Top 40 at 40: 1982-1991
I’m turning 40 this month! To help deal with celebrate that, I’ve built a playlist containing 40 of my favorite songs, each one representing a year in my life. I…
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X-Men Oddity: Recycled art on the X-Cutioner’s Song Poster
While I was recently looking up Marvel Epic Collections, I came across this poster for the 1992 X-Men Event, The X-Cutioner's Song: This was a poster that hung in comic…
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Upcoming Marvel Epic Collections: July-Dec 2022
Last September, I looked at a bunch of then-upcoming Marvel Epic Collections that I thought were interesting, and in the 10 months since, I've bought them all. So I thought,…
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Jem and the Holograms IDW Reading Order
Jem and the Holograms had been a popular line of Barbie-esque dolls from Hasbro, produced in the 1980s. The line had a tie-in cartoon series from Sunbow Productions, the company…
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Post 673: Two Years Later
Two years after I completely rebooted this website as an a blog, I've basically run out of old art to post. So, I need to change what I'm doing on…
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TMNT: Hyperstone Heist on Sega Genesis
With Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge recently getting released and being seemingly universally loved, and the Cowabunga Collection, including all the video games based on the 1987 TMNT cartoon…
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Codename: Viper (NES)
It was Christmas of either 1990 or 1991. My family had three sets of cousins that were comprised of two boys, and the same aunt got this game for all…
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: King Arthur and the Knights of Justice
What happens when it's 1992 and you want to make a kid-friendly cartoon about King Arthur? Add football! Jean Chalopin was the founder of DiC entertainment, which was responsible for…
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Wrestling Rewatch: Edge vs. Eddie Guerrero No DQ Match
Link: No Disqualification Match: Edge vs. Eddie Guerrero | Smackdown Sept. 26, 2002 (WWE won't let this video be embedded) In 2002, nobody was expecting much out of these two.…
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Robot Heroes Energon Unicron Custom Toy
The planet-devouring Unicron was released as one of the adorable two-inch Robot Heroes toys. At the time, Unicron only had one look that I was aware of -- That of…
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Transformers Robot Heroes Shattered Glass Rodimus Custom Toy
The mirror universe of Shattered Glass is one where everything is backwards -- The Autobots are evil, the Decepticons are heroic, and Rodimus leads the Seekers! You can tell he's…
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Collecting X-Men: The Age of Apocalypse
One of the best-loved X-Men stories came out in 1995. Marvel Comics cancelled all of the monthly X-family titles for four months, and replaced them with a dark, dystopian world…
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles DVD Slim Case Inserts
After decades of collecting stuff, you just start to run out of room to store everything. While I had been buying all the TMNT 1987 animated series DVDs as they…
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Transformers Robot Heroes Zaptrap Custom Toy
Before there was The Transformers, there was Diaclone! The toy that would become Shrapnel was originally known as Waruder Kuwagatrer, and converted into a robotic stag beetle. E-Hobby released versions…
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The Lesson of Nihilism Taught by Shark Attack!
[Please note: Satire.] Nihilism is the rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless. And there is no children's game that justifies nihilistic tendencies…