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Christian Baluyot super glued an action figure to his middle finger. “I was so scared,” he says. “I stared at it for a while.”

Baluyot thought he might have to go to the hospital to have doctors yank it off. He could bring his then four-year-old son, Christopher, and hide some shame by saying it was a result of their shenanigans.

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The truth of the matter was a bit different. Baluyot was assembling the pieces of a nearly completed custom action figure of X-Men villain Magneto when super glue gushed from the seams of the cape and within seconds, the toy was stuck to his finger.

Yes, Baluyot, a 29-year-old from Toronto, plays with action figures. But it’s not all fun and games. He takes his craft seriously, plastic stuck to a digit was just one more obstacle to overcome on his road to becoming the Articulated Comic Book Art world champion of 2014.