The pumpkin spins and reveals its empty leering face, its vulgar parody of a heart. Smiling but without regard, both illuminating and casting shadows. It’s the haunting hour on the year clock, the sun has set but light still remains: awareness of death. It’s a time known in solar terms as the crepescule. Somehow the color is simultaneously dull orange and grey-blue, like looking at a campfire with sunglasses on, or standing in the shadows, looking at the sun with your eyes closed. It’s natural to see phantoms at this time ofyear, just like it’s natural to see and hear things just before you go to sleep, as different parts of your consciousness program click on, disengage, and temporarily re-engage. ⠀
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From the pages of Colt Noble and the Megalords comes Tim Seeley’s War Man! Officially licensed War Man action figure, from Tim Seeley and Warlords of Wor

Fun to apply all possible fists to the cyber arm at once, impressed that it can stand with so much weight on one side.

Interesting to see alternate paint decorations to the blockade figure shown previously or clawbber figures in general.

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Heavy machine gunner codename: blockade.

An homage to the ’86 version of Roadblock from  Hasbro’s G.I. Joe

Love that this figure came with a classic file card like the old Joe’s. I love to get Clawbber figures all possible hands attached at once, and I enjoy having another person of color on the team. #glyosbuildchallenge

From the card- “Blockade was born the third of eight children. Raised on the outskirts of Wor in the Perpetua Falls district, near the wilds of Perpetua Mire, Blockade had two jobs at home: hunt food, and cook food. Fortunately he had two of the best teachers a boy could have; his father a world-class cuisiner, and an ex-military sniper for a mother. Lox, stock and two smoking ovens were Blockade’s life long before he decided to follow in his mother’s footsteps and join the Worian Guard. Blockade now serves in the Worian SpecOps Unit, master of heavy arms and culinary charms”

3″ tall, 10 points of articulation. Blockade comes with 1 Complete Body, 3 Bonus Heads, Cybernetic Fist, Cybernetic Claw, 2 Cybernetic Gauntlets, Rifle, Knife, Baton, Armor Overlay, and 2 Bonus Switch Pins.

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From Make a Witch, Make a Goblin by Arnold Dobrin

#halloween #witch #jackolantern #illustration https://instagr.am/p/CG74wNhgRL1/

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From Unknown, 1939⠀
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DEATH TIME!

#vintageillustration https://instagr.am/p/CG6HAvwgLQl/

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leaving Hell
(Inferno XXXIV)
Dante, Divina Commedia, Urbino and Ferrara 1477-1478
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Urb.lat.365, fol. 95v
#vintageillustration #art #dante #divinecomedy
#leavinghell https://instagr.am/p/CG5mO4cgxO_/

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From Le Courrier Français, 1893⠀
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Mephistofelia mephistophelia?

#vintageillustration #devil https://instagr.am/p/CG5ChCWgFCm/

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Pretty awesome, right? I love the idea of space archers 🏹 popping some containment suits.

Via the short story “the high crusade” by Poul Anderson

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Happy #internationalblackcatday from #pyewacket and @scottobear . We are sleepily watching taskmaster on the couch. #catsofinstagram #blackcatsofinstagram https://instagr.am/p/CG3yokagPna/

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Nebelspalter, 1904⠀
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#clown #wedding #blackcat #party #leash #sadclown https://instagr.am/p/CG3hGlHgzTd/

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Current mood

#luchador #blackandwhite #currentmood https://bit.ly/3mtl4NW https://bit.ly/35GObGH

From The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1918

#vintageillustration #nessie #scarecrow #chessie #dinosaur #cryptid https://instagr.am/p/CG1xm7RgA0H/

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Empyreus built into more of an “asterisk scythe” formation, while watching the new version of Dahl’s Witches… Anne Hathaway and the rest of the cast along with the effects made for a superior film than the Angelica Houston version. This one would have scared the bananas out of me as a kid.

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Price gouge update. I just had to look.

Just checked Amazon, the price for a 12 pack is now $19.50, or nearly 4x what it cost back in 2016. (And that doesn’t include tax)

How the hell are the hungry poor supposed to eat the very basic survival garbage when they can’t even get a ramen meal for under a what… more than $1.60 for a lousy packet of starch and salt? When I was on my own and in school, (admittedly 30 years ago)
$1.60 would literally have bought me 16 packets of ramen.

4 years ago, much more recently, (see post below) it would have paid for 3 packets and a can of veggies to mix in.

I wish I had seen the price prior to the pandemic.

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From my journal 4 years ago today – (Oct 26, 2016, shopping at harris teeter)

When did “top ramen” go to 2.79 for 6? That’s almost triple what I remember. I would get 10 for a buck last time I purchased the stuff.

#pricegouging
#nowvs4yearsago
#nowvsthen
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Devilbots fighting over your soul. (Feels a little like social media twitter and facebook competing for your mental essence?)

Silver skull face has height, but scythe arms has a hell of a reach that makes for a wicked haymaker and left hook! … pardon the pun…

I guess if they are going to drain us, they should at least duke it out first.

I was going for a demonic look with the red and silver but I think it would be more effective to have two very contrasting colors at odds with one another.

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