Not that Gronk; you're thinking of the one that's been playing Hamburglar the last couple years in whatever those armed forces/banking ads are; but 'gronk' feels like a pretty standard kaiju noise! Anyway, the clearance aisle once again provides, although I probably could've held out: our kaiju friend is from the most recent
Superman movie, and can be found online as
Superman vs. Kaiju Slime Battle or such. I found this guy for seven bucks, but somebody had stolen the Superman figure (which I already had!)
and the slime! I don't slime many figures here...although...no. No. Anyway, I probably could've got the full package for the same price at another Wal-Mart, but I couldn't leave this guy hanging.
I did, of course, get other figures from later clearance; but they'll have to wait!
Kurt's referring to the Kelly Thompson
Deadpool run, which I got in a very nice trade, that I don't have next to me this very second; so I don't recall if Pool was at the Monster Metropolis or another Monster Island or some other name. It'll still be a good place for the kaiju, like a farm upstate...wait a minute.
You know what….he REALLY does have Muppet eyes. Huh. So is he gonna back some day (maybe to repay Kurt’s kindness by saving him) or was this a one & done?
ReplyDeleteIt’s definitely disappointing to see people still stealing figures, or swapping out certain figures for ones they owned when they make returns. So disgusting.
Is the ads guy the football player? I haven’t seen those ads but the only Gronk I’ve even heard of is the football guy.
ReplyDeleteI don’t know if those are really Muppet-y eyes, at least to me. Seems more ‘I’m highly caffeinated or on some sort of amphetamines’, maybe a little worse than that.
Geez, there are a lot of Monster Islands in the Marvel Universe aren’t there? I guess considering they still use those 50’s sci-fi stories from time to time, they’d have to have somewhere to keep all the defeated ones that didn’t die.
I really liked the idea of Deadpool as King of a Monster Island in theory. Watching 'Pool alternately run from responsibility or try face it and have things go wrong is fun. But Thompson spent too many issues on Elsa Bloodstone's stuff, and then the last issue was a, ugh, King in Black tie-in. Wasted potential.
ReplyDeleteGood point. I imagine such a huge responsibility can get a bit much, especially when it threatens to interfere with his mercenary career.
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