CUSTOM BLACK WIDOW BLACK-OPS ACTION FIGURE TOY BY DSNG! [MARVEL LEGENDS SCALE]

 Another new custom featuring an alternate design of Black Widow as a black-ops soldier!

The base body was the Marvel Legends Retro Black Widow. And I had to sculpt her body and add the white armored pieces, with white-colored putty. Her hair was repainted and her handguns were custom-made, while she has a dagger on the left hip and an extra gun held on the right. She was hand-painted with Tamiya paints. The pics show her with Ironman, and with the Cobra Coil Cycle belonging to Baroness from the GIJoe Classified line. Thanks for looking!

   

  

  

UPDATE: THE BOONDOCKS CARTOON REBOOT HAS BEEN CANCELLED BY SONY ANIMATION!

 I just heard the news today.... They've been working on the Boondocks Adult Cartoon relaunch since 2019, I think. And the rebooted cartoon series was to run for 24 episodes, with the lead characters of Granddad, Huey and Riley moving to a new city in Maryland, where Uncle Ruckus rises to power and pretty much f##ks everything up with his neo-fascist ideologies [far-right dictatorship, in which people are not allowed to oppose the government's rule].

The guy who broke the news in a vlog / podcast was the talented black voice actor named Cedric Yarbrough [the voice of Tom Dubois and Stankmeaner. Plus he was one of the cops on the Comedy Central show Reno911]. 

And Cedric mentioned Sony [producers] as being behind the pulling of the plug, as opposed to mentioning HBOMax [distributors]... yet some news outlets are claiming it was HBOMax that dropped the forthcoming show... And there are no reports on if any episode was animated at all, while animation usually comes after the voice recording stage.

Anyway, Sony gave no reason for the cancellation, which was done quietly. My guess is, the new show by Aaron McGruder [the African American guy, who created the original comic strip] was too edgy for the Sony Animation executives to swallow, after they saw the scripts...  maybe it was even edgier than the original hit cartoon [circa 2005] that aired during the late-night slots on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, which had a lot of adult / crude humor - humor that made fun of African Americans and other diverse people. 

Anyone who knows Aaron will tell you that he's very outspoken, and he boldly used the N-word on CNN years ago, when talking about his show, without shame. He's a black guy, true to his roots. And Aaron never hides his opinions on political or social commentary, which he shoved to the forefront as part of the daily life issues that black people face, in his original cartoon series, back in 2005. In the original episodes of Season 1 and 2, Aaron would also make fun of people like Oprah, Tyler Perry, Bill Cosby, Martin Luther King jr., and certain rappers, etc. And some of that stuff was just freakin' hilarious. 

But a lot has happened socially since 2005. Social media has given a microphone to the wise and the foolish. And there are those critics who believe that Aaron's stuff was just too "politically right-winged".

What do I think about it? 

Frankly, I don't. I chose to let that man do his thing. It was his brand of comedy / social commentary. So if I liked the episode, then I'd watch and enjoy it. And If I didn't like the displayed themes, then I'd switch it off after the first 5 minutes. That's what cool adults do, instead of bitching online ;)

Honestly, there's a place for The Boondocks style of humor, in adult oriented cartoon shows... but if certain themes and other things shown in the forthcoming reboot were deemed as being "too sensitive" for this era, then Sony Animation probably didn't want to go there, even though the show was to air on HBO Max.

That's all for now, folks. You can watch the video with the news [about 2 minutes long] over HERE

HUEY AND JAZMINE BOONDOCKS - SUPER SAIYAN DRAGON BALL Z FAN ART!

I'm Still working on updating my portfolio with new artwork, showing inks and colors. This new pic features Huey Freeman and Jazmine Dubois, from the Boondocks Cartoon. I took some liberties with Jazmine's costume, while Huey's gear was more standard. They are presented as Super Saiyans, like Goku and Vegeta, from the classic Dragon Ball Z Cartoon series. The DBZ cartoon was a big influence on my DSNG SCi Fi Series, per the displaying of blazing super powers.

The rumor is that there will be a fifth season of the adult Boondocks cartoon, coming out this year 2022... [And Season 1 of that series debuted back in 2005, when the fancy Razor flip-phones and www.Myspace.com were still a thing! LOL!] 

According to the internet, the Boondocks cartoon was actually dubbed for Japan, with Japanese voice actors speaking in place of the American cast... but I don't know if they censored it, per some nude scenes and also the constant use of the N-word. 

Anyway, there are more cool pics of the Boondocks here in my blog, just search for them...

Edit [02/07/2022]: the Boondocks cartoon reboot was recently cancelled by Sony! Brief article over HERE!