I have a love and hate relationship with Killstar. I’ll only buy their items when they are on sale and don’t have ‘witchy’ crap thrown up all over them. I’m saying this so that people don’t think I have some sort of vendetta against the brand. Oh, and I don’t collect their plushies. So, when I saw what this new plushie is named Speedball I had to do a double-take. Seriously, fucking Speedball? Naming a plushie after a deadly cocaine and heroin combination has got to be the most overtly edgy crap that they have ever done.

Why is this bothering me? I don’t know, maybe the fact that they think the term ‘speedball’ is an appropriate name to market a plushie? Should it come with a needle that you can attach to its arm with velcro? Even better, should puke be coming out of its mouth when you squeeze on it? I mean, if you are going to name something Speedball you ought to own it and make it more realistic. It should at least have needle marks all over it.

The edge, it bleeds.