Fans,
Today a friend and I took a jaunt to Salem, Mass. It was a brief trip but we stopped in Harrison's, a huge comic book store which is one of the very few in the area with a good selection of horror film fan mags available. Anyhow, I was waiting for my friend to pay for his purchases and happened to see what I initially thought was a large Barnabas Collins action figure. It turned out to be the Penguin from a TV series called Gotham which I think depicts the childhood life of Bruce Wayne.
I haven't seen the series (I think it was canceled sometime ago?), but the figure was tall, in a dark vaguely Edwardian looking suit, with dark pointy bangs and a face whose modeling sort of suggested Jonathan Frid. In fact, he looked more like Frid than some of the official DS merchandise I have seen does. He was holding an umbrella with the handle up and at first, I had to do a double-take because I thought I was seeing a wolf's-head cane!
It might have been just my imagination, but it made enough of an impression on me to write about it here.
G.
