WizKids has released the latest expansion to its table top miniatures game, HeroClix, Teen Titans.

The set is available in 4 options. 3 are blind purchases: 5 figure boosters, super boosters, single figure packs. The last is a “Fast Forces” set, a clear blister which shows you the 6 figures you get and comes with a 2 sided map. Although the characters and sculpts overlap, the dials in each subset are unique. The superboosters include either a “team base” with 3 pieces special to the base or a colossal figure. (more…)

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Superhero movies have come along way since Albert Pyun’s ”Captain America” but the movie, considered a cult classic, has it’s merits and is quite a fun curiosity to watch. But is it a purchase or a pass? Read the review after the jump!

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Earlier today I attended a screening of Return of the Jedi to celebrate not just May the 4th (Star Wars Day) BUT the 30th Anniversary of the film. It was screened at the theater where it premiered in 1983, the Egyptian theater. This is the first time in 30 years that the movie has been screened there so it was quite the triumphant return as Return of the Jedi will be screening there all day! (more…)

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Many moons ago, Danny N. and I both wrote blogs about our super hero T-shirt collections.  At the end of mine, I pointed out the dismay of being unable to own a shirt that really felt like Aquaman.  Aquaman does not have a chest symbol like Superman, Green Lantern or Flash.

I’ve long thought that the lack of an easily identifiable symbol is part of what is holding Aquaman back.  He needed a chest symbol.  He did have kind of a symbol.  Every so often an artist would put an “A” of some style on his belt.  Then with a month of covers with symbols on it during Brightest Day, the stylized belt buckle became the symbol for Aquaman.

Now Graphitti Designs takes it the next step and delivers a shirt in the traditional orange color of Aquaman with this symbol emblazened on the chest.  Here it is.  Now you too can wear Aquaman’s shirt.

Aquaman Shirt

The only thing missing is a shape behind the symbol to make it more distinct from its background.  Superman has a pentagon, Flash and Green Lantern use circles.  Aquaman should buck the round trend and have a triangle.  Color? The green of his pants of course.

Truth in disclosure: I own a number of GD shirts which I have bought both at cons and directly from their site.  I think their products are top notch.  This shirt I spotted on one of my opponents at a recent HeroClix gaming event.  When I got home I immediately looked for it at the GD site.  Comic cover is from The Grand Comics Database.

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Not really, but tonight, April 23rd at 7:30 PM Eastern time is the premiere of DC Nation’s new show, Teen Titans Go.

Teen Titans Go 1

Bringing back the original cast from the prior Teen Titans show, this should be a hit with the younger crowd and somewhat nostalgic to fans of the previous show.  They even remixed the opening song to make the new one.

Starting out as one of the DC Shorts run during the DC Nation block, Teen Titans Go is the first of these to be turned into a series with full half hour episodes.  I think I recall reading that one of the goals of the DC Shorts was to try out material and see if it passed the test to become a show.  Congratulations to Teen Titans Go to making it to a full show. (more…)

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Mid May will see the next release of HeroClix miniatures for that game, this time themed on the various eras, friends and enemies of the Teen Titans.  But it comes with a twist.  A new type of piece, the team base, is being added.

Classic 80s Wolfman Perez New Teen Titans

In the past, it has often been difficult to field a team that feels like a team unless you were playing a high point game.  Also, members of teams were often released a few at a  time, making collecting a team a long process of waiting.  Now this all changes.  Team bases mean you can play many more characters at once, as part of the team base.  Team bases also mean that all members of a specific era are more likely to be made.  Case in point, for the first time in years, we are getting a new Raven figure.  While Beast Boy and Cyborg have been getting some love recently, we have not seen Raven, in any form, since the set named Icons.

For more on team bases, follow the links:

Teen Titans Team Base preview

Cyborg, Raven and Wonder Girl preview

Changling, Kid Flash, Robin and Starfire preview

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Earlier tonight I attended the Hollywood premiere of Oblivion starring Tom Cruise.

Is it worth it or should you skip it and watch Tron again? Review with mild spoilers, be warned…

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Today  I will be  reviewing the Marvel Knight Animation of INHUMANS. Before I begin I’ll give a brief background on what you’re in for animation wise. Marvel Knights Animation is a very unique endeavor. My  first and only other experience like  this was with Iron Man: Extremis, which is available on Netflix instant. An odd yet effective mixture of  animation and  graphic art that makes motion  comics look  like comic  strips in comparison. They have a dreamlike quality that worked for me with Iron Man but is perfect for INHUMANS. If you  have Netflix and are not familiar with the Iron Man: Extremis storyline  (which I believe the Iron Man 3 borrows from) it’s a fun  watch that you can spread out or enjoy in one sitting. (more…)

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Last year at San Diego Comic Con, I had the pleasure of meeting the fine folks at Toymunkey Studios.  I had my assignments, I photographed their booth, spent some time with them learning more about their product lines, the usual convention stuff.  Toymunkey was a little different, however, than other new companies.  Firstly, their “Top Munkey” Scott was someone who has been around the toy industry most of his life.  As a fan, a collector, and working for various companies.  It was clear this wasn’t his first rodeo, and it shows.  I have been given the honor of being the first to review their inaugural piece, The Red Pyramid Thing 1/6 scale PVC statue based on the very popular film and video game franchise “Silent Hill”

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The times, they are a-changin’. Those of us who collect 3¾” action figures have seen articulation reduced in some lines to keep prices down around $6, while fully articulated figures cost in the neighborhood of $10. Green Lantern, STAR WARS, The Dark Knight Rises, Iron Man 3, Ultimate Spider-Man, and even G.I. JOE: Retaliation vehicle drivers have all the posing potential of a 1978 Luke Skywalker. As a collector, there are positives and negatives to be found in this new strategy. One obvious positive is that collectors still have options with a fantastic balance of sculpted detail and articulation in the single-carded G.I. JOE releases, Marvel Universe, and the forthcoming STAR WARS Black Series. Another positive is that $6 options in the action figure aisles help keep toys affordable for parents, and the significance of that for the future of action figure collecting cannot be exaggerated. Someday, many of the kids whose moms are buying them $6 Iron Man and Spider-Man figures will graduate to buying their own $10 Marvel Universe figures. The flip side, of course, is that we have fewer options for action figures featuring the full range of articulation we’ve enjoyed over the last several years.

Other trends include fewer weapons and accessories being packaged with some figures and a lack of stands. While it may bother some hobbyists, this is one direction with which I’m entirely at peace. I end up replacing most of my 3¾” figures’ weapons with items from Marauder “Gun-Runners” anyway. If I need stands, Marauder has those, too. But there is something I’d like to see packed with the figures more often, and so to toy manufacturers, I make my plea:

MOAR LAUNCHERZ PLZ!

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An action figure anthropologist’s work is never done. It was only two trips around the sun ago that we examined the evolutionary links between modern humans and our diminutive ancestor, the Ewok. We presented this theory through the example of one Ewok in particular: Wicket W. Warrick. But recently a more complete fossil record has been excavated.

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They’re just the “Battlers” but maybe the rest will follow soon…

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Back when wave 18 of Mattel’s DC Universe Classics line was announced I was very excited.  I loved those old Super Friends shows.  My internet name, “superfriend” is taken from it.  And now we were getting figures.  The problem was that the price had recently gone up.  They were now 16$ each.

DCUC Wave 18

I had no interest in Capt Boomerang or Bronze Tiger, but I wanted the other 4.  In order to keep the cost down, I bought them on line for an average of 11$ each, shipping included.  But without the Apache Chief parts.  I figured I would pick them up later.

The normal scale Super Friends characters from DCUC Wave 18

Flash forward to NYCC 2012.  (more…)

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In a recent blog I started out talking about my hopes for the show and then channeled that into what I thought would work for a toy line.  But what I think would work is not necessarily what I want.  So lets get deep into that here my actual wants.  This what I hope to see.

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