tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post1735328381123973652..comments2024-03-27T08:49:38.786-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: Totem HeroesSiskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-28177563574322897372013-05-01T07:52:58.362-03:002013-05-01T07:52:58.362-03:00Amazon.ca offers them to me used at various prices...Amazon.ca offers them to me used at various prices ranging from 10$ to 100$... I'll think about it.<br /><br />Who can we annoy to collect to re-issue these things new?Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-64438282908488717022013-04-30T22:20:15.817-03:002013-04-30T22:20:15.817-03:00Go on Amazon, my man. They have reprinted a whole ...Go on Amazon, my man. They have reprinted a whole bunch of them. That's where I found them after years of looking in vain.Buryaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-74460688693447900342013-04-30T22:05:49.797-03:002013-04-30T22:05:49.797-03:00I'm a big fan of the Spider, as a concept and ...I'm a big fan of the Spider, as a concept and in his comic adaptations (the current one isn't grotesque, but the Tim Truman mini was). I'd love to read the original stories, but it's a matter of getting my hands on them. I don't think they're currently in print.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-90465979984546177442013-04-30T21:58:39.216-03:002013-04-30T21:58:39.216-03:00My favorite 30's and 40's pulp hero is the...My favorite 30's and 40's pulp hero is the Spider. His animal totem characteristics consist of him acting and aping what a spider who had become a man would be like. He wears a white fright wig, prosthetic nose and fangs. Stage makeup to appear gaunt and skeletal. He wears a false hunchback and deliberately walks with a shuffling, Quasimodo gait. Even his laugh is false, sounding 'metallic'. The only gadget he had, other than over used .45's, was a web gun he used to tie up mobsters. In an era where pulp supermen like Doc Savage and the Shadow did their shtick, the Spider was a grotesque champion of justice. And what puts him apart too was just how psychotic the guy was. He killed evil doers without hesitation and would stamp a permanent calling card on their foreheads with a cigarette lighter. No kidding. If you wanna read some ultraviolent pulp literature, and I mean he makes the Punisher look like a pussy, read the Spider... just the Grant Stockbridge (Norvell Page) stuff. That guy was messed up.Buryaknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-67533716974814332862013-04-30T13:43:37.704-03:002013-04-30T13:43:37.704-03:00I'm a bit luckier (if redundant). My mom alway...I'm a bit luckier (if redundant). My mom always said she had herself three cats, and all the kids in my family have an excellent rapport with them.<br /><br />Doesn't mean I wouldn't like to try and become the Horny Toad and start spitting blood from my eyes.<br /><br />#MorrisonConceptsSiskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-6782493019109937832013-04-30T11:58:27.449-03:002013-04-30T11:58:27.449-03:00I AM . . . the sloth! Fear my recumbency!I AM . . . the sloth! Fear my recumbency!Swellsmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05593178312657435749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-50003685166390017072013-04-30T10:27:53.666-03:002013-04-30T10:27:53.666-03:00I guess I was referencing Tigra there, but you'...I guess I was referencing Tigra there, but you're right, animal totems can be both positive and negative, depending on the qualities we focus on.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-52769150464561018462013-04-30T10:03:10.724-03:002013-04-30T10:03:10.724-03:00Nice piece, but aren't tigers in the bad camp?...Nice piece, but aren't tigers in the bad camp? Flying Tiger, Bengal, Bronze Tiger (for much of the time at least)?<br /><br />I suppose we could call Tawky Tawny a hero ...<br /><br />My animal would be the koala - cute, but not without bite. Martin Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09574149543260175962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-73658606936541991162013-04-29T17:00:56.192-03:002013-04-29T17:00:56.192-03:00Well, they do have that endearing grin.
Mole Man ...Well, they do have that endearing grin.<br /><br />Mole Man should have a brother. Or a cross-genetic Moloid clone.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.com