Hosive

i already have a column about comic books but i also wanted one exclusively on collecting(mostly toys). so i thought of the collector…the supervillian identity of the comic book guy on the simpsons….this is a nerdy homage to him, collecting and indirectly to matt groening.

i read somewhere that its part of human nature to collect. so a question to ask, that is strangely revealing, is what is it that we collect?……handbags, music, stamps, coins, shoes, clothes, memories, gadgets, junk, plastic bags to reuse, rocks…

the only toys i am currently collecting are the futurama series….well made figures…but a small enough allotment that it’s an affordable luxury. and they don’t come out very often. perhaps 2 figures every 3-4 months. and they are usually late.

in addition,  there’s the build a robot draw that i’m a sucker for. each figure in the set comes with a part to build an additional figure….6 figures become 7!

once my daughter is born, we’ll see what she’ll collect. and perhaps i’ll pass the collecting gene and torch to the next generation.

here is wave 5….

a robot fest this time with calculon……the soap acting ham.

and a bender variant as his super hero alias…super king.

both come with a part to build the killer santa robot. one more wave of figures and off to robot building!!