Earthworm Jim Heads Pack review

As mentioned in today's review, the first series of Premium DNA's Earthworm Jim line is supplemented with a heads pack. Since one of the big draws of the game back in the day was the super-expressive art style, with Jim pulling all sorts of big, Looney Tunes-style poses and expressions, giving fans a bunch of alternate heads is great. And while they perhaps could have done them as pack-ins with the other figures, almost like a loose adaptation of a Build-A-Figure idea, making those heads a separate purchase for anyone who doesn't want all the other figures in the line is a friendly choice.

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Vintage-style cosplay

a couple at a convention, dressed as the vintage Kenner versions of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Princess Leia, complete with stiff vinyl capes, obviously plastic hair, and accessories held in their immobile C-shaped hands. Obi-Wan's lightsaber even has that weird thin piece at the tip.

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Also, the embarrassing nudity

This New Yorker cartoon was originally about record albums, but we found this edit easier to identify with:

a cartoon of two men standing in front of shelves and shelves of anime girl statues. One of them is saying to the other "The two things that really drew me to vinyl were the expense and the inconvenience."

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OAFEnet Email Update for Thursday, August 29

The OAFEnet Email Update is a sight for sore eyes. How majestic!

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Officially sanctioned white or black paint will be an additional $5 per bottle

a meme showing what would happen if Games Workshop, the company behind Warhammer, had instead created chess.

4 Pawns - $45
Rook/Knight/Bishop multikit - $35
King/Queen multikit - $35
Rule Book ("Complete Book of Beginning Chhess", currently six dollars on Amazon) - $45
Datacards (diagrams of how the pieces move) - $25
Movement Tool (a ruler) - $18
Start Collecting Box (normal, basic chess set available at any toy store) - $299
Terrain (a needlessly fancy raised board with faux stone columns around all the side) - $90

screenshot of an episode of Columbo, where Columbo and the suspect he's bothering have been photoshopped to be standing in front of a game store's Warhammer display wall. Columbo is casually saying "Boy, a hella could go broke with a hobby like this."

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Hasbro could have made this in the Transformers R.E.D. line

two Transformers Blokees figures of Ratchet and Megatron, combined together into one unholy mess and pleading "HELP US!" like on the cover of Transformers #60

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This week in comicshops - 08/28

Find out what toy-related items you can get at your local comicshop this Wednesday.

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A quick look at DST's Gimli

Diamond Select Gimli action figure with pipe and mug

Diamond Select casual Gimli. Includes everything the original Gimli had, plus cape, non helmet head, pipe and mug.

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See how she goes to work?

a Barbie doll done up in mid-20th century clothes and hairstyle, but holding a chainsaw. The tip of the saw is bloody, and there is blood splattered on Barbie's face and left arm. The image is labelled "very demure, very mindful" like the recent TikTok trend

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Not to be judgy, but...

Funko Friday

@punished_picnic says: Mocking Funko Pops is not only a form of elitism but it's inherently classist given the accessibility of (gets a brief glimpse of a funko pop) Oh jesus Christ. uhh, as I was saying the bourgeois... why are its eyes like that... uh the uh... the affordability... jesus christ

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