Product-Review: SuckPax Series 2 from The Sucklord x SideKick Lab

SuckPax Series 2 sees the successful trading card series focusing on The Sucklord leading to a second release (we reviewed the first series HERE in end-December 2009), this time with quite a few new thrills found within the packs. Score your own via the Suckstore @ US$120 per full box,and US$25 for a 5-Pack.

Published and manufactured by SideKick Lab, here are some snaps and words of SUCKPAX Series 2, as I open and devour the series for my own dastardly pleasures!



One of the first thing which delighted me, was a small-portion sheet of uncut trading cards from the first series! I was such a sucker for uncut sheets, this was a real surprise an bonus, IMHO. This really set the happy tone of the unboxing from here-on in! LOL



Announcement for collection of 25 "Kickback" points to redeem a "Suck-DeCoder" to reveal "secret messages" hidden on SuckPax 2 cards. Now THIS got me wondering whether it is "3D-shades", so some other visual addition that would make this work. The kickback pointers are actually printed on the wax wrappers themselves (at the corner) so I might one day get me some answers :)



The trading cards themselves with a yellow boarder for all (much more attractive and kitschly-eye-catching than the previous blue-border tho) and frankly, better images on the card-fronts LOL. Am liking the graphical layout of the card-back too tho. And then I noticed the garbled-image area where, yes indeed it may well be a 3D-ish film on a card, that is the Suck-DeCoder, innit? Nice, if that be the case :)



I am actually pretty esthetic to report that my box yielded two complete hand-collated set! (Versus my previous series with zero sets!!!) with all 66 x numbered cards in both (sans chase cards, naturally). Yes, I is happy :)



And while I surmise the additional unedible foam slips might be meant for nostalgia (sans the flavor) and perhaps a nice touch to vintage collectors, they raised quite a WTF?-eyebrow when I first unpacked the wrappers (each pack had one). The inclusion of a of a "variant" color (Green) and even text-print actually did nothing for me (Sorry dudes). I know they are supposed to replicate the sensation of "bubblegum" from the days before (beyond my time actually *cough*) and are well appreciated nevertheless.



I really liked this series of additional cards, that were not numbered as part of the 66-piece, with an interesting candid look at The Sucklord's past (especially the titty-pawing one of youth LOL). I wonder how many is there to be collected?



The chase inserts got me laughing to no end! King Abnon's Pink Cabaret Trooper (with "Billy Roids" / 1 or 2 for "Gay Empire") was sreally well, but the "FUCK YOU" Signed Card was so utterly "Seriously?", it left me tearing from the tenacity of it all!



Additional chase inserts came in the form of a Sucklord collage and paint-over (darn slack tho, just saying') and a doodle on a vintage Star Wars Princess Leia card by Jason Atomic! Remember my Mr.T / A-Team vintage card from Series 1? Same difference :)



Admittedly, I am such a sucker for chase variant inserts (have been, always will be), and Series 2 has it in spades! Even more additions came in the form of a "felt" surface found on two toy-cards (Chinatown Warrior and Creature) and an additional Signed card from The Sucklord himself. Nice one.



And what I liked about the additional image prints on select back-of-cards, were that the image-puzzles needed 4 x cards to complete an image (unlike the previous huge image puzzle). And altho I could not manage to piece together ALL the pics, what I had partially put a smile to my face. (Yes, I am "easy" like that).

Perfect for fans caught in the cross-hairs of lowbrow art culture and the toy-realms, and as well closet trading-card-aficionados tired of the glossy mass-market cards on display these fine hobby-days. And as an added bonus, SideKick will also be releasing the second series of The Art Hustle Cards (promos and a sneakie-sneak below) so that there's a line-up of hobby cards you can collect and follow right there!