FIG PHOTO: “PSA”

 

If you only follow the blog, this is gonna need a LOT of explaining.

Over on BlueSky, X-Men writer Gail Simone rattled off, as is her wont, a list of fictional goofy GI Joe team members. One of them was Nectarine Todd,  Todd, in my and many other’s eyes, was the standout favorite of the group. I even made a joke about the Classified Nectarine Todd being too modernized.

Then I got Breaker, a figure who I bought almost exclusively for the M.A.S.S. Device element. But Breaker has an alternate head sculpt where he’s blowing a gum bubble. You know what else is round and near a mouth? A nectarine. So I decided Breaker would become Nectarine Todd.

From that point, it was just a matter of scouring GI Joe PSA’s on YouTube for the right kids to learn a lesson, painstakingly making a Nectarine Todd logo FOR MY ART, and playing with new techniques to make an elaborately painted action figure look more like a flat cartoon with limited but improved success.

Because Todding is the other half of the battle.