Bill has shared his latest Action Figure Comic with us. You can see more of his comics at Bill’s Comics. Enjoy!
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Remembering Eddie Wires – TheFwoosh.com
I was very sad to hear about the passing of Eddie Wires earlier this week. The staff of the Fwoosh put together a small article with our remembrances of Eddie. Some of us had just seen him a few weeks back, during San Diego Comic-Con. Eddie – we’ll miss you.
If you’re an action figure fan, chances are you’ve got a toy on your shelf that Eddie Wires helped create. Some of you probably have shelves full of toys Eddie had a hand in. After Eddie was done painting a prototype, that figure was the best it would ever look and the best it would ever be. That’s because no factory production process could ever hope to match what he created by hand.
I wasn’t lucky enough to spend a lot of time with Eddie, but it seemed to me that he had the same effect on the people around him as he did on the toys he created – life was better when he was there. Always friendly, always smiling, and it was certainly infectious.
If you look through his body of work (see his online portfolio or his Facebook albums), like I do from time to time, you’ll be reminded of what might have been in the world of toys. With him gone, I’ll ask myself that every time I see a painted prototype, and every time I’m outside on the balcony at Jolt’n Joes.
Action Figure Flashback – Marvel Legends Series 8 Man-Thing
Chemist Ted Sallis was assigned to “Project Gladiator”, an experiment aimed at recreating the lost “super-soldier” serum that had spawned Captain America during World War II. Sallis attempted to modify the “super-soldier” serum with another serum, one that had historically transformed people into monsters and got close to success. But he was betrayed by his wife, Ellen. To guarantee that the secret would not fall into the wrong hands, Sallis injected himself with the only existing sample of his modified Super Soldier serum, and fled into the nearby swamp. Sallis should have died, but over the course of several hours, mystical forces combined with chemical science to transform him into the monstrous, misshapen creature who would be dubbed the Man-Thing.
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Marvel Legends Iron Man Retrospective, Part 4
This is the fourth and final part of Akatsuki’s Marvel Legends Iron Man Retrospective, the finale to our Iron Mania week. Part 4 covers the Iron Man figures produced by Hasbro after they took over the Marvel Legends line. It includes the Ultimate Iron Man from HML Series 1 through the Stealth Iron Man from the ML 2-Packs.
Huge thanks to Akatsuki for putting together a great look at the Marvel Legends Iron Man figures!
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Marvel Legends Iron Man Retrospective, Part 3
This is the third part of Akatsuki’s Marvel Legends Iron Man Retrospective, the finale to our Iron Mania week. Part 3 covers the Modular Armor Iron Man from the ML Fearsome Foes 2-packs through the Thorbuster Iron Man from ML 15. We’ll wrap up tomorrow with the final installment.
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