Yard Sale
 |
The Virus de MiloPosted Mon, 8/9/2010 by Dave
|
One of the parts of our little mythology we’ve tried to unpack has been the immortal nature of the horsemen. After all, they’ve seen more than one purported apocalypse–it’s just bad luck (or good luck, I suppose, for us) that none of them have panned out so far. And given their somewhat fantastic nature, surely they have to have meddled in the affairs of history more than once. And picked up some souvenirs along the way. So, this week we’ll put on our haggling hats and show off some of the things the boys may have come across over the years.
 |
BahPosted Mon, 8/9/2010 by Joe
|
I seem to have shot myself in the foot even moreso than usual today but drawing a detailed background, then proceding to completely cover it with figures. Ah, well. For those interseted, here’s a high-res scan of the initial sketch. How many of the 12 (give or take) Legendary Artifacts can YOU name?
OK, so here’s the full run-down of the objects I attempted to depict, left to right.
Mjolnir
Piece of The True Cross
Abraham Lincoln’s Tophat
Holy Grail
Sphynx Nose
Atlantean Trident
Excalibur
Masamune / Legendary Katanas
Pile-o-Crystal Skulls
Taxidermied Velociraptor
Barely-Contained Necronomicon
Pestilence, with the Venus De Milo’s arms.
point of clarification: that block behind the raptor’s backside is surely an enraged thwomp that had to be chained down. if that’s the case, I’ll pay in green koopa shells…
Make it five and you’ve got a deal!
(Ha, ha, the fool! Little does he know these are merely those skull-shaped vodka bottles that Dan Aykroyd sells!)
Are those the Skulls of Touganda from the Phantom movie? Or just ordinary crystal skulls? If they’re the latter, they’ll go nicely with the Waterford stemware I have in my diamond submarine. I’ll give you 4 doubloons for the lot of them.
I think that’s the Necronomicon aka The Book of the Dead, unless, of course, it is the Necro-nom-nom-nomicon, Cookbook of the Dead.
Here goes…Mjöllnir, the Holy Grail (or the Goblet of Fire), the Sphinx’s nose, (Poseidon’s?) trident, Excalibur(?), Japanese swords of unknown provenance, skulls, a taxidermied dinosaur(!?), something that looks like a Chain Chomp but probably isn’t, the Library of Alexandria (overdue books?), and some vase.
I’ll give you 3 bucks for the developmentally disabled dinosaur and a buck fifty for the angry looking square thing in the last picture.
does pestilence have arms?
I like how the dinosaur has x’s on it’s eyes, lol.