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ItsAllTrueReview: Atrocitus & Saint Walker

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One of the difficult realities of the toy world is lead time. If a toy company sees a property that has potential, they can't really strike when the iron is hot. The production process is simply too complicated and drawn out between conception and retail. By the time the product reaches stores, that potential may be nothing more than a lump of hard coal. So toy companies do what they can to mitigate lead time, and DC Direct is one company that has a unique advantage - they are part of DC Comics and can release action figures during the comic events the toys are appearing in. This time, DC Direct has released the first wave of Blackest Night figures right in the middle of the crossover of the same name. These aren't just action figures, they're little plastic tie-ins.

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Opening the Adventure Vault: Seth Wolfshorndl’s Evil Ain’t Easy

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One of the benefits of having a website is the opportunity to plug certain people and projects that you want your readers to see. That’s what we're doing today.

A friend of ours, and fellow ItsAllTrue.Net lurker, Seth Wolfshorndl, is in this month’s Zuda Comics competition. Zuda is the online imprint of DC Comics. Every month they feature a competition between ten original comics, each one hoping to come out on top. Not only is this an extremely cool way for undiscovered and independent comic creators to get some attention, but DC takes it a step farther. The winner of each month’s competition is given a paying contract with DC Comics, and their comic is published regularly on the Zuda site. For anyone lucky enough to break into the top ten, it’s a big opportunity. But it doesn’t stop there, you still have to win.

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Mr. Rant asks, “why are there so many movie toys?”

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The G.I. Joe section at my Wal-Mart sure seems crowded lately. All I want to do is go to my local Wal-mart/TRU/Target and pick up the newest GI Joe figures, but I can’t. I’m sure my readers know why. There’s no room for anything new. All the first run movie toys are still fermenting away on the pegs like house guests that didn’t get the hint that it’s time to go.

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ItsAllTrueReview:
Chemo & Imperiex

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Fourth in our four-part series on DCUC10 and fifth in our five-part series on DCUC9, this review covers Chemo & Imperiex.

These two may end up being a couple of the harder C&C's to complete. Worse still, they're hitting stores at relatively the same time and competing for aisle space with a couple different "Best Of" case assortments. I don't think either of them will end up being quite as difficult (or expensive) as Metallo, but unless we see a change in the next few weeks, these two C&C's are going to be a hot commodity. But are they worth all the hubbub?