Possibly the last deleted scene from "Timing"?

Hoo, boy. Way back in Timing, part 23; Deadpool had brought several dozen characters out of their proper places in time, by dicking around with the temporal distorter he got from MODOK. This was pretty much an excuse to throw a bunch of toys into a crowd scene, yeah. Hellraiser's Pinhead and Sulley from Monsters, Inc. were there, since I had initially planned a lot more interaction among the displaced refugees: there was going to be an Old Admiral Kirk vs. young Captain Kirk bit as well, but that one dragged on and I couldn't wrap it up. (I also needed McCoy there for one of the jokes, where the Admiral tries to get the doctor to give his younger self a vasectomy right on the spot.)

I bagged those ideas, justifying the cut by figuring that they would kill any forward momentum the narrative had, which wasn't a helluva lot in the first place. Timing had a set ending vaguely in mind when I started, but a lot of those figures were bought after I started, so it definitely wasn't planned out. But Sulley and Pinhead, I wanted them together since I figured they'd have tons in common! Both's raison d'etre is to cause great fear (meaning their Sinestro Corps t-shirts and probably in the mail), both live in shadowy realms connected to ours by mysterious artifacts (the Lament Configuration is a little more dramatic than the bedroom closet, unless you're four), um...both are blue. Ish.

James P. Sullivan, as his little voice chip introduces himself, was initially the Oldest's figure, back when he was an only child. It has long since passed on to the Youngest, who has a pretty good haul of Pixar figures, now that I think about it. (Are there Up figures? Seems unlikely, but...) I know I had to change Sulley's batteries when the Youngest was younger, and seriously bent out of shape when the figure stopped talking.

I was working in a mall when NECA's Pinhead came out--check out Shocka's review from OAFE.net here! I seem to recall there were six figures in the case, the full wave; and get them all and you could make your own Lament Configuration ("evil puzzley box" for non-fans) out of their bases. I bought Pinhead straightaway, which left the rest of the Cenobites lingering on the racks. I bought CD much, much later, marked down to like $2.50. Good idea on the box-building, bad idea on not packing Pinhead maybe a bit heavier.

And this one's way late posting, too: I know full well July has thirty-one days, since my birthday's August 1! Still on vacation, though, so I hope you're having fun as well!
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"A surprisingly topical deleted scene from Timing."

Man, there's like the barest of bare-bones articulation on that McFarlane Terminator Sarah Connors; but it is a good-looking figure.

Anyway, while I was enjoying The Sarah Connors Chronicles (which has indeed been cancelled since I did this), I'm less enthused for Terminator: Salvation, which, hey! Opens today. Can't put my finger on why exactly. I'll probably see it at the cheapo theatre, I suppose. I also may need to put a little legwork into finding replacement copies of Robocop vs. Terminator, too.

By the way, although you can just see the top of one of the little robots that came with her, I knocked over Major Motoko from Ghost in the Shell, then forgot to put her back for this picture. I forget what the little robots were called, and I loved the first series and movie; but fell off it.

And just now, days after setting that up: I wish I could've found a gorilla's head mask for Bender to wear there...Actually, I did this a fair bit ago, and just last weekend finally got a Wall-E figure for the Youngest, which he loves. Would've been nice to sneak him in there, but no dice.

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Timing, complete!

It's behind the "Read More!" since it's long. A helluva lot longer than I thought it was going to be when I started it, that's for sure. Eighty-six pages, although some of those are splash panels, which barely count. But some other pages are oddly sized, like four or eight panels instead of the standard six-panel template. (I didn't reprint the set-up pages this time, or the Christmas one-off with Nightcrawler and Deadpool, just the Timing proper strips.)

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I had the ending in mind pretty early on, but since that stupid time distorter could do just about anything, there was a lot of room to meander around, and it was no problem at all to cram in whatever figures I felt like using. 'Cause, y'know, we're all about gritty realism here...

What didn't I get to do? I think I was working on a joke where young Captain Kirk meets old Admiral Kirk, and they both yell at each for a bit: young Kirk can't believe he got so out of shape, and old Kirk tries to get McCoy to give young Kirk a vasectomy right there on the spot. Couldn't quite get it to work, and it would've further derailed any sort of "narrative" there. There was a Sarah Connors joke that I still haven't gotten around to. If they had been out at the time, I would've used the DCUC Blue Beetle and Booster Gold, which may or may not have led to more of a fight scene for them. (I still don't have the new Booster, but they may show up in a "deleted" scene.) I probably should've had Rachel Summers make a return appearance at some point, since checking up on her brother Cable was pretty much the start of the plot. And I definitely should've set up tiny Ultron's return, rather than just shoehorning him in.

Still, I have way too much fun doing these. I mentioned before, Green Lantern strip next week, and a Dr. Strange/Dr. Doom one the week after. I'm having a lot of fun with the Strange/Doom banter, so that might go for a week or two past that.

The most tedious part of doing these strips? Filling in Deadpool's yellow word balloons and captions, since I have to use the fill button in paint, then fill in a lot of the little spots. (You may notice, they aren't terribly uniform if you get up close!) Pages where anyone else talks are like a vacation...

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