How in the hell am I going to make it out of Comic Con without declaring bankruptcy ?

First off, want to say that if Greg is reading this, I'm sorry that it's still festooned with the creepy Silent Hill motif. I'm working on a new motif that will incorporate THQ's Titan Quest. A great game with cool enough concept art that it'll work as blog skin for a little while.

Anyway, enough "shop talk", NECA makers of some damn fine Castlevania and Resident Evil figures is working on some new Gears of War figures.

They recently announced that they'd be releasing a special Carmine figure which would be an exclusive to the San Diego Comic Con. Man I gotta get me one of these babies.

I just hope the fleecing doesn't start until after I buy a few and get them on ebay for the poor suckers who can't get there themselves.

I'd give Kotaku the credit for filling me in on this one but they put a big ol Kotaku watermark in the .jpg they used in the story so I couldn't hot link it. Below is a nice clean .jpg (which I assume Kotaku used to make their Kotaku brand .jpg) below.

NICE!!!

First non-ported blog post...

This is my first post since breaking free of MySpace. Won't be too epic, but I figured I'd throw up some nice looking pics that I'm stealing from TomoPop.

Working for a video game allows one to become intimately familiar with the subtle differences between one nerd sub group and the next.

For instance there is a certain type of nerd who adorns his desk with plaster busts like this:



Of course this type of nerd will also have certain busts that are literally "busts":



Related to this group are the nerds who like to have full on statues on thier desk...which is cool but lack the interactive flavor that I like:



No, I'm more of an action figure guy. Which is kind of wierd since I usually never take my action figures out of the packaging...but I like the fact that they are at least functionally entertaining in some way...even if I still display them exactly as I would if I were a stature / bust nerd.

It helps that actions figures have advanced to the point that most collectible action figures are basically poseable statues:



So I don't know how I feel about the Ghost in the Shell statue that TomoPop posted pics up. I'd get it, but I don't like what having it on my desk would say about the kind of nerd I am. Still take a look and decide for yourselves:







See if that was an action figure, I'd have no problem putting it on my desk. But as a statue...it just feels a little too nerdy, even for me.