After a pair of unpainted releases (SDCC and DesignerCon), Scott Tolleson is about to release the first painted Deadbeet with the Black Root Beet edition. Limited to just ten pieces, Black Root features a spiffy iridescent purple, black and red paint job by Nebulon 5 with a hidden window on the back of the figure which allows light to stream through the Beet’s red, haunting eyes. A collaborative drop on multiple levels, this edition also features a defiant ‘metal’ header complete with a dark poem created by Skinner:
Of the convulsive primordial instinct the earth has held secret from man; None is more inclined to writhe with specific ancient hatred of the oblivious pink mammals than organic matter that has sprung eagerly from wet black soil. The crawling beings, the roots, the vegetation and tall hoary beasts that walk unsuspected are all but weapons and silent planning assassins of the human element that so ignorantly sits waiting. Waiting for the unnatural evolutionary turns that were engineered to react to human kind and all its selfish design…natural evolution in the form of some unsuspecting twisted thing that rises menacingly from below the ground to take back what once was never meant to be lost. To take back the very earth itself. Behold, a black root. -Skinner
Black Root will be released on Black (Root) Friday, 11.23 @ 10 AM PST from Scott’s web shop for $120.
