Month: December 2017

Out of Season

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Walking home on this post-Christmas pre-New Year’s December day, I saw:

in the bare branches of a shrub –  a tiny scarecrow made of twine and fabric on a slender wooden stick, something you might use as a whimsical accent in a fall container garden

crushed in the road – a neon purple plastic spider ring like children buy for a quarter from the toy vending machines in the department store lobby around Halloween

Why did these creatures choose this day of all days to come creeping out of whatever under-baseboard secret kingdom obsolete holiday decorations dwell in? Perhaps some myopic felt Easter bunny stuck its head out of a hidden burrow, mistook the glitter of Christmas lights for the twinkling of stars, and sounded the all-clear – “Christmas is over! Come out! Come out!”

I felt sorry for the poor things, the way I feel when I see the crocuses pushing up their heads during those rare warm spells in February. “Shhhh, go back to sleep. Winter isn’t over yet.”

Professor Geryon’s Inter-Dimensional Portal Laboratory

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Professor Geryon, the occasional nemesis of The Dirt Cheap Suicide Squad, is also a contributor to some of the more . . . interesting chapters of the Rocket Family’s lives. Here he can be seen in his laboratory with his assistants, where things are getting nicely out of hand . . .

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Meet the Rocket Family

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Little Robinson “Robbie” Rocket likes to daydream about being a space adventurer like his mom and dad.
Little Robinson “Robbie” Rocket likes to daydream about being a space adventurer like his mom and dad.
In his youth, Robert Rocket explored not only the depths of space, but alternate dimensions as well. In this undated holochronograph, he and his mercenary crew can be seen recklessly discharging their ray guns in the Interdimensional Portal Laboratory of the renowned Professor Geryon.
In his youth, Robert Rocket explored not only the depths of space, but alternate dimensions as well. In this undated holochronograph, he and his mercenary crew can be seen recklessly discharging their ray guns in the Interdimensional Portal Laboratory of the renowned Professor Geryon.
In her younger days, Friday Rocket (née Azimuth) had occassional (okay, frequent) run-ins with the law. Here she is depicted escaping the robo-Sheriff of the desert planet Arizongo.
In her younger days, Friday Rocket (née Azimuth) had occassional (okay, frequent) run-ins with the law. Here she is depicted escaping the robo-Sheriff of the desert planet Arizongo.