Joe Adventure Team Set not Completely Wack
Something can be (kinda) cool while still being something I’d never buy (yet completely in my niche of interest). I should get a couple of facts out there to clarify my stance thoughts. First, I’d never buy any G.I. Joe related figure that isn’t ARAH and O-ring. Second, it’s not a platform, – even if (seems to be to some in the Joe collecting/enthusiast community – I don’t visit boards or make posts about the lack of relevance of the newer molds because of the very fact that I don’t care about said molds. If I don’t have time to enjoy them, I certainly don’t have the time to belittle them or the people who enjoy them.
Spiff Six Shot – new personal blog
Just wanted to give a heads up that I started a new personal blog called Spiff Six Shot (S6S). I wanted to keep Vogue Immunity collecting focused, so S6S is where everything that’s not here, at BSCkids, or BSCreview is going to be placed.
While there is no official word count at either the Deathstar (aka BSCreview) or Moon’s Spawn (aka BSCkids) there are some preferable techie/format truths about both sites that don’t really allow me to just come through and drop brief thought on some subjects.
I just started, so I only have 2 posts up; an intro piece (explains the name and such-hint on half of it can be found at a past post here at VI), and my thoughts on recent moves by my Detroit Lions.
Spiff, Six Shot, and the Lions. The trifecta of awesome!
Who is Cobra Interrogator, dear Cobra Commander?
Well here it is, the final piece to Vacation in the Shadows, this year’s G.I.Joe Con Box set; a set that’s really sealed the deal for me with the last couple of reveals. While none of the characters individually grab me like the Collector Club’s free membership figure – Big Lob – this figure and the prior figure announced, the Red Shadows trooper, in my mind are two rather strong additions.
Templesmith Choker? Cool Variant. McCool.
It’s been a minute since my last post, and my only excuse is that a lot of behind-the-scenes BSC business has been going down on top of the day-to-day operation. We have a lot of moves going on, and hopefully we are a site closer to Cobra Island development status. On the collection tip, things have been slow, as while I’ve queried a bunch of artists for various commissions, they are either too busy or not answering email (yet are twittering…a lot). I’ve also struck out on some pages artists’ no longer had. Should be picking up here regardless though because my portfolios came in and I figure I’ll snap a pic and tackle them soon. Because they are just being put away in portfolio, it’s a lot of my recent stuff that’s probably been posted in various communities I frequent. Might still be semi-interesting though, because while going through them being reminded of them, I was thinking about the why behind the purchases. A lot of it is rather inexpensive and oddball, but I found that I was still rather aware at why I pulled the trigger on the items at the time. Also nice mini-surprises like seeing on one of my Dave Lapham (from Harbinger-lovely pre-Unity) pages, a sketch included that I hadn’t noticed before–stuff like that. It’s not blow your mind shit, but more exposing odd thought processes that make us pull the trigger on auctions. For this post though, I have an example of one of the aspects I touched on in Variety, Trade, or Death (or No Hooks, Chum).
Red Shadows Trooper storming G.I. Joe Con!
Over at BSCkids I’m continuing my round-up of the G.I.Joe Club’s Convention set as new figures are introduced. Last week I talked about The Black Major, Flint, and Red Torch, three of the 5 figures we’d get from this 15-figure set (2 are troopers and come in sets of 6). The two left remaining are Interrogator and the Red Shadows troopers, and I peeped over at their site that they revealed the latter!
The Current Original Comic Book Art Want List – Unofficial
Just a list of 10 pieces of art that I currently look far. None of them are (yet) serious big ticket items so they are all obtainable, and especially so if you consider most of my wants aren’t page specific. While certainly there are uber-high dollar items that I know would interest me, I purposely left the list to items that I actively look for on a semi-daily basis. In fact, I will admit that I’ve left some examples of specific pages off (because I’m paranoid!). I’m not including artists who are currently working on commissions for me.
Dion Neon “Prime Time” Viper?
Just a quick note on a post I just put up over at BSCkids, and a visual addition to my recent twit. Above is an image I got emailed to me (big ups to Hasbro and Fun Publications) of this year’s Transformers Collectors’ Club member figure, Dion.
Who?
