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We will BURY YOU! is written on the 4.5oz bottle of Noodler's Nikita ink, right above an emblem of the former Soviet Union and next to a picture of a gesticulating Nikita Khrushchev. While Nathan Tardiff's (the owner and creator of the Noodler brand) political statements might not be to everyone's...

The reason I bought Noodler's Gruene Cactus Eel was because I wanted a dark green ink that I could use for writing. It had to be dark enough and saturated enough that the words would show nicely on paper. In this regard, the ink performs. The "Eel" line of Noodler's inks refers to the fact that the...

I don't know what possessed me to want an orange ink but I decided that I needed a shade of orange in my ink collection. My requirements were rather simple: I wanted a very bright and saturated ink. In fact that is generally my mantra in regards to inks: they have to be punchy. I was naturally led...

For my first black ink I wanted an extremely dark shade of black so after much research I decided to go with Noodler's Heart of Darkness or HOD as it is also known. Though there are darker blacks, Heart of Darkness is black enough for me and considering it is a generally well-behaved ink, I...