{"id":1069,"date":"2005-03-15T20:36:24","date_gmt":"2005-03-16T01:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2011-01-23T20:49:13","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T01:49:13","slug":"huge-goon-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2005\/03\/huge-goon-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge Goon news!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Action-Figure.com got the scoop of the week - photos and details about Mezco's upcoming toyline based on Eric Powell's comic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegoon.com\/\" target=_blank>The Goon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I got into <i>The Goon<\/i> a few months ago after picking up the Hellboy\/Goon crossover (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comics.org\/issue\/370391\/cover\/4\/\" target=gcd><i>Goon<\/i> #7<\/a> - brilliant marketing, that). Naturally I became addicted to it, and fortunately for me, Mezco's figures were already on the way.<\/p>\n<p>The figures are tentatively scheduled to be released in the fall. The first line-up, as previously reported, includes The Goon, Frankie, the Zombie Priest, and Joey the Ball. Each figure will also come with a chunk of a \"zombie,\" much like the Galactus of Marvel Legends 9, but in a nice twist, the zombie chunks will also be designed to look as they've been hacked up by our heroes--thus, you'll have the choice of displaying the zombie as a single figure, or spread around Goon and Frankie in all their gory glory.<\/p>\n<p>Here are direct links to the A-F.com articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.action-figure.com\/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=14378\" target=_blank>Joey the Ball<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.action-figure.com\/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=14377\" target=_blank>Zombie Priest<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.action-figure.com\/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=14379\" target=_blank>Zombie<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.action-figure.com\/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=14376\" target=_blank>Frankie<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.action-figure.com\/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=14380\" target=_blank>The Goon<\/a><\/ul>\n<p>My favorite bit: Frankie's accessories will include a \"knife with zombie eye on it (fits into zombie head)\" so you can re-enact your favorite \"<a href=\"http:\/\/goodcomics.comicbookresources.com\/2009\/02\/10\/a-year-of-cool-comic-book-moments-day-41\/\" target=cbr>KNIFE TO THE EYE!<\/a>\" moments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Action-Figure.com got the scoop of the week - photos and details about Mezco's upcoming toyline based on Eric Powell's comic The Goon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mezco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}