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Catman: Minor Arcana #2 - Staves: In 1993, Devastator has come up with another plan to destroy humanity. Half of ASH is captive on his mobile base, and only Catman is free to oppose him!

( A cheap keychain Bumblebee redone a la TF: Animated Bumblebee )
Yeah, a busy posting night for me. :)

( Books of Note: Superman/Shazam DVD, Atomic Robo v5 #1 )

   Dave Van Domelen, "Fixer, please...he is very old, no? Show ze elderly some respect. And THEN eliminate him." - Batroc ze Leapair, referring to Captain America, Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes #1

Catman: Minor Arcana #1 - Coins: In 1989 of another world, where the United World Empire imposes Pax Britannia on the entire planet, two Moreaus seek to save their kind from the consequences of a new invention...but it doesn't go that well. Written for RACCoWriMo 2010.

So, I was pulling into my usual really good parking space in the almost empty parking lot at 7:25, rather pleased that despite spending some time writing this morning I'd managed to get a little ahead of my usual schedule. I reach over to grab my lunch and take it in...and realize my lunch is still at home (I had several things to bring out to the car this morning, and forgot one).

Fine, traffic is light and it's not a day I have to be at work at 7:30 (which was the case last time I forgot my lunch), so I turn around and go home for it. I made it back to the parking lot at 7:40 and slid back into my really good parking space. I grabbed my lunch and headed in.

Then I noticed I'd forgotten my phone too. Sigh. While I probably could still have gotten it and returned before the lot filled up, enough's enough. (And odds are I'd be getting pestered by robocalls all day anyway.) I'll grab it after I vote this afternoon.

Last week, the foam covers on the headphones I wear with my iPod started to fray, so I looked to see if I could find replacements. But not only does no one sell just the foam covers around here, it turned out to be an oddball size that I couldn't cannibalize dollar store headphones for (and I tried that). I finally broke down and bought a new pair, even though the actual working bits of the old pair are still fine.

Unfortunately, I find earbuds very uncomfortable. Even the good ones become an irritant after twenty minutes or so, and the cheap ones hurt immediately. Non-standard ears, I suppose. And while $50 silicone uber-buds might do the trick, I'm reluctant to drop that much money just on the hope. But I also prefer the convenience of headphones that don't have a band between them, which drops me into a very narrow product range: over-ear clip-on headphones. Target has two brands, some Walmarts have a single brand, K-Mart none (and I didn't get around to checking Best Buy).

Eventually, I might end up having to order headphones from online specialty shops, the way things are trending. Unless some health scare erupts over earbuds and clip-overs regain popularity.

Edouard the Catman is a descendant of Dr. Moreau's creations in a world where Victorian mad scientists were just a little more sensible and rather than immediately self-destructing they managed to secure England's superiority well into the 20th Century. Uplifted animals were the new slave race, and Edouard was part of the slave resistance. But then the world was destroyed in 1989 by an experiment with interdimensional engines, and Ed got hurled into the ASH universe. (The original Champions version was a direct ripoff of Oedi from the Dreadstar comic, in addition to tweaking the name I've changed the cat breed.)
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Academy of Super-Heroes #109 - The Office Part 3: TGIF - With one of their own lost to the bureaucracy of the Office, ASH must regroup and figure out how to rescue him before he's lost forever!

Why characters transform from robot to something else. A companion piece to The Three R's of Transformation, which looked at how.