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Episode 80

Nerd City — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:52:02 +0000

The boys welcome back fan favorite guest, Darwin Smith! They discuss the state of nerd, the future of Nerd City, and Darwin’s new project, BLACKOUT. So strap yourself in, Episode 80 with Darwin Smith is going to be an awesomely bumpy ride! Pics and links after the jump… Download Episode 80 Pics: Links: BLACKOUT BLACKOUT’s Twitter

Classic Star Wars Figure Portraits by Bwanna Spoons

Nerd City — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:26:54 +0000

I love the idea of portraits being painted of classic toys and action figures. Especially if the artist doing the portraits is the awesomely talented Bwana Spoons! From Bwana Spoons: so i got an awesome commission to do my entire star wars figure collection and them some. I think about 120 portraits, most of which are pretty [...]

Double Door Show of the Week: My Dear Disco

Nerd City — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:45:42 +0000

This week’s Double Door Show of the Week is popular Ann Arbor dance-pop outfit My Dear Disco, this Friday, March 12 @ 9 p.m. Known for their out-of-sight live shows and groovy beats, M.D.D. is perfect for the Nerd who loves to cut loose (and let’s be honest, who doesn’t). Shoeless Revolution and Alter Ego also perform. Get [...]

Conan O’Brien Coming to a Town Near You….Well Maybe

Nerd City — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:20:10 +0000

Conan O’Brien, who can’t leagally be on TV till September, has decided to take his show on the road. Not much is known about the format of this show, but it’s Conan O’Brien so it’s gonna be funny regardless. Did your town make the list, find out below and for more information you [...]

Playstation Move Fully Revealed at GDC

Nerd City — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:01:15 +0000

At last years E3, we got the first announcement of Sonys version of motion control gaming. Not much was shown outside of some tech demos and an odd looking wand with a glowing ball on top of it. Well at this weeks game developers conference, Sony debuted the full working version of what they are [...]

“The Last Unicorn” Art Show Website Now Up!

Nerd City — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:41:49 +0000

“The Last Unicorn” art show’s website is now up here. Featuring Nerd Citizens Lana Crooks, Jenny Frisson, and Steve Seeley, as well as original creator Peter S. Beagle, this event coincides with C2E2 and is going to be badass and super unicorn-y. Get all the deets here.

Handerpants!

Nerd City — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:03:51 +0000

Got a pair of these sweet bad boys @ Chicago Comics. Handerpants!

New Steregon for Kaiju Comrades 2

Nerd City — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:17:04 +0000

For me, the Steregon sculpt from Nerd One is one of the coolest Kaiju sculpts to come out in recent times. He’s based upon a cool concept (speakers for eyes!), is in a great pose, and has pretty decent articulation for a vinyl Kaiju piece. This particular colorway is for Mark Nagata’s Kaiju Comrades 2 [...]

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 News

Nerd City — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:32:57 +0000

Details about this years Tiger Woods game have come out of this weeks game develops conference being held in San Fransisco. First EA has announced the biggest feature to this years game is the introduction of the Ryder Cup, a tournament where you will play along with a team of other golfers from your country [...]

“Hungry in Brooklyn” Food Blog

Nerd City — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:00:14 +0000

Having spent much time on this here internet, I have admittedly developed a fondness for food blogs. I just think they are cool. Basically, I like food, and I like reading and looking @ pictures about it. Now, lo and behold, it turns out one of Nerd City’s friends, Shea Hess, runs an awesome food blog [...]

Nerd City’s C2E2 Saturday Artist Lineup!

Nerd City — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:48:10 +0000

Alright. So, the idea is that we intend to have a bunch of cool stuff going on at Nerd City’s booth throughout the entire C2E2 weekend (April 16-18). First and foremost of which will be an amazing lineup of artists doing live art, signings, and selling limited edition merch! Keep checking back here as we [...]

Hakan, The Last Super Street Fighter IV Character Revealed

Nerd City — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:56:58 +0000

Capcom has officially announced the long rumored, and pretty damn near confirmed, inclusion of Hakan in Super Street Fighter IV. Hakan is a brand new character created for this game and based off of the below videos, he seems to be a cross between Zangief and Abel. I’m not too sure why they [...]

R.I.P Corey Haim

Nerd City — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:40:40 +0000

Sad news today as Corey Haim was found dead of an apparent drug overdose this morning. Corey hasn’t really been around much these days outside of a cameo in The Lost Boys sequel and his reality show with Corey Feldman from a few years back, but most of us will remember him from his [...]

New Ninjatown Zipper Charms!

Nerd City — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:00:31 +0000

From our good friends @ Shawnimals, and our newest sponsor, Rotofugi, check these sweet new Ninjatown Zipper Charms! Perfect for all kinds of zippers, these new charms are fly (get it?). They drop this Friday, March 12th. Get them here and here.

Vintage Snout Spout Custom from GAR

Nerd City — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:09:28 +0000

It’s always interesting to see people go back and reimagine the vintage MOTU figures from a more modern perspective. What GAR has done in the case of this vintage Snout Spout custom is to not only rethink the character, but he has also stayed true to the aesthetic of the original series from the 80’s. [...]

Nerds Vs. Amazon

Nerd City — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:00:28 +0000

Nerds worldwide are still waiting to hear how Amazon.com is going to handle a recent graphic novel pricing snafu that could cost the internet giant thousands of dollars and formally-dedicated consumers. Blamed on a computer glitch, the mistake resulted in normally-expensive hardcover comic omnibus’ being sold for as low as $8. Originally reported on Bleeding Cool, [...]

“Piece Jam for Haiti” Featuring Rick Nielsen Tonight!

Nerd City — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:22:36 +0000

Piece Brewery (awesome sponsor and home of the world-famous Nerd City podcast) is hosting their “Jam For Haiti” featuring legendary Cheap Trick-er Rick Nielsen Tonight! Party starts @ 9 p.m. With beer sales and $5 cover going to an important cause, you can finally use your drinking problem for good (after so much bad). Direct Youtube Link Piece [...]

Little Predator, Cuter Than Little Voltron

Nerd City — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:06:21 +0000

By now you have already probably seen the picture of the little girl dressed as Voltron, if not here it is: But I personally think this little Predator is cooler looking. I don’t know where all these are all of the sudden coming from, I assume some Otaku convention or something, but the parents of these kids [...]

Glow Moot Coming Soon!

Nerd City — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:59:59 +0000

Did you think you’d seen the last of the Muscamoot figure from The Lake Monsters line of Midwest kaiju? Well, clearly, you were wrong! Here is the latest and greatest colorway for this sculpt and it looks amazing. But wait, there’s more! It glows in the freaking dark! From Rotofugi/ The Lake Monsters Blog: Thanks [...]

Steam Service Coming to Mac

Nerd City — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:53:03 +0000

Valve has announced today that they will officially be bringing their very popular service, Steam, to the Mac platform next month. For those not familiar Steam is the one stop place for all new, and some old, PC games. Steam allows a direct download of games directly to a customers account allowing them [...]

New Iron Man 2 Trailer

Nerd City — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:35:10 +0000

Direct Youtube Link Here’s that new Iron Man 2 trailer that was unveiled last night. Much like everyone else, I loved the first film, so I can’t wait to see this one. Loving the way War Machine looks, too!

Jugrnaut Presents House of Pain and Gza @ Congress Theater

Nerd City — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:17:54 +0000

Our good buddies over @ apparel/designer toy shop Jugrnaut are helping to host this badass show featuring Nerd City favorite Gza, and heart-attack-prone drunken Irish rappers House of Pain @ Chicago’s Congress Theater. This should be a super rad show, and it’s awesome that Jugrnaut is bringing it. Get your tickets here.

SUPERMAN by MasterEnglish

Nerd City — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:23:36 +0000

This amazing custom was done in response to the desire by many fans for a Superman in the Superman Vs. He-Man 2 pack that would match the size of the Masters of the Universe Classics figures. you can see more at His DeviantArt page/

Zelda Japanese Music Video

Nerd City — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:44:35 +0000

This just has to be seen to be believed…

Street Fighter IV Headed to the iPhone

Nerd City — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:24:23 +0000

Capcom will be releasing a mini version of Street Fighter IV for the iPhone and iPod Touch later this month. As you can see in the video below, the game looks really nice but my only concern is that your fingers will take up most of the real estate on the screen. By [...]

Shadowhawk: Resurrection

Nerd City — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:44:33 +0000

Heads up, classic Image fans! This teaser has been floating around the web for a bit, promoting the return of a personal favorite character of mine, Jim Valentino’s original Shadowhawk! I guess we’ll all have to stay tuned to Image United to see how this plays out.

Double Door Show of the Week: The Reverend Horton Heat!

Nerd City — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:23:12 +0000

This week’s “Double Door Show of the Week” is a doozy. The Reverend Horton Heat is in town for two nights. Two nights! Friday, March 5th is Psycho night, and Saturday March 6th is Billy Night. Both shows start @ 9 p.m. I am a big fan of the Rev, and this should be a [...]

Shaun White Looks to Take Down Tony Hawk

Nerd City — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:41:14 +0000

Ubisoft has announced that Shaun White Skateboarding (official title yet to be released) will be coming out this holiday season. Shaun is best known for his snowboarding skills and accolades, but he is quite the accomplished skater and surfer as well. Shaun White Snowboarding for the Wii, made by Ubisoft, has been a critical [...]

Custom Vintage-Style Anthro Panthor by COTU

Nerd City — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:21:24 +0000

In what will hopefully be the first of a regular series of blog entries in which I highlight some of my personal favorite pieces from my collection, I have chosen to look at one of the coolest, my vintage-style MOTU anthropomorphic Panthor figure from the guys at COTU. This particular piece was primarily done [...]

Reminder, Zach Galifianakis Hosts SNL This Weekend.

Nerd City — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:32:51 +0000

Friendly reminder to watch SNL this weekend as funny man Zach Galifianakis is hosting. I know you are probably still laughing from last weeks J.Lo hosted episode, so keep the laughter going this Saturday as well.

AP Sifu Monk by Veggiesomething in Action!

Nerd City — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:13:10 +0000

Direct Youtube Link So badass! Get yours March 11th, 1p.m. CST here!

Ok Go - This Too Shall Pass

Nerd City — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:07:58 +0000

Direct Youtube Link Chicago’s own Ok Go really started getting some attention after the release of their 2007 video for “Here It Goes Again”. You remember, the one with the synchronized dancing on the treadmills? I recall people being blown away and praising the band for doing something fresh and new. And while that video was [...]

Super Street Fighter IV Character Selection/Ultra Combo Previews

Nerd City — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:15:13 +0000

Youtube user onebyonetv has created a fantastic interactive Youtube video detailing each currently announced fighters ultra combos. All you have to do is click on the fighter of your choice and a video will launch showing off their new ultra combos. Pretty cool and easy way to see all the new updates.

“Strange Tales” Mega Event This Saturday!

Nerd City — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:00:26 +0000

It’s almost here! One of the coolest events in Chicago Nerd history, this Saturday March 6th, Chicago Comics and Challengers Comics present their “Strange Tales” signing and party (with beer provided by Nerd City and Piece). Seriously, this should be so rad it will hurt.

Notso Wee Ninja from Shawnimals

Nerd City — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:22:41 +0000

Are you fed up with the way that ninjas are portrayed in the media as always being in unreasonably perfect physical shape? Do you feel that these unrealistic images and ideals put far too much pressure on young ninjas to look exactly like them? Would you like a plush toy that portrays a REAL ninja [...]

Be Our Friend, Dammit!

Nerd City — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:32:07 +0000

Be our friend on Facebook here. Nerd City commands it! Direct Youtube Link

GameStop’s “Battlefield Bracket” Challenge.

Nerd City — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:16:47 +0000

In celebration of the release of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (which is supposed to be awesome), GameStop is hosting their “Battlefield Bracket” Challenge. Direct Youtube Link Teams of gamers, captained by celebrity guests (including OchoCinco, Hal Sparks, and Marshall Faulk), will compete for Bad Company 2 supremacy. To vote on who you’ll think we’ll win, for a chance [...]

Tecmo Super Bowl Remake Coming Soon

Nerd City — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:05:50 +0000

Thanks to a report from Kotaku, it seems that Tecmo will be bringing an updated version of Tecmo Super Bowl to the PSN and Xbox Live networks this spring (sorry Wii owners). Tecmo released a new football game for the DS a few years back and it played just like the original and Tecmo seems [...]

RealxHead + SkullToys = Win

Nerd City — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:20:07 +0000

This past weekend, Shinto Gangu, the home base shop of Japanese designer toy company, RealxHead, played host to an outrageous plethora of collaborations and mashups between RealxHead and another really cool Japanese company, SkullToys. The results are really impressive and, naturally, were only made in limited quantities available only to those in attendance. Therefore, you’ll [...]

Jim Mahfood Print & T-Shirt From Nakatomi Invitational

Nerd City — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:41:02 +0000

Just like the previously released Craig McCracken shirt (read about it here), the Nakatomi Invitational continues this time with my favorite artist….Jim Mahfood. Mr. Mahfood has not only a t-shirt available but also a sweet looking print as well consisting of a lovely lady and a shark with nunchucks, what more could you want? The [...]

The Swedish are Coming!

Nerd City — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:44:06 +0000

Direct Youtube Link Lock your doors and hide your pickled fish! Check out this promotional video for The Swedish Invasion Tour from our friends at Top Shelf Comics. And, don’t forget that stop on the Swedish Invasion Tour that is Nerd City’s very own C2E2 After Party at the Double Door on Saturday night, April 17th! Get your [...]

Mega Man 10 Available Today for the Wii

Nerd City — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:59:19 +0000

Mega Man 10 has been officially released for the Wii today. At 1000 points ($10) this game will be another must download for any respectable Wii owner. Mega Man 10 will be available for PS3 on March 11th and for the Xbox 360 on March 31st.

Episode 79

Nerd City — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:04:13 +0000

The boys welcome Brad Chmielewski & Ken Hunnemeder from Hop Cast annd they talk about everybody’s favorite topic, beer! They also talk about the dog-eat-dog world of podcasting, road trips, and a bit more about beer. So, grab a bottle of your favorite and put this one on. Episode 79 of Nerd City is go! [...]

“Unleashed: The Art of Naughty Dog”@ Gnomon Gallery

Nerd City — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:35:22 +0000

Attention Hollywood Nerds! Saturday, March 6th @ 7 p.m. The Gnomon School of Visual Effects, in sunny Hollywood, California, is hosting a new art show featuring works by video game developers Naughty Dog (creators of the “Uncharted” series). I am an enormous fan of the Uncharted games, which are basically moving pieces of art, so it [...]

“A Healthy Dose of Restlessness” Opening @ Oh No Doom!

Nerd City — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:06:52 +0000

Our friends @ Oh No Doom! are hosting yet another awesome show, Saturday, March 6th.”A Healthy Dose of Restlessness” is a multi-artist exhibit, featuring work from Nerd Citizen Matthew Ryan Sharp and favorite Toby Stanger. Plus, I have been informed that there will be cupcakes. OND! continues to impress with their new gallery space, and this show [...]

First Gameplay Footage of Transformers: War For Cybertron

Nerd City — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:12:15 +0000

Thanks to Gametrailers.com we now have our first look at actual gameplay of the upcoming Transformers: War For Cybertron game. When the first CG trailer was announced I was quite apprehensive about this game as there really hasn’t been a good Transformers game produced. After seeing this gameplay footage, I have a little [...]

Dredge Drops Today!

Nerd City — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:00:49 +0000

The Lake Monsters line of Midwest kaiju figures from Rotofugi has been the proverbial “Toast of the Town” since their Muscamoot started popping up around a year ago. Steve Seeley even went so far a calling the Booskamoot version of said figure “Toy of the Year” for 2009. Well, today marks the release of the [...]

House of Liu AP Sifu Monk Release from Veggiesomething

Nerd City — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:14:07 +0000

We here at Nerd City are huge fans of the design of the Sifu Monk figure from our pal Veggiesomething’s House of Liu line. We were, therefore, super jazzed when he passed along to us these pics and info about the ultra limited edition AP version of said character. From the extra posh packaging to [...]

Huge Gamestop Trade In Deal: Bonus 50% Credit on all Trades.

Nerd City — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:43:19 +0000

Now through March 14th, Gamestop is running a fantastic trade in deal that gets you an additional 50% bonus on anything you trade in. With plenty of new games recently released, including Alien Vs Predator and Heavy Rain, along with many great upcoming titles available for pre-order (Super Street Fighter IV, God of War [...]

Round 2 of Royalt1us’ 5th Annual Character Contest Begins

Nerd City — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:14:01 +0000

Things are really picking up with Royalt1us’ Fifth Annual Character contest. The first poll of the second round is The Heroes. Following this will be The Ladies, The Reptiles, and The Evil Warriors. The top two from each round will continue on to the third and final round. The winner will then be sculpted into [...]

Nerd City’s Alex Ross Poster Super Awesome Giveaway!

Nerd City — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:19:41 +0000

Attention Nerd Citizens! We are happy to announce our very own Alex Ross Poster Super Awesome Giveaway. Because we are so fucking cool, Nerd City has recently scored copies of Alex Ross’ posters for both our good friends @ C2E2 and Chicago Comics…and we are GIVING THEM AWAY. The first person to email max@nerdcityonline.com with subject heading [...]

Mario Galaxy 2 Nintendo Media Summit Trailer

Nerd City — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:48:37 +0000

Earlier today I brought you the news of Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid: Other M would be relased “mid year”. Well, with the update of Mario Galaxy 2 coming out on May 23 a fantastic new trailer has been provided showing off some new gameplay. I really can’t say enough about how great [...]

Warner Bros Purchases Rocksteady Games

Nerd City — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:00:30 +0000

Warner Brothers has made a fantastic decision and has purchased the London based Rocksteady Games. Rocksteady developed the fantastic Batman: Arkham Asylum and it’s critical and financial success probalby made the purchase that much easier for WB. The main goal of this purchase is to have Rocksteady work on many WB properties, but [...]

Codeorgan

Nerd City — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:04:27 +0000

This has got to be one of the coolest things I’ve seen in awhile. The site Codeorgan will take any URL and process it into music by way of it HTML code! Ever wanted to hear what Nerdcityonline.com sounds like? No? You’d rather hear what xtube.com sounds like? Well, whatever, it’s your journey. CODEORGAN HERE!

GIF Mashup!

Nerd City — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:02:20 +0000

See that? That’s a animated gif file! Now imagine combining that with… Wouldn’t that look amazing??? A baby dancing about while Homer mows over his feet? I mean, you have to imagine it…but it would look cool. Right? Eh, I give up. That’s pretty much the point of the GIF Mashup website. Now, I’m an idiot and [...]

15 things you should know about boobs

Nerd City — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:54:21 +0000

I almost wasn’t going to post this, but let’s face it, boobs are important. And so are facts about boobs. And I think our sexy lady readers will appreciate the fact that we care about spreading knowledge about breasts. So sit and stay awhile, won’t you? And read up on 15 things you should know [...]

Bacon potato chips

Nerd City — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:49:36 +0000

File this under “the worst good idea” or “the best worst idea”. That’s right, bacon potato chips; because either on their respective own won’t clog your arteries fast enough. But hey, nerds love chips. And bacon has become a trend. Combine the two and you have a force to be reckoned with. BUY SOME!

All-in-1 Chair

Nerd City — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:47:06 +0000

It’s no secret: we at Nerd City use this forum as a ‘wishlist’ quite often, posting articles on things we want bought for us, shipped to us, and handed to us (for free). Add the All-in-1 Chair to that list. Nothing would make me happier than sitting at the beach with some friends, when one [...]

Metroid: Other M and Super Mario Galaxy 2 News

Nerd City — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:31:32 +0000

Nintendo has been holding media conferences this week down in Australia, detailing upcoming releases financial news and other things Nintendo related. Well the big news coming from down under is that Nintendo plans to release the highly anticipated Metroid: Other M and Super Mario Galaxy 2 “mid year’. Now that doesn’t give us [...]

MOTUC Tiger-Man Custom by He-Mike

Nerd City — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:55:31 +0000

I’m sure that I’ve probably written about this before, but for many of us who collected Masters of the Universe as kids, some of our most fondly remembered figures were not officially made by Mattel, but were rather from one of the many knockoff lines of the day. I can still clearly recall the being [...]

Shag’s “Red Star, Black Eye” Art Show and “Shriner” Toy Release

Nerd City — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:43:38 +0000

This last weekend marked the opening of Shag’s “Red Star, Black Eye” art show and Shriner toy release (now sold out) @ Rotofugi and it ruled. Josh (Shag) Agle was super cool, and this was one of the best show’s I’ve seen in a long time. Check the pics:

Official Nightmare on Elm Street Poster

Nerd City — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:45:03 +0000

Thanks to Aintitcool, we get our first look at the official poster for the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street starring Jackie Earle Haley. The poster looks great and I enjoyed the trailer, but word on the net (and we trust everything we read online) is that this is not turnning out very good. [...]

Comics, He-Man and Pop Art

Nerd City — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:42:05 +0000

Really what more could you want. Luckily artist Patricio Oliver has delivered on all three fronts. His art is a fantastic pop art style and he has some fantastic X-men, He-Man and other super hero related art on his site, even some in the Bruce Timm animated style. So head on over [...]

New Digital Collages from ITEM

Nerd City — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:29:29 +0000

Recently, ITEM has been revealing, through his flickr, some amazing new digital collage pieces. He continues to combine a second to none hyper-modern design sensibility with pop cultural reference to psychedelically outstanding effect! And, because ITEM has decided to keep these compositions in their native digital form (he’s not going to print them), he’s come up [...]

First Full Episode of The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret

Nerd City — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:21:10 +0000

When word first hit that this series was being done over seas, many of us David Cross fans were wondering when we would get to see an episode of The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret. Well unless we move to the U.K. it still may be a while, but until then some good chap [...]

Non-Racist Black Skinhead Panthro from Tone Tank and Scumlife

Nerd City — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:36:55 +0000

Tone Tank is at it again with another sweet resin bootleg figure. This time, it’s a, yep you guessed it, Non-Racist Skinhead Black Panthro! From Tone Tank: Hello People, Before you start asking yourself, “Yo, is Tone on some racist shit!?”, check this out, it’ll save both of us a lot of breath. I always knew Panthro was a [...]

More Hot Resin on Resin Action from Giant Japanese Monster, Bad!

Nerd City — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:26:35 +0000

Allowing us to look into his creative process, Giant Japanese Monster, Bad! has recently posted even more pics of some experiments that he’s working on with more Eternia’s Rejects resin bootleg figures. Seen here are a a hollow cast blue resin figure with a GID fill, a “Mirrorman” figure with mirror glitter mixed in the [...]

Transformer Caps.

Nerd City — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:46:42 +0000

In the perfect amalgamation of “street” and “nerd”, we are presented with THESE Transformer caps. Now if only these caps could change into an inhaler, or I don’t know, a glock or something.

Far Out West by Arbito Opening, February 20th at Super 7

Nerd City — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:08:10 +0000

This Saturday night at 7 p.m., at the Super 7 store in San Francisco, Arbito will be showing a whole new batch of psychedelic resin figures at the opening of his Far Out West show. I’ve always liked Arbito’s style, it’s a mix of super clean modern aesthetics with an overall psychedelic theme. Besides, who [...]

Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, Method Man and Chris Bachalo

Nerd City — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:29:31 +0000

We already know that Ghostface, Raekwon and Method Man are putting out an album together, but what we didn’t know is that the fantastic comic book artist Chris Bachalo is also involved in the collaboration. Unfortunately Chris is not providing any slick rhymes, but he did provide some fantastic art for the cover of [...]

Double Door Show of the Week: Evan Dando

Nerd City — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:18:06 +0000

This week’s Double Door Show of the Week, Friday, February 19 @ 9 p.m., is an acoustic set by Lemonhead Evan Dando. Recently having guest-performed with the world’s oddest supergroup TInted Windows, this should be a very cool show. The Candles and Hospital Garden also perform. Get your tickets here.

10 Classic Atari Commercials

Nerd City — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:45:22 +0000

The site Unrealitymag just posted 10 classic Atari commercials. Don Knotts, Pete Rose, and Alan Alda pitching Atari? Makes sense to me. CHECK IT HERE!

Mega Man Retrospective Leading Towards Mega Man 10

Nerd City — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:00:57 +0000

Lucas Thomas over at IGN.com has written a great retrospective on all 9 8-Bit styled Mega Man games and how they impacted the development of Mega Man 10. Each game is covered talking about the highs and lows of each game. For a great read, head on over to the article right here.

New Super Street Fighter IV Trailer

Nerd City — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:27:08 +0000

Fresh off the unofficial confirmation of Ibuku, Makoto and Dudley we now get a new trailer featuring the three new fighters in action. Also at the end of the trailer we hear a voice of the long rumored Arab fighter that should be revealed soon as well.

Josh (Shag) Agle’s Red Star, Black Eye Opening/Toy Release at Rotofugi this Friday

Nerd City — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:01:06 +0000

There’s going to be another amazing opening at the Rotofugi Gallery this Friday, February 19th, featuring the work of none other than Josh (Shag) Agle. The event will coincide with the Shriner “Gallery Prototype” Edition. From Rotofugi: Red Star, Black Eye New Works by Josh (Shag) Agle February 19-March 14, 2010 Opening Reception, Signing and Toy Release Friday, [...]