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Diamond Select Toys and Art Asylum have revealed their first line of Iron Man 3 Minimates set to arrive in specialty stores and Toys "R" Us this spring. Following the release of a few trailers and promotional images, there's not too many surprises, but fans can still get one of their best looks at each character (in blocky toy form, anyway) so far...

About ten years I sent a fan e-mail to "Penvincipals," the Invincible fan mail page. To my surprise, it actually made it to print in Invincible 24. I don't remember what I wrote, exactly, but I do remember asking about Invincible toys and having Robert Kirkman jokingly threaten to sue me...

Animation: If you didn't catch it on Reddit awhile back, there's never a bad time to scope out this awesome King of the Hill animator's guide of "Do's and Dont's." Toys: S.H. Figuarts Iron Man Mark VI and War Machine pack a lot of firepower appeal, even if Iron Man 3 toys are already arriving in stores...

Diamond Select Toys and Art Asylum have had a pretty busy week announcing all kinds of upcoming Minimates, but especially those of the Marvel variety. Following the image reveal for the 50th series of Marvel Minimates, DST and AA have unveiled their 51st batch of characters, nearly all of which are first-timers in the line...

Art Asylum and Diamond Select Toys have been doing a pretty commendable job of balancing the ratio of living humans to zombies over the course of their past two The Walking Dead Minimates waves, and as seen in a new Skybound video contest blog post, it appears the third series will keep the trend going...

When Diamond Select Toys and Art Asylum released artwork for the upcoming 50th Marvel Minimates series a few months back, I think I sprayed a mouthful of coffee on my laptop and shouted "Cyborg Spider-Man!" with stupid grin on my face. I've been working on impulse control since then, so this week's release of proper images of the line's seven figures only made me dance around a little bi

TV: Chloe Bennet of Nashville has signed on to star in Joss Whedon's S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot for ABC. Lego: Bruce Lowell's Krang (Kraang) Android Body custom build is exactly what Lego's new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles line needs. Digital: Mark Waid and Peter Krause's Thrillbent title, Insufferable, is now on ComiXology...

Toys: An exclusive box set of Diamond Select Toys and Art Asylum's The Walking Dead Minimates will be available on Amazon in mid-December. Art: Albert Ching chronicles "The Journey of Mike Wieringo's First Impulse Drawing" in a moving piece remembering the beloved artist...

Toys: Art Asylum and Diamond Select Toys will follow up the first "Best of Marvel Minimates" series with a second wave of colorful comics-style two-packs featuring Mr. Fantastic and Doctor Doom, Daredevil and Venom, the Punisher and Deadpool, and the Hulk and Loki in the spring of 2013...

Art Asylum and Diamond Select Toys have been diligent about covering nearly 20 of the Hulk's various comic book/movie transformations in their Marvel Minimates line over the years, but the Jade Giant will get even more attention in the spring of 2013 as the toymakers release a special "Through the Ages" box set...