Zombie Captain America Custom Funko Pop!

Hey guys! I just wanted to share a quick shot of my latest custom Funko Pop. This time I whipped up a Zombie Captain America from the Marvel Zombies graphic novel.

Hope you all dig him!

By the way, if you haven't read the Marvel Zombies books, I strongly suggest that you remedy that as soon as possible. They're tons of fun!

My First Funko Pop Custom!

One of the best aspects of my new job is the massively creative environment I'm in, being surrounded by some of the greatest designers in the toy world. One way that this manifests is through custom Pop! figures. They are all talented customizers and have inspired me to get in on it on the action. Now, I'm not exactly an experienced toy customizer, but I've always wanted to do it and now I seem to have found the nudge I needed to dive right in.

After throwing some ideas around, we all decided to team up and take a Pop! Batman figure and customize it any way we wanted. Sort of a group exhibition sort of thing, with the possibility of selling them as a set online. Apparently, there is a healthy collective of custom Funko collectors out there, so we wanted to see [if we could put together a set that would really wow them.

That remains to be seen.

But here's my first attempt at customizing a Pop! Batman, and I decided to zombify the poor Dark Knight.

Here's how it went down...

First thing I need to do was to obtain the right parts. Originally, I was just going to do a bsimple repaint, maybe mess up Bats with some gashes and melty spots. But I was inspired by our new Walking Dead Bicycle Girl figure and one look at her told me I had the rotting dead parts that I needed.

So, one Batman, one Walking Dead zombie and a spare head from a Mars Attacks figure (graciously provided by a co-worker) and I was ready to go...

First up, a little boiling. This breaks apart the glued-on piece very nicely and makes the plastic very soft and pliable, making it easier to cut through and whatnot.

Next, a lot of cutting and gluing. For me, this was the hard part. It took a lot of trial and error to get the pieces cut to the right size and the glue I bought was just making me angry.

 Eventually, I got the basics of the figure together...

I cut out some sections of the head and added some brains on the inside and "exposed" and ear and added the lower face section to give Bats a grody zombie mouth. I even gave him some gross zombie hands.

 

Then, all that was left was to paint it! I'm not super skilled at painting toys, so I worry it looks a little ham-fisted and amateurish, but I had fun and I'm sure I'll get better in the future with enough practice.

A little blood, some icky green mold and a little graveyard mud around the feet and feel like we got ourselves a Walking Dead Batman! Gods forbid if Rick Grimes and the gang run into this little biter in the woods. Still, Dark Knight Detective or not, one shot to the brain is all it takes.

That's if they see him coming...

"Grrruuuuuurrrhhhhh!!!"

Anyway, there it is, my first, but certainly lot last, Funko Pop! custom figure. Hope you all dig it. Get it? See what I did there?

League of Extraordinary Bloggers Weekly Theme: Green Things!

This week's topic: Things That Are Green

I'm finally back to join in on the fun with the League of Extraordinary Bloggers! I missed the last two (which I'm mighty sad about, since they were great topics -  now none of you will ever know what makes me cry), so I'm all revved up to get started on this week's post!

Brian (our fellow Horde member and leader of the League over at Cool & Collected) has kept it simple for us this week with a pretty open-ended topic; Things That Are Green.

I admit, my knee-jerk reaction was to grab as many green toys as I could find and put them all in a pic together, but then I stumbled onto a long forgotten comic con purchase (from last year's SDCC) that I never blogged about. And guess what? They happened to be green from (rotten) head to (missing) toe.

I'm talking about my Mutagen Edition Z.O.M.B.I.E. figures from October Toys!

 Z.O.M.B.I.E. stands for "Zillions Of Mutated Bodies Infecting Everyone". This is one of those killer little plastic figure sets from the same guys that brought us those beyond-awesome M.U.S.C.L.E. homage figures known as OMFG. I bought these on a total whim during my first visit to SDCC last year, and for whatever reason, they got a little lost in the avalanche of other swag I brought home from that trip.

But I like to think that perhaps they were just biding their time for when I would one day need to write a post about something green and just happen to look inside a long forgotten box in the back of the Nerdatorium's Closet of Doom.

I don't know about zillions, but you do get 5 little bright green, translucent undead figures in each bag. I guess the bright green, see-through look is what makes them "Mutagen Edition". I have no idea what the original series looked like, and quite frankly, I'm too lazy to look it up right now.

Having taken a closer look at these figures, I'm now kicking myself for not opening them sooner! I'm a sucker for these off beat Army-man-style figures anyway, but these disgusting little buggers take the cake.

Let's take a look at them individually.

First up we have what I have named Mongo the Cat Eater. At first I thought it was some sort of zombie old man holding some sort of garbage or whatever. Closer inspection proved that this is in fact a zombie gorilla holding a cat. Seriously, guys... that's messed up.

Next we have the one I call Johnny Armless. Once a stand-up bass player in a rockabilly band, he now spends his days lumbering through the streets in search of brains. His hair is still perfect, though.

Here we have what appears to be a naked dude in a bath towel with what may be a Life Alert necklace on and holding either a Mr. microphone or a wooden spoon. This one may be weirder than the cat-eating gorilla.

Here we have a zombie of a little boy, who I'm naming Jeff, because when I was a kid, I was tormented for years by this older kid next door to me named Jeff and I'd like nothing more than the thought of him being a zombie that walks around having to hold his intestines off the ground. Ha! Take that, Jeff! You big, fat, stupid zombie face!

And finally, we have Trixie Von Polldancer, who's probably my favorite out of this set because, well... boobs. Also, I know she's undead and all, but I sort of have a thing for green women.

Also from the League:

• Brian at Cool & Collected let's you know that you wouldn't like his collection when it's angry.
• I'm jealous of Brothermidnight's complete Chemo figure.
• And Shawn at Branded in the 80s just hit me with green, slimy nostalgia bomb.

Please see the complete list of posts from the Extraordinary League of Bloggers and show their blogs some love. Thanks!

Zombie Desk Buddies!

So, I had come up with these sort of cute little zombie paper figures for a project I was working on, but the art style for that project has changed, which leaves these guys on the cutting room floor. But instead of seeing them go to waste, I thought I'd share them with everyone.

Just click on the image to view full size, save to your desktop or whatever, print them out (cardstock is best), cut them out along the light green line, fold their stands under at the light gray line and set them loose to attack things on your desk.

Enjoy!