Get out your checkbooks - the second wave of Charitymates customs is now live on eBay. This group includes some great customs, including my other fighter custom, Barrett Diablo. Go check them out and bid like a crazy person. You don't need lunch this week, do you?

Last Halloween I unveiled my Son of Satan custom, with his classic red cape and pentagram chest scar. But did you know that the Son of Satan has updated his look since then? No, he hasn't lost the pentagram - it costs a lot to have that much scar tissue removed.

To match the modern, bad-ass attitude he's been given over the years, Daimon Hellstrom got a more modern look. No more cape, no more pointy boots - just tight leather jeans and rock star hair. So go check out the modern Son of Satan, and decide for yourself if it's an improvement or if he's just a a Billy Idol rip off.

Quick shot of my "In-Progess Box." Soon a handful of those Minimates will be taking the shower to Primer-town.

This is other part of my sculpting binge this weekend - a certain alien dog-faced character who may or may not be a Green Lantern.

Quick shot from my sculpting binge this weekend. I was supposed to be working on a bunch of people who carry lanterns and like green (guess who!), but also started working on this guy. It takes a lot of Super Glue to attach tiny triangle to a Minimate body.

I've been quietly gearing up to work on a bunch of customs this summer. This is a picture of some random thoughts I had for future customs ( which may or may not have been made during meetings).

The first of my recent Charitymates customs - Sasu - is now live on eBay for your bidding pleasure. I want to encourage to bid on all the customs - proceeds from the auction go to supporting Direct Relief International - but bid responsibly. You need to pay your mortgage, but do you kids really need a college fund? Think about it...

Earlier this week I unveiled my latest Charitymates fighter Barrett Diablo, but did you know that he's not the only devil-faced Minimate that I was working on? Of course you didn't, I've never talked about it and you're certainly not a mind reader.

Anyway, I'm happy to present the inspiration for fighter Barrett Diablo - Barrett Diablo in a suit. The shocking story of the Diablo behind Diablo can now be read in its entirety. Go and learn the truth behind my devil-faced characters.

And I even have photos taken of him! I've even posted the photos online so you can see them. If you finish reading this sentence, you'll find out that my new fighter is named Barrett Diablo and you should go check him out.

After some work and a lot of delays, I'm happy to finally present my first fighter for this year's Charitymates - Sasu, the masked assassin. In Japanese, his name means "to stab", which is what he does. With knives. You should go check him out now.

Done. Unveiling this week. Tuesday, probably. Still need to come up with a name.

Wow, it's been a while since I updated. But I've gotten stuff done in the past two weeks. Honest! It's not like I went on vacation or something! My Charitymates fighter is just about ready! You'll see him soon! And look! You can see my other fighter (and his friends) laid out on my workbench. They'll be done soon, too! Really!

I even completed a trade for a spare Shocker! Would I do something like that if I was slacking? I think not!

Current look at the paint bench with my Charitymates fighter and his friends getting their paint on.

Look who made it to the primer box! He's now all primery and stuff.

A quick shot of my nearly-complete fighter. I thought he was ready to get a coat of primer, but then I noticed a few flaws, so no primer for him tonight.

My fighter guy may not have a name, and his mask may not be done, but at least he's got a fancy skirt-thing to wear now.

I can already tell that I'm going to keep tweaking with this guy's face until I put him in the mail and send him away. Maybe I should start working on something different.

Piece by piece my fighter Minimate gains his face as I keep sculpting his helmet.

After a little delay for a trip out of town, I've started the next part of my Charitymates custom - sculpting. I just started, but right now he looks a little too happy.

Have begun randomly hacking and cutting Minimate parts hoping that a design for my Charitymates custom will emerge. Not sure it's working yet. May need to get more parts and a bigger knife.

Superman doesn't have the great number of villains that Batman has, but he does have some good ones. Luthor, Brainiac, Mr. Mxyzptlk - none of them are posted today. But I do have a few good villain customs.

First up is the Silver Age General Zod, who looks and acts nothing like Terrance Stamp from Superman 2. So no beard and black leather, but if you you like guys in hats, then you're going to love this Zod.

I also present Metallo, the criminal brain in a robot body with a Kryptonite heart. But no hat, so advantage Zod. So go check them out.

The Charitymates event will be held again this year, taking Minimate customs and putting them on eBay to raise money for charity. This year the theme for the customs is tournament fighters.

Above are some designs for my fighter. I'm not happy with the design yet, I have no idea how much I'm going to have to sculpt from scratch, I have no idea for colors and no ideas for a name. Good thing I don't have to have him done until June 1st.

Quick shot of my paint easel modeling the latest in spring custom Minimate fashions.

I'm sure you've all been waiting patiently for me to post more Superman-related customs. So this week I present the last of my heroic Superman-related customs with the modern Superboy. He's a lot like the 90's Superboy, just not dressed like he's from the 90's. Go check him out, and come back next week when I present a few Superman villains.

Jeff Parker is a very good compic book writer. I was a big fan of his Agents of Atlas series, and I'm enjoying his Hulk comic, where he's actually making the Red Hulk an interesting character. But in a recent issue (Hulk #30, in fact), Jeff hit upon another of my great comic loves - the composite character. I love it when two different characters get smooshed together into one, like the Composite Superman or the Composite Hulk-Thing I made. So when Jeff introduced the Compound Hulk - part Red Hulk, part green Hulk - I knew that I was going to have to make him.

In honor of Jeff Parker, I present the Compound Hulk. Go check him out in his red and green glory.

Had a small setback on my Plastic Man project. You can see that the arm is broken off, but if you look close, you might be able to see where I had to fix breaks in the chest and other arm. I'm having real problems working with the custom, and I'm not even that far. I may have to abandon this one and rethink my approach.

Currently on the Minimate Multiverse forum, there's an "Alternate Universe" contest running, where you redesign an existing Minimate into a different character from an alternate dimension. So the character is similar to the original, but has startling and strange differences. For that contest, I proudly present my entry - Batduckman. Go check him out.

Extreme close-up of top-secret custom project.

Before you look at today's custom, you should ask yourself, "Have I read "All-Star Superman" by Grant Morrison?" If the answer is no, then you should go do that now. Not because you need to know the story to appreciate this week's Superman custom, but because it's a really good Superman story.

For those of you who have read "All-star Superman", I present one of the memorable supporting characters from the story - The Unknown Superman of 5400 A.D., a mysterious future decedent of Superman. Go check him out, won't you?

Quick shot of my sculpting project for this weekend - Plastic Man. Obviously he still needs a little work.

In the 1990's, there was no bigger event in Superman comics than the Death of Superman, where Superman was killed (spoiler!). A huge commercial success, the Death of Superman was followed by the Reign of the Supermen, a storyline where four new heroes were introduced, each claiming to be Superman. This was also a pretty popular storyline, and the four replacement Supermen are still around. In fact, DC Direct made Minimates of the Cyborg Superman and Steel, then quit making Minimates before they made the rest (Reason #12 on my "Why I'm Still Angry They Stopped Making DC Minimates" list). Today, I'm fixing that error.

Straight from the Reign of the Supermen storyline, this week's first custom is Superboy, the teenage clone of Superman, complete with 90's style haircut and extreme attitude. And next is the Eradicator, living Kryptonian computer turned Superman duplicate. Check them out as I stay here and get more bitter about the cancellation of the DC Direct Minimates.

See that, DC Direct? Now I can reenact the Reign of the Supermen any time I want. Why don't you go ahead and quit some more toylines, huh?

We continue our review of the various looks of Superman this week with a quick jump back to the 1990's - Recovery Suit Superman, from the Death of Superman / Return of Superman event. You know, the storyline where Superman died but then not really died and came back in a nifty black and silver suit with long hair? Go check out a custom of Superman in a nifty black and silver suit with long hair right now.

There's only one Man of Steel. But even an icon like Superman changes his clothes. And so for the next few weeks I'm going to post Superman customs of his various looks from over the years. And then I'll post some customs of his friends, and some of his enemies as well. But no birds or planes. They'll have to get their own event.

First up, a blast from Superman's past - the Superman Robot, a tribute to when Superman was smart enough to create his own fleet of Superman robots, complete with his own powers.

Our second Superman custom this week is Superman Prime from the DC One Million mini-series. The story had the modern Justice League visiting the year One Million and discovering that Superman is still alive and is also metallic gold. So stop looking the in sky for that bird and plane and go check them out.

There was a power outage at my job last week. So as I was sitting there for two hours waiting for the electricity to return, I sketched out some more designs for upcoming customs.

A new custom fresh from the primer box, waiting on my workbench for me to mix up the right shades of metallic blues.

Way back on May 12, 2009, I posted a custom of what a Red She-Hulk might look like. At the time, I predicted that Marvel (the company that brought you She-Hulk, Spider-Woman and Spider-Girl) would create a Red She-Hulk sooner or later to cash in our their new Red Hulk.

Marvel moved a lot quicker than I thought they would - in July of 2009 they announced the Red She-Hulk. And of course my custom wasn't even close. So at that point I vowed to make an accurate Red She-Hulk custom. Now, over a year later, I am proud to present the comic-accurate Red She-Hulk. Please, go forth and check her out.

On July 27, 2009, I made a post about how Marvel had introduced a Red She-Hulk, and said that I would be making a new Red She-Hulk custom. Well, she's just about done.

Quick shot of the workbench, where I'm finishing up a couple of customs that, when combined with some other customs, will make one super event. Stay tuned.