In AFP’s Border Patrol, we scour active eBay auctions for customized action figure that you won’t want to let slip by!
Marvel Legends Surtur – Cal never fails to impress, this time with an oversized Surtur to menace your Thor – I just with he had a big flaming sword! – ends Dec 28, 2009 18:30:58 PST
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In the past couple of weeks I’ve posted customs that I entered in CustomCon 24. First, I posted my Earth 2 Superman, Batman, Hawkman, and Robin customs, which were part of a group entry for the DC Universe Classics Justice Society of America. Last week I posted Iron Fist, Steel Phoenix, and Shang Chi, three Marvel Legends customs which made up a solo entry called Marvel Legends Martial Arts Masters.
To wrap it up, here’s my write-up on four Marvel Legends Icons customs – Deadpool, Bob (Agent of Hydra), Taskmaster, and Agent X – whom I entered into CustomCon as Agency X. For those of you paying attention, I submitted them under a pseudonym, Iron Molars, which is an anagram of my real name. I did so in part so I could write up a gratuitous self-description, but also because I was just a little embarrassed that my three submissions were all on the last day.
Traditionally, CustomCon saves up for a big finale on the last day, but this wasn’t a case of me thinking my stuff deserved that. Rather, it was because I was just so overloaded getting the rest of the days entries throughout the week prepped that I didn’t have time to get my own stuff finished. I took these pictures the same day I put the final day of CustomCon up.
Marvel Universe Wave 6 is officially the first wave for 2010, but with sell-through on the Marvel Universe line strong, it’s been showing up at bricks and mortar retailers for several weeks now. If this wave, I only picked up four of the six figures, passing on the House of M Spider-Man and the training uniform Wolverine.
Although I think the body they used for Spider-Man, originally from the black costumed Spidey, is superior to the one that’s been reused several times already for all the other Spideys, I just don’t need this variant. And for Wolvie, I’ll wait for the running change on the head sculpt that should be a lot better than the initial head.
Here’s the packaging, featuring the new HAMMER and Norman Osborne themed artwork by Mike Deodato.
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Brent (aka MiAmego on the Fwoosh) put together these pictorial versions of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” using action figures from a bunch of DC and Marvel licenses. It’s pretty amazing just how many figures he fit into these shots.
Check out more of Brent’s pictures at Toon A Net – some top notch photography there.
Merry X-mas to all!
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Maybe it’s because it’s that time of year, but in my somewhat random web surfing I came across the Astonishing X-Men Motion Comic of *Gifted* on Hulu – I had no idea these were available other than as a paid download on iTunes. I am big fan of Joss Whedon and John Cassaday’s run on the comic, so much so that I did a set of custom action figures based on them (see X-Men Legends Box Set: Gifted at CustomCon 16.)
Hulu has 4 of 6 issues so far, so I’ll be doing some watching over the holiday break. The next comes out next Tuesday, December 29.
Also, don’t miss out on Hulu’s interview with comics legend Neal Adams, who co-directed the motion comic with John Cassaday.
You’ve been involved with some of the biggest names in comic books — names like Superman, Batman and X-Men. How did you get your start?
I started when people thought that comic books were toilet paper. In America, once we attacked communists, we also then attacked comic books. Comic books, for a long time in America, were considered to be the kind of thing you never wanted to show your kids and you never wanted to read yourself. So there’s been this long climb upward. When I began, everything was pretty much in the doldrums and everyone was telling me, “You don’t want to do comic books because pretty soon — a year or two, maybe three — they’ll be gone.”