{"id":1297,"date":"2010-10-02T19:34:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-03T02:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2011-02-01T20:11:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T03:11:50","slug":"minimate-spotlight-22-kree-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/minimate-spotlight-22-kree-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimate Spotlight #22 Kree Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #b18d58\">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><span style=\"color: #b18d58\">Every so often, a unique style of figure comes along that breaks the mold, so to speak. Each Saturday, <a href=\"http:\/\/donny-b.deviantart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Donny B<\/a> will be showcasing various offerings from Art Asylum&#8217;s take on the &#8216;block figure&#8217;, with a weekly spotlight on <em><strong>Minimates<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Spanning more than one thousand worlds, the advanced Kree Empire ruled most of the Galaxy for ages before finding their ultimate enemy in the form of the shape shifting Skrulls. Now evolutionally stagnant and\u00a0weakened by war, the future of the Kree race rests with their distant cousins the Inhumans&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Intriguing, no? Marvel&#8217;s <em>cosmic<\/em> universe is a world in and of itself, with a rich history that could easily stand on its own. But when the cosmic end of Marvel canon intersects with the earth-based characters, it adds a whole new layer of awesome&#8230; and the Kree are an integral part.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1945\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Minimates_2010_10-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Minimates_2010_10-02.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Minimates_2010_10-02-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #404040\"><strong>Behind the Image:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I experimented a bit with this one.\u00a0First, I cropped\u00a0out the Minimates themselves and set them to their own Photoshop layer.\u00a0Then\u00a0I\u00a0flushed the colors out and cranked the contrast up, so that it was as\u00a0crisp as\u00a0a\u00a0black-and-white photo. Once it was all flat greyscale, I went through and re-colored everything on the Minimates\u00a0themselves.\u00a0Finally, I layered\u00a04 different images in the background to give a retro-ish outer space feel to the image.\u00a0The overall effect is as close to Andy Warhol as I will ever get, lol<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">On Ebay<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22kree%22&amp;submit=Search&amp;LH_TitleDesc=1\" target=\"_blank\">Kree<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. Every so often, a unique style of figure comes along that breaks the mold, so to speak. Each Saturday, Donny B [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minimate-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2004,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions\/2004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}