A Tale of Two Toy Fanatics
Scott Beatty is a writer and one of comicdom’s preeminent experts on action figures past and present. He has a terrifically cool blog of his own: Plastic Memory. Somehow or other we connected — I don’t even remember how anymore — but we decided to share our love of action figures and superswag with a mutual MIGHTY Q&A about what we dig.
EXCLUSIVE Preview! BRAVEST WARRIORS #22
Some all-ages goodness from Boom! Out Wednesday 7/23!
EXCLUSIVE Preview! WATCHMEN ARTIFACT EDITION from IDW
Dave Gibbons’ artistic tour de force gets the epic treatment with the San Diego Comic-Con Debut of IDW’s salute to the comics masterpiece.
VARIANTS! Best of the Week!
There’s a lot of great Archieness but I’m leading off with Cliff Chiang’s Robin Rises: Omega variant because I want a big print of it. Cliff, are you listening?
IN BAD TASTE: A Trip to 1987
Ah, comic conventions. Nothing makes me happier than to see old friends and colleagues at a local con, make new contacts, get sketches, or impress a chick with my haggling prowess. This convention I had another mission. One that started out with, “I’m not buying anything” turned into a tidy sum spent on a treasure trove of ridiculous back issues.