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"Ages 25 & Up": My Joe Fig-Comic
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06-20-2010, 11:50 PM
1337W422102
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Good, I hope not. I am in a basement apartment...with a crapload of figures and a computer. *Checks behind nonsensical drapes for Canandians with numerical nomenclature fetishes.*
I don't have air conditioning. Every summer, I would move my computer to the basement and set up shop there to prevent stuff like motherboard melting (I HATE when that happens). Shelves of toys, customizing workbench, computer, comics, my Optimus Prime costume from high school... feels good, man. That was my subterranean lair.
Appropriately enough, literally chilling in the basement with my computer and toys led to me becoming a Joe fan. I had set up a display of Snake-Eyes v2 and Storm Shadow v2 fighting on my second-hand Night Raven during the summer of '06 in anticipation of one of the best modern parody films which was coming out that year: Snakes On A Plane. I had some secondhand Joes growing up, read a few comics, and seen some of the show, but I didn't know about the stories, the characters, or the canon. Sitting there, looking at my Snake-Eyes figure, I thought, "What's this guy's story?"
Some Google-fu brought me to YoJoe.com, where I read the comic summaries of some Marvel issues (#26 and #27, then a whole lot more), and I thought, "This is pretty rad." So I downloaded about 4 or 5 gigs of Joe comics, and got hooked. Loved the stories, love the characters, loved the art (I met Herb Trimpe twice, he's a great guy!). I wasn't expecting much from a toy-based comic, but there was so much depth and love in the book that I just had to keep reading. There was actual personality, not just "Oh no, a locked door; let's get the RPG guy to take it down." The characters' personalities were great, and Clutch is the man. That sketch on Scarlett's filecard page? The one with him sitting on a crate of apples, munching on one, while she aims her crossbow? LOVE it. Clutch became my favourite character thanks to a number of memorable appearances, but he's not just a jock who hits on Scarlett and Cover Girl and jokes around throwing snowballs and getting his pay docked - he saved the team's bacon time and again and his badass behaviour and leet driving skillz lead to the capture of Cobra Commander.
Soon, I started buying the figures and the comics. Wanted to collect the Original 13 that they had remade for the VvV Classic Comic Packs (not that I would have been able to finish them, mind you). Eventually, the 25th Anniversary stuff came out, and I got my first handful of figures: Flash, Cobra Commander, Snow Job, Hawk & Scarlett, and #21B Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow. I dicked around with my camera and Photoshop, posted the result on a message board for my friends, and eventually, I had the balls to come here, and the first post of this thread was pretty much my first post here. Luckily, you guys enjoyed it, since I'm still here.
Sorry for that TL;DR storypost.
Numerical fetish? Nah, it's more like enthusiasm. Most of the time.
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