At MarvelousNews.com, DoubleDealer’s Deadpool is featured.  DoubleDealer is not only able to produce an incredibly comic-accurate figure, he does it while maintaining the incredible articulation of his base figures.  You can read a little about his process and check out the photos over at MarvelousNews.com by clicking here.

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Even though the CustomCon kicks off two months from now, the deadline for submitting your entries is Monday, September 1, 2008.  Submission guidelines and further details can be found at JoeAcevedo.com’s Custom Zone.

To find links to past CustomCon events and read about its creation, please visit our About CustomCon page.

One of the more creative lines is brought to you by Meatloaf of Darkness - Enemas of the Loaf - who finally accomplished the impossible task of putting squash, a donut, and some vengeful, vulgar vegemite into action figure form.  Not to be outdone, Apathy Ink stepped to the table with a very detailed (both the figure and the back story) entry called GombiZobPocalypse.

In a more classic vein, Marvel and DC are again very well represented.  Monkey Pops set the bar with 8 total waves of custom actions figures.  His Sword & Shield Productions created 5 waves of All-Star Squadron and 3 waves of X-Men Evolutions - featuring the original 5 X-Men in various team outfits.

My personal favorite is Raybot’s Ultimate X-Men line.  6 well detailed custom action figures join three existing ToyBiz creations to make up this 9 character team.

As usual, there’s just too much for me to sum up into one tiny blog entry.  Don’t take my word for it. Check it out for yourself, and sing the praises of the participants in The Fwoosh’s forums.

New Custom Tuesday - 7/8/8 • This entry features Jbuchoa’s 1980s styled Marvel Legends figure of Dazzler from the X-Men and links to 10 other custom action figures on display at The Fwoosh.

New Custom Tuesday - 6/24/8 • Customizer Calbretto has created a playset of sorts with his warehouse diorama.  The piece also features links to 11 other new custom action figures.

Tired of seeing nothing but The Fwoosh’s New Custom Tuesday here?  So are we, but it’s hard to keep track of all the galleries and websites that feature custom action figures.  We need your help.  Click Here to let us know what’s new, and we’ll get the word out.

The Fwoosh does a great job with CustomCon.  As always you can expect great work by a wide range of action figure customizers from around the globe.  You’ll see figures from experienced artisans and beginners, in styles you know and love, and there’s almost always something you didn’t expect to see.

Head on over to The Fwoosh’s CustomCon 20 page for all the details.

For those who aren’t already aware, over at The Fwoosh, they run a feature called “New Custom Tuesday”. It usually runs every Tuesday, but has lately been on a bi-weekly publishing schedule. This week, Weapon XII’s Atom Smasher (made from a Marvel Icons Wolverine) is the featured figure.

8 other figures made their debuts this past week, as well. Check them all out at The Fwoosh.

Over at the Raving Toy Maniac, CustomCon XIX was recently completed. The event was held Monday, April 7, 2008 through Friday, April 11, 2008 and, incredibly, featured over 80 pages full of custom action figures, and thanks to the success of Marvel Legends, the word ‘Legends’ appears in approximately 150% of the waves in this CustomCon. (Oddly, the success of DC Direct has not led to the word ‘Direct’ being included everywhere.)

Various incarnations of the Justice League dominated DC Comics’ contribution. Marvel was represented well across the board with entries for the Avengers, X-Men, a few lines dedicated to villains, a couple of Age of Apocalypse waves, and even a wave that contained 5(!) Deadpool figures.

It would be impossible to effectively capture the entire event in a blog like this, so I suggest you have a look for yourself. Click here to check out everything CustomCon XIX has to offer.

The next several months were spent customizing a blog solution to easily allow me to add new content in both a user friendly and a search engine friendly manner. The new site should be very easy to navigate, and new content should go up a couple times a week.

Frequent entries will include links to new custom action figures, a “Custom Spotlight” feature, and community news (custom action figure events, contests, etc.).

The site allows commenting on posts after you register, and I will soon have a contact page up and running for any other feedback. I’d love to read what you have to say about the changes.