A discussion online with some friends about favorite movie monsters recently revived my interest in the Creature from the Black Lagoon. I’d always liked old Gillface, what with the underwater swimming and the Creature’s fascination with the human young woman in the expedition that first finds him (everyone assumes it’s a him of course, because of that fascination). Being a writer, my brain started wondering how one would go about updating the story to fit our current modern world and sciences. The Creature would have to be smarter, that’s for sure (not that he was a dumb cookie to start with).
I did a little online researching on the Creature, wondering what was out there in commentary on him — or the story property. And I ran across an artist’s site, a guy who does sculpting for specialty action figures. He was doing a sculpture of the Creature – and the girl – for a commerical figure, and had posted pictures of the work in progress on it. Very interesting. But there was no indication of when this figure would be available.
At the end of October, I went to the Long Beach Comic Con. Because the convention is still on the smaller side, it makes it much easier to cruise the vendors selling action figures. Plus, they usually have some pretty good prices on things. And there it was. That Creature figure.
So of course, I had to get it. Even though I don’t really have much space for it at the moment. (I really need to rearrange all my knick-knacks!)
Here’s the whole set up —
The Creature from the Black Lagoon
The work on the figures is very good.
So, for the time being, this handsome fellow has taken a prominent position on the shelf over my desk. I’m not sure he’ll stay there, since my Desk Guardians (as seen in this post) seem to resent his presence in their space. But at least I have him.
