Iron Man 2 Slurpee cups!

As I previously mentioned, there are Iron Man 2 cups at 7-eleven, as part of the ramp-up to the film (due out on May 7). I already grabbed up the Big Gulp cups, a War Machine bottle, the the three straws.

Well, just yesterday I snagged the four Slurpee cups as well. Now I just need to get my hands on the Iron Man bottle.


The Iron Man 2 toys at BK won't appear for a couple of weeks still, but I'm looking!

MoCCA Magic

So, Atlas Unleashed spent the weekend at MoCCA Fest 2010 this past weekend, and well, we dd pretty well, Company bossman, Mark Mazz, Badgirl Shawnti Therrien, and yours truly were joined by friends and fans as we celebrated the Sundance Film Festival of the Indie Comic Art world.

We moved some of our product, (I sold a couple of three-packs of Agent Unknown, thanks to a wicked-cool cover art from Springload & Renegade artist Chris Torres, and superior production by Mr. Mazz).

We are now looking forward to our next event witch will be the Bronx Heroes Convention on Free Comic Book Day over at Hostos College in the Bronx. Hope to see you all there!

We'll have all of our backstock, as well as some brand spaknin'-new material that will be unveiled for the very first time.

How cool is that? eh?

Before I was “famous”

As I toil away on the Captain America entries for Volume #2 of The Official Index to the Marvel Universe (or Avengers, Thor & Captain America: Official Index To The Marvel Universe — as Vol 2 is officially called), I suddenly recalled that I had a letter of mine published in Captain America issue # 208.

That issue was cited in an on-line essay (interestingly enough) entitled NOTES ON THE GILL-MAN OF THE UPPER AMAZON,which talks about some lizard creature that apparently wandered through that particular issue of Cap.

The quote from below is from the article cited.

1976- While in a running battle with South American prison warden Hector "the Swine" Santiago, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, runs afoul of the Gill-Man. The amphibious being eventually slays Santiago and his guards. ("The River of Death!" by Jack Kirby, Captain America #208, April, 1977.) In an attempt to make the Gill-Man look like a "new" monster, Kirby draws him with bulbous eyes and bright red scales. [The Marvel Universe is not the same as the Wold-Newton Universe, so presumably a mainstream Marvel title like Cap should be excluded. However, artist/writer Kirby has known Cap/Rogers since 1941, and in the Newtoniverse Cap sometimes opens his files to comic book legend Kirby. In fact, a letter from Robert Sodaro in this very issue states: "Since Jack started writing for Marvel again, the plotlines of CAPTAIN AMERICA. . . have had little if anything to do with the rest of the Marvel Universe."]

The body of letter itself appears here:


It is really just one of numerous LOCs I got into print during those days, and well, I just thought I’d share.

Iron Man 2 coming to BK

This just in, Iron Man 2 toys are coming to Burger King:

Iron Man 2 is coming to Burger King with all action toys of Iron Man, War Machine, Black Widow, Whiplash, Justin Hammer, and Nick Fury toys and Iron Man 2 sweepstakes and Iron Man 2/Burger King coupons and Burger King cups with Iron Man 2 on them, with ticket for you to win millions of dollars. So Iron Man 2 is coming to Burger King. Coming soon. May 2010, See ya..

I’m now keeping my eye on BK.

Iron Man 2 fever has started!

OK, kids, here we go, Iron Man 2 is just a month away (May 7), and we just spotted the first sign of Iron Man Fever when we stopped in on a local 7-eleven store, and spotted tie-in cups and straws.

As you can expect, I scored a pile of the tie-in (and learned that there is a pile more, for which I'm going back later in the week). Anyway, here's what I got.

More to come...so stay tuned

Today is Easter

Hey folks, look what I found in my Easter Basket today?

Do I have the greatest wife, er Easter Bunny, or what?

Southpark Heroes?

No, seriously, I just came back from a local comic shop (A Timeless Journey), and well they have a new vending machine in the store that is dispensing comicbook-related items. This time out the machine is dispensing Marvel heroes with bit round heads and small-little bodies. In the shop we were laughingly referring to them as “South Park” (or “Cartman”) heroes. As you can see, this is a pretty accurate designation for them.

The description for the figures is as follows:

Marvel Heroes 2 Inch Self-Vending (no capsules) Buildable Figures! Everyone has a favorite superhero. This assortment contains 6 popular MARVEL Heroes characters including: Captain America, Incredible Hulk, Wolverine and Spider-Man. These are self-vending superhero heads that open to reveal the character's bodies to create a unique figurine. These licensed toys measure 49mm and work in all of the toy capsule machines we sell. Blister display card sold separately.

The figures come out of the vending machine as just a head with the body inside the spherical head, and yeah, they are geeky-cool.


When I was there another patron tried his luck (they retail for a buck), and wound up with Spidey, which (for whatever reason) he didn't want, so he gave to me, then tried again and got a Wolverine, which he kept. The rest of the figures look like this.

Oh yeah, apparently they also come in blister-packs as well:
It is amazing what someone will manufacture knowing that geek-boys like me will buy them, eh?