In an effort to recognize our most special accounts and loyal retailers, F unko is continuing our Specialty Series. Every month, we’ll be announcingtwo major exclusives – this month includes a Dorbz 2-pack and Rock Candy!
Why is it so special? You’ll only be able to find these Specialty Series exclusives in boutique retail, specialty stores, local comic book shops andfrom qualified online retailers. This is your chance to help support local businessesand smaller retailers, and you’ll pick up an amazing exclusive item in the process!
Our latest exclusives are a Rick and Morty Dorbz 2-Pack and Evil-Lyn Rock Candy!
Remember, these two fantastic pieces are exclusive to the Specialty Series.
So pay a visit to your favorite specialty store or your local c omic bookshop and let them know to order the Specialty Series from Funko.
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Dorbz: Rick and Morty – Police Rick and Morty (2-pack)
The Straw Hat Crew and other members of the Japanese manga series One Piece are now Funko Mystery Minis!
Collect Monkey. D. Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Tonytony. Chopper and many more!
At Hot Topic look for Monkey. D. Luf fy utilizing Gear Fourth,Corazón and Trafagar. Law as a child.
Pop Roc is the name of a new comic shop opening on 337 East Ave, Rochester, New York, previously a Magic Wings. But it’s also a coffee shop. And a cereal bar. And, frankly, a brand-new type of comic shop.
And it’s co-owned by former WWE Crash Test Dummy Colin Delaney, alongside Jason Hilton, Nick Andolina, and Liz Andolina.
Opening on Friday, they will have original coffees from local roasters Fifth Frame and CanalTown, Death Wish coffee (which contains the highest amount of caffeine allowed), and a wall of energy drinks — as well as mocktinis formed from them.
Hilton’s collection of toys will be repurposed as décor, and Pop Roc will offer a comic discovery program that offers some comics for free to anyone and others to those who pay $20 a month. The program allows you to read what you want in store from 20 chosen titles a week, and eventually those comics will be donated. Seriously. They say:
Our “Comic Discovery Program” will let you read brand new books, the day they come out, before you buy them. Try that at any other comic shop at your own risk.
This allows you to read books you may have never gotten a chance to read. Maybe you never even thought you wanted to read but suddenly find yourself unable to put it down. Maybe you just couldn’t afford to read those title and now you can.
That’s pretty cool if you ask me.
We will offer around 20 new titles a week in the program. That’s up to 80 titles a month. If you’re doing the math, that’s well over a $300 a month value.
Hopefully people will sit and drink some coffee, energy drinks or even have a bowl of cereal. You could also grab one of the latest Funko Pops, an old school G1 Transformer or one of our exclusive fanny packs. All while being able to just sit, read or watch some cool cartoons.
Which means the famous cry from comic shop owners, “hey, this isn’t a lending library,” can now be countered with the riposte, “kinda is.”
The reprint effort leads off with Two Little Nuns, the first of Bill O’Malley’s four books of nun cartoons. Originally published in 1950 by the Catholic magazine Extension, the book was an immediate smash, going through six printings in under a year. It launched long-time cartoonist O’Malley’s book career, and he would go on to do books of original cartoons about a range of topics – parenthood, medical care, golf, and more. But with all his success, the nun cartoons were always what he was best known for.
Along with that comes reprints of five books of nun cartoons by Joe Lane, a pre-Golden Age comic book artist and World War II Navy veteran who became Extension‘s main nun guy in the wake of O’Malley’s departure. These books – More Little Nuns, Our Little Nuns, Nuns So Lovely, Vale of Dears, and Yes, Sister! No, Sister! – were all originally published during the 1950s.
The seventh book is a new collection of old cartoons. Nun Funnies! has hundreds of cartoons by Joe Lane, one for every day of the year, including most of the cartoons from the five smaller Lane collections as well as additional cartoons not found in any of the other books. Lane’s work used African and Native American caricatures that are properly understood to be inappropriate today. To maintain the reprints of the original collections, these cartoons are included in the smaller books. However, the Nun Funnies! collection skips these cartoons.
If this is successful, AboutComics already has plans for further books of nun cartoons. The books now available through Amazon and wholesale:
Two Little Nuns by Bill O’Malley (ISBN 978-1936404766), 5.25″x8″, 76 pages, black and white, cover price $7.99. Original edition issued 1950.
Nun Funnies!by Joe Lane (ISBN 978-1936404773), 8.5″x11″, 136 pages, black and white, cover price $14.99.
The following books by Joe Lane are each 5.25″x8″, 76 pages, black and white, cover price $7.99:
More Little Nuns (ISBN 978-1936404780), original edition issued 1950.
Our Little Nuns (ISBN 978-1936404803), original edition issued 1954.
Bleeding Cool hasn’t run any April Fools this year again — but others weren’t so reticent.
Alice’s copy of Britain’s best ongoing comic book by far, The Phoenix, came through the post on Friday with its most recent weekly issue with a brand-new format for this week… and a big change.
The all-colour comic was going all black-and-white. Britain’s weekly comic books have traditionally been black-and-white affairs, but they at least had colour covers…
…and it seemed that would be the way it was. Quite a surprise for little Alice, who started wondering if she would have to colour each page in, in order to retain her usual reading experience. But one page turn later…
…the truth was revealed. She was thoroughly April Fooled.
DC Comics announced a new Trunks Initiative.
Since the arrival of Superman in ACTION COMICS #1, trunks have been an essential element of Super Hero design. With the Man of Steel returning to his classic look in this spring’s ACTION COMICS #1000, DC is proud to announce a line-wide initiative that returns its characters to their classic trunks look. Even characters whose original designs never included the iconic outerwear will receive a pants-lift, with bespoke trunks designed by some of DC’s top artists.
Batman? His trunks are back. Wonder Woman? Trunks. Lex Luthor? That guy’s got a whole designer closet full of them (they go over his three-piece suits). Now fans everywhere can rejoice that, indeed, the trunks are back—all of them.
These inspired trunks designs come from some of comics’ most acclaimed creators who spent a painstaking three-month creative retreat making sure each and every pair had its own unique design and rich backstory. While the core designs will start to appear shortly after ACTION COMICS #1000, DC’s tireless artists have created trunks for a variety of future storylines, including Mecha-Trunks and Omega Beam Trunks.
The character redesigns will be an integral component in a special one-shot, DC UNIVERSE: INFINITE TRUNKS #1, following the April 18 release of ACTION COMICS #1000. The must-read issue will introduce the reworked costumes, which tie into a larger mystery involving the Multiverse that will be explored in JUSTICE LEAGUE: NO JUSTICE, a special JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK storyline titled “Unite the Trunks,” and the JUSTICE LEAGUE ODYSSEY crossover “A Lot More Trunks.”
For additional info on the line-wide trunks expansion, please follow us on social media at @DCComics, hashtag #AprilFools
They had to literally give it away at the end though. Poor show. Other notable April Fool’s this year includes Nat Gertler’s About Comics announcing a change of direction.
Everyone knows what holiday it is – it’s Easter! Tiny/mighty comics publisher About Comics is taking advantage of the most joyful holiday on the Roman Catholic calendar to announce its joyful and oh so Catholic change of direction. After two decades of publishing not just comics but an ever-widening array of comics creation guides and tools, novels, audiobooks, and items of historical interest, About Comics has decided to focus on becoming America’s preeminent publisher of books of cartoons about nuns.
“Nun humor has been a staple for a long time, whether it’s Sister Act, Nunsense, Sister Mary Elephant, or The Flying Nun. But for some reason, culture has chosen to forget what presaged all of those – the classic single-panel nun cartoons from 1950s Catholic publications,” explained About Comics founder and head nun cartoon expert Nat Gertler. “Now, we’re going to put all the company’s energy into reviving these lost works.”
The publisher is immediately releasing reprints of classic nun cartoon collections, featuring such diverse little titles as Two Little Nuns, More Little Nuns, and Our Little Nuns. For the sake of representation, these will be accompanied with some little books of non-sized-limited nuns – specifically Nuns So Lovable, Vale of Dears, and Yes, Sister! No, Sister!
And for those customers who are just not interested in little books of nun cartoons, About Comics is proud to offer Nun Funnies!, a full 8.5″x11″ paperback with a life-time supply of nun cartoons. There’s more than one cartoon for every day of the year, even Lent, and you can read it again and again.
“We’re ready for the inevitable nun cartoon explosion,” explains Gertler, “and we’re not stopping here. In the future, nun cartoon aficionados can look for such great About Comics titles as Kids’ Sisters, Nice Habits, and All For Nun.”
The first seven titles in the About Comics new nun direction are available through Amazon and for wholesale order as of April 1. Happy holiday, everyone!
There were lost of genre-April Fools abounding. Director David F Sandberg‘s Shazam teaser…
San Antonio is thrilled to announce its newest Sister City relationship with the country of Wakanda!
We look forward to future cultural, economic, and educational exchange – specifically relating to the use of the newly discovered material ‘Vibranium’! pic.twitter.com/RnCV9pJUdu
Archaeologists from @ArcDurham@durhamuni make important announcement about their recent work on Holy Island – First discovery of porg bones in a secure archaeological content pic.twitter.com/fCB07Mjwaa
The 501st Legion introduced cosplay standards for a topless Kylo Ren costume, requiring that “shredded arms and chest match the costumer’s natural skin tone.”
Jeff Vandermeer announced his books were being rewritten for kids…
Happy to announce this new project I've been working on: Rewritten kids' versions of Southern Reach Trilogy = emphasize environmental message for a new generation! Out later this year from kids' book divisions of my adult publishers @fsgbooks@tenno@4thEstateBooks@CookeMcDermidpic.twitter.com/PtOyCn8zaW
You’ve been scared of love and what it did to you, but you don’t have to run ’cause I know what you’ve been through. Just a simple touch and it can set you free, so we don’t have to rush when you’re alone with… The Weekly Static!
With much love and respect to The Weeknd (who just released a new EP)…I’ll put it to you, Greg: isn’t this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do what you you want to us, but we’re not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of…
The Weekly Static is our look at the past week in the land of the networks, cable, streaming, smoke signals, cloud formations, and shadow puppets from an interesting and entertaining perspective. So The Weekly Static’s “Justice League” (myself, Rocky, Trejo, Bat-Murr and Margo Staten) makes you these three promises… because we’re good like that:
● Offer blunt, honest perspectives on five TV topics from the past week covered by Bleeding Cool’s team of news-thirsty writers. Just to be clear? My views are my views and don’t reflect on the writers. We own what we say 110%.
● Spotlight a news item that we missed when it first hit, but we’re pretty sure you’ll want to know about.
● Feed my insatiable-yet-fragile ego with buckets of praise, adulation, social media shares, pizza, Superman Funkos, Eisner Awards, write-in votes for the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election (now more than ever) and my own private island-nation.
“If NBC were looking for a higher-stakes musical to broadcast live on TV, it’s hard to imagine the Peacock landing a bigger fish than “Jesus Christ Superstar.” The rock opera musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice has been revered and reviled over the course of its 47-year history, and the network’s faith in being able to pull off a one-time-only performance at the Brooklyn Armory on April 1 is tantamount to suggesting it can turn water into wine.
Fortunately, “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert” is riding on more than faith. Producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan (“Hairspray Live,” “The Sound of Music Live,” three Oscar telecasts) are in charge of their fifth such Broadway-to-TV production, and by bringing on board below-the-line artisans with both stage and screen expertise, what could have been a tricky gamble is likely to pay off big… {more}”
SNL Funko Pops are here, and I found the Stefon waiting for me on the shelf the other day. The wave of Pops consists of five Pops total — Stefon, David S. Pumpkins, More Cowbell Guy, and a Dick in a Box two-pack. While I want the whole wave, Stefon was my must-have. Ever since debuting on Weekend Update, Bill Hader and writer John Mulaney have made me laugh harder than anyone else. I was reminded of how much I missed them when Hader hosted SNL this month and the character made a triumphant return.
So needless to say, I was pretty pumped to find this one.
I love the look of the box for this one, with the logo and skyline everywhere. It’s also interesting that they gave the show its own Pop series numbering instead of just making them a part of the television series. That would suggest that we are going to get many more of these.
Once he’s out of the box you can truly take in all of his glory. There are a few areas where this Pop could have just a horrific paint job, but thankfully it does not. This Pop has everything: the hair, the shirt, the rings on his fingers. This is just a complete home run.
Hopefully I can find the rest of these soon. I may just have to order them online, which is possible to do right here. I also hope we get even more SNL Pops. Wayne’s World, the Cheerleaders, Target Lady, any character played by Eddie Murphy. There is so many possibilities that it could end up being one of the greatest sets we will ever get.
The One:12 Collective Stealth Armor Iron Man features a specially sculpted One:12 body specifically created for Iron Man and is designed with real metal components! His articulated visor can be worn in the standard closed position or opened to reveal the face of billionaire Tony Stark.
RUBIE’S COSTUME COMPANY COSTUMES & ACCESSORIES
Terrify and excite your friends with these costumes and accessories from Star Wars, Ghostbusters, Alien vs. Predator, and more iconic series! These wearable collectibles are great for Halloween or cosplay.
TOMB RAIDER 1996 LARA CROFT STATUE
The Tomb Raider: Lara Croft resin statue stands approximately 14-inch tall, including the base, is carefully cast in polystone resin and is hand-painted by artists to exacting standards. Lara’s design is based on her classic pose depicted in the original cover art for the game with her pistols at the ready. This is truly a must have piece for any collector or die-hard Tomb Raider fan! Each statue includes a deluxe full-color box, individually hand-numbered base, and a validation card.
$279.99
FUNKO POP!
Pop! figures bring your favorite characters to life with a unique stylized design. Each vinyl figure stands 3.75 inches tall and comes in window box packaging, making them great for display!
$9.99
THE TABLE MUSEUM FIGMA NO.SP-107 YUREI-ZU
The ninth figure to join the series is the famous work by Maruyama Okyo created during the Edo period of Japan—the Yurei-zu! The original work is considered the first ever illustration to depict a ghost with no legs, and all the details of the original have been carefully converted into an action figure! Special interchangeable parts also allow you to switch the figure into the even more eerie version of the work!
$69.99
DEADPOOL MARVEL LEGENDS FIGURES
Each 6-inch-scale figure features detailed design, is easily poseable with premium articulation, and includes a Build-A-Figure component. Collect them all to assemble Sasquatch from Alpha Flight!
FUNKO POP!
Pop! figures bring your favorite characters to life with a unique stylized design. Each vinyl figure stands 3.75 inches tall and comes in window box packaging, making them great for display!
GENERATION 1 OPTIMUS PRIME STATUE
The Transformers Generation 1 Optimus Prime statue stands 24.4 inches tall and features the Autobot Leader in the midst of battle. This statue features LED light-up functions, several interchangeable arms, and a diorama base with trailer and roller.
$1,199.99
BORDERLANDS 2 ZER0 ACTION FIGURE
Shrouded in mystery, Zer0 is an assassin-for-hire whose identity and origin are unknown. Left unsatisfied after a previous target failed to fight back, Zer0 turned to Vault hunting in search of a worthy challenge.
$17.99
MACHINE ROBO MR-05 MIXER ROBO
Action Toys has brought back the 1980’s through the power of cool transforming figures, Machine Robo is back! Mixer Robo, based on his appearance in Revenge of Cronos, stands 5″ tall in robot mode and comes equipped with a pair of knives. In Mixing Truck mode he features real rolling wheels. Mixer Robo includes die-cast parts and a display stand.
$45.99
REMIX SERIES RMX-06 FUROR & RMX-07 RIOT
Each 5-inch robot-to-cassette transforming figure features diecast parts, accessories, and electric-powered piledrivers!
and Omega Beam Trunks
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