Reincarnated as a toy collector:
There is a fanboy that I see a lot at my local comic shop. His name is Eric. Eric loves the Marvel Universe line. He told me that he just thinks they are fun toys, that the lower price point makes him feel more relaxed about collecting them and that the scale was easier for him to both display and store. So, basically he was making an argument for how convenient they are. Seriously? That’s how we’re going to evaluate superhero toys now; how “easy” they are to collect? And how much “fun” they are? I’m sorry but I have no time for people that want to half ass toy collecting. If you’re not willing to make the sacrifices necessary to collect toys properly, then in my opinion, you don’t derserve to collect toys.
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Think about it. What happens if we don’t buy comic book action figures? They won’t get made, is what. Toy companies have our nuts in a vice and they know it. They know we’re forced to buy whatever they put out. But I’m not going to sit here and be all Kum-bay-fracking-yah about what they’re forcing down my throat. I’ll buy them, but I won’t buy them without a fight.
Sidney Mellon was a parody of the worst kind of 1980ties Marvel fanboy imaginable, the kind who bought everything they brought out, thought Secret Wars II was piercing examination of the human condition and that Love and Rockets could be a good comic one day if only a solid Marvel writer like Tom deFalco would write it and half the cast was turned into mutants. He had a occasional column in Amazing Heroes, written by Gerald Jones, who took great pleasure in attacking his own comics. The guy quoted above must be a modern version of Mellon, right? Right?