It’s Remembrance Day so I’d like to say a small thank you to the men and women who have given and who are still giving their lives making the world a safer place. Now on to the mash-up.

Crystar started out as a Marvel comic, which surprised me as I thought the comic was a tie-in to the toy line rather than the other way around. It does explain how Marvel can use the characters to this day when one of their toy-related comics, ROM, remains pretty much off-limits. Most of the characters had some kind of crystal/rock related names like Crystar, Ogeode and Moltar. Some of the figures and toys were cast in see-through plastic to make them look crystalline and I loved the look of them. While I really liked the toy line and I never had a single figure (I don’t think any of my friends did either). This is the toy line that taught me about sales tax as the one time I tried to buy one, I was turned away from the cash register (at K-Mart when that was a thing in Canada) because I hadn’t taken the sales tax into account and couldn’t afford it. Oh what a sad day that was.

Here’s Skitter as Crystar. Colouring him to look like he was made of crystal was tough and it didn’t quite turn out right. I think I was more successful with the sword and shield. I like the colour combinations though.

That’s all for this week. Next week’s feature will be golden! See you next Wednesday!