No Comic Day

[newnumber6]

Nothing worth getting today, so just went to work and went home. And it was actually a pretty good day. Truck came pretty early and so with no comics, got home early too.

At the grocery store (No Frills) I saw something that struck me as a little odd. Avatar: The Last Airbender Action Figures. Now, it's not odd that they exist, seems a standard enough thing to do. It'd odd that they were at the grocery store. And what's more, they were only $3.00 each (and looked to be fairly standard action figure quality). At that price, I almost considered getting some, but although I like the show I'm not a huge fanboy for it (I haven't even seen the first or newest season), and they didn't seem to have all the main characters in their selection (Just Aang/Momo, Sokka, Spirit-Form Aang, and Fire-Nation-Guy-With-Scarface-Who's-Name-I-Can't-Remember), and unless you can get all of them it's no fun, they'd feel lonely. I just wish they would get Marvel or DC superheroes at that price, I might actually pick some up.

Anyway, temperature was nice, and it would have been great reading weather (not that cold ever really stops me), except for one thing. Just the faintest drizzle. Enough to make me not want to read and get the book wet, but not enough to actually enjoy the rained-on feeling. Since I couldn't read, as is my wont, I thought. Among other things I was thinking of that PoG episode and my recurring desire to see PoG back. I think if I was a bolder person and could speak publicly with any skill, I would actually get a decent webcam and try and produce my own show, soliciting video interviews with various SF/Fantasy/Comics people and putting the clips together in shows. I actually sort of plotted it out in my head a bit, maybe going with, instead of shooting up into space, as the host "uploading" myself into a NANCY like satellite, and use the first episode to talk about the Singularity and Transhumanism/Posthumanism in SF and comics (and then different subsequent episodes talking about all sorts of different topics). Call it Prisoners of Matter? Prisoners of Flesh? I dunno. But in my head it seems like a cool idea. Alas, I'm not bolder.

Oh, and also, I'll be boycotting LJ on Thursday Night/Friday, like others on my list. No posts, comments, or even reading LJ. Here's the details, if interested. But when it's over I'll still read everyone's posts. I suppose I'll take the time off and try to work more on editing rather than constantly refreshing LJ to see if anything new is going on.

Comments

[thebitterguy]

Zuko.

No Frills, eh? Gotta drop by the local one on the way home.

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I have no idea if it's a chain-wide thing or just the local one (which also has a dollar store section with somewhat rotating stock, that's what section it was in), of course. If yours doesn't have it and happen to be in the area at some point, it's the one next to Gerrard Square.

[anomilygrace.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I hate the way Nick's done their Avatar figures. Last I checked, they didn't have a single female character. No Katara, no Toph, no Azula, no one. But like two or three different Aangs and Zukos! *scowls at them*

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

(checks) Wow, you're right. That's pretty lame. They've got several different Aangs, several different Zukos, two different Sokkas, and even King Bumi, but no Toph or Katara. I mean, I can sort of see saving Toph for the "Earth series", (and understand that different versions are often just a different coloring of the same character and so easier to produce) but hasn't Katara been there since the beginning? Doesn't she, if anyone deserve being in the first two waves more than King Bumi? (Unless he was somehow the key character in season 1, like I said I haven't seen that)

It seems sadly too common, though. It always seems to me that they create the male characters first and then maybe, eventually come out with the female ones. Maybe female ones are harder for their artists to design, or maybe they imagine they don't sell as well to the fans. Still, lame.

[kissingdaylight.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think I'm going to do the strike too, but I'm really not sure what I'll do in the meantime. I mean, lj is where I live! Oh well, I guess I'll hang out at FanForum for 24 hours. :\