as great as Philo T. Farnsworth, and he got a statue in The Capitol building the only thing that guy ever invented was the television. Well until next time dear readers I remain your roving cubby reporter Deany V. and for more hard hitting journalism keep reading The Venture Home News!

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Deany V. At The Jefferson Memorial

Hello again faithful Readers Deany V. here,

Back out on the beat in Washington D.C., today were visiting The Jefferson Memorial way over on the opposite side of the Tidal Pool. It was placed here to complete something called the Four Point plan, with the other three points being Mr. Lincoln’s Memorial, The Capitol building and The White House. It seems awfully far away from the rest and sort of lonely. The building in self is based on the Pantheon in Rome but it kind of reminds me of a booby. There are so many legends and facts about Thomas Jefferson that I didn’t know where to start so I asked Pop what he knows about our third President and he said,” Thomas Jefferson suffered from Migraine headaches and chronic diarrhea, and kept one of his slaves as a mistress, what else do you need to know”.

The Monument was started way back in 1938, and was placed on a really popular spot for picnics that was covered by cherry trees given to The United States by the people of Japan back in 1912. So when the bulldozers arrived they found a bunch of ladies had chained themselves to the cherry trees. President Roosevelt told the ladies that they, plus the trees they were chained to would be moved as one. So the ladies gave up, but they kept complaining all the way up to the day The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, then for some reason nobody cared about the cherry trees anymore. On the inside there is a nineteen foot tall bronze statue of Thomas Jefferson one of the greatest men in American History. Hank asked me if Thomas Jefferson was really that tall, and if Jefferson could dunk a basketball. But I explained to him that the reason he is nineteen feet tall is because there is an unwritten rule in Washington that no statue can be taller than the statue of Freedom that stands on top of The Capitol Rotunda. So nineteen feet is the standard. The statue portrays Mr. Jefferson standing and wearing a fur collared coat that Hank said, “looks kind of fruity”, but with some investigative journalism I discovered that the statue is based on a painting in which Jefferson is wearing a fur collared coat given to him by a Polish immigrant. The statue was sculpted by a man named Rudolph Evans. In Jefferson’s left hand he holds what many believe is the Declaration of Independence, but I guess it could be a grocery list as Hank insisted.

Due to war time restrictions the original statue had to be constructed out of plaster and then painted to look bronze, I guess because we still used a lot of bronze for shields during World War II. Only after the war was over was a real bronze statue finally cast and the plaster one replaced. Finally on April 13 1943 the 200^th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s birth the Memorial was finally dedicated by President Franklin Roosevelt. On That day President Roosevelt said, “Today in the midst of a great war for freedom, we dedicate a shrine to freedom”, Pretty keen, huh? Later when looking out a White House window President Roosevelt found that he couldn’t see the Jefferson Memorial because of all the cherry trees so he ordered more of them cut down so he could have an unobstructed view.

All in all, I learned a lot about Thomas Jefferson from my visit here. Things like he smuggled apple seeds out of Europe, that he hated to wear wigs, that he basically started the Library of Congress, and that he loved Ice Cream, but I guess the most important things I learned about the Jefferson memorial are that Hank is a big stupid head and that old F.D.R. sure hated cherry trees! Well in a couple days we will be leaving Washington D.C. and heading home to the compound I think I will have time to write at least one more report from our nation’s capitol. Pop wants to see the President about some really important plans so I guess our last stop will be The White House until then this is Deany V. your roving reporter signing off!                

GO TEAM VENTURE!

Deaby V. At The Smithsonian Museum of American Art

Hello again Dear Readers,

Deany V. here, today I’m reporting to you from the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. Hank and I talked Brock into letting us visit here while he is across the street at The International Spy Museum. Actually he just handed us some money and told us to go away the moment he saw The International Spy Museum. His eyes kind of glazed over, and he had a little bit of drool coming out of the corner of his mouth, so we took that as our cue to skedaddle.

 The Museum of American Art has this really keen exhibit called the Art of Video Games which included all the old systems like Atari, and Intellivison, and this really cool Commodore 64 from 1982. Pop’s computer that he keeps all his super science junk on in his bedroom is a Commodore 64. (Hank says he also keep his naked lady pictures on there too).The Exhibit is a look at video games from way back in the seventies all the way up through today. Hank and I got to play games like Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros., The Secret of Monkey Island, Myst, and Flower on really giant wall sized screens; all together over 80 different games are represented. It was all free, whereas Brock had to pay like seventeen bucks to get into the International Spy Museum which I thought was a real gyp! Pop is up on Capitol Hill today attending to some “really pressing business” which he said could make us some serious money. I myself am skeptical because when he said it Brock just rolled his eyes, and said something about,” Fracking being dangerous”, at least I think he said Fracking. 

I read about the Video game exhibit on the Interwebs, you could actually vote for your favorite games to be included, they had over two hundred listed to choose from and  almost four million votes were cast, for some reason none of the ones I voted for made it.  I guess Burger Time, and Mickey Mouse-capades weren’t as earth shattering as I thought they were.

I’ve noticed a lot of the things we came to see in the city are closed, besides the Washington Monument, the Reflecting Pool in front of Mr. Lincoln’s memorial is closed for cleaning and repairs.(Pop said that’s just what the Government is telling the tourists, that really The Monarch crashed The Cocoon into it).  Also part of The Smithsonian Castle, the Science and Industry building, (the one with all the locomotives), is closed for refurbishment. It’s like we went to Brisbyland and The Run Away Shoe Ride was closed.  But seeing this really cool video game exhibit has led me to believe that Washington D.C. is a neat city to visit. It’s not just filled with boring Monuments and Statues of old dead guys like Hank said it was going to be. Well now the Art museum is about to close and we have to go see if we can pull Brock out of The International Spy Museum, he told us that if he didn’t come out in three or four hours we should come in and find him. He was sure that he would see some of his old friends or enemies there, and they could rehash some of the adventures they had back in the glory days of spying during the Cold War. He promised us that he would take us to Ford’s Theater to see if we could contact the ghost of honest Abe again. Until later this is your man on the Street in D.C. Deany V.

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The Winner of The Venture Home News July Sweepstakes Give-Away-Palooza!

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WE HAVE A WINNER!
The Kidrobot Monarch figure given away in The Venture Home News July Sweepstakes Give-away-palooza has been awarded!
Elizabeth Branscum,(pictured here) has decided to give The Mighty Monarch a warm and friendly home! We here at The Venture Home News wish the new couple every happiness in the world! In August The Venture Home News will be giving away a Brock Samson 3,3/4 inch figure by Bif Bang Pow! to one lucky reader! So keep reading The Venture Home News where every contest is guaranteed to have a Winner!
And as always GO TEAM VENTURE!