Spike-X Got His X-Mas Present Early
Spike-X lives in Australia.
It's a fact, and I feel that he's come to grips with it in his own way.
I typically send him a Christmas package in September, because it takes about 2 1/2 months (or longer) for it to reach him using the cheapest shipping option that the US Postal Service offers.
Spike likes to joke that it's being transported by canoe.
Well, they stopped offering that option, so I took the next cheapest option.
It arrived on Thursday.
Spike, of course, opened it.
I got him two John Byrne comic book trades (Superman & Batman: Generations Vol.1 & 2), a little gadget called the iSlice (ceramic blade that works really well for opening electronic packaging), and a poster by Uncle Scrooge artist Don Rosa.
Rosa sells these really great parody covers at Dragon*Con, and I bought one for Spike.
Spike-X is a huge fan of pre-crisis Superman, so I got him this one. It's a parody of the famous Silver Age cover showing Superman being turned down for membership by the Legion of Super Heroes. Note that Uncle Scrooge is being turned down by his nephews because his bribe isn't big enough.
Here are more photos of Rosa's parody covers (I took these at the 2006 Dragon*Con). The parody of Action Comics issue 1 is something I got Spike-X for last Christmas.
It's a fact, and I feel that he's come to grips with it in his own way.
I typically send him a Christmas package in September, because it takes about 2 1/2 months (or longer) for it to reach him using the cheapest shipping option that the US Postal Service offers.
Spike likes to joke that it's being transported by canoe.
Well, they stopped offering that option, so I took the next cheapest option.
It arrived on Thursday.
Spike, of course, opened it.
I got him two John Byrne comic book trades (Superman & Batman: Generations Vol.1 & 2), a little gadget called the iSlice (ceramic blade that works really well for opening electronic packaging), and a poster by Uncle Scrooge artist Don Rosa.
Rosa sells these really great parody covers at Dragon*Con, and I bought one for Spike.
Spike-X is a huge fan of pre-crisis Superman, so I got him this one. It's a parody of the famous Silver Age cover showing Superman being turned down for membership by the Legion of Super Heroes. Note that Uncle Scrooge is being turned down by his nephews because his bribe isn't big enough.
Here are more photos of Rosa's parody covers (I took these at the 2006 Dragon*Con). The parody of Action Comics issue 1 is something I got Spike-X for last Christmas.