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Huh, forgot to post this initially, or on the second costume. Flying Nightingale is a character I made for a WWII-themed supergroup on City of Heroes (timelost, slow-aging, rejuvenated, etc). Flying Nightingale, aka Dolores Jones, was a low-powered healer who could fly and helped out with medivac in WWII. Recently, her powers were jumpstarted and rejuvenated her, and she's jumped back into the fight with the help of some modern high-tech pistols.
( Regular costume )
( Civvies, based on Bettie Page, if less buxom. )
( Winter outfit. )

Cute gag name, but an unexceptional mold not really worth plunking $4 down for on its own. Had to hit Hastings for Avengers Academy, spotted this guy while I was there and decided it was worth $4 for the name. They only had one other from the assortment, but I left it (Brake-Neck) on the shelf.

Corps of Discovery #1 - Tesla Boys!: Beacon! Gauntlet! Jack Ripley! And...Jim Smiley? Who's that German guy with the weird accent? And what will they make of an ancient Viking radio transmitter? Written by ununnilium.

Finally went through an Imperious Task Force successfully with my oldest City of Heroes character. Cleared out the costume slot I'd been using for her "classic" costume to make room for this one (after saving the classic costume to file).
( Also used a half-cape because I have them now. )
( ETA: Got Artemis A through the ITF too. )

At 1:6800 scale, it was already doomed to detail problems. But they managed to make it bad in several other ways too. A pity, too, because the basic idea is a good one.

( No books of note, but no new missing books, at least. )

   Dave Van Domelen, "Iron Man! We need to be IRRITATING!" "Really? Too bad Nova isn't here." - Sue Storm and Iron Man, Marvel Adventures Super Heroes #9

I got a $1 knockoff pony, dyed it black and then ended up painting almost all of it anyway (the dye didn't take in the rainbow hair, so I combed in some ink).
( No comparison picture, my Mach Kick is in a sealed box back in a corner of a closet. )

Sadly, the "Damn. Ninjas," line from the ads did not appear in the movie itself. That aside, though, I enjoyed it for what it was: stylized swordplay soap opera. It follows the same basic template as last year's Ninja Assassin, with the world's greatest killer deciding he had to break away from his assassin clan and getting hunted across the world by his clan before clashing with his surrogate father figure. Meanwhile, oriental assassins clash with gunmen and there's a lot of blood. The main difference is that the setting is a "busted town full of broken people" in the late 1800s American West, and the visuals are stylized to the point of being allegorical. It does get a bit busy, especially with the three-way battle at the end between assassin clan members, corrupt U.S. soldiers and a traveling circus. It's just jam-packed with archetypes from both spaghetti westerns and Shaw Brothers chop socky, and a lot of the story gets told in shorthand (the protagonist's life story is sketched out in maybe a minute's worth of flashbacks, but "unpacks" to a pretty full tale if you know the conventions). But it also brings in some bits of non-standard weirdness here and there, like the combat courtship scene on Christmas Eve with Popeye music (well, a classical piece that most of us heard first in Popeye cartoons) as the background.

If you're thinking of seeing it, the R rating is mainly due to the blood aerosols and several scenes of attempted rape (along with the implication that the rapist in question was usually a lot more successful).

A $2.80 Pinkie Pie (pre-current-series) My Little Pony "Ponyville" figure modded into a twisted version of Transformers Animated's Bumblebee. :)
( The AllSpark is Magic? )
And here's a preview of Megatron, from StarSong!
( Chibi Megatron is annoyed by this turn of events. )

Catman: Minor Arcana #4 - Swords: July 1998, the Godmarket has crashed...and where does that leave Edouard and Isabel? In the middle of trouble, that's where!