It's interesting to see how quickly some convention rats operate. Exclusive con action figures are already up on eBay, with the prices jacked up. It's an industry within an industry, really.
Take for instance, this guy's "buy it now for $40" option on the exclusive Hasbro Stan Lee as Spider-Man toy. I picked up the same thing yesterday for $14.99 for a friend.
Gee whiz, maybe I should hang onto it and plan on cashing in a few months down the line...already my pretty R2-KT is worth twice what
Oh hell yeah! Fuckin' Sabbath! YES! Thith ith cool, huh-huh, huh-hu, DUN DUN DAH DAH DAH, DUNANUNANUNA DUN DA DA DAH!
Pardon momentary lapse into Butt-head-dom, but considering that the Transformers live-action movie failed to use the obvious theme song, one can never be too sure with Hollywood. But the clip from Jon Favreau's new Marvel movie Iron Man has the Black Sabbath tune of the same name, and all is right with the world.
Clip: Arms manufacturer Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is in a mo
As much as I've always loved superheroes, I've always felt there was something just a little off-putting about Marvel head honcho Stan Lee, the person. And it isn't a righteous indignation thing about not giving his collaborators their due credit; Stan has relented on that score in later years, and Jack Kirby's dead now.
No, there's just something about him that feels really cheeseball, from the way he tends to address audiences as "True Believers" and is prone to exclamations like "Excelsior!"
​Comic books, here we come. We'll be at the Long Beach Comic Con at the Long Beach Convention Center all day tomorrow, tweeting and blogging and all that good stuff. Guests include comic book super-legend Stan Lee, Seth Green and the rest of the Robot Chicken fellas, and one-time James Bond George Lazenby. Oh yes. Get excited. (And ready for the typical wondering of what that stuff has to do with comics, exactly.)
