NY Comic Con 2008 - Marvel’s New Toy’s, Busts and more

Check out some of the new things from Marvel coming in the future in their toy lines. Read the rest of this entry »

My Obsession with Toys or Why I Hate Those Evil Toy Men

Amazing Spider-Man #367For as long as I can remember, I’ve liked superheroes and comic books. I’m not sure when it started, but my earliest memory of a comic is Amazing Spider-Man #367 that had him on the cover fighting four fake superheroes.

I found the book incredibly cool, you had Solo the teleporting vigilante who gunned down villains, and the classic Spider-Man teaming up to fight off villains who were like some of Marvel’s coolest heroes of the time. Very few details are clear since I haven’t read the book in years, but I do remember I probably haven’t stopped collecting books since then. And I have always thirsted for the toys of these same masked men. To play with when younger, to make comics with and collect now while older.

But for as many as I buy, I secretly and strongly, hate hate hate these toys. Read the rest of this entry »