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Yeah, first appearance here - I've been a little dodgy about if Serpentor is in this timeline or not.

I do love when Cobra Commander is absolutely EXTRA, just flamboyantly fancy for no reason.

These cards are SO iterative. Like I didn't INTEND to introduce Serpentor via Zartan but as I was writing up his card I was like 'but if...."

I think Damien nailed it - I like the design more than most IDW redesigns and I think it would look boss in Classified, but the whole CC as a title and not a person feels counterintuitive - CC is probably the most distinct character in the Joes lexicon, so not being able to do something with it...

Been dragging my feet ordering stuff from this latest wave cos there's 3-4 figures I THINK I want but I'm not sold on (I definitely want about half the wave and plan on preordering those). The old "do I want to pay now and wait or pay more later with BBTS and still wait" game.) Glad they...

I have an author friend who aspires to write modernizations of those old MENS FICTION novels (he tries to capture the camp without being... y'know, a bigot and a misogynist, which is WAY HARDER than it looks to try to get that tone). He's always finding the most ludicrous cover art. What a time...

I feel like somewhere there's a discussion of renaming the country The United States of Trump. Or Trumplandia. Or Ameralago.

As promised: Code Name: Zartan File Name: Unknown; more aliases than can be confirmed Primary Military Specialty: Infiltration Secondary Military Specialty: Espionage Birthplace: Unknown, rumored to be Nice, France Rank: N/A Upon assuming office, Rexford Lewis cut ties with the most...

It was a really beautifully shot fight at the end, but it was kinda funny to think there was a conversation like "okay, we end this, here and now, today... with our dicks out" that happened somewhere along the line.

Wanna throw a thanks for the head's up about the Halloween two-pack being marked down - I've been hemming and hawing about buying it but was able to get it for 17 bucks on Amazon last night and really, hard to pass up two gimmick figures and an alien sidekick for under 20 dollars total.

Absolutely. Any time anyone says "this isn't who we are!" it's like... man, have you not been paying attention for 300 years?

I mean not a single Democrat I've seen has batted an eyelash at throwing Clinton in front of the moving train, or Chomsky, or Gates, or anyone else in those pictures. So of course Trump's people are like "let's make it look like Clinton raped Diana Ross's kids." They will do anything to try to...

those were fucking amazing and Rasch's BTS footage make them even better. You can see how he plots out each shot throwing his own body around the studio. And of course Mattel hiring him to do it instead of just using AI slop keeps a brilliant human artist working and producing amazing stuff.

Or, alternately, Zartan wants YOU to believe he's related to coyote trickster spirits.

Them adding false photos into the files is... goddammit, it's hard enough to get the truth out of these fucking people, we have a population that will believe anything they see online, and they are motivated by nothing but evil. Just fucking send the asteroid. We can't fix humanity. We are maxed...

Huh. Rollbar does nothing for me. He's not weird enough to be interesting, but doesn't have the nostalgia factor that other kinda plain (gi) jane characters have. Like I'll buy the heck out of some pretty basic bish characters if I know 'em but he's just... kind of a dude. (Classified is this...

I would burn a hole in my keyboard preordering a functional mummy figure that scales with Legends/Monster Force/Classified/ other FMF stuff. I mean NECA's movie mummy is really cool but he big. I need a stand-in for the Living Mummy etc.

Got a lot of rushing around to do today but planning on writing up Zartan when the dust settles tonight. Been thumbing through my old copy of Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde for some inspiration on top of his old file cards.

I was going to say no because I already have three motorcycles with side cars, but having a sidecar that carries another dude would be an upgrade. I'll tentatively probably not but if they did it in an interesting way I might take a flyer on one.

(And yeah, if a toy company animates their stuff with AI I'm LESS likely to buy from them, but someone pays Justin Rasch or someone like that to do true stop motion work, like Frazetta Girls has? That jumps up my respect for them IMMENSELY. You're paying for skill and artistry to highlight your...

I would love to enjoy an app that would animate my figures, or that would turn my face into anime or whatever. The problem is none of these ai products have demonstrated that they built their algorithm on a data set they own, so every single one of them is unfortunately guilty by association...

If any toy line is going to strap a katana onto a shark it’s this one.

Just trying out a diver squad to see how they look in camera.

The Shark BAT is so fucking dumb I would preorder it.

The thing that kills me about AI authors, beyond the fact that the content AI spits out is all from stolen work from other authors is... I mean fuck, man, the most fun I had this week was writing those GI Joe file cards over in the other thread. The ACT of writing is what brings me joy. I'd...