EXCITEMENT — the first of the newly-formatted Scary-Crayon toy reviews is here! (Thanks to all… three? of you out there who actually commented on the test layout. 😛 ) But first, here’s a new Dusty Plastic HELLside comic starring our beloved Sarah Jane Smith… in a situation that wasn’t exactly intended for this particular Sarah. Making this comic made me kinda sad for television series loved and lost, but at least “The Sarah Jane Adventures” is getting a third season. Looking forward to it.
Anyway, here’s our review of NECA’s amazing Street Fighter IV Chun-Li action figure — complete with lots of special move poses and inserted sprite comparisons! Originally I was doing the article with the video game screencaps positioned next to the thumbnails (as I did in our CvS2 Mai and Chun-Li figure review), but since I found dealing with those images to be highly time consuming for a number of reasons I decided to go with this method instead and ditch the other images. I think this works a lot better anyway, but let me know what you think!
You may also have noticed that, with some recent reviews, I spent an insane amount of time trying to get the pixel widths of each row of images to match up — I didn’t do that here, and it bothers me a whole lot less than I thought it would. If you’re as obsessive as I often am about these kinds of things, I apologize for any hair-pulling it causes you. And speaking of obsessive, I really did take over 1000 photos of the toy. Some of those (a relatively small percentage, but still) were shots of Chun-Li with other figures — so, much like the appearances that followed the Grim Reaper review, expect to see Chun-Li show up in three or four upcoming Dusty Plastic HELLside comics. Hopefully at least one of them will be funny!
Finally, another plug — Infinite Hollywood has a brand new domain name and a new contest to boot! One of these days I’m gonna win the lottery, and then I’m gonna have a contest with all kinds of prizes. Prizes rule.
Aaaand that does it for this update. As Chun-Li would say, zai jian!
P.S. NECA, if you’re ever looking for employees to pose and photograph your toys, I seriously wasn’t kidding about wanting the job. 😉
I’m loving the presentation on the review! I’ve personally never split my reviews into sections since I find it just makes my work more disjointed than it already is, but you’ve done a fantastic job with it! Naturally I love the sprite comparisons and given how great the photos are, I’d be curious to see the other 900 or so photos you didn’t include =P