Monday, December 16, 2024

Maybe if I scan this, I can read it without my glasses.

I typically don't have a lot of Christmas shopping: I don't have a huge family, and I give a lot of cash and gift cards and such. I did get a few toys for my grandkids, and then I had to make a Target run for Giant Sorry! Last year, my sister claimed--somewhat aggrievedly--that I used to beat her all the time at that, but she only lost all those games because she couldn't read. I...don't think that's entirely true, but that gets her a new game. It's pretty giant; I guess. Actually, now I want to see life-size Sorry! like human chess on the Prisoner; guys dressed as giant pawns taking runs at each other...
Anyway, I got a few of the World's Smallest blind-boxed figures: Masters of the Universe Orko and Teela, and Arcee from the Transformers. I don't love blind-boxes, but these came with wee little comics as well! The Masters are reprints that came with the figures back in the day, but of course the Transformers #5 was a Marvel book from 1985: I don't think I realized until after he passed, but that cover was from the great M.D. Bright.
Hmm, the paint looked better in hand than that picture; but admittedly my vision could be better. Still, I was glad to get Arcee: I like little Transformers, but they don't always get real deep into the roster. It took a long time for her to even get a figure, surprisingly; but I think early Arcee figures were "shellformers." She strongly resembles the 2020 War for Cybertron: Earthrise figure. 

Interior scan from "The Fastest Draw in the Universe!" Written by Steven Grant, pencils by Mike Vosburg, inks by Greg Brooks. Originally that came with the Rio Blast action figure, but World's Smallest includes it with Orko.

1 comment:

Mr. Morbid said...

A giant game of Sorry!? Who asked for that? The visually-impaired 🤔
Does that mean you have to make a bigger showing of how just un-sorry you are at winning the game?

Legit didn’t know Bright died 😩
2024 has taken a good bit of legendary talent this year, one of them being John Cassidy.