Thursday
Jan132011
How to Handle Exposition
Thanks to a few sharp-eyed readers, my desk has a new tenant.
This is probably as close to a Scott Meyer action figure as we're gonna get. It's actually a Star Wars Vintage Collection 2010 Rebel Commando Action Figure
January 13, 2011
Reader Comments (56)
Alas, the Omnipresent Man action figure is terrible from a merchandizing POV. You'll never sell any, because as soon as you make one he'll be in every kid's toy chest.
At last, an arch nemesis with exactly the right level of skill to take on The Human Joke. One can only imagine what will happen when his own former henchmen, Needles and Weave, show up to extract revenge.
loved the comic, and paint the up and coming omnipresent action figure!@%!@#!@#
Finally, the copyright is correct
YAY! It's 2011!
"We might never know who did it"
"You might not"
Win!
Rocket Hat needs a sidekick. You heard it here first.
Omnipresent Man COULD have a sidekick, I guess, but where would we put him?
I knew that kid was trouble ...
Does it come with 15 realistic comic-drawing sound effects!!! ?
If you really want an accurate lookalike, there's always http://www.thatsmyface.com
oh, while Omnipresent man is bad from a merchandzing point of view, he is a great as a rental product.
No, it's perfect - "The more you buy, kids, the more Omnipresent he is"
And then there's the geek version "Omnipresent man for President of the One World Government, buy some to increase his power"
Hell, even if he just paints the figure everyone will own one.
Exposition is indeed a slippery slope.
I kinda want a Knifeketeer action figure, now...
Although a Rocket Hat action figure might be fun until the inevitable liability lawsuits.
Uhh... is Stabby holding a butter knife?!?
NO!!! If you paint Omnipresent man, you'll get paint everywhere!
Personally, I'd rather have a Rocket Hat figure. Then I could tape model rocket engines to his hat and see how realistic a rocket hat actually is.
His first appearance, and already Stabby is a more useful sidekick than Robin ever was. You should be illustrating manuals and text books! This drives home the point about over-use of exposition that all writing books and classes try to teach. Or are you already doing that?
Macramayhem! Nice!
Re: N37, stabby may be holding a butter knife, or possibly a cut throat razor, but his name is "stabby" so that is reasonable, nothing explains why the "knifeketeer" is holding a boxing glove on a stick. I don't know why but I love it, it looks so forlorn. Maybe with a decent exponent of exposition I would have understood the reason for the boxing glove but at the moment it looks entirely superfluous - which is unbeliveably brilliant.
Am I the only one who laughed at the phrase "martial crafts"? That is GENIUS.
@N37
Looks like a serrated bread knife to me. Though I don't know how he could stab anyone with something like that...
Omnipresent Man already has a sidekick: Nowhere Boy. While Omnipresent Man is everywhere, Nowhere Boy is nowhere. That's why you haven't seen him yet.
This one is especially great. Thx !
Staby is evil! Omniprestent man should fight him!
I see that your likeness has Kung Fu Grip (r). [insert mandatory onanism joke]