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Home Office Additions: 4/29/2010

Marc — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 01:10:40 +0000

Finally got around to unpacking some recent figures from Sideshow Collectibles. Had to do a little re-arranging, but I’ve got them setup. Unfortunately, I think I’ve about hit the limit of what the office can hold. Might be time to start rotating pieces in and out. Or time to finish the basement. Anyway, here’s the newest acquisitions:

And here are a couple pics:

Darth Vader Life Size Bust

Marc — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:27:24 +0000

Here’s a pick of Vader’s new digs. This piece is beyond words, man. Awesome.

Captain America: Reborn

Marc — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:02:23 +0000

Last week brought to a close a 6-issue (originally planned for 5) mini-series from Marvel Comics, Captain America: Reborn. The series chronicles the aftermath of the death of Steve Rogers and the events surrounding Captain America #600. I won’t go into the details of the story here, but the mainstream press coverage of The Death of Captain America piqued my interest and got me back into collecting comics. I probably wouldn’t consider myself a true collector per se, as I’m just slowly picking up mini-series that I like. Anyway, I grabbed the camera and snapped some shots of the all covers I was able to get. Most issues included several variant, limited-edition covers by other artists. I was fortunate to pick up most of them, but I think I’m missing three, so that’ll give me a something to search for as I poke around local comic shops. The photos aren’t that great because of the flash, but there is definitely some cool artwork in here. Enjoy.

One interesting thing, issues 1-4 all say “# of 5″ and then issue 5 says “5 of 6″. I guess the writers didn’t know they were going to 6 issues until they were at issue #5. Seems kind of weird, but a neat tidbit when looking at the collection as a whole.