Swords and Spaceships

Got a quiet minute here on Christmas Day. Started browsing eBay and looked up the toys I used to get back in the day. More GI Joe and Masters of the Universe toys than you could shake a fucking stick at. I thought about picking some up, but I pretty much purchased most of them already. I guess I just got a little nostalgic, since the stuff I get for Christmas now can't possibly compare to the awesome stuff I got as a kid.

I've been wanting to read the original Eastman & Laird TMNT comic series for years. IDW started reprinting it recently. I think they have the whole run out in oversized hardcovers, but I didn't care for that format or the price. Then some sensibly-priced collections started appearing, but they contained random issues, and certainly not in order. Then came this- colored versions of the original issues, one at a time. I elected to go this route. I'm really ambivalent toward b&w comics, and even though the color in these is a little wonky in places, it seems the best way for me to go. Hopefully IDW gets all the original issues out- I'd hate to not see it finished.

I've purchased a lot of MOTUC figures in the last year. My love for this line never diminished, though I missed out on a bunch due to not subscribing or being late to the day-of sales. However, this did not deter me from August's sale, which featured this all-new character, Sir Laser-Lot. Something I always thought was missing from the original MOTU line was a dude in shining armor. Certain design elements of figures like Man-At-Arms or Extendar suggest knightly inspiration, but there was never a character in the toy line like this. Nor was there a dragon dude, something that seems so odd for a fantasy-based toy line, and is something MOTUC has rectified this year. SLL was designed by Geoff Johns, apparently for the ill-fated design contest in the late 1980s that Fearless Photog comes from. It didn't win back then, but since it's here now, and I dig it. The weapons are really neat. I always, always thought the lightsaber was the coolest fictional weapon ever c...

I had toyed with the idea of deleting this blog, but I got too up my own butt about it after rereading some of the older posts. (I'm vain, yes, but I do miss the passion I had for this stuff back then.) So I'll try to generate some new content. I really missed not updating this blog, so I'll give it a try again.