Avengers: The Heroic Age and Astonishing X-men Comic Book Bind

Got some new binds in for my local bindery.  I got Avengers: The Heroic Age vol. 1 and Whedon's run of Astonishing X-men.

Here's the mapping I have for the binds.

Avengers: The Heroic Age vol. 1
Marvels Project #1-8
Avengers Prime #1-5
Avengers #1-6
New Avengers #1-6
Avengers Academy #1-6
Secret Avengers #1-5
Valkyrie #1
Vengeance of Moon Knight #10
New Avengers #7-8
Steve Rogers: Super Soldier #1-4

Astonishing X-men
Astonishing X-men #1-24
Giant-Size Astonishing X-men #1

Comic Haikus - August 2011 Issues

Veil Action Figure

The fourth custom of Avengers Academy I made was Veil.  Veil was made using a Marvel Legends Marvel Girl (Rachel Summers).  I used electrical tape to wrap around the body, then used electrical tape to wrap around electrical wire to make the ribbons.  The hands and lower torso are detachable so you can pose her in normal form or gas form. 

Other members of Avengers Academy that I made...
Mettle
Finesse
Hazmat

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Hazmat Action Figure

The third custom of Avengers Academy I made is Hazmat.  Hazmat was made with a Marvel Legends Psylocke base with a Marvel Legends Marvel Girl head.  The clear plastic front was a cut down helmet of a DC Universe Nautkeloi and sculpted over it.

You can also check out the other members of the Academy I made so far, Mettle and Finesse 

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Amadeus Cho Cosplay Dragon Con 2011

So now that my Adamantine Mace got to make an appearance in to Dragon Con.  I know he's a pretty obscure character, but it's awesome that I got 4-5 recognitions each day.  People even wanted to get pictures of me each day.  It was an awesome feeling. 

I'm Amadeus Viet!

I even found a Hercules!

 Lots of fun.  If you want check out more pics of myself and my fellow Earth's Mightiest Podcast co-host Alex you can go here.

Adamantine Mace Cosplay Prop (Incredible Hercules/Amadeus Cho)

So Dragon Con is coming up and this will be my first venture into cosplaying.  So I'm dressing up as Amadeus Cho, most well known as Hercules's sidekick from Incredible Hercules. It's fairly easy to dress up as him; just a black suit, green shirt, yellow tie, and a gameboy.  The hardest part of course is the Adamantine Mace.  It's not 100% accurate, but I'm still proud of how it turned out.

The Adamantine Mace was made from 2 gallon apple juice bottles, a Nerf Mace, a Styrofoam disc, and 6 nail file emery boards.  Look for an Asian guy in a black suit holding this bad boy at Dragon Con.  If you see me, come by and say hi.     

Final Product

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Pieces put together

Silver base coat

Clear yellow coat

Mockingbird Action Figure (EMPodcast contest prize)

Now that she has some new powers due to Super Soldier Serum/Infinity Formula in New Avengers, I decided to make a custom Mockingbird action figure.

Mockingbird was made with a Marvel Legends 2-pack Black Widow base, with a DC Direct Amory Supergirl head from Camko Kid Castings.  The glasses were from a DC Universe Booster Gold.  The nightsticks are just made from wooden dowels.  Everything else was sculpted. 

Here's the thing.  You can win this for FREE!  All you have to do is download and listen to this episode of Earth's Mightiest Podcast and find out how!

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