Toys
Pursuit of Cobra Destro Review
By Loran Destro has always been one of my favorite characters in G.I. Joe lore. I find the idea of a big, intimidating Scotsman who wears a metal mask selling weapons to both sides just […]
Articles by Christopher Troy
Toys
Reveal the Shield Bumblebee Review
By Loran Love him or hate him, ever since he became a big movie start with the 2007 movie, Bumblebee’s back to being a huge part of Transformers lore. It’s a good thing, too, because […]
Comics and Graphic Novels
Review: DC Direct’s Batman Arkham Asylum Series 1
By Christopher Troy by Chris Troy I’ve developed a love/hate relationship with DC Direct as of late. Sometimes the company releases some awesome products to tie into a book or video game and it’s a […]
Anime
Revoltech Review: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Re-releases
By Christopher Troy I’ll be honest, outside of the occasional Gundam related series or EVA revamp, there hasn’t been much anime that’s grabbed my interest as of late (Yen Press/Viz/Vertical still have me drawn to […]
Anime
The Challenge of BAKUC 2011
By Loran So it looks like the BAKUC competition is going to be returning to America again. I gotta say, I’m pretty excited about this. I thought bringing the competition to America was going to […]
Anime
Kitbashing the GM Cannon!
By Loran Holy crap I actually finished it! Yes, after lying for about six months, I finally got around to finishing my GM Cannon kitbash. As you can see, I decided to take a bit […]
Toys
Transformers Generations Scourge Review
By Loran While it’s taken them a few years to get to this point, the Classics/Universe/Generations line has been doing a pretty good job giving us casts from the original cartoon. We’re only a few […]
Anime
HGUC GM Custom Review
By Loran Holy crap, a new Gundam article! Bandai’s kind of a fickle company. There are tons of designs we’ve wanted to see get HGUC kits for years-most of them are GMs, when you think […]
Toys
Short-packed: TIA NY and various DC products
by Christopher Troy As we speak, Toy Fair is going down up over in the Javitis Center (home of NYCC!) in NYC. While I’m still trying to compile images and info for the FPNYC blog, […]
Toys
Power Core Combiners Sledge Review
By Loran Possibly the best “feature” of the Power Core Combiners line has not been the unique alt-modes, nifty Minicons, or combination gimmick, but rather its abundance of new characters. So far the only “heritage” […]
Toys
Pursuit of Cobra Snake Eyes Review
By Loran Snake Eyes is quite possibly the most overused character in G.I. Joe. Over the past 30 years the guy has gotten over fifty figures. It’s not without good reason, though. His image is […]
Marvel Comics
Marvel Universe Series 3 Wave 1 line review
By Chris Troy This is a very unique February for Marvel fans across the US. Comic wise, Marvel’s launching it’s .01 initiative, special $2.99 priced 1-shots that help new readers get caught up to date […]
Toys
Power Core Combiners Steamhammer Review
By Loran It seems that even the most disliked of Transformers lines all seem to get that one wave that people just go ga-ga over when the prototype pictures get revealed. Love the line or […]
Marvel Comics
Iron Man 2 Air Assault Drone Review
By Loran While it’s pretty much the second time they’ve done it so far, I have to say I quite commend the live-action Iron Man movies for using one of my favorite mecha clichés: the […]
Toys
Short Packed: Square Enix Explosion
By Chris Troy I remembering pointing out some time last year (post New York Comic Con) that Square-Enix’s Play Art division is schedule to explode in terms of non- Final Fantasy related content. That’s finally […]
Toys
Transformers 2010 Hailstorm Review
By Loran New characters, new characters, new characters! Once again Hasbro adds a new character to the Decepticon ranks. Instead of going with a 100% new character, this time Hasbro has gone with sort of […]
Toys
Transformers 2010 Oil Pan Review
By Loran Even in the repaints, the 2010 line has given us some pretty clever homages. I’ve noticed these quite a bit since 2008. Hasbro’s been taking a lot of regular-sized figures and making them […]
Anime
Review: Figma Makinami Mari Illustrious
By Christopher Troy Wait, another Mari review?! Didn’t we just do one of these like 6 months ago? Yes and no! That was Revoltech Mari. Well the first one at least. This is the Max […]
Toys
Review: Transformers 2010 Terradive
By Loran While the Hunt for the Decepticons/Reveal the Shield/Generations lineups have given us amazing updates of classic (and movie) characters, their new characters have been the best part. With Breacher, we got an all-new […]
Toys
Review: Pursuit of Cobra Sandstorm,ER, Zartan?!?
By Loran While there haven’t been many new characters or trooper types in the Pursuit of Cobra line, what new ones we have gotten have been quite welcome. This guy here is Sandstorm, the new […]