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?

Rusty, we barely knew ye...

I know that it was a while ago that my friend Rusty Haller passed away, but this eulogy that I wrote for him at that time has just shown up in print in Jim Main’s Comic Fan #6.

I wanted to alert you all to Jim’s very cool fan publication, and to urge you all to rush right out and pick up a copy of your own.

Jim (and the guys who work with him on each issue) work hard on this stuff, and do it for the love of the industry. They could use your support.

Plus the stuff they talk about is wicked cool.


Oh yeah, I almost forgot (in fact I actually did) I wrote reviews of three (very cool) indie comics in that appear in this issue. So you’ll want to pick this issue up for that as well.

All in color for a buck!

After the relative success of Watchman the Movie, Dc began re-issuing a number of their touchstone comics initial issues for a buck, with an “After Watchmen What's Next?” banner. These included Identity Crisis, Saga of the Swamp Thing, Kingdom Come and others.

I picked up several of those titles and rather enjoyed several of them. Well, Marvel has (finally) caught on with what a smooth marketing concept this is, and is re-issuing a few of their own recent comics for a buck under the “Marvel’s Greatest Comics” banner.

Now while I personally would argue with parts of this (and some of their choices), but I understand where they are coming from, and certainly applaud their (and DC’s) attempt to interest fans in other comics that they might have missed.

Personally, I think that (as I’ve stated previously) that both companies would sell more comics if they used less expensive (and totally necessary) paper stock and lowered the price point on their respective lines.

Again, the likelihood for that happening, is , well pretty much non-existent, but mostly because it makes way too much sense.

Two more nukes?

I don’t normally get political in this blog, but there is a "funnybook" element to this post, so bear with me. Needless to say, this is why we we will never get anything done in this country, because we keep electing people this stupid.



Now all we can do is quote Bugs Bunny and say, “What a maroon!” Eh?