Porcelain Royal Tea from Lunartik

    I'm not much of a tea dude when it comes to choosing a beverage.  I have orange juice in the morning, usually a soda with lunch, a ton of water during the day, and another soda with dinner.  The water is to keep any kidney stones I manufacture moving along the pipeline before they get too big and are like a husky bro on a dry water slide.  I like the taste of soda, which explains the pudgier aspects of my 200 lb physique.  I'm only slightly addicted to the caffeine, which always reminds me if I haven't had any that day by dropping an invisible guillotine through the right side of my skull.  My relationship with Dr. Pepper is quite abusive.

    I've missed seeing these little guys from Lunartik because they remind me of the robots from the movie Batteries Not Included.  You want to feel all warm and fuzzy inside without having to catch a stomach virus?  Go watch that film.  Lunartik is doing something a little different this time in that instead of the tried and true plastic medium he usually works with, these 8 inch teas are made of porcelain, a material so fancy that even the name sounds regal.  

    This piece is limited to only 50 world wide but here's the catch: he's doing a preorder for them to gather enough interest before sending them to production.  You want one for yourself?  Just email matt@lunartik.com .  He's already filled half the slots, so get to emailing if you want one.  

T-1 (Tea Minus One) from DMS

    I don't ever remember wanting to go to space as a kid.  I wanted to go to Egypt and see the pyramids, but space didn't do it for me.  I guess if I could be guaranteed some Star Wars stuff would go down I' be interested, but if I'm just stuck eating out of tubes and peeing into a vacuum cleaner I'm not really interested.  Zero gravity sounds pretty cool for a while, like until you have to use the bathroom at which point I imagine it gets real old real fast.  Could you picture eating a bad space burrito and the vacuum toilet breaks?  You'll be begging for sweet death to come and end it all.  

    Check out this Lunartik Cup of Tea all set for launch.  He's not worried about space toilets at all.  This custom figure was created by DMS and 15 of you lucky Earth dwellers will be able to own one when they go on sale tomorrow at 11pm BST.  They're only $79.99 plus shipping and each one will be made to order.  Pick one up for yourself at 

"Witches Brew" from Lunartik On Sale Now

    I'm not very adventurous when it comes to food.  Mostly it has to do with the fact that my digestive system is about as stable as an abandoned warehouse.  But I'm getting better and trying new places that my wife and I happen upon in our travels.  So we stopped at this place that shall remain nameless and decided that since the weather was nice we would eat on their patio.  The waitress brings us our drinks and as I go to take a sip I notice an ant floating in it.  No big deal, right?  So I scoop out his little insect carcass and flick it to the ground so his family can prepare his burial.  Or eat him, I dunno, I'm not really up to date on their funeral customs.  Then I return to my delicious beverage to find another dead ant.  And another.  And I notice that they are all through my soda.  The waitress notices my carcass retrieval efforts and quickly offers to get me another drink.  At this point I'm not sure how the little buggers all got in there so fast, but I ask that we move inside to hopefully stop their invasion.  Then I overhear the bartender complaining about how nobody had flushed the soda line that morning and they were filled with ants.  I was the unlucky first customer who got a bit of protein with my Coke.  Now here's where it gets weird:  we stayed and ate. I think I may be going completely mental, because a drink full of dead bugs is reason enough to lose ones appetite, but they gave me another one and we ate and the food was really good.  But the thing that really got me pissed was that they didn't comp us the drinks. It would have been the nice thing to do, a way to say "sorry for almost making you drink a cup of bugs." That, my friends, was the act that will prevent me from eating there again.  

    So I've had some experience drinking shady beverages, even ones filled with little dead bodies.  Lunartik made 213 of these "Witches Brew" Cups of Tea for Halloween and you can own one right now for £20.00 by visiting http://www.lunartik.com/.

DKE Exclusives for San Diego Comic Con

    DKE always has a butt ton of exclusives when they hit up San Diego Comic Con.  They've been releasing news everyday about them, but sometimes it's just hard for me to keep up.  So I've gathered everything together that I know so far into one handy post for you.  Now begin drooling over all the things you're gonna have to have.

    I'm starting things off big with this Kozik/Scott Wilkowski collaboration.  I'm not sure what these Labbits are infected with.  Maybe it's shingles.  You know, if you've had chicken pox the shingles virus is already inside you, lying dormant, waiting for the right time to make you miserable.  My father in law had it, and while he didn't become transparent and his skeleton didn't morph into an alien-like structure, he said it sucked pretty bad.  So maybe these don't have shingles, but whatever they're afflicted with they're cool and I want them both.  There are 75 of each color available and they will be $150 each.  You think that's expensive?  It's not, because those suckers can't be easy to make.  

    Maybe your collection is less sinister and more subtle.  That's cool, because they have something for you too.  This is a Ji Ja, and while I don't know what that means my keen detective skills tell me it is a bird-like creature ready to come home with you.  Mr. Clement hand painted 50 of these and they will see for $45.  

    Crapzombies!  What a great name.  And what a great deal.  You get 2 figures and a signed and numbered print for $25.  Van Beater knows about value like no one else.  That will leave you with enough money to buy a $20 hot dog and $15 soda so you don't starve to death.  FYI:  if you die at Comic Con everyone will think you're just doing a Walking Dead cosplay and it will take awhile before they figure things out.  Don't die at Comic Con.  

    I like tea.  Sometimes I get those bottles of Nestea from the vending machines and I get about half way through it thinking how healthy I'm being and then all of a sudden I just stop liking it.  I've never drank a full one.  They kinda taste like Pepsi at first and then I think I reach the part that's good for me and my taste buds revolt.  I've spent years developing my healthy food defense system and somewhere along the way I've forgotten how to shut it off.  But I like this guy.  Matt Jones made 100 of these guys chilling in their tea cups and you can have one for $22.  Again, that's a pretty good deal.  

Find these and more at DKE's booth #5045.