Random: Husk Musk & Wolverine Workouts
The comics world is a strange and wonderful place where anything can happen. In specific, one can read an adventure comic book starring a relatively obscure straight(-ish) character created and portrayed by a gay comedy icon and one can bid for the privilege of a shirtless workout with Wolverine.
Danny Husk: The Hollow Planet will be published by IDW on October 26 of this year - just in time for Halloween - and is based on a screenplay written by the ever-fabulous Scott Thompson. Danny Husk was Thompson's recurring, doofy, team-player-y business executive character on the much-loved Kids in the Hall TV series of the late '80s and early '90s. The Husk skits were always hilarious - twenty years later I am still perfectly capable of being reduced to hysterical laughter by the "Husk Musk" sketch - and I consider them second only to Buddy Cole in terms of what I loved about that show. A comic book starring that character is both a welcome addition to the comics landscape and an incredibly random one. Moments such as this are why the gods gave us the record-scratch sound effect, I guess. Further reading reveals that Thompson will be podcasting from San Diego Comic Con and the comic's creators, Frozen Beach Studios, will be holding a lottery to purchase goodie bundles including autographed photos and t-shirts and posters for $75. The part of me that is slowly getting too old for pop culture thinks that's very nearly scandalous for what it gets you, but it ain't my money.
On top of that - a carefully chosen phrasing, I assure you - there's something really special for someone with five figures to burn and love in their heart: Hugh Jackman is auctioning a package of two work-out sessions with him as he gets ready for the X-Men Origins: Wolverine sequel. One session is a general workout, the other is boxing training in an actual ring and everything, something so butch it fogs my sensors. Once all that body work is said and done, the winner gets nutritional and workout advice from Jackman's trainer. Jackman has said he's perfectly happy to do this shirtless, too, if the money is right. All this is to benefit the Summit School, a school in Queens that focuses on special needs kids who require individualized education. It's a worthy cause, but the bidding is already well past $10,000 and goes up in thousand-dollar increments from there. I'm not quite willing to get a home equity loan to go there, but the thought did cross my mind. Would the hormonal experience of Hugh Jackman sweating at arm's length make up for getting professionally punched by him? As my boyfriend would say, "Hey, some people pay good money for that," and apparently he's right.
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Posted to Fantasy, Trade Paperback on 14 July 2010
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