Heroes Have Landed!

The Amazing Heroes have landed!

Shown above are the figures in the standard packaging. The plastic is easily removed without damaging the card backs. I also received special "Artist Edition" card backs showing these classic heroes drawn by top-notch contemporary artists like Mike Allred, Sonny Liew, and Tim Seeley.

And here are the figures removed from the packaging. Back row, from left to right: Silver Streak, Captain Action, Champion of Mars, and Blank Slate. Front row, from left to right: Golden Age Daredevil (unrelated to the later Marvel character), Black Terror, Green Turtle, and Stardust. I've only included one Blank Slate figure in the images above, but I actually purchased a lot of those guys to use as villains and -- if I'm feeling brave -- to paint my own custom heroes.

Heroes Are on Their Way!

"We've been waiting for, like, a year!" Matthew tells me. It's actually been a lot longer than that, but the Amazing Heroes action figures from two successful Kickstarter campaigns are now on their way to our house. The boys -- myself included, of course! -- are excited for the action figures, but I'm also eager to introduce them to a related RPG mini-campaign (recycling the title Tales of the Ternion) that I've cooked up using these and other public domain Golden Age superheroes. The idea is to give the boys some more experience with roleplaying and cooperative storytelling outside the usual venue of D&D. I'm not sure how it will go, but it should be an interesting experiment.

Funded...Again!

We did it again! Amazing Heroes Wave 1.5 is now fully funded. Bring on Wave 2! We need some villains now!

Amazing Progress

The Amazing Heroes Wave 1.5 Kickstarter has made some amazing progress over the past couple of days. With 61 hours to go (as of this writing), we're 94% funded. I can't wait to see all these awesome old-timey superheroes in action figure form!

More Amazing Heroes

The Amazing Heroes line of action figures was successfully funded on Kickstarter back in August. Now there's a Wave 1.5 Kickstarter (link is here) to add a few more characters and some nifty packaging options.

Yeah, it's been a slow week for gaming news, hasn't it?

Funded!

Take that, Hitler!

We did it. Against all odds, the Amazing Heroes Kickstarter has successfully funded! (Just don't ask me how much I kicked in!)

When we crossed the $30,000 threshold, all three Sutton lads celebrated by dancing and air guitaring to the dulcet tones of Motley Crue's "Kickstart My Heart."

Kickstarter Blues

It's not looking so amazing for Amazing Heroes, the first-ever Kickstarter to which I've pledged. I remain hopeful, but with only a week to go, we're still a long way from the $30,000 goal. I have a feeling that not even Stardust the Super Wizard can get us out of this jam!

Digital Comic Museum

The Amazing Heroes action figure Kickstarter project has a long way to go to reach its $30,000 goal, but I'm still holding out hope that one day I'll have Black Terror, Silver Streak (whose costume, natch, has not one iota of silver anywhere on it!), and their fellow Golden Age pals standing guard over the bookcase that contains my graphic novels. I really shouldn't be getting my hopes up, but...well...too late!

If you're at all interested in Golden Age superheroes, the Digital Comic Museum (click here to check it out) is worth an hour (or, in my case, a lot more) of your time. It's a treasure trove of old-timey public domain comics (in digital format, of course), all available for free.

Black Terror!

No, it's not a racist '70s film (or maybe it is -- I haven't checked IMDb), it's the name of a Golden Age superhero who isn't owned by either DC or Marvel. I first encountered Black Terror in Masks, a phenomenal superhero team-up book from Dynamite Entertainment. I was already a fan of Dynamite mainstays like The Shadow (and Miss Fury, although I'm rather disappointed by their current take on the character), but I found Black Terror to be a hugely entertaining character despite his limited role in the series. Quite simply, the dude is badassery personified. I mean, come on, he's got a skull and crossbones on his chest!

Imagine my surprise and delight when I discovered a Kickstarter campaign to create action figures for Black Terror and other superheroes of yesteryear. (Click here to visit the Kickstarter page.) Obscure Golden Age characters? 1980s-style action figures? Yeah, I think I'm going to have to invest in this one...