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It’s just that this shirt is very on-brand for him to get me. 

I had to look it up.
What's the connection with your dad?

@socrates63, you don’t know how many times I have had to dig these out of the garbage! I have lost a few over the years. Tapes break, parents recycle notebooks that seem to be “old”, “used up”, or “not of any use anymore” (I don’t blame them for making the simple mistake), a few were simply misplaced and haven’t turned up yet and some have just been lost to the sands of time. Most of these items are accounted for and are safely stored in the HCA (Harry Closet Archives).
My Metroid and other comics, books, cartoons, audio recordings, etc. of old are really bad. Crude art, horrible dialog, one-dimensional characters, godawful humor; these have virtually nothing going for them. They suck, plain and simple. Despite that, however, I am oddly proud of them.

That's awesome. It's cool that you held on to these things 👍

And here’s one of the comic books, “MTT [Metroid’s Turnover Tops] The Treasury: Volume II”. The humor in this is very on-brand for a second grader. Lots of fart jokes.
This book has seen better days. I spilled a sandwich bag full of horehound candy and water on it in my youth. I dropped the candy or something in summer school and filled a bag with water from the bubbler and gave them a little bath as to not waste them. I left the notebook and the candy out in the hall when I went to class. When I returned, MTT had absorbed the hard candy-infused water like a sponge. I was devastated at the time. All my hard work undone by my foolishness and some “old people candy”. Damn, horehound is good though.
I think Metroid deserves his own thread in “Off Topic”. I will have to make that in the coming days.

 

And here is a Christmas comic, perfect for this time of year. Metroid was disappointed with his gift of Lays potato chips... until the Christmas tree came to life and... attacked him? Spooked him?
I believe our printer has a scanner built in. I will try to scan these old comics to try to “preserve them online”.

Found these (and many more) in the basement while cleaning today. I haven’t listened to these in years. Since 2017 or so. I am in for a nostalgia trip, and you are in for a “what the hell was that kid on” sort of trip. 
I forgot to mention the tapes simply titled “Metroid”. That’s a mockumentary series. I’m telling ya, folks...

Oh, OK. I have been to Green Bay, Madison, and Milwaukee before. My dad was born in Milwaukee, by the way.

We drove up to Stevens Point today to deliver the Metroid bowl I made a while back to the original creator of this Metroid plush.

We drove up to Stevens Point today to deliver the Metroid bowl I made a while back to the original creator of this Metroid plush.

You’re in for a treat.

You’re in for a treat.

Not weird -- imaginative and creative 👍❤️
 

I’ll see if I can’t find a way to upload a few “My Little Metroid” episodes and scan a few “Metroid’s Turnover Tops” comics later this Christmas break.
I tells ya, I was a weird kid!

Yup! Metroid and I went on some crazy adventures. The reason it influenced me so much is that (crazy as this sounds) it helped my creative juices flow. I will have to post the numerous Metroid comics, stories, animations, and “radio shows” on cassette someday. I was around 6-8 when I made most of those.

You've had that plushy for 10 years?

Dang, man, that's rough.
Hoping things improve in time for the new year.

Good riddance, 2020.

No, Rick! It was Fernie Sanders! He is staying inside for the winter so he doesn’t freeze over.
Argh. Too many puns today!

No, Rick! It was Fernie Sanders! He is staying inside for the winter so he doesn’t freeze over.
Argh. Too many puns today!

Was it this Fern?

😆 fernst place
That's dad joke worthy right there 😂 I'm sure Rick would approve

Thanks, Young.
You know how this all started? I put a fern on the little TV in the game room that my mom didn’t want there. I only put it there AFTER MY DAD TOLD ME TO! I didn’t even want it there in the fernst place. See what I did there?

Sorry to hear, Harry. Praying for peace and reconciliation for your family.