{"id":1074,"date":"2010-08-21T18:27:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T01:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2011-02-01T20:02:54","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T03:02:54","slug":"minimate-spotlight-16-vault-guards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/minimate-spotlight-16-vault-guards\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimate Spotlight #16 Vault Guards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Action figures have long been a perfect compliment to comic books, since every kid (or kid at heart) has that natural desire to act out adventures with their favorite heroes off the drawn page. <\/span>Every so often, a unique style of figure comes along that breaks the mold, so to speak. Each Saturday, Donny B<\/a> will be showcasing various offerings from Art Asylum’s take on the ‘block figure’, with a weekly spotlight on Minimates<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

What do you do with all those super villains\u00a0after they\u00a0get arrested? In DC’s continuity, the most favored spot to place a captured baddie is Arkham Asylum. But in the Marvel Universe, it’s a place known as “The Vault”.
\nThanks to technology from Tony Stark’s Iron Man armor, the Guardsmen who\u00a0work security in The Vault are able to keep super powered villains in check even without special powers of their own.<\/p>\n

Art Asylum decided to utilize the “Vault Guards” as their army builder for Marvel’s 30th wave, giving collectors a chance to own yet another character (or rather, characters) who may never have been produced otherwise.<\/p>\n

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Behind the Image:<\/strong><\/p>\n

As I’ve stated in the past, I love playing around with lighting. I also love trying to use random objects as background filler. In this case, I arranged various parts from a computer that I had recently disassembled, and\u00a0highlighted everything with a few\u00a0yellow and blue lights.<\/p>\n

On Ebay<\/span>: The Vault<\/a> | Guardsman<\/a> | Arkham Asylum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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