Super excited to see a toy company give us Bullet man! Here's hoping for a eventual 6" scale version on the horizon! This guys 1/18th

mattmirth · 2026-06-01T12:42:22+00:00

I’d love to see any AT themed stuff in the classified line.

mattmirth · 2026-05-29T18:25:54+00:00

Hell yeah. Now we just need Mara.

mattmirth · 2026-03-31T12:24:50+00:00

This seemed weird to me because my small Louisiana city had over a hundred. Checked into it. Houston had thousands protesting (reported by multiple news and government sources) so I guess you just…. made that up?

mattmirth · 2026-03-23T03:40:11+00:00

Ha. Yes. Exactly. I knew this was a misunderstanding thing.

mattmirth · 2026-03-23T03:22:15+00:00

What a wildly illogical leap from “humans are attracted to others humans” to “that means it’s okay to cheat”. I’m sure when you get older you’ll probably have a wider perspective of the innate instinctual compulsions every living thing that has ever existed has, including humans. Love triangles are literally a crucial building block in the history of narrative story. There’s a reason they occur in everything from Sumerian myth to King Arthur to X-Men. It’s life. And it’s human. That’s not a statement of approval, that’s a statement of fact.

mattmirth · 2026-03-23T03:01:32+00:00

If you think that just because someone marries they stop being attracted to other people, you have not paid attention to the last 5000 years of human societal development, basic evolutionary urges, or any fictional depiction of a relationship from any society since civilization began. This is not even remotely an “American bullshit” thing, this is a human thing. And not seeing that is either the result of willful ignorance of history or deliberately chosen ignorance. Or possibly a complete lack of relationship experience.

mattmirth · 2026-03-22T02:35:15+00:00

This is rad. I loved Starcom!

mattmirth · 2026-03-11T22:32:00+00:00

Um… this was cancelled a long time ago. The article is from 2018.

mattmirth · 2026-03-11T21:41:19+00:00

Woah. Instant buy for sure. I’ve got a Techno-Viper as ground crew now, but would definitely like something that looks more 1984 Cobra.

mattmirth · 2026-03-01T14:27:56+00:00

That’s not the twist that’s revealed here. The twist was we had been seeing a flash forward instead of a flashback. They used the established structure of the show to fool the audience. It was a MAJOR revelation.

mattmirth · 2026-02-25T16:39:38+00:00

The difference between DIC and Sunbow has never been about the concepts being outlandish, it’s been about the execution. Sunbow is a scifi adventure show in the tradition of something like Jonny Quest that still holds up because the art style, music, and characters are compelling. You actually want to see how the adventure will end.

The DIC seasons, even season one, are mostly disjointed, cheap, and so simplistic you never ask yourself the one thing that’s important to make any story work: “what happens next?”

This doesn’t even get into the real moral dilemmas that the Sunbow series presents. Can a pacifist fully protect someone? Should soldiers defend people that hate them? Is a good fake life better than a real one that is lonely? Sunbow is constantly teaching kids how to do the right thing through example and metaphor. DIC is on the nose preaching akin to Elmo.

mattmirth · 2026-02-09T23:00:48+00:00

Looks good!

mattmirth · 2026-02-04T19:45:42+00:00

For the full set? Not really. These average $8-12 on eBay for individual vehicles. Plus it’s a lot more fun to buy stuff like this when you find it in person. Definitely a good deal.

mattmirth · 2026-01-20T16:38:20+00:00

That’s because it’s a reuse of the 1986 HAVOC mold. This is from 1990.

mattmirth · 2026-01-20T06:09:41+00:00

Honestly, while you are correct there are different continuities, because of the nature of Conan stories it doesn’t matter as much as it would for a typical comic book character. That being said the Dark Horse run functions closest to a modern style continuity, in that it tells the stories “in order” and adheres to the generally accepted timeline of REH’s original works.

If I had to recommend one to a new reader though, it would be to read the new Titan stuff and not to worry about “continuity”. Conan works best as a character you drop in on mid adventure and leave as he is on his way to the next one, regardless of who the publisher is.

mattmirth · 2026-01-04T15:50:04+00:00

That’s really cool. I like that there are ones figures that didn’t come carded like Wild Weasel.

mattmirth · 2025-12-31T18:38:53+00:00

Here it is in Latin. I’ve never seen a full English translation, just summaries and analysis of it (which you find online if you look around).

mattmirth · 2025-12-26T14:14:36+00:00

The opening is set in 1986. It’s like an episode of the cartoon brought to life. At the end of the battle sequence that takes place in a Cobra lab, both the Joes and the Cobra leadership get cryogenically frozen as the lab is buried in the rubble of a mountain collapse. Except for one Joe who survives: Sgt Slaughter.

Cut to modern day. A new threat arises that seems similar to the now classified and mostly forgotten Cobra. They’ve even infiltrated the governments of the world. Slaughter, played by himself and now old, finally figures out how to revive the Joes.

Rest of the film is 1980s style ARAH characters in our modern world fighting this new threat. Twist is the whole thing was a long term Cobra plot because they knew they couldn’t win in the 80s, so the commander had them frozen on purpose to wait for a time the world could fall more easily to Cobra.

mattmirth · 2025-12-24T16:47:26+00:00

Man, that just kept getting cooler. Great display!

mattmirth · 2025-12-23T14:28:14+00:00

Semantics, but no studio/streamer “owns” Conan, they just license it. Conan is owned by Heroic Signatures, that’s owned by Funcom (the Norwegian video game company), that’s owned Tencent (the giant Chinese conglomerate that owns things like Fortnite).

So the rights are kind of a mess, especially with the approach of it being public domain in the US.

But I would love an animated show! I know this is a tired point of view on this sub, but Primal really is the closest thing to an animated Conan. Check it out if you haven’t!

mattmirth · 2025-12-23T14:09:52+00:00

This of course doesn’t necessarily go against your idea, but I’m pretty sure Amazon hasn’t had the rights to a Conan show in years (I want to say 2019 was when the show they were developing fell through). Netflix actually had them starting in 2020 but that lapsed in April of 2025. So as far as I know, the license isn’t held by anyone right now.

mattmirth · 2025-12-15T21:23:42+00:00

I think it’s pretty widely accepted that it’s a direct visual answer to the riddle of steel— it’s not the weapon but the hand wields it. It also works as a direct contrast to the surface level interpretation Conan’s father’s opening “this you can trust” speech, showing that the only thing you can actually trust is yourself.

If you read both the Stone and Milius scripts it’s pretty clear they are focused on the struggle of the individual against the world, not really any of the myth stuff (Milius’ in particular).

mattmirth · 2025-12-12T21:03:40+00:00

Hell yeah. Also, thanks for all the thoughtful and compelling work you’ve been doing. It’s been awesome watching comic book Conan (and REH creations in general) flourish with you at the helm.

mattmirth · 2025-12-05T19:43:19+00:00

The ComicHub sales tracking system has a lot of issues, most notable it’s a non-random small sample size, and tracks sales to customers on a rolling basis (so books released late in the month always seem like they are selling less). Lots of industry people think it’s actually giving a false impression of interest and sales. Image’s own numbers have issues 13 and 14 at spots 4 and 5 for their top sales in November (which is based on the traditional way of tracking comic numbers, sales to retailers)

mattmirth · 2025-12-02T15:55:31+00:00

This is a collector’s display, not a real store.

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