Thanks for being so patient while I work through some personal matters. Next Patreon is about 75% done. Hopefully up late tonight or early tomorrow. I don't want to over-promise, which I seem to do in overestimating how quickly I can produce these, but I'm shooting for Monday for the next one. Thanks all.
Memorabilia
103 thoughts on “Memorabilia”
Welcome back.
Wow, that was one well-aligned collection!
“Was.”
I like hoe James ends up underneath it all; dork to the end…
Like he’s always got his head in those comic books. Only now for real…
Well, at least the figures didn’t all combine into MegaBot before falling on him.
Or worse, 1.21 Gigabotts!
It’s worth the wait, Rusche! Lol, I love how well aligned those figurines were. Complete dork. *hides well-aligned collection*
See? There we go. Welcome back man. The offer to listen or assist stands.
Wow! The level of detail. No wonder this took a week to finalize!!
Plus, funny as all hell!
Love the mom’s casual response to this travesty (“So….”) while changing the topic.
Because of COURSE Tarra has her own line of comic books.
Nice first edition Index Man too!
I was surprised it was so pink, I didn’t think Tarra was much for pink. The exclamation point wasn’t surprising at all.
That Megatron statue could only be cooler if it actually transformed.
Only the Master of Magnetism himself could knock over a statue of Megatron at least ten times larger than himself! All hail Magneto!
Android 18, Gandalf, Car Voltron, Gambit, some Attack on Titan person, mecha Gargoyle(?), Hal Jordan Green Lantern, Super Saiyan Goku, no idea, … Colossus, no idea, no idea, Magneto, Megatron. Someone fill in my blanks.
And someone else get the comics. I see a mirror-world Spawn in the box, but I can’t tell what’s on the floor.
Attack on Titan person? That’s Mikasa,, and the mecha Gargoyle? That’s Silverbolt from Beast Wars. Not sure who is after Goku, after Colossus is Red Tornado. After that I can’t be sure but it looks a lot like Jade from Mortal Kombat.
Still, this is the reason I don’t let *anyone* in my room, ever…its also why I have double sided tape on the feet of all my action figures, so this doesn’t happen lol ^^
From one great collector to another, I salute! ^^
I think after Goku is Rogue.
The main thing holding me back from being buried in figures (other than money) is the fact that I would have to dust all of them.
Rogue? From what series? Rogue from X-Men is a chick and Rogue from Fairy Tail is scrawny, don’t know any other Rouges…
As for dusting, its a labor of love lol but you can do a lot to cut down on dust, ask any collector ;) Air Purifiers/Filters help a lot, as does keeping windows covered since light is the primary cause of dust, also careful control over humidity levels.
Seems like a lot of work but its not really, not once you have everything in place, and given how old some of my stuff is and how rare a few of my pieces are its totally worth it in my book.
After Goku is Cable, I think. Lotsa X-Men in this collection.
… or not. Could’ve sworn I remembered Cable in some kind of battle armor at one point.
Cable has never worn an eye patch and never had combat tentacles. Also his colors are blue and silver, not black and red…
It’s Solidus Snake
Few know the dangers of collecting. At any moment there could be an avalanche of collectibles that bury you in their awesomeness. This has bee, a public service announcement from an actual collector. Please resume you normal Shotgun Shuffle programming.
The more you know!
And knowing is half the battle! Go Joe!
See, that’s why I keep my collections in horded piles. Nothing can fall over! Then, every so often, you can go swimming in it, Scrooge McDuck style. Just watch out for all the sharp accessories.
It’s a shame I can only like your post once. It explains so much!
After Goku, is Solidus Snake from Metal Gear Solid 2.
You would know.
He would know.
All I felt from this is how cool it would be to see Ellie cosplay as Android 18.
She’s built more like Erasa than 18 lol
You win the internet for the Saitama avatar.
I was thinking that myself. Fourth window borken. Spaceballs Borken. Mel Brooks, copied. March of the Toy Soldiers, Copied. Transformers, knocked over.
I can’t tell if she’s more ashamed of the mess she made in that last panel or of how she’s gonna have to lie (or tell the truth) about the question.
The question is the perfect punchline. Well done, Chris…
Hands down the question from Mrs. Blackford.
The mess is a “sorry about that” sort of thing that I think she considers as a “how about I forget the implied mess you hurried to clean up and you forget I just messed it all up” sort of thing.
The question (with the mess as a backdrop) is one of those shots across the bow at Tired Guy’s justifications convincing her this is a good idea.
I was totally right about him getting buried under his memorabilia!
Where’s Master Chief when you need him.
Dude’s all like…”At least she didn’t knock over the retro games.”
“Do you have a job” she says. Ha!
“Yep, I’m working right now even!”
Also, not sure which is better. James’ face in panel 6, or Ellie’s.
Or James’ mom’s.
James’ Mom seems oddly fascinated with the growing chaos. She looks almost entranced, like a pyromaniac watching a fire…
I can see that, but to me she just looks like she’s contently thinking “I am watching this happen” and nothing else while patiently waiting to ask her question.
I suspect James’ face is at least partially relief and gratitude at the convenient box to hide his face in.
Indeed he is fortunate that the box landing on his head was apparently mostly empty.
“Yes, I’m a working girl.
Wait! That’s not what I meant!”
*points and laughs* HAHA NERD! *furtive glance and hides only collections*
When last we saw our ponytailed heroine, she was precariously dangling over Canadian side of Niagra Falls attempting to save three five year olds, a cat, their three kittens and a pup named Scooby Doo from going over the falls in a barrel. Unfortunately, the nefarious Wheelchair Ninja had arrived just moments before, blocking her egress to save the perilous plunge of the precocious people and their pets in the giant pickle barrel. Inside, the continuing adventures of Tarra, breaking the fourth wall for adventure.
Woah woah waoh back up I just realized something. That giant Megatron is ARTICULATED!? The arms have moved between the last two panels
….I wont admit to how jealous I am of that, but I would like to know if such a thing actually exists lol
Maybe it’s an old Halloween costume? From when he was much younger? And shorter?
Sadly this doesn’t exist, at least to my knowledge. If it did, we’d own it
I always like to see a wife supportive of these pursuits. I know a few, but it seems like the majority are in the, “No, you cannot attach a catapult to the roof of the house” camp. Though, that could also just be a laziness excuse from the husbands for things that they think sound cool but wouldn’t want to put the effort for (says a single guy with demonstrably zero roof catapults).
Note that wives that follow up a catapult kibosh with something like, “You have to go get a change to the zoning for it first or the city will just take it down. I don’t want to have to keep buying more catapults, so do your homework first!” count as part of the first camp.
I want that Megatron too.
It is time for someone to invest in a 3D printer to make the action figures and toys that the toy companies wont.
AS. YOU. SHOULD!
Mainly I just know a lot of guys who either married women who don’t share some cool geeky interests, or they just like using her as an excuse. Most of them I can’t actually tell which is correct/true. To be fair, the wife that I view as holding the, likely necessary, role of stopping her husband from putting medieval siege equipment on their roof, did enthusiastically participate in a contest on weirdest/briefest description of things they could get someone to come and get from Craig’s List when they did a renovation and had a lot of odd things to get rid of.
OMG He has a Silverbolt toy! He was my favorite Maximal after Rattrap!
Meanwhile James is like ‘So That’s where my Solid Snake figure got to.’
For those who don’t get the joke, here’s an explanation you won’t appreciate because you don’t get the joke:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K–YiJma6xI
Is that David Willis’ bedroom?
Eeeeeewwww. BLASPHEMY
Don’t be absurd. There isn’t a single “Mint, In Box” in the whole collection.
I think you mean “Never Remove From Box”
Willis sux.
What to give to get him into the pit bull version of the commercials featuring those “halos” brand oranges.
I might be watching CinemaSins too much lately, but I started jotting down a few notes about the comic and ended up with a couple of paragraphs. I don’t think I dare post it, though. :I <– picture the dashes on either side of that letter '"i" so you know it's me keeping my mouth shut, not just going "meh."
I will provide this snippet, though: Panel 5: Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern Movie Statuette (+1)
‘Andrioid 18 is not giving me a lapdance in this scene.’
Ding!
“90’s Cartoon Douchebag Gambit.” (+1) *ding*
“Unless this is the action figure that could throw cards up in the air by flicking a switch on its back, but if you didn’t have a card in its hand it looked really, really inappropriate as the hand jerked up and down. Two sins for that.” (+1) *ding*
Good to see you back, and personal matters are certainly understood. Let me know if there’s something I can do to help.
What TOG said.
Too bad Domino isn’t in the toys displayed. Man…
Now I get that joke.
“NO ONE KNOCKS OVER THE MIGHTY MEGATRON!”except a professional heavily endowed confidence booster with too much curiosity
“Whups-“
I’m just wondering how the cats are kept out if James’ room and knocking that stuff over constantly. . . . .
Surprisingly they haveclttle interest in collectibles. Must be sports fans. To each’s own.
Ok. That’s funny. But, no seriously though. Cats go everywhere.
We have cats and they are pretty good at not knocking memorabilia over. Unless it’s on the bottom shelf but that’s too low to display stuff anyway
At least it’s not like how his car used to be, what with blade replicas flying about (r.i.p., Master Chief helmet).
Also, I just want to add to the amazement over the details in this piece. I mean, you didn’t just make little mini characters representing action figures, you depicted action figures. Silverbolt in particular is worthy of note; you even included the joint bits and grooves and screw heads in his forearms. Tip o’ the hat to you, sir.
WHY DO I NOT OWN THAT GIGANTIC MEGATRON?!? WHYYYYY???
Just not the same…
https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/12234845_10153754712309878_812542254163982591_n.jpg?oh=7175626bd856638a5eef92ac2929ed1a&oe=56BB8A71
On the bright side, if you did have the Megatron from this comic, you’d have to either keep completely silent about it or have one of the worlds’ best security systems to be able to hold onto it.
We can always hope that it will appear in Rusche’s store one of these days. It’s the hope of a fool, but “I am that fool.”
Can you imagine the cost?
If there were only one, I can’t imagine it not being sold out before I got there, regardless of the cost.
I, Um, regret to say. . . my nerd title is in question. . who is the bird/mech/man thing?
Silverbolt, one of the transmetal era Beat Wars Fuzors, a wolf/eagle hybrid who was chivalrous and gallant. A very fun character and a well designed toy to boot.
I have that one via my older brother, and you’re right, it is well designed.
Heh, reminds me a bit of that dominoe scene in “Robots”… :)
Wow… I thought Megatron would have been a more “stand-up” guy…
Ugh. That joke hurt….
Not as much if it was Starscream saying it. But its just too witty for him.
I wouldn’t be able to resist touching the 18 either.
As Megatron falls, in my headcanon I hear the sound effects of an ankle-tied AT-AT hitting the icy surface of Hoth…
If anyone noticed the Patreon dollar total difference, I’m guessing Rusche was selected for this test:
https://patreon.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/206197906
So it looks like he went backwards, but we’re actually just seeing the more accurate number of what he gets from Patreon (still wouldn’t include whatever taxes he’d have to pay, though). Personally I’d Patreon to show both pledges and estimated creator takehome (before taxes, which they obviously wouldn’t know).
He’s missing Dinobot from his collection
Alf snuck in and mistook it for Fifi and choked on it after escaping jnto the sewers. The upside is that the resultant mutant alligator – boa constrictor nuclear mutant mix was thrawted when it’s grandparent choked on Alf soon after his demise.
This great strip risks becoming an episodic backdrop
to notices of the author’s personal struggles.
Not especially, unless something terrible happens to the author so that the strip stops completely. The story’s already laid out, from what I’ve heard. The only real issue is how quickly we get access. Since at one point, Rusche was going to stop the comic completely because of expenses, I consider all comics since then to be gifts. It’s hours of his time spent to give me the next bit of the story.
I’m not seeing where his personal struggles are affecting anything but the speed at which we get to read it. He has the same 24 hours to fit things into that I do, and I definitely don’t produce amazing artwork on a regular basis.
I’d say, “I’ll buy that for a dollar!” But I already did it without saying it, or saying it with two hot girls on either hip.
All the webcomics I read risk dropping into nonexistence due to the author losing motivation to continue for one reason or another. More than a few have. Just one of the many, many non-ideal parts of life.
To be honest, I appreciate the text updates saying, “Sorry all, life’s being a pain.” Some of the webcomics I still check I half wonder if the author died in a car accident or something since the last post.
I think of this webcomic as a window into not only the scene of an awesome story, but also an interpretation that will continue to work into other realms of media. I can relate to this because of growing up on television from the big three before cable and early satellite systems proliferated into most of the country. And even before that, we have serialized movies, radio shows and novellas.
Ok, thats just hilarious!
Never seen someone have his collection lined up so he could do that!
And a nice collection it is, both comic and anime characters, altrough i wonder who would want such a big Megatron, thought it was a costume(might still be)
Hey, I have that wolf-eagle transformer!
HOLY SHIT! A Silverbolt Beast War! I still have that toy =D