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Moe’s New Agenda Cover

Augiewan — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 02:40:42 +0000

The kids have gone back to school now and Moe has officially started drawing all over everything school related again. The first victim has been her new agenda and here’s her official explanation of what we see below… Invader Zim (twice), Gir (twice), Minimoose, Perry the Platypus (twice), Superman (sign), Phantom Girl, X-Men (sign), The Legion of Super Heroes (sign), Maddness, Nightcrawler, Dream Girl (sign), Gates, Matter Eater Lad (sign), Jumpy Ghostface, Doofenshmirtz, Patrick Star, Wildfire, Lightning Lad (sign), Turtle Cannons, Brainiac 5 and (sign), Lightning Girl (me), Orange Lantern (sign), Aqua Lo (Lauren), Pablo (Lo’s pet turtle), Reeses Wonder (Anna), Kent (Kent), Shiny (our friend), Flowber (Anna’s pet sparrow), Slo Moe (My pet snail), Hal Jordan, Commander Apetrully, The Incredibles (sign), Plankton, Gaz, Death Bee, Coco, Bloo, Cheese (retarded cheese), Triplicate Girl, Saint Walker, Quislet, Saturn Girl (ear), Wolverine (hand)

These characters are mostly from the Legion of Super Heroes, Invader Zim, Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, Hero:108, Spongebob Squarepants, and some other comics and cartoons.

Gotta love it! Here’s the cover:

Legion of Super Heroes Comic – Biggest Mistakes

Augiewan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:02:09 +0000

My daughter just whipped up a one-page Legion of Super Heroes comic this evening staring (of course) Brainiac 5, or as she and other obsessed fans call him, Brainy. This is a cute one if you know anything about him as a character… Let her know what you think!

Click for the whole comic…

Kill Brainy Week Update

Augiewan — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:35:10 +0000

As I mentioned last week, my Brainiac 5 loving daughter is now past the half-way point of enduring the second annual “Kill Brainy Week”, created and produced by her two best friends at school. Three days down, two more to go. I’ve asked her to type out a little bit about what they’ve done to Brainy each day so far, so for your enjoyment (or horror) here are her descriptions…

Monday – First they took a plastic knife and poked his eyes out. Then they poked a huge hole for his ‘mouth’. After that they ripped the paper in half and stuffed one half into a chicken sandwich bun and stuffed that in a french fry container. Then they began to take more plastic knives and stab the box… =O! It was scary… The other half got wrapped in ham and was thrown away. Brainy Pic!

Tuesday – Ok… today they ripped his head off the picture. Then they shredded the body and stuffed it into their mashed potatoes and corn. It was disturbing… =O! (They called it his grave and then said rest in pieces!) Oh yeah, and the head? They dumped it in honey and stuck it to a dude riding his bicycle on the milk carton. After that they smushed the carton and threw it away… Brainy Pic Again!

Wednesday – Alrighty! =) Today they tore it in half (again). They gave the bottom half of it to my friend and he used it as a napkin. The other half endured worse; they took my empty milk carton and filled it with our lunches, (salsa, chips, milk, sour cream, nacho cheese, etc) Then they put gold fish in it. We usually do this every time we get goldfish and it’s called “Fishie Island”. Except this time they stuck the top half of Brainy into it and crushed it and threw it away… =( !

So there you have it. She talked about Brainy so much, she drove her friends to breaking point. I’ll update once more at the end of the week to let you know how the rest of the week went…

As a bonus for any Legion of Super Heroes / Brainiac 5 fans that stumble on to this post from a search engine, here are a couple shots of her latest Brainy custom figure. It’s a repainted Spiderman Mighty Mugg…

2nd Annual Kill Brainy Week Starts September 27th

Augiewan — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:09:32 +0000

As I’ve mentioned before, my teenage daughter is a huge Legion of Super Heroes fan. She fell in love with the comics (which she now has hundreds of), as well as the cartoon series (which ended abruptly because apparently they didn’t have enough batman series yet – whatever) and the rest is history. She also happens to be OBSESSED with the character Brainiac 5. Yeah, I’d say it’s bordering some sort of crazy “crush” of sorts. Not that I can say much, at her age I was equally obsessed with a cartoon character. And her’s is not nearly as dorky as mine was…

So yeah, back to the subject at hand. I found out today that some friends of hers at school created a “Kill Brainy Week” last year at school during which, each day they would print out a picture of Brainiac 5 and proceed to destroy it (rip, tear, cut, etc…) in front of my daughter in order to torture her. They get a bit tired of her comparing everything and everyone to Brainiac 5, specifically how whatever or whoever isn’t as awesome as Brainy.

This came up because she realized today that they are gearing up to celebrate the second annual “Kill Brainy Week”, this coming week. She’s thinks it’s funny (as we all do), but I think she’s actually a little sad that she’ll be seeing him “killed” each day this week in various ways. I’m curious if they plan to get a little more creative this year with the ways they’ll do him in.

Oh yeah, and my early teen crush on a cartoon character? Ariel. Yes, the Little Mermaid… *hangs head low* Though I did have a thing for Tank Girl too… Does that redeem me at all or just make me that much more of a dork?

Legion of Super Heroes Exclusive Action Figures Available May 15th

Augiewan — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:48:12 +0000

From what I’ve been able to tell from listening to the “comic geeks” at the local comic shop, you either really like the Legion of Super Heroes, or you couldn’t care less. Crazy super-powered kids from the future saving the galaxy and messing with Superman’s time line. My 13 year old daughter happens to be in the “really likes” category, in fact she’s obsessed with them. She’s been gobbling up every back-issue she can get her mitts on and can talk Legion history with the older guys (the majority of Legion fans would be men in the 40′s and 50′s).

She’s known about the 4 exclusive JLU-style Legion figures (Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad and Brainiac 5) coming out on MattyCollector.com for some time now and has been reminding me often that I’ll need to be online on May 15th to order them as soon as they go on sale.

What cracked me up this morning (May 15th) is that I woke up to a house filled with reminder notes that she has placed about before heading off to school. On my night stand, on the refrigerator, by the coffee pot, on my computer desk… Pretty much anywhere she knew I’d be today.

So yeah, like a good geek dad I’ll be waiting for the figures to go on sale today so I can order them for her. For those interested, here’s the description given…

“From the far reaches of the 31st century come four brand-new JLU action figures to complete your collection! We welcome the arrival of Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad and Braniac 5 by offering them as four individually carded figures shipped together in one slip case—the first time you can get ‘em this way at MattyCollector.com!”

Not sure how fast they’ll go, so if you want them, better go get them!