First, a new custom - the Radioactive Man, the villain who can make you sterile.

Second, an announcement - This is going to be the only custom I add to my site this month. I'm taking a vacation from the site to devote more time to the holidays, family and other design projects that I've been procrastinating on. I'll be back adding more customs to the site starting in January 2006.

I'm off for a week or so for Thanksgiving. Please enjoy this latest custom while I'm away (who's not Thanksgiving-themed) - Iron Man's foe, the Controller.

I've been meaning to put these on my site for a while - my entries for CustomCon 13, The Super Friends! Well, the Super Friends who were created just for the cartoon and have no chance of ever being made as official Minimates. So check out Apache Chief, Black Vulcan, El Dorado, Samurai, and The Wonder Twins!

Over at the Art Asylum forum, a nice guy named Fujis is having a contest for Minimate customizers. So I decided to enter Johnny Sorrow, DC Comics villain with an other-dimensional head. Check him out, and go take a look at the other entries in the contest - I really like the Brood Minimate.

I've also been nominated for Fujis' Minimate Customizer of the Year award. It's an honor and I'd like to thank everyone who visits this site and those of you who took the time to nominate me.

It's the last WizardWorld convention of the year! In my state! And my wife and I went on Saturday! Here's the good and bad:

GOOD: Scored free tickets.
BAD: Overall the convention was disappointing. Some good spots (Artist Alley), but a general lack of programming, or comics. But if you wanted to buy overpriced Marvel Legends figures, this was the place.
GOOD: The second wave of Street Fighter Minimates were on display. They look much better in person than the preview shots that were released.
BAD: No new Marvel Minimates.
GOOD: Got the blue promo Minimate.
BAD: My wife won the Silver Spider-Man, and she won't give him up.

Love you Sarah. Please share.

Prepare for the last entry in the "Four DC Customs With Names That Start With The Letter A" month of celebration. Today I present you with my Atom-Smasher, the super-heroic giant. You might know him better as that really tall guy in the background from the Justice League cartoon.

A quick update to let you know that my entry for CustomCon 13 went live today. I don't want to spoil what it is, but it's a bunch of friends who are super. You might say they're a group of "super friends". Go see already.

And take the time to look through the other days of CustomCon 13. A lot of great customs have been shown the past weeks from Minimates to Marvel Legends, and it's worth your time to check it out.

And stop by this weekend for the final entry in the "Four DC Customs With Names That Start With The Letter A" Month. Here's a hint - his name begins with "A".

For those of you who are new to the site, that acronym stands for "Four DC Customs With Names That Start With The Letter A". Which means I need to show you a new custom for this week. And he shall be Animal Man, the super hero with the power of animals. Which is better than the power of vegetables.

Man, I need to come up with a better title for this month.

Anyway, this week's custom - The Atom, the Shrinking Super Hero (a.k.a. the Tiny Titan, the Minuscule Marvel, or the Short & Saintly).

This site is about a year old now. Time to change its look.

It's also time to launch another theme month. For the next four weeks, I'll be introducing a new custom from the DC Universe who's name begins with the letter A. So come back often this month to take part in "Four DC Customs With Names That Start With The Letter A Month".

This week - Aquaman.

There's a lot of serious thought put into doing my customs. I consider factors like difficulty, my fondness for the character, and whether or not Art Asylum will make them as Minimates. So what happens when two customs I've already completed are released in the latest waves of Minimates? Find out when you take a look at my Spider-Woman and my never-before-seen Spider-Woman II customs.

And to round things out, a custom done because I had an extra Thing Minimate -
She-Thing.

Today's custom - the original OMAC. Have you seen those OMACs running around in the the latest comic book universe crossover? This is where it all started.

Onward with more customs! Onward with the obscure Silver Age Justice League villain who got a much-needed makeover by Grant Morrison but that was too hard to do as a custom so I did him with his Silver Age appearance The Key!

With vacations taken and family visited, I have the time to update the site again. So let's update with the Silver Age swashbuckling space super-hero Adam Strange! Please bring your own ray gun and jet pack.

Finally, we reach the last of Captain America friends & enemies customs with his most-French villain, Batroc the Leaper! Sacre bleu, indeed!

More of Captain America friends & enemies customs with another of his villains, Machinesmith! He's probably not a Cap villain that a lot of people know, but outside of the Red Skull, how many Cap villains do people know, anyway?

We continue the string of Captain America friends & enemies customs with one of his most kill-happy villains, the Scourge of the Underworld! You could say he has a killer smile, but since he wears a mask that would be silly.

The parade of Captain America friends & enemies customs continues with two entries this week. This week check out Cap's girlfriend for much of the 90's, Diamondback! And see one of Cap's many partners, the dynamic D-Man! Check them out, won't you?

It's here - a whole bunch of customs featuring Captain America's friends and enemies! And for starters, here's an enemy - Crossbones, the Red Skull's henchman! He may look a little like a pirate, but trust me, he's not.