From baseball back to superheroes (mostly). It is not that I got no baseball collectibles this year, but the 2024 Orioles that I did buy were nothing to be celebrated.
We'll start with Lucy and Charlie Brown from A Charlie Brown Christmas, a quality Christmas special if there ever was one. It just makes you feel good.
Behind the Big Three is the Spectre. He is the spirit of God’s vengeance. There were plenty of people in biblical times for him to feast on so he's gonna have at it.
The Muppets return with a California Raisin to play music for the Nativity. I’m thinking like when people come to pay their respects, like the Three Kings, they could play walk-up music.
There is also a Shogun warrior up in the back by the window, just keeping an eye on things ready to pounce if needed.
Then there's Buffy ready to go. It's just not a nativity without Buffy. In fact, one of my nieces got married last year and she asked me for some nativity figures. I think she wanted real figures not superheroes, so I provided them … although I did give her a Buffy because she makes everything better.
I was watching the movie Red One recently, and Santa Claus in that movie has a bodyguard. In the movie, it's the Rock, but I don't have a Rock figure so the bodyguard of my dinner is another PlayMobil figure, a knight from when I would little.
Finally, there is Shazam. I never had a lot of Shazam comics back when I collected them, but he has always been a favorite. It might have been because my grandmother had a Smithsonian collection of old comics and he featured in it. It actually had a lot of weird comics that I didn't care for like war comics and little Lulu, so maybe I just liked Shazam because he was what you're supposed to read in comics. The movies are pretty fun, too, especially the first. All this even though he's kind of a amalgam, with powers related to Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, and Mercury). So a Jewish King, several Greek gods, a Greek myth hero, and a Roman god. Nevertheless, still fun
Merry Christmas.
