June 29, 2007
Batman's boy toy?
Aden and I walked into the comics shop on Wednesday and the manager, without saying anything at first, barely acknowledging us, grabs a copy of Previews off the shelf and then, flipping the pages, walks over to us and says to Aden, "How did you get them to make an action figure of your boyfriend?" and he holds up the full-page advertisement for the Robin 13" Deluxe Collector Figure (vis:
At first I just thought, since Aden is a pretty big teen superhero fan, with Robin and/or Dick Grayson being her favourite, that George was just poking a bit of fun... but then I realized that he actually thought the action figure looks like me.
I dunno. Looks kind of like Peter Gallagher had relations with a Super-marionette and spawned a colour blind gymnast.
Anyone else see a resemblance?
geek
Well, considering that you were dressed up as Nightwing the first time George met you probably helped alot towards him thinking there's a resemblance :)
Posted by: Aden at June 29, 2007 12:18 PMActually, the "mask on" version does convey a certain "Graig-ness" in its expression. "Mask off", with the blue eyes, not so much...
Posted by: jen at July 6, 2007 7:34 PM