SDCC 2017 Exclusive Famous Monsters of Filmland T-Shirt & Hoodie

Famous Monsters of Filmland will be setting up a booth at San Diego Comic-Con 2017 later this month, where they will be releasing some exciting exclusives, including a new line of official apparel. First up is this San Diego Comic-Con 2017 Exclusive Land of the Giants t-shirt ($25), which is being released to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Irwin Allen’s Land of the Giants! This shirt features the beautiful cover artwork from Famous Monsters of Filmland’s issue #55, which highlighted the terror filled world of Land of the Giants.

Famous Monsters of Filmland is also releasing this awesome San Diego Comic-Con 2017 Exclusive Shin Godzilla zip-up hoodie ($40)! This deluxe zip-up hoodie features Shin Godzilla artwork by Toho artist Yuji Kaida, which was originally created for a Famous Monsters screening of Shin Godzilla. This limited edition exclusive t-shirt and hoodie can be purchased at the Famous Monsters of Filmland SDCC booth #1621.

MondoCon Exclusive Jack Kirby Lord of Light “SAM” Screen Print by Heavy Metal

Earlier this year at San Diego Comic-Con 2015, Heavy Metal released a killer series of psychedelic blacklight “Lord of Light” screen prints based on the artwork of Barry Geller and Jack Kirby to commemorate the artwork appearing in color for the very first time in Heavy Metal Magazine #276! These pieces by Geller and Kirby, mostly unseen before now, are part of American history as they were the original artwork used by the CIA for Operation: Argo, which helped free American embassy workers during the Iranian coup in 1979.

If you missed out on the SDCC release of “SAM”, which is now sold out, you’re in luck! Heavy Metal is releasing a new variant of the print exclusively at MondoCon 2 this weekend in Austin. The MondoCon 2015 Exclusive Lord of Light “SAM” Metallic Variant Screen Print by Jack Kirby and Barry Geller measures 24”x36” and features 7 metallic inks. Limited to just 100 pieces, collectors can purchase this awesome variant print at the Heavy Metal MondoCon booth for $100.

SDCC 15 Exclusive Grant Morrison x Heavy Metal x Brian Ewing “Hail to the Chief” Screen Print

Brian Ewing, one of The Blot’s favorite artists, was commissioned by Heavy Metal Magazine to design their new cover, which also acts as the magazine’s official first announcement that legendary comic book writer Grant Morrison to become their new Editor-in-Chief! What an amazing assignment!!! Even better still, Heavy Metal and Ewing decided to release the intricately designed cover as a San Diego Comic-Con 2015 exclusive art print! The Blot so has to get my hands on one of these.

The San Diego Comic-Con 2015 Exclusive Grant Morrison x Heavy Metal x Brian Ewing “Hail to the Chief” Screen Print measures 18”x24” and will be available in three limited editions: Standard Edition, Variant and Foil Variant. Each numbered print comes signed by both Grant Morrison and Brian Ewing and can be purchased at either the Heavy Metal SDCC booth #1529 or Ewing’s SDCC booth #4503. Morrison and Ewing are also scheduled to do a signing sometime on Saturday, so keep your eyes peeled to Brian’s Instagram page for more details!

SDCC 15 Exclusive Jack Kirby “Lord of Light” Blacklight Prints by Heavy Metal

Oh man, The Blot knows so many Kirby fans that are going to go crazy over these San Diego Comic-Con 2015 exclusive psychedelic “Lord of Light” blacklight prints!!! Barry Geller and Jack Kirby’s “Lord of Light” artwork is set to appear in color for the very first time in Heavy Metal #276, and to celebrate, Heavy Metal is giving Comic-Con attendees a chance to own a piece of history in bold psychedelic blacklight! They are releasing this mind-blowing artwork in a series of limited edition prints that will literally blow your mind.

These pieces by Geller and Kirby, mostly unseen before now, are part of American history as they were the original artwork used by the CIA for Operation: Argo, which helped free American embassy workers during the Iranian coup in 1979. There are 14 prints in all in this exciting new series, with each design limited to just 50 pieces.

Each San Diego Comic-Con 2015 Exclusive Jack Kirby “Lord of Light” Blacklight Print measures either 36”x24” or 24”x36”, features 7-9 colors and retails for $210. These prints are based on “Lord of Light” by Roger Zelazny, conceived by Barry Geller and Jack Kirby, colored by Mark Englert. All 14 prints are currently available for pre-order at the Heavy Metal online store for pick-up exclusively at the Heavy Metal SDCC booth #1529.

Coming Soon: The Playboy Designer Art Toy Series presented by Coartism & Blitzway

Yesterday, Coartism announced on their Instagram page an exciting new collaboration between the mysterious company and Blitzway to produce an epic new line of designer art toys based on the iconic Playboy brand by many of the industry’s top artists! In The Blot’s honest opinion, this is exactly the type of forward thinking artist series the designer art toy scene desperately needs. The Playboy Collector’s Edition Art Toys Series features seven Playboy magazine inspired vinyl figures by Eric So, David Flores, Mighty Jaxx, Les Schettkoe, TwelveDot, Sticky Monster Lab and Hands In Factory. While we don’t know too many details yet, it appears that the 7 figures below will all be released sometime in 2015! The Blot can’t wait to find out more...and get my hands on a number of the pieces in this Playboy Artist Series Collection!

The Walking Dead Season 3 Entertainment Weekly Covers

This week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly will pay a special tribute to the upcoming third season of the hit AMC television show The Walking Dead! Not only that, but the issue will feature an official sneak peek into TWD Season 3. There are four covers in all including Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes, Danai Gurira as Michonne, David Morrissey as The Governor, and Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon and Michael Rooker as Merle Dixon. These might seriously be the best EW covers they’ve had in years! Just look at all the emotions all five of these characters are evoking in these still shots. 

Fans can order all four of the covers seen here directly from Entertainment Weekly for just $19.96, or any of the covers individually for 4.99 at their online store.

The Walking Dead First Look: Danai Gurira as Michonne

Last week Entertainment Weekly gave the world its first look as Danai Gurira as Michonne, the sword wielding bad ass of The Walking Dead! The Blot’s trying super hard not to read any spoilers about The Walking Dead’s third season on AMC, but anyone who’s read the first 50 or so issues of The Walking Dead comic book series know the season’s general storyline. Needless to say, things will not be going smoothly for Michonne in Season 3. Then again, does anything really ever go smoothly for Rick’s little band of survivors? So now that you’ve seen Gurira’s live action Michonne, what do you think?

The Walking Dead Season 3 is scheduled to air on AMC Sunday nights beginning October 2012.

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The Avengers May 2012 Entertainment Weekly Cover

It’s all Avengers all the time here at TheBlotSays.com this week, what with the Marvel film finally opening in US theaters this weekend. The Avengers three main stars, Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Chris Evans (Captain America) and Chris Hemsworth (Thor), graced the cover of Entertainment Weekly again this week and The Blot is feeling very underwhelmed. Doesn’t this look like a terrible photoshopping job? Why does Downey Jr.’s head look so small compared to his body? I guess Evans and Hemsworth don’t look so bad, just kinda out of place. Then again, I’ll take a cover story about The Avengers over Twilight any day!

Entertainment Weekly issue #1205 (dated May 4, 2012) is on newsstands now and The Avengers premieres in US theaters on May 4, 2012.

The Avengers Official Trailer!!!

Here it is, the first full length trailer for next summer’s The Avengers!!! Marvel knocked it out of the park with this trailer, and I seriously can’t stop watching it. The scenes with the entire team in one room are just more than my Fan Boy brain can handle, especially that shot of Iron Man and Captain America looking at the rest of the team. It’s seriously an Avengers comic book come to life. Do me a favor, go watch it ASAP!!!

The Avengers, directed by Joss Whedon and starring Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man, Chris Evans as Captain America, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill, Mark Ruffalo as the Incredible Hulk and Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson, is scheduled to premiere on May 4, 2012.

EW Cover Story “Life After LOST”

The Blot had a really pleasant surprise waiting for him in his mailbox last weekend, the newest issue of Entertainment Weekly with a LOST cover story! Almost 1 year after the show’s series finale aired on ABC, EW interviewed the cast to examine what “Life After LOST” meant to them. While I loved the fact that EW unexpectedly released an all new LOST cover, I thought the article itself was pretty lacking (especially for a cover story). In fact, besides a few quotes most of the information in the article is old news, especially to LOST’s hardcore fandom who get all of their information from this thing I like to call “the internet.” Nevertheless, while I was disappointed in the article I’ll take a bad LOST cover story any day of the week. At the end of the day, so long as the stars of LOST are still gracing the covers of major weekly magazines it means the show is still relevant in the ever changing world of pop culture.

Captain America: The First Avenger First Look - Chris Evans as Captain America Hi-Res Photo

The November 5, 2010 issue of Entertainment Weekly gives the world its official first look at Chris Evans as Captain Amierca. While the cover image looks great, of all the upcoming big budget super hero films on the 2011/2012 slate, The Blot’s the most worried about Captain America: The First Avenger. Click on the high resolution photo below for an incredibly detailed look at Marvel Comics' First Avenger:

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There’s just something about Captain America: The First Avenger and the early still photos I’ve seen that leaves me with an uneasy feeling. At the end of the day, I really just hope this film doesn’t wreck Marvel’s upcoming Avengers franchise of films.

Marvel Comics’ live action Captain America film is scheduled to premiere in theaters on July 22, 2011.

Green Lantern Motion Picture First Look - Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern Hi-Res Photo

San Diego Comic-Con 2010 is almost upon us, and fans lucky enough to sit in the Green Lantern live action movie panel are in form some killer surprises I’m sure. For the rest of us there’s the cover to this week’s Entertainment Weekly Special Comic-Con Preview, which features the first ever photo of Ryan Reynolds as the Green Lantern! Click on the high resolution photo below for an incredibly detailed look at the Emerald Warrior:

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While I don’t hate the character’s all CG look, I’m not really a fan of it either. And I really hate all the unnecessary texture and ribbing the films’ special effects team added to GL’s classic look. I don’t know about you, but The Blot kinda likes my superheroes in spandex.

Warner Bros.’ live action adaptation of the DC Comics' comic book Green Lantern is scheduled to premiere in theaters on June 17, 2011.

LTD Tee - Mandy T-Shirt & Art Print by Dean Yeagle

LTD Tee has released its newest box set, and it’s “Mandy” by world famous Playboy Magazine illustrator Dean Yeagle! Dean’s character Mandy is quite the looker, isn’t she? Besides Playboy and LTD Tee, Yeagle has worked with notable companies such as Walt Disney Productions, Warner Bros., MGM and Jim Henson Associates in the past. To learn more about artist Dean Yeagle, you can check out his bio at his official website CagedBeagle.com.


As with all LTD Tee releases, the “Mandy” box set will be available for one week only, exclusively at www.ltdtee.net. From July 12th through July 18th, fans can purchase the “Mandy” box set by Dean Yeagle. Each box set includes a screen printed t-shirt, an 8”x10” art print and a LTD Tee sticker pack all packaged in a custom screen printed box.

The “Mandy” box set retails for $24.99, but readers of The Blot Says… can use the discount code “blotsays” for 20% off (it’s like they’re trying to give it away!). And when you go purchase this killer set be sure to tell ‘em The Blot sent you!

EW.com - LOST: Exclusive Portraits of the Dead

Entertainment Weekly had a very cool article in last week’s collector’s edition LOST issue in which they interviewed actors whose characters had been killed on LOST. As a follow up to that article, EW.com is now featuring an article entitled LOST: 9 Exclusive Portraits of the Dead.



This online exclusive salutes the characters we’ve and “Lost” over the years, including Juliet, Boone, Michael, Charlotte and many more. To read what Elizabeth Mitchell and all of these other talented actors had to say about their on screen deaths, pick up Entertainment Weekly’s collector's edition LOST issue here (while supplies last!).



The series finale of LOST airs this Sunday night at 9/8c on ABC.

Entertainment Weekly’s 11 Collectible The End of LOST Covers

This week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly is subtitled the “LOST Special Collector’s Edition,” and features a pretty comprehensive series finale preview which should help even the most novice of LOST fans get caught up before the airing of the show’s final episode on May 23rd. To help spark even more excitement over “The End of LOST,” EW is releasing 11 different covers spotlighting 10 fan favorites.




Let me just apologize now to all the readers out there who don’t watch LOST. With a little over a week left until the show’s sixth and final season finale airs, there’s going to be a lot of LOST coverage on The Blot Says… What can I say, I’m obsessed! Plus, everyone and their mother is trying to cash in on the LOST craze sweeping the planet.




Thankfully I didn’t have to pick which cover to buy since I’m an Entertainment Weekly subscriber. My copy of issue #1102 came with the Daniel Dae Kim / Jin cover and I couldn’t be happier. But, if you want to collect all 11 The End of LOST EW collector’s covers, head over to the EW.com back issue store and stock up!

Lost on the Cover of Entertainment Weekly 2 out of the Last 3 Weeks

As a huge Lost fan, The Blot always enjoys seeing the cast of Lost on a magazine’s cover, especially when that magazine is Entertainment Weekly (the only magazine I actually subscribe to). But I was shocked to see Lost’s Matthew Fox and Emilie de Ravin grace the cover of the preeminent entertainment magazine just two issues after the show’s last cover feature. I love Lost as much as the next guy, but it hasn’t always been the type of ratings juggernaut to garner a magazine’s cover story two out of three weeks.


With that being said, Lost has definitely had a resurgence in popularity this year entering its sixth and final season. Ratings are finally on an upswing and the show seems to be a legit pop culture phenomenon touching both diehard fans and casual observers. Which all points to reasons why Entertainment Weekly chose the show to grace its cover twice in three weeks. The only really shocking aspect of Lost’s most recent EW cover is its choice of actors.


Matthew Fox makes sense, but never in a million years would I have guessed Emilie de Ravin would be the other actor featured in a Lost photo shoot. I’m actually glad they chose Emilie over Evangeline Lilly. It’s a nice change of pace and pays tribute to the importance of de Ravin’s Claire Lost Season 6, a character I missed greatly during disappearance from Season 5.

Entertainment Weekly Issue #1091, which sports a Lost cover featuring Matthew Fox and Emile de Ravin, has a cover date of February 26, 2010 and is on newsstands now. Entertainment Weekly Issue #1088, which features a Lost cover including pictures of Matthew Fox, Terry O’Quinn, Evangeline Lilly, Josh Holloway, Ian Somerhalder and Yunjin Kim, has a cover date of February 5, 2010 and is now probably gone from newsstands.

The Cast of How I Met Your Mother in EW’s The Best of 2008

Since there was no new episode of How I Met Your Mother this week, I wanted to direct everyone’s attention to a pretty cool article featuring the cast of How I Met Your Mother in this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly. "How I Met Your Mother Cast in The Best of 2008" is a 9 page photo spread in Entertainment Weekly’s "The Best and Worst of 2008" issue that reenacts some of the year’s most memorable moments memorably using the cast of HIMYM (Alyson Hannigan, Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Colbie Smulders and Neil Patrick Harris) in all of the scene's key roles.

The Olympics


Indiana Jones


Sex and the City


Jonas Brothers


The Vice Presidential Debate

Time Magazine’s 2008 Person of the Year Issue Cover Artwork by Obey Giant’s Shepard Fairey

If Obey Giant was not considered mainstream after all of the national media coverage of Shepard Fairey’s Barack Obama Presidential campaign artwork, it certainly is now. Fairey was asked by Time Magazine to illustrate the cover of its Person of the Year issue, which hits newsstands this week. Obama was chosen Time’s 2008 Man of the Year, so it was only fitting that the long running periodical ask Fairey to create the cover of such an monumental issue.


Time has even branded Fairey as its Icon Maker of the Year since his Barack Obama posters became the icon of the 2008 Presidential campaign. Time has posted a video about Fairey in which he explains how he created the cover for Time Magazine’s 2008 Person of the Year issue. Head over to Time.com to watch the very interesting video.