Mattel's 2011 toys

A few highlights from this enormous gallery of Mattel's 2011 toys:




Louis Tully/Vinz Clortho.



Owl Man.



Bronze Tiger.



Toy Man.



Young Justice.

*Buy Ghostbusters toys at eBay.

Batwoman #2 cover/wallpaper

I took the liberty of cropping J.H. William III's Batwoman #2 cover into a widescreen wallpaper:



Here's the wallpaper I created out of his cover to issue #1.

*Buy Batwoman: Elegy at Amazon.

Breakfast Valentine

Heart-shaped eggs and toast. More here.

*Buy cookie cutters at Amazon.

Pocket-sized Uglydolls

Pocket-sized Ugly Dolls Lucky Uckys. They'll apparently be $5.

*Buy Uglydolls at Amazon.

Betty Boop in the real world

Betty Boop in the real world via these sites.

*Buy Betty Boop toys at eBay.

So weird it's a little scary live news flub

Los Angeles CBS 2 News correspondent Serene Branson's report on the Grammy's went so awry that you have to fear for her health. (As far as I can tell, they're not mentioning it on their broadcast or website. Probably too interesting.) Via.

Per the comments, she's been hospitalized.

UPDATE: Or maybe just checked and sent home? Yeah, it's looking like it was not a stroke.

UPDATE: CBS news says she was simply examined at the scene and released.

Link roundup

1. Dog with removable heart sculpture (it's cute).

2. John Allison:

Webcomics is the sphere where you give it all away. All your hard work, all of it. It works to an extent, but only to an extent. Giving away your backbreaking labour then selling someone a tshirt based on a Star Wars joke you knocked out in fifteen minutes is mental.

3. Last Exit to Nowhere's new limited edition t-shirt for Paul is on sale (UK only).

The Sword concert poster

James White honors the Thundercats with this concert poster for The Sword. He has various posters and t-shirts on sale here.

Here's another cool poster on sale in the band's shop by Rob Fitzpatrick:



*Buy Thundercats at Amazon.

Michael Vick as a minotaur by Simon Bisley

Michael Vick as a minotaur by Simon Bisley - -a Nike ad from several years ago.

*Buy Slaine: The Horned God at Amazon.

Better photos of NECA's 2011 toys

This enormous gallery has much better photos of the 2011 NECA toys, including Duke Nukem and some delightful Herolix (that deserve better paintjobs).

*Buy Heroclix at eBay.

Hey Maxx

Hey Maxx, Niki asked me to wish you a happy birthday. So hope you had a good day!

BTW, this is pretty cool:

"Sex" on the Tangled banner

The word "sex" lurks in one of the banners for Tangled, which you find at at eBay. Via these fine sites.

2011 NECA toys

Here's a large gallery of NECA's 2011 toys, including Terminator 1 and 2, Bioshock, Gremlins, Scream, and more.

*Buy Neca toys at eBay.

Delightfully bizarre MODOK drawings

A tiny sampling of the MODOK commissions in this gallery (some NSFW).


MODOK as John Carter of Mars by Bob McLeod.



Victorian portrait of MODOK by Josef Rubinstein.



MODOK meets Vampirella by Buzz.



MODOK as bullets by Stephen Burger.


Giger-esque MODOK by Giorgio Comolo.



AIM recruitment poster by Robert Hack. Via.

*Buy MODOK toys at eBay.

Link roundup

1. "If Google was good at search, Demand Media wouldn’t exist."

2. Cute picture of the Stark kids and their dog.

3. A recent edition of the drawing club was Slave Leia. More sketches here.

*Buy Slave Leia toys at eBay.

Swinglining makes bungee jumping look sane

Make sure you watch until the first person angle.

Karate School

A few gems from Reddit:


Ad for a Karate school.



The Firefox.



Big slide.



Collar tag for cats.

Alfred Hitchcock by Francesco Francanvilla

Francesco Francanvilla posted two new images featuring Alfred Hitchcock and the Doom Patrol.

*Buy Doom Patrol toys at eBay.

Link roundup

1. Here's photos of the 2011 Transformers.

2. And here's nice photos of the 2011 Marvel Universe figures.

3. Today's Ript Apparel t-shirt is by paper toy-design god Matt Hawkins.

*Buy Marvel Universe figures at Amazon.