I own the Flash statue designed by 'Ringo. This one, though I'll pass. When Wally looks more like a knuckle-dragger than Grodd, that's a bad sign. F'n Turner.
Rob | Email | Homepage | 12.14.04 - 11:18 am | #

I would pay good money for a Lexor-based Luthor series.
BeaucoupKevin | Email | Homepage | 12.14.04 - 12:08 pm | #

that's two /different/ swamp thing statues, right mike? not one statue and a back-up in case something happens?
george | 12.14.04 - 1:28 pm | #

"Hi! I'm the Flash! I'm such a lame an uninteresting character that I have to fight gigantic intelligent primates in order to entice feces-obsessed fanboys to buy my comic, just like every other DC character without a feature film to milk."

--m4
mojo_iv | Email | Homepage | 12.14.04 - 2:09 pm | #

Maybe. But you've gotta admit that ANY comic where the lead character throws down with a giant telepathic gorilla is inherently better than any comic without the gorilla. Ask anybody.

Heck, even if the star of the comic was YOU it would sell as long as you fought a giant telepathic gorilla in it.

And it's a feces "hobby", not an "obsession".

I'm Chalk!
Chalk | Email | 12.14.04 - 2:47 pm | #

FLASH looks like a lady body builder there. I hate comics now.
JP | 12.14.04 - 5:03 pm | #

Gordon - I have the full-sized Swamp Thing statue, as well as the mini-sized version of the same design. I'm a sad, sad person.

Mojo - just so we're straight on this...I'm all about the Flash fighting intelligent gorillas in the comics. It's just the very concept of having a statue based on that motif that makes me wonder how one would break the news to friends/loved ones that you're actually planning on buying a $200 three-dimensional representation of it.
Mikester | Homepage | 12.14.04 - 6:15 pm | #

$200 would buy a lot of Grant Morrison books, which are much more easily explained.
N | Email | Homepage | 12.14.04 - 7:51 pm | #

Blue Beetle? I kind of doubt that's who it is.

Since Jim Lee said that the cover had things to throw you off, I've assumed the character Batman is holding is one of those in the background (maybe replaced by another character in the final version, or maybe it's a time-travel thing).
Sam | 12.14.04 - 8:54 pm | #

I personally want the Foster's Home statue...

if only I had 90 bucks to toss away.

I do know I want the two Seven Soldier's book at least...

I think actually...that's it. Otherworld is a possibility...
and I'll LOOK at Countdown... the only thing with a chance of getting my money from DC in March is the 7SOV stuff though.

You'd sooo hate me as a comics customer, wouldn't you?
Reid Harris Cooper | Email | Homepage | 12.14.04 - 9:24 pm | #

Mike,

I wouldn't make fun of you because you owned two Swamp Thing statues...

I would if you were one of those holier-than-thou fanboys who get their knickers in a twist at every perceived slight...but that's just me.

And hey, I nearly got into it when a local comics shop "lost" the original Golden Age Sandman action figure I had pre-ordered (with the WWI mask, although I own the one with the Golden Age mask).

Sad, sad indeed....
Gordon | Email | Homepage | 12.15.04 - 9:35 am | #

Thank you all for setting me straight on Gorilla Grodd. That character makes so much more sense now that I know he's telepathic.

--m4
mojo_iv | Email | Homepage | 12.15.04 - 9:42 am | #

Telepathic or not he is still a big TALKING gorilla. The talking makes him COOL, the telepathic aspect of grodd makes him SCARY.

Seriously, if you went to the zoo and some random Gorilla started talking to you, wouldn't you think:

"Holy shit, that Gorilla just spoke to me. This is the coolest thing EVER!"
Rob | Email | Homepage | 12.15.04 - 11:19 am | #

Ummmm... no. I avoid the primate exhibits like the plague. I don't find anything amusing about having shit thrown at me, especially if it comes from someone who can talk.

Now, a talking cat... or an intelligent space dragon that can only be understood by burnt-out middle aged alchoholic superspies... THAT I would read.

Talking monkeys and super-dogs go in the same file as Teletubbies and Dora The Explorer, as far as I'm concerned.

--m4
mojo_iv | Email | Homepage | 12.15.04 - 11:39 am | #

>>>I don't find anything amusing about having shit thrown at me, especially if it comes from someone who can talk.
One of the main reasons I now avoid Comic book message boards.


The zoos I go to have a nice thick glass wall separating people from the gorillas, though sometimes it is hard to tell who is on the correct side.

All a talking cat would tell you is to go screw yourself, you can see it in their eyes.

Dragons = kind of cool
Intelligent Space Dragons = almost as cool as talking, telepathic gorillas
Rob | Email | Homepage | 12.15.04 - 12:11 pm | #

Just because something was designed to make kids happy does not mean it can't be sublime.

Winnie the Pooh. Uncle Scrooge. Alice in Wonderland. Charlotte's Web. And IMO, Krypto the Super Dog. The very things that mojo shuns are the things about mainstream comics that bring the biggest smile to my face—the gorilla crime bosses, Bizarro Perry Whites and bulletproof monkeys.
Cole Odell | Email | 12.15.04 - 12:14 pm | #

Gorrilas sell comics, just ask Julie Schwarz


one point during his editorial tenure on Strange Adventures, the circulation figures spiked for a particular issue that depicted a gorilla on the cover. The consensus was that something about the gorilla, actually a man that had been changed into an ape, acting human had attracted readership. They decided to try it again, and put another gorilla on the cover. Again the readership spiked. "In due time," Schwartz says, "every editor wanted to use a gorilla on the cover. Even on Wonder Woman! Eventually the law had to be laid down: no more than one DC cover that had a gorilla on it a month (except, of course, for the occasional 'gorilla month,' where every title had to have a gorilla on its cover."

Gorrilamania

Gorrilas sell comics

Gorrilas age of comics

I couldn’t help it, I just had to go ape-shit with all these gorilla-links.

Its far too busy at work for me to be monkeying around like this.
Rob | Email | Homepage | 12.15.04 - 12:31 pm | #

Just on another, cheap-shot kinda note...

Is the JLA: PAIN OF THE GODS trade printed on toilet paper? That way, you can get twice the usefulness out of it...
Gordon | Email | Homepage | 12.15.04 - 1:11 pm | #

Its not that I don't appreciate the subtleties of Winnie the Pooh, its that, well, talking gorillas just plain suck.

--m4
mojo_iv | Email | Homepage | 12.15.04 - 5:54 pm | #

Allow me to channel King Solomon from Tom Strong:

"Sah, you wound me! Young blighter!"

Now if only they'd give
DougBot | Homepage | 12.15.04 - 8:36 pm | #

Yeah I think it would kinda suck for a Gorilla to throw his shit at you and then say "Ha! Shitface!" That would not be the coolest thing ever.
Shane | Homepage | 12.15.04 - 9:25 pm | #

I suppose I can't dis Grodd too much -- he was, after all, the villain in my favorite Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew story...

--m4
mojo_iv | Email | Homepage | 12.15.04 - 9:39 pm | #

Mojo - hey, yeah, I totally forgot about that Captain Carrot issue...the one that ballyhooed a Teen Titan appearance..."it's only the Changeling, but you can't have everything!"
Mikester | Homepage | 12.15.04 - 10:38 pm | #

Deathstroke, The Terminator would've been a bit out of place.

--m4
mojo_iv | Email | Homepage | 12.15.04 - 11:06 pm | #

>>>Yeah I think it would kinda suck for a Gorilla to throw his shit at you and then say "Ha! Shitface!" That would not be the coolest thing ever.

But if it happened to the kid next you (who isn't your kid) who had been throwing rocks at the gorilla, then it would be the coolest thing ever.

(finally spelled gorilla correctly)
Rob | Email | Homepage | 12.16.04 - 5:33 am | #

>>Deathstroke, The Terminator would've been a bit out of place.
J. Kevin Carrier | Email | Homepage | 12.16.04 - 8:30 am | #

Oops, my comment got cut off for some reason. Anyway, I would pay good money to see Yankee Poodle kick Deathstroke's ass.
J. Kevin Carrier | Email | Homepage | 12.16.04 - 8:32 am | #

I would've liked to see a crossover between Spiderham and Captain Carrot.

--m4
mojo_iv | Email | Homepage | 12.16.04 - 11:36 am | #