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May has come and gone, and Fanime notwithstanding, its been a busy month. So this month's funpack from DinoDrac is the medicine I need to prep for the summer of camps I have ahead of me.
Oh god I miss summers off but the money is so good.
This month has come in a nifty bag, which, though lacking in tissue paper for tissue paper flowers, i can easily still turn into a flower.
My flower making cannot be contained.
This month has a lot of nifty things, like magazines (wheeeee!), and I'm super happy to have so let's dive in.
STREEEEEET SHARKS!!!! I watched a few episodes when I was a kid, and I liked the few I saw. This is a sticker book, with a pack of stickers to put in. Its great to have these books, to hold the card stickers and look at the captions to them. Quite hilarious.
This one is the 1st edition, which makes me wonder if these were popular enough to have a second edition. Or any of these, really.
This pack of cards are fantasy cards for tabletop games like D&D and Ravenloft. They have monsters and characters with stats and equipment and backgrounds. They're pretty neat, coming from the 90s, and have a great nostalgia feeling.
Anyone else read the Dragonlance series of books? I remember reading them back in middle school, and even have a couple college friends who read them too. I liked them, and wished I still had my copies.
Man these were a nice blast from the past. I still play D&D and am preparing making a new character for the newer edition (do I go with a goddess kinda character or a Link knockoff? Decisions decisions).
A card collector's guide with a couple cards, including a sweet pin up card. The price guide has a few interviews and articles and a guide of how much some individual cards and their sets go for. Prices have no doubt chnaged since then, but I'm curious as to how much. When you factor in eBay and things like that, its more than probable that prices have shrank or inflated.
Also shown are some Nicktoon Cards, mostly Doug, Rugrats, and Ren & Stimpy. My set had mostly Rugrats, but I got a sticker card of Doug, and a drink caddy, that appears to hold your straw in a can of soda. The usefulness of this device eludes me but most things do, like the Butterfly Effect, and the irreconcilable difference of quantity in hotdogs and hot dog buns.
The 24 tattoo pack had some interesting designs, shown here.
I'm not sure I need a Sitting Bull Tattoo but there we go.
Off topic but I'm sitting here trying to type about tattoos while listening to the awesome Top5 video series on youtube, and its hard to talk about old tattoos when you've got video footage of basket stars writhing around.
The things you do to fill the silence while you work @_@.
My substitute is showing off my new set of AWESOME holographic pokemon stickers. More than the sparkliness, I'm in love with the bootlegginess of some of these stickers. THERE IS A LITERALLY SHINY SANDSHREW HERE. The noseless pikachu is hysterical.
I'm thinking of making a special sticker page for these or slapping one or another on my computer or Switch. The bag the funpack came in also had a jigglypuff sticker on the outside so I'm gonna try to save it for something when I turn the back into a flower.
Speaking of stickers, the DinoDrac sticker included is also totally awesome, and is staged here and with the poster for the month:
My God, its full of toys.
Ok, I've been waiting for a chance to do a 2001 reference. Sue me.
The vintage Starlog included really made me happy as it includes an interview with Rod Serling of The Twilight Zone as well as an article from one of his drivers from when he was doing talks. An interview with Richard Matheson, the prolific writer of many shorts, novels, and tv shows, in particular TZ, which include iconic episodes like "Nightmare at 20,000 feet", "Steel" (of which the film Real Steel is based), and my personal favorite (one of many) "Little Girl Lost". While some of the articles really don't feel much different than articles written now (you should read the salt from people who HATED Star Trek Deep Space 9, otherwise known as SHAFT IN SPACE; the salt amuses me when you look back retrospectively at series after like Voyager), the craft and style of the writers feels much more polished. I miss printed publications. It kinda made people really proof-read and do research--and this is coming from someone who types up stuff like this on the fly and proof-reads multiple times later XD. The cards are pretty nifty too.
My copy had a big cut out of one of the interviews, which meant the Serling interview was gone, but it was still an interesting read nonetheless.
Ok, guys, you have to understand why this really made me dance around and get nipped on the ankles by our new puppy when I pulled this out. This, THIS TREASURE I hold in front of me is the grail of my funpack days. And I've been subscribed since the second pack (I missed the first sadly). The Kool-Aid pack is one thing, and the free stuff catalogue page is also really awesome, but its this comic that I really am psyched to have.
Let's go back. Once I was a young troll on the internet, reading copious amounts of X-Entertainment, Matt's first site before Dinosaur Dracula, I came across this awesome tribute to the drinkable ambrosia we now know of called Purplesaurus Rex Kool-Aid. This included a scan and commentary on the comic in which the elixir of life was discovered, stolen, then named for a giant, talking dinosaur.
No seriously. This happened. Really. Click here to read it. So you can see why I was giddy at owning this copy. Reading the phrase "Roast my Toast" in the original paper form makes my day. Someone make me a shirt with Scorch on it and the phrase. Seriously.
Archie comics has had a lot of recent pitfalls, but I'll have to forgive them as they gave me the better years of the Sonic the Hedgehog comic, and this Kool-Aid Man adventures. That's enough to forgive any atrocity. Maybe. Prolly.
The final parts are the newsletter and an essay about geek mags before the internet. Its pretty easy to forget that once upon a time, we didn't have Facebook and Reddit and barely had chat rooms to chat about our geekiness. Fan letter sections were one thing, but you had to have a great letter to be printed (and back in those days, they printed your name and address; yikes, imagine bashing DS9 nowadays and having your info out there like that, hell, its bad enough having twitters and FBs and IGs that track you). Remember envelope art? Man I miss those days.
The challenge here is to draw a cover to an incredibly niche and obscure and specific magazine. Hmm. XD
I'd read a Fatal Frame based mag if it told me where to find dead stock ghost exorcising film. Fuck yeah.
I admit its a bit rushed but its hard to draw when you're watching videos on unsolved murders, deep sea creatures, and ghost vids and pics. Well, at least the last one fits the mood. XD
Now I'm off to enjoy a glass of Kool-Aid and sort out trading cards. Cheers.
--Dio (5/31/17) lol
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