Continuing the First Comics theme, I bring you another character from that ill-fated publisher: Nexus. Nexus was another Mike Baron creation, this time with co-creator Steve Rude. Once First Comics went under, Nexus was picked up by Dark Horse and, like other First Comics properties, made its way through several different publishers. I’m not sure […]
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Forgotten Heroes 2020: Nexus
Posted by The Angry Piper on June 16th, 2020
Posted in Conversions, Miniatures, Painting Challenges, Repaints, Super Heroes 
Tags: Forgotten Heroes, HeroClix 
8 Comments »Forgotten Heroes 2020: Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger….
Posted by The Angry Piper on June 14th, 2020
How I miss First Comics. First Comics had a pretty respectable roster of publications. Most were pretty good (Jon Sable; Freelance, Whisper, Tim Truman’s Scout, and my personal favorite: Grimjack), some not so great (I couldn’t get into American Flagg no matter how hard I tried). First secured the rights to publish Lone Wolf and […]
Posted in Conversions, Miniatures, Painting Challenges, Repaints, Super Heroes Tags: Forgotten Heroes, HeroClix 10 Comments »The Coming of…Rrrraaaaaang!!!!!
Posted by The Angry Piper on May 9th, 2020
Beware! Despair! Rrrraaaaaang is upon us!!! Rrrraaaaaang, Destroyer of Worlds! Rrrraaaaaang, Bringer of Doom! Rrrraaaaaang, Devourer of Civilizations! Rrrraaaaaang! Rrrraaaaaang! RRRRAAAAAANG!!!!!!! A bit of background: when I was in college, I spent a fair amount of time in the Fine Arts building, as one of my best friends was an illustration major. One day, I noticed something odd affixed […]
Posted in Fantasy, Horror, Miniatures, Painting Challenges, Pulp, Sci-Fi, Super Heroes Tags: AD&D, HeroClix, Monster Month, Pulp Figures, Reaper, War Rocket 8 Comments »May is Monster Month (Again)!
Posted by The Angry Piper on April 24th, 2020
For the past couple of years I’ve been trying to establish a loose routine with regards to my painting: I take part in Forgotten Heroes every June, try to clean up the “side-pile” every December, and occasionally, I host a painting challenge like Dwarvember, WizarDecember, or TerrainTime. This year I’ve decided to open up Monster […]
Posted in Fantasy, Horror, Miniatures, Painting Challenges, Pulp, Sci-Fi, Super Heroes Tags: Monster Month 10 Comments »“Strongest One There Is!”
Posted by The Angry Piper on September 28th, 2019
Jealousy. I has it. The source? Not an unfaithful wife. Not another’s success, wealth or good looks. Not even another’s superior painting skill or bagpiping prowess. None of these. Yet my particular jealousy was a daily, unwelcome guest for many months. It would arrive when unexpected and stay far too long, like an irritating relative, or […]
How AWESOME is this???
Posted by The Angry Piper on September 19th, 2019
A couple of weeks back I was pleasantly surprised to receive a PM on Lead Adventure Forum from Scott Pyle, creator of Super Mission Force. Visitors to this site probably know that I am a huge fan of this game, so I was very happy to find that he wanted to send me a copy […]
Buried on a Sunday…Born on a Monday…
Posted by The Angry Piper on June 29th, 2019
I never heard, or even knew of, the Solomon Grundy nursery rhyme as a child. I think perhaps this is a more common nursery rhyme overseas than here in the States. It wasn’t until I got older, fell in love with Celtic music and started listening to the Pogues that I heard it for the first […]
Posted in Miniatures, Super Heroes, Zombies Tags: Knight Models, Super Mission Force Comments Off on Buried on a Sunday…Born on a Monday…Forgotten Heroes 2019: Viva La Bandera!
Posted by The Angry Piper on June 22nd, 2019
I must thank my friend Carrion Crow for coming up with Forgotten Heroes. It is a challenge in more ways than one. For example, last year I converted my very own Wundarr the Aquarian, who I consider to be one of the worst Marvel characters ever. Even though my results weren’t great, I was pretty […]
Posted in Conversions, Miniatures, Painting Challenges, Repaints, Super Heroes Tags: Forgotten Heroes, HeroClix, Super Mission Force 6 Comments »My Name is Mud!
Posted by The Angry Piper on June 17th, 2019
A local comic shop had a pretty spectacular sale on gaming items recently, and I was pleasantly surprised to see they had a few of the original metal Knight Models Batman figures on the shelf. I couldn’t resist picking up a few (at a deep discount), and so I present…Clayface! At last count, there are […]
“Oh, Frabjous Day!”
Posted by The Angry Piper on March 17th, 2019
It’s been a while since I did a Heroclix repaint, and this time it’s another of Batman’s rogues gallery: Jervis Tetch, aka the Mad Hatter. From DC FanDOM: Jervis Tetch, formerly a research scientist, is completely smitten with the works of Lewis Carroll. As his criminal name indicates, he takes the appearance of the Mad […]
Posted in Miniatures, Repaints, Super Heroes Tags: HeroClix, Lucid Eye, Super Mission Force, Supersystem 3 4 Comments »