The Week in Awesome.
06.20.06 / 12:24AM / Joe
Here's the latest cool news from my world, which, this past week, has been marked mainly by being off work to take care of Clark since we're in a daycare transition period.
I hit the top score in Brain Age in, like, four days... and I didn't consider it that hard at all. Seems like I should have worked more for it. Many of the "training" exercises are more difficult than the actual Brain Age Test, particularly Head Count, where I scored 5/5 only once and that was sheer luck.
And in case I haven't been clear about this yet: New Super Mario Bros. sucks, but it's a good sucks. I'm really close to beating it... against the wall because I died another damn time from overjumping into a bottomless pit.
The new Pirates set is out, the one that totally rips off the new [unrelated] Pirates of the Caribbean movie. But I am complacent because, out of only four packs I managed to pull two sea monsters (one of each type!) That's pretty cool because all the monsters are rare and selling for at least $6 apiece as singles. So nabbing a serpent and a kraken on a random booster grab is one smooth move. I'm a little worried about the kraken's line-of-sight on his interior tentacle attacks, however.
By the way, even though I know you're completely jealous of my Hello Kitty CD case, I don't want any damn emails begging me to send it to you.
Based on a ridiculous one-shot Web of Spider-Man story (from 1991 maybe?), here's the new Spider-Hulk action figure. It's the underbite that gets me. Note, that's not the Hulk in a Spider-suit, that's Peter Parker after receiving a gamma radiation blood transfusion or something... I forget what actually happened, even though I know I have two copies of the book. I forget why that is, as well.
To explain: Gumby and Optimus Prime are celebrating yet another successful game of "Hide the Poke Ball."
Clark likes Spider-Hulk as well. They both have posable fingers with knuckle joints! That's at least eighteen points of articulation just on his hands!
Small aside about Civil War #2: if you were a major league super-hero with tons of enemies who was about to make his secret identity public, would you let your wife and Aunt watch the press conference at home on the couch? | 
