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We first covered the wonderful world of Dr Grordbort last year, with the advent of the Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory and an animated interview with artist Greg Broadmore.

"As a kid I was massively inspired and awed by the black-and-white serials on Sunday afternoon TV, in particular the 1930s Flash Gordon and the many sci-fi movies of that era," says Greg. "This book allowed me to pay homage to that world of science fiction and create something new at the same time. And it's full of guns, did I mention guns? Rayguns actually, the best type."

This year Dr Grordbort presents ....Victory - Scientific Adventure Violence for Young Men and Literate Women

The year's foremost journal of progressive armaments and weaponry! Behold the latest line of defense captured in action! The second book to emerge from the printshop at Grordbort Industries, Victory follows in the footsteps of the trans-galactically successful Dr Grordbort's Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory that was released last year.

Filled to the brim with first hand tales of exploration and progress from the great heroes of our time, picture strips of unimaginable escapades on the frontier, never-seen-before portraits of dazzling damsels and monstrous villains, and laudable accounts of man and robot pitted against our greatest enemy (the uncivilized world), Victory is an onslaught of action-packed scientific adventure in full-spectrum color - containing facts that every boy and literate girl should know.

 http://www.wetanz.com/victory

The Righteous Bison

We are also lucky enough to have been able to get our hands on a Righteous Bison Indivisible Particle Smasher from the Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory at the g33k show. MsBehaviour took a Righteous Bison out for testing in the wilds of Waitakere. Unfortunately our first blast at Lion Rock, Piha was dialled up a little high. We hope no-one notices...

and in more news....

Collectible insectoids

The Blue Sacked Pillock is the first in a planned series of fantastical insectoids from the Universe of Dr Grordbort's, hand made by the world class artists at Weta Workshop.  Each only available in an edition of 50 world wide. This is what Lord Cockswain's field notes say about this specimen:

Entomologically preserved specimen collected Venusian steppe sector VI, near Mount Kann-Udl. Mounted and framed. A1 condition.

Characteristica

The male Blue Sacked Pillock is a weedy little bugger whose fore-limbs (in fact its only limbs, not counting the "wings") are disproportionately elongated. The most obvious peculiarity is, however, the bulbous and rather sickly blue inflatable appendage that makes up the rear third of the animal.

http://www.wetanz.com/pillock

Blast a Buffoon

Also play... Blast a Buffoon, Charbroil a Chum or Fry your Friends at the Weta Website.

Upload a photo of a Buffoon (your boss, your mates...) wield a weapon of your choice and blast away!

http://www.blastabuffoon.com

Watch an animated interview with Dr Grordbort

I was lucky to interview Greg Broadmore from Weta Workshop last year, just before his 'Dr Grordbort's Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory' was published in January 2008 by Dark Horse Comics. Greg is the guy who designed the totally steam-punktastic Rayguns as seen in WIRED, made real by Weta Originals and lusted after by geeks worldwide. Featuring artwork from Greg Broadmore and animation by Chelfyn Baxter, this is the first interview in a series of three where Greg talks about The Rayguns.