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Robots, Comics, Bugs, Laughs, Plants, Zen, Robots, Zines, Films, Robots. I run a comic shop! - he/him http://refinedrobotco.blogspot.com/

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One day I'm gonna need to lean on the fact that drawing silly cartoon animals is actually my strongest suit. Remind me to find "le chat super" I drew in 2009. I've never bettered

10.03.2026 19:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A page in my sketchbook I have covered with browts in different aspects.
Text reads "IT'S BROWT OR NOWT" 
Browt is the new green bird pokemon in case you live in a hole. I've used green marker pens and a black fineliner. I just tried to add one doing the Asuka "pathetic" pose but it ruined it

A page in my sketchbook I have covered with browts in different aspects. Text reads "IT'S BROWT OR NOWT" Browt is the new green bird pokemon in case you live in a hole. I've used green marker pens and a black fineliner. I just tried to add one doing the Asuka "pathetic" pose but it ruined it

Look and you may see a browt

10.03.2026 18:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Head empty, no QC

10.03.2026 17:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ach! "Thou rollest", "thou rollest"! Fie!

10.03.2026 13:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Brother Anatoli, thy swag is too righteous, they'll burn thee. Yea, even if thy roll a deuce

10.03.2026 13:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Transformers Missinglink Nemesis Prime

Transformers Missinglink Nemesis Prime

I need you to know I'd be assembling all my Nemesis Primes/Scourges/Black Convoys for a photo as I might have done circa 2017 but the physical effort required is now over the activation threshold of Making A Post.

10.03.2026 13:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Bene JustEat

10.03.2026 01:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"First look at Rosalina"
Oh!
"First look at R.O.B."
IM SEATED I haven't even seen the first one or give a shit about mario

09.03.2026 23:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We used to have the black and white newsprint Essentials for this but now it's like they keep it all under lock and key of hundred dollar omnibuses

09.03.2026 23:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There's this question of Perlmutter banning them from keeping inventory stock so loads of stuff just goes out of print and stays there. Panini definitely do a world of good with their reprints, I miss those pocketbooks. At least we have them keeping some of this in print for us at better prices

09.03.2026 23:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Watching the x-files that premiered on my 7th birthday apparently

09.03.2026 23:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sixty pounds for 9 issues of Amazing Spider-man, you may as well be buying vintage single issues

09.03.2026 20:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

For a while "Marvel Masterworks" meant inexpensive small format classic stories. Then it went back to meaning high end hardcover collections. The last one I ordered by mistake expecting a 12 quid digest turned up as a 66 quid volume I will simply never sell for cover price.

09.03.2026 20:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RELRP I'm seeing it happen, Marvel is withering in my shop. DC is not only consistently more appealing to my customers but to me, the guy who decides what to order for stock. Every month I'm looking at Marvel TPBs like "nah" while DC are shovelling more backlist bangers out all the time.

09.03.2026 20:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Marvel Comics has the optimisation sickness A look at what has gone so badly wrong at Marvel's comics publishing arm

Taking a break from stressing about the problems of the world to focus on a much cheerier topic: the problems at Marvel Comics thecommasplice.com/marvel-comic...

09.03.2026 17:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 33 ๐Ÿ” 12 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
From left to right, Transformers Generations Armada Nemesis Prime, Missing Link Nemesis Prime and Age of the Primes Animated Nemesis Prime

From left to right, Transformers Generations Armada Nemesis Prime, Missing Link Nemesis Prime and Age of the Primes Animated Nemesis Prime

Some kinda unholy trinity, looks like
#Transformers

09.03.2026 19:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 15 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Missinglink Nemesis in robot mode

Missinglink Nemesis in robot mode

Thank the various makers, his hips are easier to move! That's all I wanted to know! Yes!

09.03.2026 17:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Interior of Missinglink Nemesis Prime's trailer with Giza Drone

Interior of Missinglink Nemesis Prime's trailer with Giza Drone

Yes metallic teal Roller is superb but these new decals are also incredibly swish. Yes I will be applying the newly coloured GO!

09.03.2026 17:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Very much a serious art conversation to be had here about whether recolouring a painting by someone else means you can say it was your work, cos someone obviously had to do the work to get this but then it's still also the original artist's (Shin Ueda) work. I'm hoping that's why there's no name

09.03.2026 14:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Transformers Missinglink Nemesis Prime in package

Transformers Missinglink Nemesis Prime in package

Everyone's right, this is so hot.
Bit sad to see them already stop crediting the box artist, but as this is just a recolour of Optimus' I guess it's probable it was reworked by a different freelancer and they just chose not to worry about it

09.03.2026 13:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 12 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What's the Key of Nebuchadnezzar? No one fucking knows! It doesn't matter, the change to something unexpected and incomprehensible in that one scene, otherwise played exactly the same, tells you about the nature of the whole series

09.03.2026 00:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The way it diverges more from the source as it goes is such an interesting storytelling experiment when it could just have stayed a HD remaster and still made bank. Individual scenes describe this in micro. You think Gendo will say "this is Adam" when he opens the box but they change it at the last

09.03.2026 00:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Rewatching Eva Rebuild like, the very first shot is the last shot of EoE. Kaworu is the only one that knows it's a cycle. Shinji escapes Samsara in the end. I wish it didn't have this meta angle so I could say it isn't that good but it grasps me

09.03.2026 00:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

my mama is a luminous goddess and I love her very much!!

#art #artsky

07.03.2026 20:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 5032 ๐Ÿ” 2019 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 31 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Honestly the aspect here reminds me of my room I had in my dad's flat years ago and I know sleeping on that tucked away in that corner would fix me

08.03.2026 02:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I spent some time today checking out parts of Hickman's lead up to Secret Wars and I still think that's a huge pinnacle of modern Marvel storytelling. An insane amount of moving parts taking in some cases years to move into position. The film will absolutely not do this because it's out Next Year

07.03.2026 23:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Secret Wars is next year. This is supposed to wipe the slate.
A slate which still includes numerous dangling threads left for future projects to expound on lmao hope you didn't wanna see where Hulk's bald son came from or Hercules fight Thor or Starfox or where Shang-chi's rings are from or

07.03.2026 23:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"War Machine", "Worldbreaker" love to see random sf series taking the titles from Marvel that they're too slow to do anything with.
Like, are we even still getting that Don Cheadle Armor Wars thing or what?
They've set up some kind of Planet Hulk thing but, again, I'm tapping my watch Kevin

07.03.2026 23:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's some kind of sexual insanity I guess I would say

07.03.2026 18:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Thou art no Thor! But, while the odinson be costly indeed, forgetting about the cyborg parts and trying to ignore the red eyes til I attempt to paint them, I've got the Thor figure I've wanted for ages. I mean, I really need a new smiling head with much more flexible hair and maybe some fists but...

07.03.2026 18:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0