They're ACTION Figures not Dolls!

Ever have people make fun of you because they call your collectible action figures "dolls"? I see it on sitcoms all the time. Some nerdy character on the show would get all in a huff about it when his sports loving friends would call his action figures "dolls".

But hey, they could be worth something in the future, right? You never know. I am thinking my items won't be worth anything until I'm in my Golden Years and Joe Quesada will be the age Stan Lee is right now. lol.

By that time, what will comic books NOW be called when they've reached the "Golden Aged"? Would they have to come up with new categories of old comics? Anyways, that's another post (funny how I think of NEW posts when typing current ones.)

Anyhow, back to action figures, I was wondering if you would all like to post a pic or just tell us what your current FAVORITE action figure is in your collection.

Are they the small ones that kids typically tear out of packages on their birthdays and Christmas to play with in their backyards, and burying them not to be found again, or, if found, slung into a window by a lawn mower blade, or even worse, mangled by a lawn mower blade. Thus driving up the value of said figure.

Or, do you like the larger life-like ones? Like the 12 to 18-inch action figures?

Some of my favorites are...and this seems to be the MOST recent one, the Army of Darkness S Mart Ash

He's standing on top of that roll-away card while he's unloading into the modern day deadite

Then there's the Cult Classic Army of Darkness 7-inch Ash

With the cape and all.

I have the old McFarland Toy Ash where he talks to you, it's motion sensitive, one time it scared the daylights out of me, apparently I had company over and they were looking at it, and had left it ON without me knowing about it. I came in one night, was unlocking the door, and when I walked into the dark living room...then I hear "Alright......who want's some....who's next??!!"

It was sounded like an electronic whisper that nearly scared the heck out of me! My hair stood up on the back of my neck LITERALLY. I thought someone was IN my house!! Thing of it was...it was dark..so I could not look around to see what was making the sound....so I couldn't look over and go , "Oh, ha ha, it was just Ash doing that."

Nope, I creeped as slowly as possible on over to the light...turned it on....looked in the direction of where the "voice" came from. Then what was SAID finally registered, the Army of Darkness quote....I go, "Ooooh..." and realized what it was! LOL

The Marvel Universe Conundrum

I figured I’d just start off 2009 not telling you about myself (in detail) about myself, but how I entered to explore the Marvel Universe and my puzzling experience with it. I’m not criticizing, but it can be an inconvenience if you’re not one to go out and “buy it all”!

Truthfully, I had just gotten back into comic books in the past couple of years. Prior to that it was only Jr. High was when I had an interest in Marvel Comics. The reason I had gotten back into them is that I wanted to expand my current “nerdiness” from just computer and video/computer gaming related activities to other ventures. Comic books had been my next venture along with a short bout with Heroclix and MTG (Magic the Gathering – still a complete newb at that game, lol)

Anyhow, I think the reason I stopped with the whole Marvel Universe world was because I kept getting tired of the variants of different comic book titles of the SAME character, ( I still find them trying to this very day, however had become more tolerant – perhaps the whole Marvel movies actually helped it along as well.).

In case you’re wondering what I mean, for example, titles such as (at least back in the 80’s when I gave up on collecting them) “The Sensational Spiderman”, “The Spectacular Spiderman”, “Peter Parker: Spiderman”, “The Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman”, etc, etc. I think at the time there were 3 running at the same time, and I think I stopped collecting it because it actually turned me off to making purchases of different variants of comics of the same character. It just didn’t make much sense to me. Guess I was too cheap as well. lol

This turned me off for a while, until I was able to tolerate it more in my adult life. I just collected what I thought was interesting to me personally. Whatever other variants I didn’t collect, I just used my imagination as to what is going on in those other variants. Are they just separate variants that are complete different stories kept apart from the other variants of the same character? Do they not follow the same timeline OR run parallel to each other?

For instance, I had been following the “Secret Invasion”, however this “Invasion” has also crept into the separate comics as well,”tie-ins” as you would call them. From what I’m gathering as I am reading them together, it seems you’re watching what’s going on from different perspectives. I read “The Punisher” for a short time during the “Death of Captain America” where the “Big News” on the Jumbo-tron of Cap’s death interrupted the Punisher’s story. I found that pretty interesting. Though you have to admit, there’d be “notes” in little squares at the bottoms of the corners with “*’s” indicating “As seen in Thor #15”, not sure that would have me running out to buy “Thor #15”, but it sheds some light on things.

I had never been that much of a fan to the point of collecting every tie-in, variant, and the like to get a closure of what’s going on with the Marvel Universe, but I do like it and what it has to offer. Plus if need me I can keep up with other dedicated fans should I ever have a question like, “Why did Wolverine kill that guy?” or “Where did Spiderman get his black costume?”.

Anyhow, hope this sheds some light about me in this New Year. Anyhow ttfn!

- Fin (Typical comic book ending)

E.T. – (a.k.a. – Evil Tony)