So yeah.  Max, Dr. Jose and I had the pleasure of attending San Diego Comic Con this past week.  This was my first time, and I found it to be fascinating, often frustrating and, occasionally insanely amazing. In the upcoming week, we plan to bring you many more pics, interviews, and stories about the trip. [...]

I’ve always been a supporter of Shocker Toys’ Indie Spotlight figures. They’ve taken some of the greatest indie comic book characters of all time (Scud!, The Maxx!) and made them into 6″ scale action figures.  Of the first series of Indie Spotlight, my favorite pieces were the solid purple translucent Maxx and solid yellow translucent [...]

The first batch has arrived. Fresh from Nerd City’s A.V. Club, our adventures @ Chicago Comic Con caught on tape! Tune in for more soon.
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Ben and Shocker Toys’ Geoff Beckett.
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Max and Colt Noble creator Tim Seeley.
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Ben with Andrew from Astonishing Toys.

Our friends from Shocker Toys are headed to Wizard World Chicago (or Chicago Comic Con, or whatever I’m supposed to call it), and they’re bringing a whole bunch of cool stuff with them!  Not only will they their Indie Spotlight line for sale, but also a few of their past con exclusives.  This is also [...]

Do you remember the awesomeness that was/is Zen the Intergalactic Ninja?  It was seriously one of my favorite books in the early 90’s.  Well, there’s good news for Zen fans, courtesy of Zen’s creators, Steve Stern and Dan Cote, and Shocker toys!  BTW, it’s all going down at SDCC.
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Steve Stern and Dan [...]

From Shockertoys.com:
Shocker Toys returns to San Diego Comic-Con Booth #3849 with five, count ‘em, five, exclusives, the return of an old favorite and one can’t miss party.
Tribune’s Dick Tracy will make his first appearance as a hyper-articulated 6 inch action figure in creator Chester Gould’s black and white comic strip style.  The World’s Most Famous [...]

From Shocker Toys:

DICK TRACY ATTENDS SAN DIEGO COMIC CON 2009 WITH SHOCKER TOYS!

May 16th, 2009 NJ- Tribune’s Dick Tracy attends San Diego Comic-Con this year as exclusive Black and White action figures brought to you by Shocker Toys. This is a first for Dick Tracy to appear as hyper-articulated [...]

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 [...]

The boys are joined by Artist/Toymaker/Lady MIss Monster as they discuss her influences, the internet, and doing cocaine without pants on in Episode 39 of Nerd City.
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I was pleasantly surprised earlier this week to finally receive my NYCC exclusive smoky/translucent Maxx and Scud Indie Spotlight figures from Shocker Toys.  They are both beautiful sculpts with all the articulation that one could ask for without compromising the appearance of the figure.  Although we have all already been told that the figure for [...]