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lego fans of late 80s, behold the glory of the blacktron intelligence agency.

a-f has a preview shot of the upcoming mignola styled hellboy from that line, which is due this summer. i can’t goddamn wait.
confirmed so far are hellboy and lobster johnson, and the fact that they’re not only making lobster johnson, but in the very first wave, speaks very highly that mezco Gets It and [...]

things that make me happy

sitting down to sketch out a single quick idea and instead filling several pages of my notebook with quality stuff, several nights in a row
the fact that my notebook fits in a pocket on my cargo pants
synchronicity (re; wanting to see some pictures of koalas for reference, meaning to look it [...]

went back to the beach for a few days. good times.
i can’t think of much else worth writing about.
i’ve been reading more larry niven. lucifer’s hammer is AMAZING. world out of time is good but not as good.
i mounted a couple of towel bars on my ceiling, now i can hang clothes [...]

poked around to see if i could find any further information on the theoretical hobbit movie from peter jackson and weta, found this story…
basically mgm and new line have conflicting rights to it if it were to be made and will have to hammer that out before anything can be done.
peter jackson is perfectly happy [...]

sci-fi channel plans more awful television projects…
notable series –
the amazing screw-on-head animated series(the write-up mentions mignola but doesn’t say he’ll be involved)
a live-action adaptation of witchhunter robin, an anime that literally just finished it’s first run on adult swim(from the producer who brought you star trek voyager and the dead zone)
monster smash (think celebrity deathmatch [...]

saw hellboy last night. it was a little disappointing. most of it was good but everything that was bad was bad because they strayed from the comic storyline and some of the characterizations. i had expected something closer to the comics, especially given mignola was involved and how passionate del toro clearly [...]

i was thinking about ideas for dangerman vs missilemaster today. trying to work out the various bad guys and where they came from was giving me trouble for awhile since i had no idea who they were and what their goals were, other than ‘blow shit up’.
then i remembered mike mignola’s first rule of [...]

i let myself get some toys with my tax refund. not many (relatively speaking…) but a few of the less expensive ones that i’d been eying for awhile now.
energon starscream and a couple energon basics(buy 1 get 1 free at tru); the new scarlett and cobra viper 2packs; dextrus(a 6 armed warrior) from imaginext; [...]

palisades has released a few bits about their impending zim toys. nothing much has been finalized yet, but they’ve got pictures of rough sculpts and 3d concept renders to give you an idea of what they’re going for.
bit one — miss bitters and all-mighty tallest purple
bit two — gir accessories concepts
i think i’ll be [...]