Summer is upon us, and the last watch in the Vannen CMYK series is finally here! A color of warmth and happiness, Yellow is the perfect accessory for a trip to the beach, an outdoor festival, or a bright glimpse at fun times to come. Yellow is the cheerful color of our lighthearted days ahead; evocative of energy, freshness, and a universal symbol for getting someone's attention. The Vannen CMYK series...

  Monster Worship announces the coming of Jeff Lamm's "Mecha Greasebat"! This huge, 9" tall vinyl figure features a sculpt by Monster5, and seven points of articulation. Due sometime this month, the first version will be unpainted black. 

This new trailer for Man of Steel is just a non-stop Kryptonian ass-kicking festival, and we love it. A pretty huge left-turn from the dark, brooding trailers we've been seeing up to this point.  The Man of Steel is set for a June 14, 2013 release date, and is directed by Zack Snyder and stars Henry Cavill as Superman / Clark Kent and Amy Adams as Lois Lane. 

  Check out this inside look at Guillermo del Toro's giant robots vs. giant monsters sci-fi epic, Pacific Rim.  Pacific Rim is scheduled to be released July 12, and stars Charlie Hunnam, Ron Pearlman, Idris Elba, Burn Gorman, and Charlie Day. Directed by Guillermo del Toro.

Chicago's best festival; Riot Fest announced its 2013 lineup and from what we see here, it looks like Fall Out Boy, Blink-182 and a mystery band are headlining the three-day long day festival in September. So who might this mystery band be? Well, after doing a little digging and putting together a few clues, we believe that THE SEX PISTOLS will fill that mystery slot and headline Riot Fest. So,...

  A new trailer for Pacific Rim has been released, and if you weren't already sold on the giant monsters vs. giant robots movie from Guillermo del Toro, you will be. Even more footage has been released and the battle scenes look incredible.  Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth) is directing Pacific Rim from a script by Travis Beacham. The film follows a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko...

The Super7 12th Anniversary Lucky Bags are coming soon! Each bag contains 9 vinyl figures, including 4 brand-new sculpts, 2 D.O.A. Figures, unpainted test-shots, hand-painted customs and more! Lucky Bags are $300 each. Available Saturday May 25th, 7pm PST at the Super7 store, and online Sunday, May 26th, 11am PST at http://www.super7store.com.

Everyone's favorite odd little plush guys, Ugly Dolls, have teamed up with DC Comics to bring you some special edition plush goodness! Pretty Ugly, LLC. and Warner Bros. Consumer Products, on behalf of DC Entertainment, announced today that they have entered into a co-branded collaboration with DC Comics Super Heroes and UGLYDOLL characters. GUND, a division of Enesco, will produce a diverse range of colorful and collectible Super Hero plush...

  We've finally got a full-length trailer for the upcoming Marvel TV series, "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." and it looks solid. Hard to go wrong with Agent Coulson (SON OF COUL!), really, but the rest of the cast looks good and we really like the idea of the TV series bridging some of the gaps in story between movies.  Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was developed by Joss Whedon, based on the...

Canadian astronaut Cmdr. Chris Hadfield just pulled off what is probably the most awesome thing ever....a cover of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" filmed and recorded....in space.  Somewhere, David Bowie just smiled. Then his face folded into time and a thousand doves from a thousand dimensions flew out of the white light coming from his eyes. BECAUSE HE'S MAGICAL. Bowie, man.  Hearing him sing "I'm floating in a most peculiar way"...

Stranger Factory has three new exhibits opening in June from Bob Dob, Valency Genis, and Tim Lee.   Bob Dob presents “Ride“, a new body of work highlighting his trademark character style. Dob’s work elaborates on all the angst and impishness of youth, filtered through California punk-rock culture.  Valency Genis‘ new exhibit, “Fauna“, brings us back to her whimsical and bizarre taxidermy of the animals we can only imagine. Her creations...

Circus Posterus has just launched a pre-order for all four colorways of their new "Oliver" and "Mortimer the Mortician" vinyl figures, produced by Artoyz Originals.  Oliver is designed by Kathie Olivas while Mortimer the Mortician is designed by Brandt Peters. Each figure is approximately 6.25" tall and comes with accessories...Oliver with a pair of Scavenger birds and Mortimer with straight razors and embalming fluid.  Colorways are limited to 200 pieces...

Join SHAG this Saturday, May 18th, from 7:00pm until 9:30pm at SHAG: The Store's 
3rd Anniversary Party and Official Print Release for "Daiquiris & Deviled Eggs". 
This signed & numbered 11-color serigraph will be offered at an undisclosed special price at the store that evening. Enjoy complimentary cocktails (including a special daiquiri) and deviled eggs while enjoying the store and other special offers just for the night. They'll have plenty...

  Daft Punk's highly (to put it mildly) anticipated new album, Random Access Memories, is out in one week via Columbia but you can listen to the full album now, streaming over on iTunes. (Go to Daft Punk's artist page on iTunes to hear it.) And get excited for Pitchfork's Cover Story on Daft Punk, coming tomorrow and featuring imagery by famed director/photographer Nabil. 

Here it is...the line up for FYF Fest! August 24th: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, FLAG (Keith, Chuck, Dez, Billy & Stephen Performing the songs of Black Flag), Deerhunter, Devendra Banhart, The Breeders (Performing Last Splash), Toro Y Moi, Death Grips, Roky Erickson, STRFKR, Thee Oh Sees, Simian Mobile Disco B2B Bicep, Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires, Ty Segall, Dan Deacon, Nosaj Thing, Title Fight, Delorean, Omar Souleyman,...

  The Dillinger Escape Plan are streaming their new studio album, One Of Us Is The Killer, in its entirety right now on Pitchfork. It's officially out this Tuesday, May 14 on Sumerian Records/Party Smasher Inc. The band are headlining the Summer Slaughter tour this summer. Click through to listen. 

  Street artist and bizarre Banksy tribute/clone, HANKSY, is having his first West Coast show at Gallery 1988 with an opening reception on May 24th from 7 - 10 PM. The exhibit runs through June 15th, 2013, and will feature both paintings and prints by the artist. 

The reformed Black Flag have released a second new single on iTunes, titled "The Chase". It's definitely an improvement over the first "new Black Flag" song that was released recently, but it's weird seeing Greg Ginn and Co. struggle to fill their own shoes.  Tour Dates: 05/14/13  Luxembourg Rockhal Club Luxembourg 05/15/13  Milan Alcatraz Italy 05/16/13  Zurich Dynamo Switzerland 05/17/13  Rome The Orion Italy 05/18/13  Hünxe RUHRPOTT RODEO Germany 05/20/13  Wien Arena...

  San Francisco neo-kaiju and general nerdy design producers Super 7 are featured on a new episode of the Lego Blocumentary web series, and we even get a sneak peek at an upcoming collaboration between Lego and Super 7. Around 2:36 we get a look at some mockups of Lego figures with Super 7 character heads...neat stuff!

AMC released on Friday a First Look photo from The Walking Dead Season 4, featuring Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes back to work on the set in Atlanta, GA. Season 4 of The Walking Dead returns to AMC in October of this year. The cast and crew began production on May 6. Vannen Watches still has a handful of Walking Dead Walkers 2.0 watches left...get yours here. 

The moment of Bluth is upon us as George Sr., Lucille, Michael, George Michael, Tobias, Lindsay, Maeby, G.O.B., and Buster are back for 15 brand new episodes of Arrested Development! All new episodes, May 26, only on Netflix.  It's pretty amazing that this is really happening. We all thought we'd never see those again, and now we will. Thank you, internet!

  Marvel dropped the first teaser for the upcoming TV series "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." and it looks pretty good so far. From the video description: "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was developed by Joss Whedon, based on the Marvel Comics organization S.H.I.E.L.D. It will be produced by Marvel Television, air on the ABC network, and will be set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, sharing continuity with the films in that franchise....

The KAWS "Passing Through" Companion vinyl figure in black will be available tomorrow from KAWSONE.com at Noon, EST. Figures will be available for $260 each, and limited to one per customer. 

Huck Gee has teamed up with Nom Games to develop "Battle Tails", a mobile game that brings his Gold Life characters to life for the first time.  Battle Tails is a free-to-play side-scrolling Tower Defense game which focuses on three major components for gameplay; defensive structures, offensive units, and your Hero.  Each of these have their own unique characteristics for changing the tide of battle, and have distinct advantages and disadvantages against the other units...

Toy Art Gallery is presenting Mark Ryden’s YHWH Group Custom Show. Pop-surrealist godfather Mark Ryden’s first and only vinyl toy took three years of meticulous work to create, and with Ryden’s blessing TAG has assembled an extremely talented pool of artists to lend their vision and skill to this amazing vinyl toy. ‘YHWH is the unpronounceable name of god. My YHWH represents the indefinable nature of the divine and its...

David Bowie's second video is for the title track from his current album, "The Next Day", and it's got pretty much everything you could want...Bowie, pasties, swingers dressed as religious iconography, Gary Oldman dressed as a priest and punching people, and Marion Cotillard with stigmata.  As you can imagine, it's completely awesome and The Catholic League hates it. Enjoy!

Edgar Wright's "The World's End" is coming, and the first UK teaser trailer looks amazing! Years after attempting and failing to complete a pub crawl by reaching a bar called "The World's End," a group of five guys (Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Constantine, Martin Freeman and Eddie Marsan) try again, but with some pretty dangerous results. At least judging by those aforementioned alien-like humans. The trailer is brisk and...

The KAWS "Passing Through" Companion vinyl figure in grey will be available tomorrow from KAWSONE.com at Noon, EST. Figures will be available for $260 each, and limited to one per customer. 

  The first trailer for Ender's Game has been released and it's....well, we're honestly not sure what to make of it. The tone is very typically "ooh, scary, alien invasion" but then they don't show the buggers which kind of deflates that approach and make the whole thing feel very needlessly melodramatic. The cast looks great, though, so hopefully the actual film has more bite than this first teaser. Ender's...

Rolling Stone posted a great Q&A with Dennis Lyxzen, the singer for Refused.  Excerpt is below....click through for the full interview.  A year ago, you reunited with Refused at Coachella and then kept going. To get back together and be the most anticipated band of the festival, it was a good year. It was rewarding and we had a great time together. We put out that record [The Shape of...

  Warner Bros has released a new 0:30 TV spot and poster for the upcoming "Man Of Steel" movie. Looking good! The Man of Steel is set for a June 14, 2013 release date, and is directed by Zack Snyder and stars Henry Cavill as Superman / Clark Kent and Amy Adams as Lois Lane. 

In our first look at Season 4 of AMC's The Walking Dead, we get to see executive producer Greg Nicotero directing....zombie school.  This is a great behind-the-scenes peek at the show, and pretty funny.  The Walking Dead Season 4 has started production now, and the show will return in October. 

  The main poster for Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim has been released, and it looks amazing. The Jaegers are absolutely perfect! Don't forget to check out the con footage trailer we posted, too.  Pacific Rim is scheduled to be released July 12, and stars Charlie Hunnam, Ron Pearlman, Idris Elba, Burn Gorman, and Charlie Day. 

The new KAWS exhibit opens tomorrow at the Kaikai Kiki Gallery in Tokyo, and ToysREvil has some sneak peeks of art in thie show. Looks amazing, as we always expect from KAWS. Click through for more photos of KAWS' new work.  Kaikai Kiki Gallery  Motoazabu, Tokyo, Japan  Motoazabu Crest Bldg. B1F 2-3-30  Motoazabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0046  Phone: 03-6823-6038  Gallery Hours : 11:00 – 19:00  Gallery Closed : Sunday, Monday, Public...

  The Draft (featuring members of Hot Water Music, sans Chuck Ragan) have announced their first tour in nearly five years. Dates span two weeks in July and cover parts of the U.S. east coast and midwest. You can view them, below:  "We just decided, 'why not?'  It's a short, fun run and we like playing music together," said bassist Jason Black. 7/17 - Washington, DC @ The Rock & Roll Hotel...

From May 1st until May 15th that the Designer Toy Awards will be accepting open nominations in a variety of categories from both professionals and fans alike.  The 2013 Awards have made some changes, listed below from their website.  The New Designer Toy Awards Structure  First off, we're making the eligibility period for nominees completely year based: if it came out in 2012, then it can be nominated for these...

  Neutral Milk Hotel are reuniting for their first live shows since 1999, with a handful of dates announced and a note that promises "more to come." So far, they are set to play two shows at Athens, Georgia's 40 Watt Club on October 22nd and 23rd, as well as a gig on the 25th at Asheville, North Carolina's Thomas Wolfe Auditorium. On November 28th and December 1st, they'll play...

  Arrested Development has unveiled the first clip from its long-awaited fourth season, and it's a weird one (of course). The Bluths' apartment building won't allow smoking, and Lucille's ankle bracelet prevents her from heading to the balcony to blow the smoke outside. Luckily for her, Buster is docile enough to help: she exhales smoke into his mouth, and he trots over to the door to blow it into the great...

We were skeptical when we heard that Funko was releasing a line of plush based on The Walking Dead but...no joke, they're kinda awesome! Available July 1st, these Walking Dead plushies are 7" tall. No word on retail price yet, but expect them to be around $15 - $20 each. 

Guillermo del Toro gives us some love by releasing the Pacific Rim footage that was originally intended to be an exclusive for WonderCon. We get more Kaiju, more Jaeger, more crazy fight sequences...this movie is going to be amazing.  Pacific Rim is scheduled to be released July 11, 2013, and stars Charlie Hunnam, Ron Pearlman, Idris Elba, Burn Gorman, and Charlie Day. 

  Ashley Brook from WOSU Public Media put together a video interview for Columbus-based ArtZine with the charming and talented Amanda Louise Spayd about her Dust Bunnies, handmade fine art dolls the she has exhibited in shows from Ohio to Japan. Her Dust Bunnies were recently featured in "The Maker", an stop-motion animated short film that's won awards at film festivals all over the world.

Chet Zar and Doktor A have a dual show opening soon at Stranger Factory, and the Circus Posterus forum members put together some interview questions for them about their collaboration.  CP: How did your collaboration come about? When did you first find out about each other’s work and how did you meet? DOKTOR A: I can’t actually recall where I first heard about Chet and his work. I think it was...

McBess and Kidrobot have teamed up to release "Le Dead Plastique", a 20-inch Dunny available May 9 at Kidrobot stores, kidrobot.com, and select retailers. Limited to 300 pieces worldwide, each 20-inch Dunny retails for $399.99. The 3" is sold separately, and will be $14.95 each. 

  Greg "Craola" Simkins is having a special book release party at Merry Karnowsky Gallery on Saturday, May 4th. He will be releasing a special Gold edition of his new book, "The Outside" as well as a limited edition gicleé print of his painting "Luna".  The Gold Edition book package is $120, and includes: Signed and numbered Gold edition of "The Outside" (9.75" x 12.25", 280 pages, hardcover) Limited Edition...

  In this Regal Cinemas exclusive clip from the upcoming JJ Abrams film, Star Trek: Into Darkness, we get the answer to the age-old question: What would Spock do? Star Trek: Into Darkness is due May 16th, is directed by JJ Abrams, and stars Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, and Benedict Cumberbatch.

Partisan by Shepard Fairey x Gary Baseman History comes alive in Partisan, a dynamic collaboration between Shepard Fairey and Gary Baseman, featuring Ben Baseman – a freedom fighter who fought in the woods of Poland for over three years during World War II. Ben Baseman survived the mass murders that took place in 1941-42 in cities across Eastern Europe, including his hometown of Berezne. After losing his parents and many...