The quest for garbage gaming continues, but it’s mostly just more of the same in an even funkier package. From the seedier depths of eBay and AliExpress comes the K5…
Cretaceous Chaos : Dinosaurs Attack! Trading Cards
We almost had a Dinosaurs Attack! movie. When the rights to Mars Attacks were purchased in the 1990s, the Dinosaurs Attack! concept was part of the deal. Before the movie…
TV Games Plug & Play Showcase : Marvel Madness
Were you to ask someone completely unfamiliar with pop culture which member of the animal kingdom had inspired the most expansive and successful superhero franchise of all time, they probably…
TV Games Plug & Play Showcase : DC Comics Diasasters
Video games based on DC Comics are almost always terrible. Most Jakks’ Plug & Play games don’t really change the landscape, but one moves the needle.
TV Games Plug & Play Showcase : Star Weirds
Behold the the Plug ‘n’ Play : small consoles, usually completely contained with in a single controller, which included four or five simple games. Pop in some batteries, plug it into the A/V ports in your TV, and you’re set.
One Album Wonder : Rudi Vannelli
Virtuoso guitarist Rudi Vannelli died in 1961 of a heart attack, five years after he released his one and only album on Verve Records, 11 tracks under the title Maestro…
Mego’s Impractical Jokers Figures : The Future Was Then
Everyone needs a little Tenderloin. Or do they?
Wondering About Wazmo Nariz : New Wave’s Unsung Genius
There are record collectors, and there are music enthusiasts, and there are large areas in that Venn diagram that just don’t meet. But in that special place in the middle…
Arnie the Snake : Vintage Educational LPs
From the beginning of time, mankind has always tried to find ways to make kids less stupid, because when you really break it down, most kids are just a spindly…
McFarlane has Batman, and Why That’s a Great Thing
If you’re a toy collector of a certain age, it’s hard to remember a time when Mattel didn’t own a vast portion of the DC Comics action figure license. But…
Bootleg Batmen 2 : Play Arts Kai or Die
Welcome to comic nerd confessional blog #452 : I love when superheroes and villains get mashed together into brand new, ridiculous, probably stupid characters. Sure, there’s always some convoluted and…
Batman Forever Forever : Glow-in-the-Dark SkyCaps
For one brief, shining moment, the crappy stars aligned, and there was at least one overly elaborate, glowing, weaponized set of Batman Forever pogs.
Bootleg Gaming : Datafrog Mini Retro 89-in-1
Part of an endless quest for self-imposed miseries to distract from the even-more-crushing miseries of real life is my constant pursuit of terrible little retro video game systems, because there’s…
The Marvel Comics Character That Everyone Forgot
The year was 1976, and Marvel comics were probably at their weirdest and most wonderful. Howard the Duck got his first solo book after first appearing in 1973’s Adventure into Fear…
Never Too Many M.U.S.C.L.E. : The Modern Keshi & the Mystery of the Street Sharks
The MUSCLE figures you loved in the ’80s and ’90s are back… in Street Shark form, for some reason!
Virtual Collecting : Marvel Collect by Topps
What the heck is a virtual trading card? And why do you care?
Bootleg Gaming : The Unreliable PXP3
There are many versions of the PXP3… and this one totally sucks.
Animal Contest : The Worst Video Game Ever
Is Animal Contest the worst video game ever? Probably… if it’s even a game.
Every Batman Explored : Batman #4 (1940)
Batman #4 features a costumed hero who’s barely recognizable as the shrewd crimefighter we know and love.
Ugliest Pogs in the World : The Bottom 40 – Part 2
Pogs are terrible… but they don’t have to be. From the many, many thousands of pogs that were cranked out in the 1990s, a few rise to the top by…
Ugliest Pogs in the World : The Bottom 40 – Part 1
It’s pretty easy to hate on Pogs. Pogs a pretty much slabs of hot cardboard garbage that were a colossal waste of natural resources. Every pog was either beaten to…
Bootleg Nintendo : Coolbaby RS-20
It’s difficult to ignore the novelty of playing all of the dorky Nintendo games you grew up with on a pocket-sized, full-color device, and it’s something that Nintendo only kind…
The Importance of Pogs : An Introduction
If you were alive and coherent in the mid-90s, there’s no way that you could have escaped the phenomenon that was Pogs : simple, illustrated cardboard discs, about an inch…
Rocket Men & Adventure Ladies : Classic Pulp Trading Cards
During the simpler days of 5th grade, Star Trek: The Next Generation was the best thing on TV, and it burrowed deep into my brain. That turned into my very…
