Titans Terrors and Toys

Recently, Netflix announced that an animated entry in the Terminator franchise will be arriving on its platform sometime in the near future. This announcement was made along with a teaser trailer that doesn’t show anything, other than to announce that a Terminator animated series (simply named Terminator ) is coming to Netflix soon. The new animated series will be written by Mattson Tomlin and produced by anime studio Production I.G. Not much is known about the plot of the series, other than that it takes place in 1997 a few days before “Judgement Day”. How this fits into the other Terminator timelines (if any) remains to be seen. I’ve been waiting for an update about this animation series for a while. It was first announced way back in early 2021, and news about this show had become so scarce since then that I assumed it did not make it past a pilot episode. Hollywood does have a habit of announcing projects that ultimately never see the light of day: for example, TV spin-offs have ...

I have to hand it to Super7. After they decided to keep the 3.75” scale action figure standard alive, it has become clear that they are willing to pick up ANY merchandising license from which to make 3.75” scale action figures. As such, their latest line of action figures is one I certainly did not expect them to do: a four-figure line of characters based on covers of controversial horror comics that were printed during the 1940s and 50s before the Comics Code Authority in 1954. The selection of figures Super7 is releasing as part of this line are based on the covers from the pre-code horror comic titles Baffling Mysteries , Black Cat Mystery , Chilling Tales , and Ghostly Weird Stories . The cardback art features reproductions of the original covers, and each of the figures also have glow-in-the-dark versions. I'm not sure why these four particular covers were selected by Super7, although the Radium Man figure represents one of the more shocking covers from that time.  Super7...