Category: Random
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METROPOLIS ART FAIR – 1997
As multiple posts on this site can confirm, I am someone who is inclined to get aesthetically obsessed with stories I love. Often that obsession is focused on a prop or two or a particular set, but for Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, it’s the whole damn pie. Everything about the show…
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THE WAVERIDER: BUILDING THE LEGEND
Somewhere in the multiverse is an Earth where every property gets the toy line it deserves. While we (regrettably) don’t live in that universe, we do live in a Golden Age of geekdom—one where the idea of creating your own toys is absolutely viable with the proper set of circumstances. I’ve always loved the design…
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BIRDS OF PREY, A HISTORY: Conception and ‘Pilot’
FROM THE AUTHOR The following essay written by a grown-ass man with the mind of a 12-year-old. I was already a budding superhero nerd on October 9th, 2002, when Birds of Prey premiered on the WB network. Cut to: 17 years later, where Marvel Studios dominates at the box office, the CW network (a direct…
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The Discovery of Magic: Prop Tutorial
The attachments I form to stories could be generously described as abnormal. As a fan, my mind tends to live in the aesthetic of one fictional world or another for weeks on end. I think that is why the physical representations of those stories, the props, are so endlessly fascinating to me. Replicating and decorating…
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