Author: Phil

Phil is the Owner/Editor-In-Chief/Chief Reviewer of ASM. He is a long time Transformers fan, having been involved in the online fandom since the early 90's. He resides with his wife in Wisconsin, but no, he doesn't like to eat much cheese.

Transformers Generations Deluxe Product Reveals from BotCon!

This morning at The Official TRANSFORMERS Convention — BotCon— in San Diego, California, Hasbro’s TRANSFORMERS brand team revealed several amazing new TRANSFORMERS toys, as well as the 2013 inductees to the TRANSFORMERS Hall of Fame.   Here’s what was shown for Deluxe Transformers: TRANSFORMERS Generations Deluxe ·         A5478 Dreadwing ·         A5479 Waspinator ·         A5480 Skids ·         A5481 Goldfire

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BotCon 2013 Reveals Show Exclusives

On their Facebook page, BotCon revealed the show souvenir exclusves right before the club store opened to sell them to throngs of waiting fans. Available are: Thundercracker/Mirage 2-pack (limited to 2000) Sandstorm/Electron 2-pack (limited to 2000) Rainmakers 3-pack (Sunstorm, Bitstream, Hotlink, limited to 2500) Kreon 5-pack (Kreon figures of the box set characters, limited to 1500) Along with yesterday’s revelation of the attendee-exclusive Starscream and the customization class Blastcharge Strika, we now know all of the exclusive toys available at the show.  In addition, BotCon showed a new War of Machines lithograph, featuring this years characters; what look like trading

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Dark Horse Launches On Apple’s iBookstore

MILWAUKIE, OR, JUNE 25—With today’s announcement that Dark Horse graphic novels are available on the iBookstore (iTunes.com/DarkHorseComics), Dark Horse is now one of the most widely distributed comics publishers digitally. Dark Horse digital graphic novels are now available for purchase on the iBookstore, featuring over two hundred top titles, including Mass Effect, Hellboy, Star Wars, Buffy the Vampire Slayer,Serenity, Sin City, and more. Plus, iBooks users can put Star Wars comics on their bookshelf next to all of their favorite Star Wars novels. Through Apple’s iOS devices, readers are guaranteed a comics-reading experience unlike any other. “I’m thrilled that Dark Horse graphic novels are going to be available on the iBookstore,”

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Ralph Macchio Added To Wizard World Comic Con NYC Experience Sunday

‘Karate Kid,’ ‘My Cousin Vinny’ Star To Make Rare Appearance At Basketball City (Pier 36); Also Scheduled For Wizard World Chicago Comic Con In August NEW YORK, June 24, 2013 – Ralph Macchio, known to millions for his roles as “Daniel LaRusso” in The Karate Kid series, “Eugene Martone” inCrossroads and “Billy Gambini” in My Cousin Vinny, will make a rare appearance at Wizard World Comic Con NYC Experience on Sunday at Basketball City (Pier 36) in Manhattan.  Macchio, 51, will also appear at Wizard World Chicago Comic Con in August at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Ill. A Long Island native, Macchio first hit

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Kevin Smith Originals You Didn’t Even Know Were On ComiXology

For immediate release… sort of: KEVIN SMITH’S ORIGINAL GRAPHITTI DESIGNS COMICS ARE ALREADY ON COMIXOLOGY! April 20th(ish), 2013 – NYC, NY/LA, CA /That Shady Looking Van With All The Smoke Coming out of it – Just in time for Jay & Silent Bob’s Super Groovy Cartoon Movie (okay, maybe not just in time as we found ourselves a little preoccupied this past April 20th when the books actually did come out) comiXology is pleased to announce a digital distribution deal with Graphitti Designs and View Askew to distribute Kevin Smith’s original Clerks comics through comiXology, the revolutionary cloud-based digital comics platform available across the iPhone, iPad,Android, Kindle Fire, Windows 8 and the Web.

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