Bluuuh! I Vant To Veesh You A Appy Alloween! Bluhhhhhh!

Sam Hundley, who does an amazing job on his illustrations for the pilot, stepped out from behind his drawing board and settled down instead to a keyboard. The photo that accompanies this little strip of horror is eye-catching but creepy. A doll soured by years of attic neglect...cracked from decades of searing summer heat and frozen winter still. Once loved by a young girl, but forgotten and left instead to bugs and beasts we don't want to know about that live just below the roofline of our homes. Certainly all dolls don't meet this miserable fate? Mine don't. Well, let me say my ACTION FIGURES dont! (E-dub? Dolls???) Vintage G.I. Joe still lives out in the open with many of my 60's toys. It's part of my retro decor. Wanna give your morning guy a hard time because I didn't blow up my army men and run my Hotwheels throught the mud like you did. Go right ahead, I could put my 11 year-old Colby through college if I put it all on Craig's List or eBay. But wait. Yes I do have a doll. A ghostly one named Casper. Certainly the "friendly ghost" could not be considered "creepy." His eyes are not hollow, his arms and legs are intact and in fact, his pull string still works! Admit it. You had one too. Terry cloth outer layer with a hard plastic face...eyes still in place and peering at you via a non-threateningly side glance. I used to wonder if it was a risk displaying him at my cool pad, but when I saw an interview with the brilliant John Lassiter of Pixar Animation fame, I knew it was a cool thing. There, behind his toy-filled desk on the Disney lot was his own Casper, along with many of the toys that inspired the immortal first Toy Story epic. Somehow I couldn't imagine Casper ever becoming a moth-eaten husk of my childhood memories...Or could it? I took a picture for my blog entry, but now that I look at it, the lighting may be changing my mind! Does he look a little creepy to you?

Happy Halloween!

Eric