Fugitives From Reality: Episode XXVII "Day Tripper"

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The Saga Continues...

Esbatty, Defined!

UrbanDictionary.com has defined my nickname into an actual word, by some joker named Ron Pillilo, aka Welcome Back, Kotter's Horshack.

Anyway, this only legitimizes my online presence.

Thank you, Internet. I have arrived.

COOL TOOLS!

Now apparently I can post directly from my browser using the ScribeFire firefox extension without having to actually log into my blogger account to post on the blog now.

Sweet! One step for laziness, one giant leap for The Matrix lifestyle!

Fugitives From Reality: Episode XXVI "Insecurity"

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Power Girl Cartoon

Fugitives From Reality: Episode XXV "Eggs And Bakey"

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Sleep is for the weak!

Fugitives From Reality: XXIV "Security"

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The saga continues.

I Want This

More blogs and webcomics to read. It seems whenever i run out of cool stuff to read online I always default to Google News and that kinda blows when there are no new posts for the places I frequent (see my Linkage section to the right of the blog there underneath the Wayback Machine and Mi Manifesto claptrap).

I myself blog and make a webcomic so I know those things can take as much or as little time as possible but dammit I want some recommendations.

(And Ash, yes I already read "Girls Read Comics Too" so hush yo mouf woman!)

Fugitives From Reality: XXIIV "Chicks"

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One Panel Goodness, Enjoy!

Fugitives From Reality: Episode XXII "Wakey Wakey"

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Slow Start to a brand new storyline! New Cast members! New threat! Huzzah!

Fugitives From Reality: New Cast Photo

Do you know how hard it is to get a single figure to not only stand up right but to stay in the exact pose you want it to remain in? Okay now multiply that by a dozen. Then to compensate for gravity, angle, lighting, grouping, and weak ankle joints. And finally making sure everyone comes out clearly in at least 5 different photos out of the 2 dozen you took in different lighting arrangements.

Seriously, its damn hard work, sure its fun but damn I only sweat like this when I've been standing around in 100 degree summer days or when Tetris gets the best of me.

Enjoy!

New Marvel Legends

Okay so Hasbro has decided to hold back on cramming craptacular waves of cool idea Marvel Legends down our throats for a few months so they can get their proverbial shit together and put out great figures instead of plastic bits that kinda go together. So to celebrate I'm going to show you a few of their display pieces in what I'd like to call... "Good Ideas, Bad Idea". Here I'll give you 2 or 3 examples of good ideas they came up with and then a bad idea that sucks so hard it negates up to 2 of the good ideas they came up with leaving us with 1 or 0 goods. Karma's a bitch.

*ahem*

Good Idea: Black Costume Spider-Man, McFarlane Spider-Man, and Iron Armor Spider-Man


Bad Idea: Aquaman Spider-Man (Even Aquaman doesn't want to be Aquaman, we can all blame Mephisto, right? RIGHT? F*** you, Hasbro.)


Good Idea: Cool Variants of Iron Armor Spider-Man and 1st Appearance Daredevil


Bad Idea: 3 Shitty Iron Man Movie Figure Variants (Sure Captain America Armor Iron Man was cool as a cover pic but a simple paint job and a spare Cap Shield, F*** you, Hasbro! I can buy 2 shades of nail polish for less than 3 dollars and do the same shit with my MarkIII movie iron man.)

Good Idea: 1st Appearance She-Hulk, Super-poseable Spiral, and Nova.



Bad Idea: TRANSFORMER SPIDER-MAN... (I can't say this enough, F*** you, Hasbro. Seriously. Marvel Megamorphs failed because it was idiotic. Toybiz didn't get it right and neither will you. Focus on more kick ass stuff like the Spider-Man and Friends line or a damn Marvel Versus Capcom 2 line or something. Jeez.)


Okay Hasbro, I thank you right here and now for going back to formula on the Marvel Legends, sure Toybiz had their pegwarmers but it was maybe 1 to 2 figures ala Onslaught Series Pyro and Lady Deathstrike or Series IV Beast, but damn guys... when I can walk up to the toy aisle and build Blob about 4 times and find a variant every now and then without trying thats just colossal failure.

Anywho, I look forward to breaking a 20 every couple of days on the "Good Idea" stuff in the fall.

Power Girl Gets Her Monthly

And I don't mean Aunt Flo!

Yes, Power Girl, aka Karen Starr, is getting her solo monthly title from DC Comics, as announced early Saturday afternoon at the New York Comic Con.

Jimmy Palmotti and Amanda Conner are half of the 4 person creative/art team behind this series starring the Maiden of Might. The writers promise a healthy balance of wham-bam action, a big Rogue's Gallery, and of course scads of humor.

Amanda Conner promises this and this and more of this.

I promise you I'm getting a subscription as soon as DC makes it super-humanly possible.

More info from Newsarama (click piccie):

Fugitives From Reality: Episode XXI "Civil WUMB II"

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Part II... the final chapter. Friday's post early!

Great, Just Great

The damn freehostia.com is down. FUDGE!

Right when I was ready to advertise the new episode!

Ah well I'll just work on the new episode then.

*sigh*

EDIT: its working!

Fugitives From Reality: Episode XX "Civil WUMB I"

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My view on how the crap hit the fan + hilarity = this series of strips. Enjoy part 1!

Fugitives From Reality: Episode XIX "Shot Tub"

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New Comic, only 48 hours later than usual. Enjoy!

Fugitives From Reality: Episode XVIII "Gas Prices"

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W00t new comic, shot it on the bus this morning. Enjoy!

Broke

Wow so after shipping all those orders and buying replacement parts for the truck I'm officially broke. So now I have to patiently wait for someone to buy my wares and negative feedback doesn't help. Bastard.

*sigh*

I should have a comic or two put up today. Eh.

Lootist

Okay so I've been really distracted lately by the end of the semester coming up so I been neglecting things and being stressed out and what not but I found a couple hours of free time and got pointed to Lootist, a site for enthusiasts of various things where you do product reviews. Its really just something to add to your blog and thus I got into it because, well, I got a knack for friendly, informtative, bite-sized reviews. So check out my handy work so far:

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Also a new comic coming later today, featuring celebrities!

Sweetness

Buncha trades came in today but i'm barely getting to open them as I just finished packing up a bunch of amazon.com sales. I need to ship them early tomorrow, then tomorrow I also need to pack more to ship wednesday.

Anywho, I need to pack trade items right now but lets just say I I'm only missing Silver Centurion and Face Offs Modular Iron Man figures to complete my OCD "Hall of Armor" Iron Man armor collection.

New comic coming today, I should be home early enough to get it up before 5pm.

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Also note, I'm having a hard time picking characters to play people so to make my worry go away I bought a bunch of figures to add accessories and props to my scenes in the hopes THAT will spark my creativity. So far I have about a baker's dozen of people actually cast in the comic and still OODLES more people to bring. Sadly if people only knew showing interest in the comic or even mentioning it got you cast alot quicker. *sigh*

Anywho off to pack and then to try to get sleep! Ciao!

PS- I filed my mail fraud case yesterday. Mmm, mm, sweet justice will be served.

Fugitives From Reality: Episode XVII "And Now For Something Different"

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New comic introducing another WUMBer named rwe as Rob!

No Friday/Sat Comic Today

I'm not feelin' it.

I need to be cheered up.

Fucker.

*sigh*

Bullshit

Dammit, today been sucking since like 1am. First I insult a stranger in a chat. Second it took me until 6am to fall asleep. And now I wake up and find myself to have been negatively feedbacked on Amazon.com.

On my gmail e-mail account alot of automated or form emails go to spam. Spring Break, while a lazy time for me, I still had alot of hubub to deal with my family and what not. So this asshole messages me during spring break to tell me their galactic heroes figures didn't show up. I don't get the message. About 4 days later they message me again through the amazon automated system. Nothing. Apparently like 24 hours after that they file an A to Z claim. I don't get that message either.

Hal the time I don't even know when something sells until I check the account, and the account doesn't tell me when someone is attempting to contact me. And I'll tell you this much I get ALOT of scam/spam/phishing emails related to Amazon.

Anywho, long story short I check the account, check the A to Z claim. I head to the post office and harass them for a couple hours while I force them to check the rooms to see if any packages were misplace (they've done it to my packages before) I also get them to call the buyer's PO to see if its arrived yet or it was set aside or misplaced. They show nothing in their system.

All I got from the post office was that its "in transit" and thats it.

So I tell the buyer I apologize these things happen, explain the email thing and I refund IN FULL, INCLUDING THE SHIPPING. So not only am I OUT the stupid figures but I'm out of wasted bubble wrap, a good box, and the money I paid in shipping. And get this I sold it for 8.99 I paid 5.77 for it. Its not like I'm trying scam them or something. Its stupid little pieces of plastic for babies.

And I wake up today and I get negged on Amazon, and I ALWAYS get postive because I communicate well and quickly with my customers. Hell if there is a super huge delay for some reason in shipping I kick in something extra or upgrade shipping. If somethng got lost inspite of carefully shipping/packing practices I replace whenever possible and kick in extras. I really love this collectibles selling. "Cause I know the inventory is going to good homes as alot of it is coming from my families' personal collection.

But no, some fuckin' people no matter how gracious or apologetic, no matter the lengths you go through they shit all over you because they're douches that way. So I negged them right back. If I get a 5 they get a 5, hell if I get a 4 they get a 5. But when I get a 1 after kicking my ass to find their item at the post office and then refund in full. Well fuck them.

This is not "customer is always right" America anymore, its capitalism, baby. Check all my other feedback. Talk to my previous customers. I take good care of my customers. If I screw up I take my licks and I make it up to the best of my ability. But a 1 over a 9 dollar baby toy that was out of my hands. That just pisses me off. A fuckin' peg warmer toy.

ARGGGGGGGGGGH!

Ah well inspite of that I made 4 sales today, all of them AFTER the negative feedback processed. So I know its only gonna deter SOME people that only glance at feedback. The rest are gonna want my deals as I'm the cheapest damn prices on Amazon. Guaranteed.

New Stuff and Update

3 New Figures to the collection:

1) Cassandra Cain Batgirl
2) Deadpool
3) Warbird

As you know Deadpool and Warbird are my Marvel Ultimate Alliance Team, as noted in a previous blog (I already have an Invisible Woman and Spider-Man so I'm set baby), so I'm just happy to complete my team in figure form. Batgirl I got in a trade for my Mint In Package Marvel Legends chase figure Red Skull for a cool collecting couple's DCSH Batgirl, Clayface, and Catwoman. (Traded on Figure Realm forums)

Warbird was traded for on The Fwoosh for 2 Marvel Twist 'Ems wind up toys of Captain American and Iron Man.

And Dead Pool was a trade done for my old Halo 2 Teal Spartan and a whole mess of accessories. I didn't get the alternate Wade head but I wasn't too interested in that. ALthough Doop woulda been nice. I should specified, my bad. Ya live and learn.

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Also as for my previous post about getting ripped off on a trade apparently the guy I traded with is alive and well and posting all over the internet and his various social networking accounts. So I'm telling everyone I know that was in a trade with him when he disappeared to file Mail Fraud against his ass.

In mother russia The Man sticks it to you!

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Also new comic coming today, woulda shot it earlier but I made myself a huge breakfast as I waited patiently for my Batgirl/Clayface/Catwoman/Deadpool to show up at my door and in the mail.

Fugitives From Reality: Episode XVI "It's Miller Time"

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New Comic, thought I'd do a straight up parody and flex my writing muscles for kicks.