Say hello to my little friend.

[athelind]

There's a Metamorpho action figure standing on my desk.

He's a little under four and a half inches tall. He's got that stylized, angular Bruce Timm-inspired JLU body -- with a head that looks just like Ramona Fradon's Silver Age artwork. The two styles mesh well together, just as they did in the Justice League episode that finally brought him to television.

I picked him up at Target for three bucks.

I loved the Element Man as a kid, even though I mostly only saw him in reprints. Metamorpho, the Metal Men, the Doom Patrol --those delightful, peculiar, eccentric heroes of the Silver Age.  The '70s had'em, too; there was a time when Man-Bat was a hero, and I thought that was the coolest thing.

If I could have gotten my hands on a Metamorpho figure back then -- even one of the Mego ones, with his exotic motley hide turned into a sewn fabric jumpsuit -- I would have been thrilled.

There's war and pain and destruction on the news. It hit 107F in the shade today. The week before last was so full of upheavals in our family that I'm still not ready to post about it yet.

But there's a Metamorpho action figure standing on my desk. And that makes me smile.

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[cpxbrex.livejournal.com]

As Adrienne and I were going about doing our daily business today it was about 85, hehe. And all these decadent Santa Cruz types were, like, "Ohmygod, it's so hot!" Yesterday, which had roughly the same weather, well, me and the li'l woman were coming back from our daily constitutional and our landlord and landlady were in the parking lot. They said to us, y'know, it was the low 80s, hehe, they said to us, "I bet it didn't get like this in Maine."

Of course, it gets worse than that in Maine, hehe. Not only does it get hotter (often in the low 90s) it is more humid as a rule. Indeed, today they had the same high as here, and fifteen more points of humidity on top of it, hehe.

It makes me wonder how long it'll be before we're, like, "Ohmygod, it's EIGHTY out. Too hot, too hot!"

In the good news, it appears our little unwanted houseguests are deader than Elvis, so you should come down and get out of the heat, dood.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

It makes me wonder how long it'll be before we're, like, "Ohmygod, it's EIGHTY out. Too hot, too hot!"

It happens to me every May.

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

I want an Ambush Bug figure! Just 'cuz.

(Which is, of course, the explanation for everything and anything related to Ambush Bug.)