BEST GEEKY COLLECTIBLE STATUE EVER!!!

After getting all het up after reading the new Golden Age Sheena, Queen of the Jungle collection, I got curious to see if there was any other new Sheena stuff out there. Well, imagine my simultaneous surprise and unfettered joy upon finding this 10-out-of-10 sculpture of the legendary jungle badass:

"Holy fucking shit," right? From ReelArt Studios, this incredible piece draws inspiration from several sources, namely the character itself, the works of Dave Stevens and Jim Steranko (the pose is almost directly based on Steranko's portrait of Sheena seen on the cover of his HISTORY OF COMICS Vol. 2) and the striking likeness of artist's model/actress Irish McCalla, who played Sheena on TV in the 1950's. Standing nearly ten inches tall, this sculpture is exactly what I would want in a statue of Sheena and it wisely leaves out Bob, her duller-than-dirt "mate," and her simian pal Chim, whose comic relief would have thrown off the majestic vibe of the piece. I mean, really, check out these turnarounds:



And the choice to fuse all the source elements was simply genius, especially when choosing to use Irish McCalla's likeness:

So now that you've seen it I'm going to do something I never do: every year my friends have a bitch of a time figuring out what to get me for my birthday, so I'd like to obnoxiously propose that twenty of you each chip in ten bucks to cover the statue's cost and shipping and get me this item. I'd be tempted to shell out almost two-hundred bucks for this, but in this economy it's just not feasible, however if everyone has a whip-round...

Just puttin' it out there (and please act quickly; it's a limited edition of 500 pieces).

OUTBID!!!

As any regular reader of this blog knows, I was bidding on the above landmark in erudite American humor on eBay, and in order to ensure my win I entered $60 as my maximum bid. I mean, how could anyone in their right mind go above twenty-five bucks for this, the figure it was at when last I looked and I was the highest bidder? Well, someone out there actually had to have trhis so much that they outbid me by exactly one dollar. I was willing to go as high as maybe thirty, excluding P & H, but sixty-one bucks for this? I only want it for the cover, so to whomever outbid me, more power to ya!

Ya fuckin' rat bastid.

I MUST OWN THIS!!!

When I saw this after the ever-diligent Frank alerted me to it, I let out an unbridled "Oh, my God!"

The title alone is enough to attract my interest and the dazed ventriloquist getting a beejay right there on the cover sends it straight into offensive album cover Nirvana, so needless to say I immediately went to eBay and put in a bid. It's dirt cheap and simply must have it for my record wall, so wish me luck!

I MUST OWN THIS!!!

As anyone who regularly reads this blog knows, I love the movies. Consequently I love books about the movies, especially books that focus on certain "niche" aspects thereof, and I can think of no book more "niche" than this one:

Yes, there actually exists a book entitled LASH! THE HUNDRED GREATEST SCENES OF MEN BEING WHIPPED IN THE MOVIES, and while flagellation is not my bag, this kind of nutso movie book definitely is. And it's even available on Amazon! I just wonder where MANDINGO ranks...

I MUST OWN THIS!!!

Let's have a shout-out to Gilson the Great for alerting me to this most ludicrous of novelty items. Yes, it's a HOKUTO NO KEN — that's FIST OF THE NORTH STAR to you — bottle opener that screams out Kenshiro's signature "Waa-Taah!!!" when you crack open a cold one! Now you can save the post-apocalyptic wasteland while getting your drink on. Brilliant!


Item Hokuto no Ken Bottle Opener [JPN Preorder]
Sega
Have you ever busted out a bicuspid because you used your teeth to pop the cap on a bottle of cola? Chomping on the jagged edge of a bottle cap is a dangerous proposition in the first place but wrenching it open with mouth strength can cause major damage. That's where the Hokuto no Ken bottle opener comes into play. Jam the clenched Hokuto fist on top of a bottle cap and let it do the hard work and save your teeth. You know, those teeth that you'll have to rely on for the rest of your life. Preorders ship in November 2007 at US$9.50 per fist.

FOLK STYLINGS OF THE LYCANTHROPIC

Does anyone out there know how I can get my hands on this LP? I mean, how can my life go on without a live recording of folk music from 1964 performed by an actual werewolf?

A REQUEST FROM A VINYL COLLECTOR

Does anyone out there know how I can get my grubby mitts on this album?


I'll pay cash or trade something equally ludicrous, but my collection simply is not complete until this album graces my cover wall.