Graphitti Designs fills gap and creates Aquaman shirt.

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 …

WB and DC Nation celebrate AFi Anniversary with the debut of Teen Titans Go!

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

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.

Team Bases added to HeroClix with Teen Titans release on May 15

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.

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Boston Comic Con Celebrates Sixth Year‏ April 20th-21st

Boston Comic Con celebrates its sixth year with our biggest show ever! April 20th-21st at the Hynes Convention Center will see retailers, artists, and fans coming together for an entire weekend of fun. Events will include Q&A panels, stand up comedians, a zombie movie marathon, gaming, and much more. You definitely will not want to miss the annual cosplay contest which features hundreds of fans dressing as their favorite characters from comics, video games, and cartoons! This year we are happy to announce famous cosplayer Yaya Han as our guest judge.

The guest list features some of the most illustrious comic creators in the world including George Perez (Superman), Carlos Pacheco (X-Men), Mike Mignola (Hellboy), Amanda Conner (Silk Spectre), Mark Bagley (Fantastic Four), Bill Willingham (Fables) plus many, many more! We are also excited to welcome two stars of the hit television series The Walking Dead; Lauren Cohan (Maggie) and Jon Bernthal (Shane) will be on hand both days to sign autographs for their legions of fans!

For this year’s show specials we have a limited edition t-shirt featuring Captain America artwork by world-renowned comic artist Tim Sale and an exclusive My Little Pony variant cover drawn by Agnes Garbowska! Both of these are sure to sell out and become collector’s items! Get them while you can!

Tickets are $25 per day or $40 for the weekend and available at the door or through the Boston Comic Con website: www.bostoncomiccon.com.

I plan on being there and taking in the sights for AFi.  If you are in the area, I hope you can attend also.

NYCC 2012 Flashback – Penny Wise, Dollar Foolish.

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.

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.

Flash forward to NYCC 2012. 

Teen Titans Go 2 – My Hopes Revised.

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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1. I want Cartoon Network to make the effort to broadcast this show more than once a week.  While they are building up a stable of episodes, I want to see them run episodes of the previous Teen Titans Go show to help build the audience for new product.

2. I want the show itself to expand the cast beyond the 5 main heroes to include all the heroes who had major roles in the old show.  The main cast was always:
Robin,
Cyborg,
Beast Boy
Starfire,
Raven.

But other characters appeared frequently as well.
Speedy,
Aqualad,
Bumble Bee,
Mas,
Minos
eventually joined forces to become a 2nd branch of Teen Titans.
Kid Flash
also was a frequent guest.  I’d like to see all of them in the new show.

Would You Want A Green Lantern Centered HeroClix Set?

Over on another site, the question was raised, “What Next?”  What next indeed.  Most of the big name properties have been mined for sets over the past few years.  Batman, Spider-man, X-Men, Justice League, Avengers, Hulk, Superman, Captain America, Thor, Teen Titans, Iron Man, etc.  For DC, there were 3 areas mentioned over and over again.  Lanterns, New Gods, and the Legion of Super-Heroes.  The Legion got a good showing in the Superman set with 8 members.  I think the New Gods and the Legion could both be worked into the next Superman set (hey, Spider-man set 2 came out recently).  So here Here is my take on what a Green Lantern themed HeroClix set might look like.  Tell me what you think.

Named Theme – Green Lantern (21 pieces)

Hero Clix Team Building

One of the great things about HeroClix was being able to build a team of whatever characters you wanted. Case in point: I was always disappointed that in the late 70′s Black Lightning had turned down membership in the Justice League of America.

HeroClix gave me the chance to build a team of Superman, Batman, Green Lantern and Black Lightning and pretend it was an adventure of the Justice League. Yes, years later, Black Lightning did join the team, but the game allowed me to do it earlier than it happened in the comics.

HeroClix has always been a player base of multiple camps. Play to win, using the best combination of pieces(the winning team this year at GenCon was Wasp, Morgan Le Fay, and Scarlet Witch). Recreate classic team ups from the comics (Spider-man and the Hulk). The team you always wished was in the comics (Spider-man as if a member of the Avengers).  Ironic teams (Dr Doom using Mr. Fantastic and the Thing as his underlings).

WizKids HeroClix – Amazing Spider-man set Releases

I was remiss in not reporting that the latest WizKids HeroClix release was last Wednesday.  So here is the picture checklist (minus the chase figures).

Here is an example of a chase piece.  Notice the red base.  The chase pieces since the Incredible Hulk set have had different colored bases from the normal black base of the standard pieces.  I pulled this one when I bought two boosters on Thursday night.

Teen Titans Go 2 – Hopes for Mattel Product

Young Justice and Green Lantern Animated are ending.  It appears that replacing them in the DC Nation block will be a new take on Batman and a new take on Teen Titans.  The new Teen Titans show appears to be modeled after the DC Nation shorts of hilarious escapades of the cast of the prior Teen Titans Go cast.
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Toys for this will be interesting to see.  Mattel passed on the license for the prior series.  Sales of Young Justice toys were less than hoped for.  Green Lantern Animated toys were never made.  Based on comments in the forums and some of my prior blogs, Young Justice’s biggest enemy was the price point.  So will Mattel put out a Teen Titans Go product line that will meet the expectations of buyers at a price they are willing to pay?

On the Eleventh Day of Clixmas

Wow.  Titans across the ages.  We already knew that the 80′s Perez Teen Titans and the modern nu52 Teen Titans were in this set.  Now we can see that the whole spectrum …

On the Tenth Day of Clixmas

The Spiderman set due out in February will include a sub theme of classic monsters.

On the Ninth Day of Clixmas

Wolverine and the X-Men is a set which is due out sometime next summer.  The big draw is that it will focus back to …

On the Eighth Day of Clixmas

My initial reaction was that this was the Iron Man movie set.  Apparently it is a comic based set.  But it must be very far off.  Spider-man, Teen Titans and Wolverine and …

WizKids releases its Streets of Gotham HeroClix set

Today, at gaming stores across the land, table top miniatures enthusiasts got an early Christmas present.  A new release of WizKids popular HeroClix game, Streets of Gotham (SOG).  SOG is a sister set to the recent …