SDCC 2024 Warpaint Conan the Barbarian Vintage Figure by Super7

Super7 is heading to San Diego Comic-Con again this year where they will be setting up at SDCC booth #2543 with some “super” convention exclusives, including this San Diego Comic-Con 2024 Warpaint Conan the Barbarian Vintage Figure! When Conan dons his warpaint, it’s only a matter of time before blood is spilled. This 5.5” tall Conan the Barbarian Vintage Action Figure of “Warpaint” Conan is inspired by the muscle-bound action figures made popular in the 1980s and depicts the epic warrior splattered in blood, and comes with bloody sword accessory. Limited quantities of each Super7 SDCC 2024 exclusive will also be available to all fans at Super7.com on Monday, July 29th.

Conan the Barbarian Deluxe Action Figure by Super7

“By Crom!” Today is the last day to pre-order Super7's amazing new Conan the Barbarian deluxe action figure!!! Charging off the pages of the original 1970’s comic books, this epic Conan the Barbarian deluxe figure comes with spear, sword, dagger, and necklace accessories plus an alternate head. The Conan the Barbarian action figure is a 7” tall, highly articulated and fully poseable action figure sculpted by the Four Horsemen.

The Conan the Barbarian Deluxe Action Figuyre is a made-to-order release for $35 at the Super7 online store. But get your orders in ASAP as the window to pre-order this figure ends on April 1, 2019.

Frank Frazetta’s Labbit the Barbarian 10” Vinyl Figure by Frank Kozik x Kidrobot

Now here’s a mash-up The Blot could never have imagined! Thanks to Kidrobot and Frank Kozik, we now know what a Labbit designed by legendary artist Frank Frazetta would look like! Labbit the Barbarian takes Frazetta's famous Conan the Barbarian painting and inserts Kozik’s beloved Labbit in the role of the iconic warrior.

Labbit the Barbarian by Frank Kozik and Kidrobot stands 10” tall and comes packaged in a collectible window box perfect for display, which features Frazetta's original Conan painting. Although this super detailed designer vinyl figure is not scheduled to hit store shelves until later this summer, you can pre-order one now at Entertainment Earth for $100 here.

Con Report: Space City Con 2013

The Blot was in no way prepared for the immense crowds at Space City Con 2013! I was lucky enough to be invited to cover the inaugural Space City Con last year, and it definitely had some growing pains. Every new comic-con has trouble getting the word out and attacking both die hard fanboys and casual fans to an unknown event. Plus, last year’s location at the Houston Galleria, the city’s biggest mall, allowed convention goers to come and go too freely. But wow, what a difference a year makes!

Space City Con felt twice as big this year with a crowd ten times as large. I don’t know what the convention’s promoters did to increase awareness of the event, but they did an amazing job! At times last year SCC seemed almost empty, but at certain points this year I actually had trouble navigating the show room floor. And considering the convention actually moved away from the center of the city it was extremely impressive they were able to draw such large crowds. Now the show wasn’t perfect, but for just its second year Space City Con has made huge improvements.

I think the biggest drawing power of this year’s convention was its celebrity guests. Fans were lining up to meet an impressive line-up of Star Trek veterans, Stargate stars, former Power Rangers, Doctor Who's Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy, and Firefly’s Jewel Staite. It was true geek nirvana! Personally, The Blot was extremely excited to meet Staite and Walter Koeing from Star Trek: The Original Series. What a legend!

The convention also had a huge influx of cosplay this year, rivaling almost any comic convention in Texas. There was a huge contingency from Star Wars 501st Legion, and I couldn’t get over how many young people were in attendance wearing Star Trek costumes. Even with the new movies I didn’t think there were die hard Trekkes under the age of 30. But the best costume I heard about was a young woman dressed as Ice from Justice League International!!! The Blot’s still ticked I didn’t get to see that one in person. I did get to see one X-Men fan in a killer Jubille costume though, which I loved.

My highlight of the show was definitely meeting superstar inker Art Thibert. Hearing stories about his time in the comic book industry and his new graphic novel, which was funded through Kickstarter, was awesome. It’s also great being able to flip through an artist’s portfolio and seeing tons of pages of original artwork, especially when you own so many of the published comics they came from.

The biggest surprise coming out of Space City Con 2013 was the show was becoming biannual! During the convention the show’s organizers announced they would not be hosting a Winter Edition Space City Con the first weekend of January, just four months after Space City Con 2013! Even better still, the show’s first celebrity guest to be announced is be Jason Momoa from Game of Thrones and 2011’ Conan reboot!!! GoT fans from around the southwest are sure to be flocking to Houston this winter to meet the Dothraki Khal Drogo!!! Can’t wait to find out who else will be at the Winter Edition of Space City Con 2014.

Mondo’s SDCC 13 Exclusive Prints by Olly Moss, Martin Ansin & Drew Struzan!

San Diego Comic-Con 2013 is less than a week away and Mondo just unveiled its line-up of San Diego Comic-Con 2013 exclusives! Mondo’s released some amazing exclusives in the past, but this year’s line-up of artists is seriously second to none. It includes legendary movie poster artist Drew Struzan and screen print superstars Olly Moss and Martin Ansin!

On Thursday, July 18th, Martin Ansin will be signing his Conan the Barbarian 24”x36” hand numbered screen print. The standard edition has a limited edition run size of 450 pieces and retails for $50, while the variant has a limited edition run size of 225 pieces and retails for $75.

On Friday, July 19th, Drew Struzan will be signing his Stephen King’s The Dark Tower 20”x36” 22 color hand numbered screen print. The print has a limited edition run size of 450 pieces and retails for $275.

Lastly, on Saturday, July 20th, Olly Moss will be signing his brand new Studio Ghibli variants for Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle. Spirited Away ($90) is a 20"x36" hand numbered screen print with a limited edition run size of 225 pieces. Howl’s Moving Castle ($90) is a 20"x36" hand numbered screen print with a limited edition run size of 225.

Conan: The Barbarian Screen Print by Jason Edmiston

Later today Mondo will be releasing a pretty cool Conan: The Barbarian movie poster by Jason Edmiston. Let’s be honest, a screen print of pretty much any Schwarzenegger film from the ‘80s would be awesome, but Conan fighting a giant snake takes the cake! Plus, the color schemes of both versions of the print do a great job highlighting the action taking place in the foreground.

Conan: The Barbarian by Jason Edmiston is a 24”x36” hand numbered screen print. The Standard Edition has a limited edition run size of 320 prints and will retail for $45, while the Variant has a run size of 100 pieces and will retail for $85. Both go on sale at a random time on today, Thursday, May 17th, at the Mondo online store.

Red Sonja Teaser Movie Posters - SDCC

First it was announced that Conan would be re-imagined in a new film next year and now we have news from San Diego Comic-Con 2008 that the Red Sonja remake Robert Rodriguez has been shopping around to star Rose McGowan is finally a go. Who could have guessed in 2009 we’d have two different movies based in Cimmeria? Unfortunately, I think this movie has disaster written all over it. While the teaser movie posters of the She-Devil with a sword look awesome, something tells me the drama surrounding the film will kill it before it even hits theaters.


I love Rodriguez’s films, especially his El Mariachi trilogy, but the on again/off again nature of Rodriguez and McGowan’s relationship spells doom. If you don’t know their back story, let me give you a quick breakdown. The two met while filming Rodriguez’s Planet Terror, his part in the flop Grindhouse. The two started having an affair on set, which ended his 16 year marriage to Elizabeth Avellan, the mother of his five children and the producer of many of his films. Since then Rodriguez has been shopping a series of films to star his new muse, including Red Sonja, a remake of Barbarella and Woman in Chains! The only problem is numerous news outlets reported last month that McGowan had ended her engagement with the director. (link)

Now from all the SDCC reports I’ve read the two were overly friendly with each other, to the point of many referring to them as being romantic during their promotion of the movie. While the two evidently said all of the right things while at the Con, this doesn’t put my mind at ease for the success of Red Sonja. If their engagement really is over I just don’t see how this movie can be successfully made, especially if the media turns on either one of them for the drama their affair created.


It is too bad all of Rodriguez’s creative energies have gone into finding movie vehicles for McGowan, because the director is such an amazing filmmaker that he doesn’t need the hype surrounding their relationship overshadowing his work and he definitely doesn’t need her to make a successful movie. Secretly I hope Red Sonja is good, if nothing else because both of their careers need a hit badly after Planet Terror.

The original Red Sonja film by director Richard Fleischer debuted in 1985 and stared Brigitte Nielsen as Red Sonja and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Kalidor.

Conan Teaser Movie Poster

What is it with Hollywood and remaking or “re-imagining” old movies and television shows!?! You’d think that there were no creative writers left in this world. For every successful The Office or The Departed there are a million bombs like Coupling, Bionic Women, Bewitched and The Stepford Wives. And now here we go with Conan.


I would much rather have a faithful squeal 20 years later, like with recent movies Rocky, Rambo and Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull, than a remake any day. Heck I’m even ok with these new franchises that are prequels and start before the original movies, like with recent films Batman Begins and the latest James Bond flick, Casino Royale.

But what I can’t stand is scrapping everything that came before, especially with a franchise that was successful and entertaining. Couldn’t they have just waited for the Governator to leave office and make the long gestating King Conan film? Instead, we now get a new version of Conan, which could never be better than the original films but is supposed to be more faithful to the original books by Robert E. Howard. (link) That must be exactly what audiences everywhere have been clamoring for, right ?