More stuff to come in the near future, but in the meantime here's Dusty Plastic HELLside #22 -- which features the debut of the Marvel Select Juggernaut figure on Scary-Crayon! Fantastic figure, even if mine did have a pretty lame factory error that required a bit of boiling and popping and hacking and dremeling on my part to fix. He's mostly good now -- so yay! -- but I'll have to dock him for it whenever I get around to reviewing him for Articulated Discussion.

Speaking of which, I've got a new toy review over there -- of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Power Up Green Ranger -- so check it out! And stay tuned to SC, since I should have more reviews here soon, too. Lots of stuff is in the queue, but I'm thinking about Foodstuffs and Spectare to start. What say you?

So I was originally going to post another Foodstuffs entry or two to cap off the Scary-Crayon anniversary week "celebration," but then I remembered this article I'd wanted to do for a while -- and I figured if any time were appropriate for an introspective piece concerning the webmaster's desires and whatnot, it's now. Right? So here's the Wes Portrait Project, which includes a discussion of that topic as well as a bunch of drawings of me... because yeah, that's what the project largely entails. I'm very curious to know your thoughts on it!

More food articles to come in the near future, yep yep.

So this isn't quite as exciting as it's been in previous years... but today is Scary-Crayon's anniversary, and I couldn't let it pass without posting a new article! And we'll have at least another and possibly two more in the coming days, so let's call it a week-long celebration. Eh? Eh?

And speaking of celebrating, why not ring in SC's seventh anniversary with a drink? Today's article -- The Scary-Crayon Wasabitini -- suggests a delicious cocktail for the occasion. Please do try it sometime, and let us know what you think! I've also found Pinnacle Cotton Candy Vodka to be fairly tasty in a lot of mixed drinks -- it's hardly cloying (unlike triple sec; some folks like it in wasabitinis but I most certainly do not), but the hint of sugar that's there is enough to enhance many cocktails that call for vodka. A touch of sweetness even adds to a Bloody Mary, in my opinion.

Alrighty, then. Rah-rah, happy birthday to Scary-Crayon! We'll see you again soon.

Hey, all! It's been a while... hope you had a happy 2010 holiday season and that 2011 is off to a great start for you. Anyway, Scary-Crayon is back -- at least for the moment! And to that end we've got a new article, V for Vitriol, which is about the 2009 "V" television series and why it kinda sucks. There's a brief discussion of the 1983-85 series as it compares to the new show, too.

I'll make no promises regarding future content. SC will remain active while breath animates my fingers as they fly across the keyboard and manipulate the mouse for image editing and such, though I can't say how frequently. I can, however, say that I hope the next article won't be two months away, and I hope that some of y'all out there are still with us. Thanks.

That's right -- Rainbow Brite comes to Scary-Crayon in Dusty Plastic HELLside #21! I'd been planning to do something like this ever since I picked up the black-and-white NECA TMNT figures over the summer, and if nothing else it gave me an excuse to break out the original Mirage TMNT toys (colored masks and initialed belts notwithstanding) and open another of the Rainbow Brite dolls I snagged on clearance years ago (the first, Patty O'Green, was seen waaay back in the St. Patrick's Day-themed Peanut Butter Pesto Okra & Zucchini Pizza feature of 2005). Did anyone else enjoy Rainbow Brite as a kid? It was pretty darned awesome for a girls' cartoon -- but then, pretty much all of the girls' cartoons of the 1980s were just as good as if not better than the stuff produced for boys. The stuff they air for girls today is just sad by comparison.

Anyway, all for now! Until next time...

Today's entry -- a review of Star Wars Transformers Crossovers Ahsoka Tano -- is the first toy review in a new, abbreviated format that will ideally take me less time to write and therefore allow me to update more frequently. But I won't do more of these if you don't find the format to be appealing or informative or notably flawed in some other way, so do take a moment to let me know what you think of it! And heck, let me know if you'd be comfortable with reviews abbreviated even further -- as much as I like the visual style, I could easily see dispensing with the bullet points and just going with the images and a few summative paragraphs. I'll probably do that anyway for certain kinds of toys, as I don't think certain figures (like bootlegs) warrant the full descriptive treatment. We'll see.

Should have another short Dusty Plastic HELLside comic in a few days, so stay tuned for that. Best wishes to everyone out there.

Yep, it's been a while, but we're back again! Didja miss us?

I say "us" not just because I sometimes refer to myself as a plural entity with regard to SC, but also because this time we've got a guest feature -- Dusty Plastic HELLside #20 is an action figure collage by none other than Hero of Figured Out! I was originally going to add some kind of text to the image, but I just couldn't bring myself to detract from the silent beauty of the scene. If you require something additional, just close your eyes and imagine the whooshing of air and the clanging of metal as this epic battle takes place. Drift may be outnumbered, but I'd lay odds that he'll be the one standing when the exhaust dissipates!

Moving along, we've got a new toy review as well -- an in-depth look at Dragon-Do Eclipse. As I note in the review, I've only seen this figure at the local Post Exchange at this point. Has anyone out there seen these elsewhere? I'd love to know, and what other stores are charging for them.

Okay, that's all I've got for now! I'm working on a system for abbreviated reviews (basically just the bullet points with an overall blurb at the end), which will hopefully enable me to kick them out more regularly. And I should have other non toy-related content to post before too much longer, so look for that as well. In any case -- as always -- thanks for reading!