Two-man art show this Saturday, May 2nd, featuring work from Matthew Ryan Sharp and Toby Stanger @ Chicago’s Revolution Tattoo. Both these artists are super cool, and Nerd City’s friends over @ Revolution Tattoo know how to throw a party. Plus Chicago beer/burger/metal haven Kuma’s Corner is catering. This one is not to be missed.

This image of an amazingly painted Lava-Shark is courtesy of He-Man.org user Flitzi.  The hammerhead style is the original sculpt by Royalt1us.  Hovever, he also created a second, great white style variant as well.  The sculpt, well as this paint job (also courtesy of Flitzi) is heavily inspired by the original creation of MOTU artist [...]

Lately, I’ve been reading a ton of Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing, and it has me going ga-ga for the green guy. I highly recommend checking out the TPB’s available @ Chicago Comics. “…Secret Formulas, Monsters, Midgets!”
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This is a short horror film that I and Nerd CIty’s Joey shot with some of our friends in one night for 75 bucks. Enjoy.
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I do believe that I have a new favorite television program.
Although I have been aware of this show for quite some time, I’ve never actually seen it until recently.  It’s everything I expected and more.  Cartoon Network is now running the show as part of its Adult Swim lineup.  Do yourself [...]

Check out this in progress pannel from Image United featuring Shaft, Savage Dragon, Witchblade and Ripclaw.  Art by Liefeld, Larsen and Silvestri.
Image originally via Rob Liefeld’s twitter.

Today saw the release of the video for New Wu which should be the first single off of Raekwon’s highly anticipated album, Cuban Linx II. I think it’s a pretty good track and just hope they keep the June/July 2009 release date for the album which seems to constantly be delayed.

video courtesy of worldstarhiphop.com.

Following the amazing success of series 1, our friends at Shocker Toys have already made available for preorder series 2 of Indie Spotlight. With an expected ship date of August/September, the lineup for IS2 consists of:
Dick Tracy
Jack Staff
Ignacia
King Zombie
The Tick
Dick Tracy B/W Variant
King Zombie Variant
and special Arthur (from The Tick) mail away figure
To preorder [...]

Pretty cool.
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And check out this hilarious Onion article about the Thundercats movie here.

Art show @ Chicago’s A.Okay Official this Friday, May 1st, featuring new DIY custom toy, Mutts. Looking at the preview pics, it should be pretty cool.