Welcome back to another installment of “Nola Yells About Action Figures,” also known as a preview of Hasbro’s upcoming Marvel Legends! This week saw another livestream from Hasbro—their last of the year—in which they dropped an entirely new line of X-Men figures, a couple of online exclusives, as well as some other very cool mentions….
PREVIEW: Hasbro’s Upcoming Marvel Legends From PulseCon 2022
I’ve only written about them a handful of times on the site, but the truth is, I love action figures. I’ve been collecting them for almost my whole life, starting with the 5″ X-Men line from the 90s, and continuing through Hasbro’s Marvel Legends to this day. So, when Hasbro’s PulseCon 2022 event kicked off this…
REVIEW: Hasbro’s Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms Drizzt & Guenhwyvar
It turns out that one of the benefits of being a world-famous toy company with a leading edge in the toy market and ownership of the world’s most successful tabletop role-playing game is that you get to just…make action figures from that game!
Striking Back At Cobra With G.I. Joe #1
G.I. Joe #1 Paul Allor (writer), Chris Evenhuis (pencils), Brittany Peer (colors), Neil Uyetake (letters) IDW Comics September 18, 2019 This new iteration of G.I. Joe #1 has me thinking about symbols, and what they mean. Not just the obvious iconography here, your Joe and Cobra branding, but symbols as a means to motivate.
Yo Paul Allor! IDW and Hasbro’s G.I. Joe Comic Reboot
Fun fact: I was one of those kids who wasn’t allowed to watch G.I. Joe! My mom was convinced that animated men shooting each other with lasers was too violent for me and forbade me from seeing it, instead leaving me to watch animated robots shooting each other with lasers, which was apparently not a…
Robots, Knights and Magic: Q&A with Magdalene Visaggio
For the past few years, IDW has been publishing comics set in what’s called the “Hasbroverse”, which consists of various Hasbro properties such as Transformers, G.I Joe, M.A.S.K, ROM and the Micronauts. The latest addition to this universe are the Visionaries, made up of two factions: the heroic Spectral Knights and the nefarious Darkling Lords.
Hasbro vs DC: Dawn of Litigation
At the tail end of last month, news broke that Hasbro was taking DC Comics to court over DC’s marketing of toys featuring a character named Bumblebee. This Bumblebee is distinct from the friendly Autobot everyone’s familiar with–she’s a Teen Titan, and definitely not a robot–but Hasbro has still taken the stance that the name…