Well, hello there. It's been a while but it's time to wind The Yeti Speaks! blog back up with a heaping helping of RANDOM NOTES! In all caps. Let's get started!
- I got a nice Christmas card from friend of the blog and one of my favorite artists, Karin Rindevall! The card contained a nice greeting from Teddy and the Yeti. Thank, Karin!
- I backed the Kickstarter Campaign for Chipolo...which is basically a tag that links to your phone. If you lose stuff, and it's within a certain range, you can find tagged items by looking for them on your mobile device. I had the opportunity to label the different tags...and I went the obvious route.
- I took another trip to Pittsburgh's Toonseum recently and had a nice time. Here are a few pictures from the jaunt!
I might have shown this picture before (from my last trip), but I love that Mark Schultz dinosaur with the Pirate hat. Classy.
A fun surprise was seeing a page from one of my favorite issues of "What If...?" on display. Despite this page being filled with Captain America, it was a Fantastic Four-centric issue. The angry cap in the last panel really spooked me as a kid.
If only I had animation and comic art to possibly contribute to a future Toonseum gallery...such as...*cough*...this newly framed animation cel of the Thing from the 1960s FF cartoon!
The Thing artwork isn't the only item I had framed. I also got my ticket sheet from the 2006 MLB All Star Game under glass. It's been a long time coming and I think it looks really nice. I had to buy partial season tickets for two years just to get the opportunity to buy All Star Game tickets. It was a fun time, though, for sure.
- I got a few items of original art in the mail. The first is a series of rough sketches from Pittsburgh's own Tom Scioli! The image on the right is a Brian Hitch-inspired team shot of the Fantastic Four. The image on the left, I assume, is a goof, but still pretty cool. There were three more equally cool FF images included in this art buy.
- I recently renewed my Hero Initiative membership for 2014. Included in my "thank you" package was an original sketch card - and just my luck, it was the Thing by Marvel Two-in-One artist Alan Kupperberg! What a find.
- A few weeks ago, I posted about the closing of California, PA-area comic shop Evil Genius. Since the store was closing, I had to haul away my Ms. Pac Man arcade cabinet, but lucky for me, I didn't have to toss it in the river. The game is now sitting comfortably in McMurray at Pittsburgh Comics! It was a trial, of course, getting it there (just because the game is not particularly light), but I hope to house it there for years to come. If you visit Pittsburgh Comics, be sure to say hello. To the video game cabinet.
- As I was taking the game from Evil Genius, I made one last find and picked up this early '90s-era Marvel comic box. On the very top is a nice image of the Fantastic Four. The box itself has certainly seen some use, but I managed to reshape it fairly well once I got it home, and now it holds all of my comic convention programs and related material.
Oh, and here's a picture of my cat sitting in it.
- I got this Avengers-themed card for Valentine's Day, which includes all of the movie Avengers...and the Falcon. The message is interesting..."Hope your day is a HIT!" Nothing says "I love you" better than a metaphor for being punched.
- In case anyone was wondering if I still make comics, here's a panel from the upcoming "Naked Man at the Edge of Time" one-shot. Pencils by Kurt Belcher, inks by Alan Gallo. I'm still considering whether or not this will be colored or just grayscaled.
- Keen readers of the recent Thunderbolts #20.NOW (what a weird numbering system) will notice this veiled "Weird Al" Yankovic reference. I wonder what the third song is.
- Hey, let's list some links to cool comic book-related websites. The first is for the Longbox Graveyard, which took the time to review and rank every single issue of Marvel Two-in-One, which is no easy feat.
It also brought us this image of the Thing saying "It's clobberin' time!" in Spanish:
Our second link is of the ever-popular "I Love the Yeti" site, which recently updated the Yeti timeline...
If you look at the very end of the "00s" line, you'll see the Teddy and the Yeti version of the Yeti.
Henry, if you're reading this, keep up the good work, and also take a look at this Garbage Pail Kids yeti...
Our last link goes to Multiversity Comics, for writing a very interesting and thought-provoking article titled "Comics and the Diminishing Role of Artists in a Visual Medium", linked here without comment.
- One of the many commercials to air during the blowout that was Super Bowl XLVIII was a trailer for the new Transformers movie. Transformers 2 was so bad that I've given up on watching any further installments in the series, but the trailer was interesting in that it included mechanical dinosaur Transformers. This is probably just an adaptation of the G1 dinobots, but wouldn't it be cool if it was instead a reference to Beast Wars? Yes, it would be cool. Very cool.
- Here's an image that has been sitting on my desktop for far too long. It's the Fantastic Four as Angry Birds. Great.
- Your friend (and mine), Larry, went to the Royal Rumble a few weeks ago...and sat next to Ben Roethlisberger of your team (and mine), the Pittsburgh Steelers. Here's video evidence.
- Speaking of Larry, there's some new content on the Franks and Beans website. You should check it out, because...it's Franks and Beans, guys. That should be enough of a reason.
So...much...information!
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