Monday Miniatures: Anval
This miniature is scary even when it is unpainted. One of our regular painters did point out that it is ridiculous to wear that much armor when none of it is protecting your vital organs. While I agree, I would never make judgements about the fashion sense of man that carries an axe that size in one hand.
That would be bad for my health.
Classic Action Movie Roleplaying Lives Again on Kickstarter
It’s been a while since I’ve done a post about a Kickstarter that has me excited enough to give it my support. Frankly, I’ve been become a bit disenchanted with the whole Kickstarter thing lately, what with the Death Stars and movie stars bringing down the tone. But inevitably a project comes along that gets me firing on all cylinders again. That project is Feng Shui 2 Action Movie Roleplaying. Click below the fold for more on the second edition of a modern classic.
Monday Miniatures: Deenah
Notice how you can’t really make out the details of what we’re painting this week? That’s pretty accurate. This week’s mini is among the least detailed of all the bones I have painted so far. Sometimes the quality can be indistinguishable from plastic, and other times… well, it can be very hit and miss.
This week’s painters did a great job of overcoming adversity though.
Monday Miniatures: Trista
This week I stop traveling, and join in with the rest of the regular painters in painting a wolf themed warrior. God but it is nice to pick up a brush again.
Monday Miniatures: The Shadow
This week’s mini is a pair to one painted a couple months ago. It is also, hopefully the last one I will miss painting due to travel for work. Only one more week to go and then my schedule will return to normal. This week’s submissions run the gamut from pulp steam punk to hard boiled noir.
Monday Miniatures: Medusa
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This is one mini I hate missing out on. It’s a classic with a great level of detail. Pity I’m writing about it from a hotel room instead, but this one I will definitely have to go back and paint someday.
The Cover (Non-)Story
Comic book cover controversy is apparently in this year. I can’t wait for 2015 to bring a whole new thing we should be outraged about, because this one is as dumb as dumping a bucket of ice on your head during a drought.
Monday Miniatures:Goblins (Part 2)
Last week we started working on a big batch of goblins. After all, goblins do travel in packs (at least according to the random encounter table.) This week, we see how the painters made out; it looks like nine of them were completed 100%!
Long Live Nova
Marvel fans in the know have been aware for a while now that this month’s Guardians of the Galaxy #18 is going to reveal the fate of Richard Rider, better known as the hero called Nova. With the wild success of the Guardians film, and the foreknowledge that Rider’s fate would be explained, I recently took a tour back through the now classic Abnett and Lanning run of 2007 to 2011, to remind myself of just how awesome those cosmic cops in the Nova Corp can be (especially after their portrayal in Guardians that left them feeling more like cosmic Keystone cops–perhaps the only let down of the film for me). Click below the fold for more on the under-sung fan favorite, Nova.
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The Death of Wolverine
Just as all good things must come to an end, so to must our heroes die. Of course, in the world of comic books, death isn’t always such a permanent affair. However, on rare occasions when the moon is full and Mercury is retrograde, a hero dies for good, ascending to join the pantheon of fallen heroes in the halls of Valhalla…
The Wolverine is going to die. Like, totally and for sure this time.
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