New Banner
Stacy is a goddess.
Update: Got a complaint about the banner?
Tough shit. This isn't your site and I don't design mine by committee. Read into the picture all you want. Analyze it. Subject it to your riducle and complaints. It ain't gonna change.
Comments
That's cool. Would've preferred the red rock-em sock-em guy to be knocking the block of the blue one though.
Posted by: mal | August 9, 2004 10:22 PM
off of
Posted by: mal | August 9, 2004 10:23 PM
Heh! I thought the same thing.
I dig it though. I was always a rock 'em sock 'em fan.
Posted by: Athena | August 9, 2004 10:26 PM
Oh. My. Gods.
Posted by: Sekimori | August 9, 2004 10:26 PM
Damnit! Now the favorite senselessly violent toy of my misspent youth has been politicized!
And damnit again, I like it.
Posted by: jon | August 9, 2004 10:31 PM
Yeah she is!!!
Posted by: Alex Knapp | August 9, 2004 10:32 PM
Awsome, even though Gobots are cooler.
Posted by: Patrick Banks | August 9, 2004 10:52 PM
She sure is. Seen this yet? http://privatedick.blogspot.com
Posted by: andrew | August 9, 2004 11:02 PM
Hey! I want the motion fuzzed DJ back! That was better than Lenore!
Stacy's work is great and all, but plastic robots? And yeah, the colors are backwards. And, and, and (insert further pointless and useless whining snivelling crying moaning sobbing and overwroughtedness in general just because Michele adjusted her site again without convening a 'change my site' convention with many back room deals and a final overwhelming committe vote that makes the thing look like a damned cyber camel, whatever the hell one of those looks like)
Posted by: Wind Rider | August 10, 2004 01:18 AM
I think those of you who want the red one to be knocking the blue one's block off are just BLINDED BY HATE.
Posted by: pk | August 10, 2004 01:40 AM
actually I have to agree. Red should be knocking blue's block off to properly represent ASV.
Posted by: bsti | August 10, 2004 01:57 AM
I love it, but I have to question the timing of the red robot's uppercut.
Posted by: David C | August 10, 2004 06:04 AM
I remember,Roc-em-soc-em robots well. I bought my two older sons,who are 34 and 38 now, this game, for a Christmas present, years ago. I can still hear them, "Mom, Mike keeps knockin my block off." Mom says, "Mike, please let Dave win just one time." Mike says, "He is just a big baby. No way. Take that you baby." Mom gets imaginary gun, cocks it, and pretends to blow her brains out. hehehe! Oh what nostalgic memories of the past. The good old days. LOL
Posted by: Cathy | August 10, 2004 08:40 AM
The Republican robot wins in this match. I got a copy of this print for my kid's room, I love it. Or maybe he's not the Republican robot, maybe he's the Red (Sox) robot. Hmmm....
Posted by: skillzy | August 10, 2004 08:46 AM
Yea, that's the ticket. It's a Yankee beating up on the Red Sox!
Posted by: michele | August 10, 2004 08:49 AM
I love the rock'em sock'em robots!
Posted by: Ken Summers | August 10, 2004 08:49 AM
NOTHING is cooler than the rock-em-sock-em robots. The Christmas Eve we got these - which my dad still has in his house - two of my uncles spent the whole evening fighting with them.
Posted by: Crank | August 10, 2004 09:00 AM
Can you make 'em move?
Posted by: spd rdr | August 10, 2004 09:05 AM
Slap some pinstripes on the Blue 'bot, stat!
Posted by: TC-LeatherPenguin | August 10, 2004 09:15 AM
Awesome!
Posted by: Val Prieto | August 10, 2004 09:37 AM
The blue bot has defeated the red bot.
Is this a subtle message like the jackass that appeared on Sullivan's weblog? ;)
Posted by: Laurence Simon | August 10, 2004 09:39 AM
I don't think there's anything subtle about that message, Laurence.
Posted by: Sekimori | August 10, 2004 10:19 AM
Stacy's mom has got it goin' on.
Posted by: mikey | August 10, 2004 11:02 AM
I question the timing of that new banner, and the red robot sucked anyways.
Posted by: VerukaSalt | August 10, 2004 11:21 AM
Gotta agree with the red-blue complaints.
Posted by: Aaron's Rantblog | August 10, 2004 12:11 PM
I personally like your new banner (though I still miss the little dead girl (and yes I know why you got rid of her and they were good reasons but I still miss her)).
Posted by: jack12 | August 10, 2004 01:16 PM
caption: DO YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS, LARRY!?!?
Posted by: Britton | August 10, 2004 01:17 PM
So: A person can't put up a banner celebrating toy nostalgia without having a bunch of knee-jerking spastics associate it with the whole red state/blue state divide? Is that how this new "internet" thing works? Hello? Is this thing on?
Posted by: ilyka | August 10, 2004 01:47 PM
You've gotta pick up the mouse to talk into it. Hurry up. We can't hear you.
Posted by: jack | August 10, 2004 02:34 PM
Well, I would like the blue robot loosing, but not for any political reason.
It's just that my best friend used to insist on using blue, so I'd always have the red one......
Posted by: Ray | August 10, 2004 02:53 PM
I like it a lot. Rock'em Sock'ems was a favorite of mine from childhood.
Though, at the same tmie, I'll admit to missing the Lenore banner.
Posted by: Ratan | August 10, 2004 04:40 PM
I miss Lenore, too, but I have my stack of comics and several Lenore dolls to tide me over.
Posted by: Britton | August 10, 2004 05:39 PM
Everybody just shut up about Lenore, k?
Happy? Had your fill? Good.
Posted by: michele | August 10, 2004 05:45 PM
sqook
Posted by: Britton | August 10, 2004 08:13 PM
Fishies go pook pook pook
Sorry Michele. Last off topic and/or Lenore post, I swear.
Posted by: Ratan | August 10, 2004 08:17 PM
I am really sick of this blatant Anti-Robotism. MICHELE LIED, FORCE TO A ROBOT'S HEAD WAS APPLIED
Posted by: Jim Treacher | August 10, 2004 08:26 PM
Man, I wanted the Rock em Sock em Robots SOO bad!
But I did get one of those air pump Sonic bazooka things back in 66 so it wasn't all bad.
FOOP!
Posted by: Dave in Texas | August 10, 2004 08:53 PM
"So: A person can't put up a banner celebrating toy nostalgia without having a bunch of knee-jerking spastics associate it with the whole red state/blue state divide?"
When you use blue and red toys, why not? Especially since all her devoted readers knows which side she's on. Reverse the colors, everyone would giggle with gless and this wouldn't be an issue.
If this blog (which I love and read every single day) weren't as political, it wouldn't be an issue at all. But that was my first impression when I saw it~great design, very clever, but the blue is knocking the red's block off? On THIS SITE? That's all I'm saying.
"Read into the picture all you want. Analyze it. Subject it to your riducle and complaints."
She said we could. But I'm not complaining, I hope it stays. This was propbably one of the only toys I was given as a child, at least that I can remember, so it brings back alot of memories. Boohoo.
Posted by: bsti | August 11, 2004 12:16 AM
rocam hits for crush arib
Posted by: Puce | August 11, 2004 01:42 AM
Well I like it, regardless of who's knocking out who. Any (non-tongue-in-cheek) complainers seriously need to get a life.
Posted by: MikeR | August 11, 2004 05:07 PM
I'm sorry, but I'm hopelessly un-hip, it seems. I saw the picture, and said, "Cool! Rock'em Sock'em robots! I loved those things!"
I didn't know I was supposed to analyze the new banner. My apologies.
[rolling eyes]
Posted by: Meryl Yourish | August 11, 2004 07:30 PM