Fortune Teller from Paul Shih Releases Today!!!

    Paul Shih is the master at taking food stuffs and making cute little figures out of them.  He's already conquered sushi and broccoli and now he has turned his attention to fortune cookies.  Check this little dude out.  He's all chillin with his little mustache, thinking about the fortune that he has inside him just for you.  No, he really does have a fortune inside him, I'm not even making that up.  Only 20 of this all-knowing little cookie were made and they go on sale today (September 30th) at 1pm Pacific time for $45 each.  

Void Man from Scarecrowoven x The Mark Ultra for NYCC

    It blows my mind that not only are people making their own action figures at home but that they make carded figures.   How cool is this?  Here's a hint:  it's real cool.  This is void man and he is a collaboration between Scarecrowoven and The Mark Ultra.  Now pay special attention to these release details here:  There are 22 figures in total, 10 in black, 10 in pink and 2 variants.  Twelve of these suckers will be available from Scarecrowoven at New York Comic Con, while the other 10 will be available from The Mark Ultra at http://themarkultra.bigcartel.com/ on Friday October the 11th at 10pm for you non con attendees.  

Judge Dredd Customs from Jon-Paul Kaiser

 

I just watched the new Judge Dredd movie the other night and it wasn't that bad. Most of it was pretty entertaining, except for the fact of how ugly they made Lena Headey. I didn't think that was possible and whoever it was that did her makeup should win a Nobel Prize or something. Or be put to death, cause they totally managed to ruin the excitement I felt when I found out she was in it. She's a stone cold fox.

 

Jon-Paul Kaiser just made these Judge Dredd customs for a lucky collector and the amount of detail in them is unreal. Take a gander at them and then hit him up to make you a toy that will put the rest of your collection to shame.

 

More NYCC Exclusives from Tenacious Toys

    I could really go for a Slurpee right about now.  I looooooove Slurpees, but only the Coke ones.  I'm not very flavor adventurous and the Coke one is so good that I have never in all my years on this earth felt the need to deviate.  I did have a dream last night that they made whiskey Slurpees and I tried one and became an alcoholic.  See what happens when you try new things.  You end up in rehab.  

    New York Comic Con is on the horizon my friends and that means I'm gonna tell you about more exclusive stuff.  This batch will all be featured at the Tenacious Toys booth #208.  Sippy Shortstraw from UME Toys has kickstarted my Slurpee craving this morning.  Just look how happy he is.  It's probably cause his beverage is carbonated and the bubbles tickle.  Or he farted.  Carbonation will do that to ya.  This little resin guy will be $40.

    This guy isn't looking happy at all.  Maybe because he's got a case of the undeads.  Soko Cat made these Zombie Candy Corns that look like how I feel if I eat to many candy corns.  I'm not good at candy.  I'll buy a bag of candy, eat two of them, and then not want candy anymore for 6 months at which time what I bought has now gone bad.  I know, I know, "first world problems".  These will be $45.

     This is the physical manifestation of how most people feel about the Ewoks.  Still not as annoying as Jar Jar Binks by any means, but people really do hate them.  I can't remember feeling one way or another about them when I saw Return of the Jedi for the first time.  I was so mesmerized by the fact that they showed Darth Vader's face that there could have been an army of Barbie dolls that helped overthrow the Empire and I might not have cared.  These guys from Killer Bootlegs are pretty cool though, and proof that Endor was a rampant breeding ground for rabies.  

More NYCC Exclusives from Suburban Vinyl

    These guys remind me of a show I watched on Discovery Channel about the Humboldt Squid that are freakin huge and will literally kill you.  People fall into the water sometimes when they're fishing at night and the squid get all happy cause it's like "hey free fish"  then they decided to taste the fishermen and they were like "hey, not too bad" so they eat them too.  They're also known as diablo rojo and I make it a point to not mess with anything with diablo in its name.  The fact that I'm not dead proves that this is a sound philosophy.  Respect the science.

    You wanna see more New York Comic Con exclusives?  (if you pretend that Paul Stanley from Kiss is asking that to a crowd it sounds really cool)  Well, how about some more stuff that Suburban Vinyl is gonna bring with them?  Like these Minions of Dorkness from Scott Kinnebrew (aka Forces of Dorkness).  There's a total of twelve sets of each style of these tentacled bros and they're held together with magnets, so you can swap heads all day long.  They're gonna be $30 each and you can pick whichever ones you want; none of that blind box stuff here.  

    You may or may not know that I love cats.  I only talk about them so much that sometimes I wonder if its overboard.  Then I think screw that cause they're freakin adorable and do it anyway.  I believe the kids would call that YOLO or something.  I dunno, I'm old and cranky.  Mark Nagata from Max Toy Co. has created the most limited edition figure for the entire convention.  It could only be more limited if it didn't exist, cause he only made one of these bad boys.  That's right, there's only one.  And it's $175.  And if you buy him you have to hold him up to the sun like Simba from the Lion King and watch as every other collector's eyes get really wide with envy.  Get all this at more at booth #208.

Dead Folk Arcana Print Set from Skinner

    Hey, you there.  You wanna become a cosmic wizard, capable of raising the dead and always succeeding in your fantasy football league?  Then you have to start with how you decorate.  Posters of Bob Marley and Boondock Saints ain't gonna do it for you bro.  Not only are you not harnessing your inner necromancer, you're limiting your potential suitors to girls who can't go out of the house without their lucky sweatpants.  You gotta man up, tune in, drop out, trip the light fantastic, and decorate your abode more like the temple it should be and less like a smelly dorm room.

    Skinner is gonna be your spirit guide into your home makeover with this set of Dead Folk Arcana prints.  You get five mind expanding prints that will tear your soul from your body, spit on it, and then shove it partially back in like when you try to repackage something and it never ever fits the same way as it once did and you kinda give up and just leave it the best you can which is not nearly as good as those factory guys did it cause at least they could get the lid closed and probably didn't disappoint their families nearly as much as you do with your ineptness.  They're limited to 30 sets and come numbered in a nice folio to protect them and you get it all for $120.  The path to your greatness has never been more affordable.   These go on sale tomorrow, September 27th, at noon Pacific time.  Get em here: http://theartofskinner.com/.

This is a sample to get you hooked.  That tingly feeling in your gut?  That's your magic coming out.  Or a bad burrito.  

Hot Pink Resin Mao Bust from Frank Kozik

    There are an abundance of sparrows flying past the house today driving Icarus crazy.  He's sitting in the window making his little chirpy noises that could either mean "Come here birdy friends and lets snuggle" or "You would taste delicious with a nice balsamic reduction and side of micro greens."  I'm still waiting for my Rosetta Stone disc on cat language to come in the mail.  

    Or he could be trying to tell them about this new hot pink resin Mao bust from Frank Kozik.  It is his second favorite terrible world leader, trailing only behind Oprah.  He really wants his little green hat with the red star as he said people would take him more seriously with a nice cap.  Fifty of these were made and they will be $50 each when they go on sale tomorrow, September 27th, at noon Pacific time at www.frankkozik.net. 

This is his excited face as he now thinks he's getting a hat.  I need to stop typing out loud.