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Mail Call: Lord Drakkon
In another reality where Tommy Oliver never fully escaped the influence of the evil space witch, Rita Repulsa, the evil Green Ranger became at threat too big for the other…
Atomic Monsoon #86: Atomic Jakku
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6pdiYYRWIA7NI92c2zPmjf?si=d5bbd08ff6774025 Stephanie and Andy talk about the Star Wars Sequel Series (Episode VII: The Force Awakens, Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker). Obviously Stephanie likes…
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Legion of Doom Tag Team Custom Toys
Snacking on Danger and Dining on Death since 1983. The Road Warriors, Hawk and Animal, who took their name from the Mad Max films, were also known as the Legion…
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Robot Heroes Action Master Thundercracker Custom Toy
Thundercracker's model sheet. This is what he looked like in the 1984 cartoon. Thundercracker was one of the first Transformers toys released in 1984. He was a blue-and-silver redeco of…
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Heroes of Cybertron: Generations Acid Storm
After Sunstorm proved to be a successfully popular "new" character, Transformers-owning toy company Hasbro kept going with naming the background Decepticon Jets, following up the creamsicle-colored one with the lime…
Monday Musings: McFarlane Toys’ The Conqueror
The Conqueror! Ever since I learned about this action figure back in 1997, it has fascinated me. It's not the best toy in the world, but it's definitely one of…
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Starscream Print
Originally sketched in pencil, and then outlined in Adobe Illustrator, before coming back into Photoshop for coloring, lens flares, and background effects. That's an extra step from my usual flow,…
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Past Perfection
From the Great Synthwave Experiment of 2017, this was just a fun bit of logo design. The phrase "Past Perfection" has two meanings -- Either that a thing itself is…
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Super Space
More sci-fi retro goodness from the Great Synthwave Experiement of 2017. I still really like the way the planet came out, and doing a double-perspective grid was a bold choice…
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Space Ghost
As you can see from the signature, I drew this back in 2013. It's simple, but it's Space Ghost. One of the great things about this character is the simplicity…
Atomic Monsoon #85: Making Movies with Alex George Pickering
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3soZCEkhPI6ML2cliNAeXq?si=79c55ad3b2744866 Award-winning screenwriter Alex George Pickering (Fig, Efrain, Balcony) -- who happens to be Andy's cousin -- joins Andy and Stephanie to talk about his film projects both past and…
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Pixel Art: Spider-Man 1990
In my continuing experiments with Pixel Art, I wanted to see how accurate to other pieces of art I could get, while only using the NES's 64-color palette. So here's…
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The Helium Contest
Drawn as a perspective assignment in college. The perspective doesn't work, because why is the bookcase pulled away from the wall? But Hawk and Fire Raven from Hawk & Croc…
Monday Musings: How does a Pre-Order go out of stock?
Another answer to an action figure message board post on a board I'm no longer a member of: How does a PREorder go out of stock? Isn’t the entire point…
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6″ Custom Roadblock
He's not a 100% match for the 1986 Roadblock (links to YoJoe.com), but he's fairly close, with the knife moved to the back. Roadblock is made from a Marvel Legends HYDRA ENFORCER figure,…