Oct 222015
Carja
Oct 212015
Is this a mash-up? Must be Wednesday!
So last week I concluded with a clue that pointed to a Strawberry Shortcake mash-up. Why then is this week’s feature Jem? Well, that’s because over the weekend I saw a commercial for the new Jem and the Holograms motion picture that is scheduled for release this Friday. There was a little synergy (Jem fans will see what I did there) that was too good to pass up. What were the odds that I’d be doing a series of mash-ups about toys from the 80’s just as one of those toy lines was about to get a movie? It’s almost like I planned it that way (I did not). Anyway…Jem.
Jem was a line of dress-up dolls, similar to Barbie. The characters were members of a girl band named Jem and the Holograms. There was a cartoon which featured the band going around having adventures, led by Jerrica Benton, who uses high-tech holograms to transform in rocker Jem. They have to contend with rival band, the Misfits and others looking to take over Starlight Music. In looking through Wikipedia, I learned that the cartoon based on the toy line went on for three seasons, which was surprising to me as I thought it was just one long season’s worth of episodes. Back in the day, I used to tutor a girl after school who was a big Jem fan (though she much preferred the Misfits). Years later, when I went to my first Anime North convention, a group of Jem fans put on a show which consisted of them cosplaying as characters from the show and lip-synching through what seemed like the entire library of songs from the cartoon. Over ten years after the show ended, it still had some gung-ho fans.
So Sass is here to play Jem. I had a real problem with her arms and legs. I hope they look okay. Click on the picture to see a close-up.
So that’s all for this week. Outrageous right? (Again, Jem fans will see what I did there). Will next week be the berry good week I promised last time? If not, can we still be friends? See you next Wednesday for the reveal!
Oct 202015
Oct 192015
Greetings and salutations friends! It is blog time. So let us get to it.
Last Thursday came the bombshell revelation that Todrick has a sister. It was news that shook this web site to the core. Okay, that may be a slight exaggeration, and by slight, I mean total. Some of you may have read Todrick’s character profile, but I doubt many remembered the tidbit that Todrick is an orphan. If that’s the case though, how can he have a sister? Well, the EASY answer is that the Funnies aren’t official Age of Animus canon. They were always meant to be an alternate reality, in the same vein of the shorts at the end of each episode of Record of Lodoss War, Chronicles of the Heroic Knight. With time, the Funnies have become the primary focus of the site, but this view still holds true to me.
While that’s the easy answer, the canon answer is that while Todrick is an orphan, he clearly was raised by SOMEBODY. It turns out that that somebody, a kindly widow bird from Verdant, had a daughter named Pearl. So when Todrick says he’s going to see his sister, he means he’s going to see his adoptive sister.
Of course, the real reason is that I have a sister and it was her birthday on Thursday. I wanted to do a birthday strip for her which continued the running gag of Todrick getting caked. I wanted it to feature somebody’s sister and the easiest way to make it make sense that Todrick would be visiting this sister on her birthday was to have this sister be Todrick’s. So again, happy birthday to my sister!
To quench my D&D thirst, I decided to re-download Dungeons & Dragons Online. I played a fair bit a couple of years back and really enjoyed the game, I just found leveling up to be too long. I knew this going back in, but decided to try it again anyway. It turns out that it’s now possible to unlock the ability to start as a high level character via some financial transaction or another. I’ll have to look into it, because there’s a lot of content to play through.
I had back to back gaming nights on Friday and Saturday, which is my definition of a great weekend. Both nights featured plays of Dark Gothic. I have over twenty plays under my belt and I still really enjoy it. It’ll definitely be worth adding the expansions to my collection. With all the games out there, I’ve decided I should be more choosy when it comes to expansions. I’d rather try a new game then buy an expansion to a game I never play. That’s why, while I really like the Krosmaster system, I haven’t bought any of the newer figures (well that and the fact they went with blind packaging).
Okay, that’s all for this week. Have a good seven all and we’ll do this again next Monday. Carja V.
Oct 162015
