Hey there everyone!

Last two days have been hell on me…out of work sick yesterday…today out of work sick, and in pain due to an infected tooth…which I had to have pulled!

But I haven’t lost a beat when it comes to the Anime Fig­ure beat!

Max Fac­tory has another release com­ing to their Vocaloid line of figures.

Vocaloid: Rin Kagamine ~Nuclear Fusion~ 1/8 Scale Figure

Not being released until near the end of this year, this fig­ure is going to retail for $129.99…but come see what I will be sell­ing it for!

How about these two new fig­ures com­ing up from Yam­ato USA being listed at L&K’s Anime Otaku Heaven this com­ing weekend…

Dai Shogun: Kiriko Hat­tori Ninja Costume

Ikki Tou­sen: Chouun Shiryu Vol. 14 Comic Cover Blue Ver. 1/6 Scale Figure

Expect to see at least ten new pre-sale fig­ures listed this com­ing week­end, along with a few new comic book auctions.

Lew

One of my favorite comics com­pa­nies today, IDW  has done what no other com­pany has done…for me that is..injected some real world humor in the guise of a comic book, taken from a real life gro­cery store mag­a­zine no less!

I had a dilemma when I went to get my comics last week, as I wanted to pick up a new comic from IDW called ” The Ghoul by Niles and Wright­son, but I was a bit peeved at the price, as at $3.99 I felt that there were too many pages near the back of this comic devoted to ads and that turned me off as I felt that they could have used those extra pages for the comic itself, so onward I con­tin­ued with just two books in hand when I came across this…

And I had to do a dou­ble take as I got a bet­ter look at this cover, and I thought to myself..wow! Does that face look famil­iar or what!

Here’s a small bit of info from IDW about this new title…

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Weekly World News #1

Chris Ryall (w) • Alan Robin­son (a) • Alan Robin­son, Joe Corroney ©

Bat Boy! PhD Ape! Mani­ga­tor! UFO Alien! Ed Anger, the colum­nist who sits to the far right of the far right! These and many other tabloid news­pa­per sta­ples from the Weekly World News are fea­tured in their first-ever minis­eries. And they’ve got it rough from the start, as Chaos Cloud appears in “The Irre­demp­tion of Ed Anger, Part 1.” Also fea­tures orig­i­nal arti­cles from the Weekly World News as a back-up feature! ”

Okay, so what more can I say? How about the dreaded end pages that I spoke of earlier…well in this par­tic­u­lar comic they just add to the over­all feel of the comic…

With Weekly Anno­ta­tions, and a Weekly World Exclu­sive about ” Planet –Dis­solv­ing Dust Cloud Is Headed Toward earth! is just hot fudge on this sundae.

I guess for me the cover brought back the images of those mag­a­zines that I would see ( maybe just a few short years ago ) of ” Bat Boy ” on the cover of a mag­a­zine ( I am not sure if it was on a pub­li­ca­tion called Weekly World News ) with some sort of explo­sive, exploita­tive head­line, in the biggest text size they could use to just grab your atten­tion to that cover with the strange image on it’s cover.

And the sto­ry­line? A very angry cit­i­zen, Ed Anger ( they couldn’t have used a more apropo name could they? ) is the main antag­o­nist here.

Ed is an old vet­eran, who is your a typ­i­cal right winger…god, coun­try, and sup­port your president…as long as he’s a Repub­li­can, who just is not very happy with all of the weird­ness in his world…Aliens, Ani­mal Psy­chi­a­trists, and a cer­tain weird ” Bat Boy ” who seems to be a national hero…and Ed Anger is just los­ing it.

Okay, what I’m telling you all is that in this case, the weird­ness is just fan­tas­tic, war­ranted, and this is what this title is all about…weirdness that’s in a news tabloid, right in front of your face, as your stand­ing on that super­mar­ket speed check­out line!

As I have grown older ( notice that the title of this blog con­tin­ues to be ” fanboy@50! ) my taste for the comic book has changed over the past few years. While I still love a great super­hero yarn, I find them very far and in between so I have slowly but surly moved away from these tales and focused more on the more adult or darker side if you will of the comic, and DC Comics imprint Ver­tigo, con­tin­ues to fill this bill for me just fine.

I picked up issue #1 of the new series from writ­ers  and series artists Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon ( and yes, I have issue#2 in my grubby, old person’s hands! ) and to be fair, I avoided get­ting this comic…because of the art!

Thank god that this time the story within makes up for my own nar­row mind­ed­ness as to what I look for as far as art­work for a comic book!

This first issue’s title is called 32, and this first tale revolves around an obit­u­ary writer named Bras, who wants to be more than just an ” obit writer ” , but Bras does like his routine.

Get­ting up in the morn­ing, read­ing his news­pa­per, hav­ing his break­fast, tak­ing his dog Dante for a walk, all before he goes to work.

But…today, today is a spe­cial day…his birth­day, and he wishes he had just changed everything…his whole routine.

Bras’s father is being hon­ored today, on Bras’s birthday…for his achieve­ments  as a writer, and bras will never make nit to the cer­e­mony that night, as he takes a detour, to get a pack of cigarettes.

” You don’t get to choose fam­ily “, this is the last thing that Bras hears as his life comes to a very quick and unex­pected end.

Happy 32 birth­day Bras.

This was a hell of a read, I actu­ally was dragged into the pic­tures that helped pro­pel this tale and let me tell you I really have not given too much away with this first issue, so if you have not picked upon this first issue yet, go ahead and get it, read it, devour it…drink it all in okay..I promise you will not be dis­ap­pointed with this one okay.

Lew

Mar­vel Comics Siege Issue#1

I just picked this comic up yes­ter­day ( yes I know, I did not get comics on Comic Book Wednes­day! ) and I have to say, I have not been this impressed with a Mar­vel comic since the Death of Cap­tain America.

I remem­ber see­ing a short pre­view of this series and it was at best just a teaser for this first full blown issue!

So what’s the big deal here anyway?

Well, Nor­man Osborn…yes that Osborn with a Green Gob­lin in his past is the direc­tor of Ham­mer, and is the team leader of the Dark Reign Avengers, whose mem­bers also include The Sen­try and the God of War, Ares.

Add into this dis­as­trous mix, the Mighty Thor’s evil half brother, Loki who just hap­pens to be one of Osborn’s con­fi­dants, has brought a plan together.

In case you dear blog reader are unaware, Asgard has returned..and has come to Midgard ( that’s Earth for the rest of you! ) and along with Asgard has come the newly res­ur­rected Thor, who has been res­ur­rect­ing his fel­low asgar­dians ( includ­ing the fair Lady Sif )  whose very essences were found inside the mor­tal coil of many humans, and all the while Loki was spin­ning his deceit­ful web, as his peo­ple went to live for a short time in Latve­ria, under the aus­pices of one ” Vic­tor Von Doom “, that would be Doc­tor Doom, just in case you weren’t aware.

Loke and the good doc­tor, would do a few ” exper­i­ments ” on some of the asgar­dian pop­u­lace, turn­ing them into mur­der­ous, organic robots.…

and then we come to this..Asgard’s peo­ple are returned to their float­ing home, in the skies of Okla­homa, less one human and asgar­dian god­dess, thanks to the mechanization’s of Doom & Loki…

Now Loki, again try­ing to manip­u­late the fates of men and gods alike, has spo­ken with one Nor­man Osborn, and set into motion events that will effect the whole of the Mar­vel Uni­verse ( at least one would think that when ” Gods ” are involved, a whole Uni­verse would be effected! ) using one of the ” War­riors Three “, the Volu­mi­nous, Vol­stagg as a cat­a­lyst ( and excuse ) to trig­ger an all out assault on Asgard, bypass­ing even the Pres­i­dent of the United States, who is scream­ing bloody mur­der, and say­ing that Osborn is ” Out of Control ”

Osborn and his ” Avengers ” and all of the power of the vil­lains of the ” Ini­tia­tive ” bring their groups to bear on an all out ” Assault ” on Asgard, over the skies of Oklahoma…

The Dark Reign Avengers Assu­alt On Asgard

The God of Thun­der enters the Fray!

Steve Rogers reacts to the assu­alt on the God of Thunder…

Okay, at this point, my thought is this will be Marvel’s ” A” level event for 2010, and it’s other baby, ” Fall of the Hulks ” will more than likely be sub­ju­gated to a ” B ” sta­tus event…which might not be such a ter­ri­ble thing for Mar­vel, as they are hav­ing to con­tend with the jug­ger­naut that is DC comics uber…Blackest Night!

Cap­tain Har­lock Statue

• He awaits your next move.
• Com­pelling statue from the Cap­tain Har­lock manga series!
• It fea­tures the space pirate in his chair aboard the Arcadia.
• Glo­ri­ous color and out­stand­ing detail.
• An ideal gift for the manga enthu­si­ast in your life!

Spot­light­ing an icon of the Cap­tain Har­lock manga series, this com­pelling statue fea­tures Har­lock in his space­ship, the Arca­dia. This infa­mous chair is where he issues orders, relaxes, or con­tem­plates his next move with a glass of wine in hand. The indi­vid­u­al­is­tic space pirate appears here in glo­ri­ous color and out­stand­ing detail. He’s await­ing your next move. What will it be? Statue stands 10-inches tall.

This is my first intro­duc­tion to Miyabiya

Miyabiya is a man­u­fac­turer and dis­trib­u­tor of beau­ti­ful Japan­ese fig­ures and stat­ues based on pop­u­lar anime and manga char­ac­ters. Many of the company’s remark­able offer­ings involve lovely women in col­or­ful but hard-to-believe out­fits. These pieces are brightly hued, well-crafted, and exhibit excel­lent atten­tion to detail.

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If you are a fan or col­lec­tor of this highly pop­u­lar, exotic form of art, you’ll be pleased with what Miyabiya has to offer!

Bible Black Imari Kurumi Kneel­ing Statue

This item has fea­tures and themes that are for adults only. Ages 18 and up. Rec­om­mended for mature collectors.

* Imari Kurumi Kneel­ing fea­tures a remov­able top and skirt!
* Seduc­tive, 1:8 scale, PVC statue from the pop­u­lar hen­tai Bible Black.
* Swear on a stack of DVDs to take this vixen home!

Do you swear on a stack of hen­tai DVDs to take home this hen­tai vixen? From ever pop­u­lar hen­tai title, Bible Black, comes this Imari Kurumi 1:8 scale PVC statue. This well-crafted statue has Imari on her knees in her school girl out­fit in a seduc­tive pose. The statue also comes with a remov­able top to reveal her bare chest, and a remov­able skirt show­ing her panties. Really. ..We swear it!