So we were at the comic shop yesterday and I was looking at the Hellboy 2005 movie calendar. Now, I like calendars. I think they’re quite wonderful; you get all that art for twelve or fifteen bucks, and the picture changes every month! I have two calendars up in the office right now, and if I’d found more that appealed to me I’d have bought ’em. I’m just like this. So my next statement is as a calendar aficianado, even if I’m not sure I’ve spelled aficianado correctly.
The June picture for calendars always sucks.
I have a certain investment in the June pictures, because my birthday is June 1, so I always hope there is a cool picture for June.
There never is.
In countryside calendars, the June picture is always something like a field on a rainy day. In geek calendars–take the Hellboy calendar, for example!–the June picture is not a wonderful picture of Hellboy. No, it’s a picture of Sammael. Ok, sure the Sammael creature was cool, but who the hell wants Sammael glaring down at them for their birthday month? Especially when you could have Ron Perlman’s yellow-eyed heroic demon giving you a sly look instead? If it’s an architecture calendar it’s the least interesting building in the calendar; if it’s a dragon calendar, it’s the most boring dragon imaginable. If it’s a puppy calendar, the puppy is ugly. I swear this is true. June calendar pictures suck. Even in a James bloody Marsters calendar, the June picture is about as eh as you can get when you’re talking about James bloody Marsters. (Ok, May sucks in that one too.) My 1990 ElfQuest calendar, which I loved, had a stupid grown-up Ember picture for June. Worse, she had FIVE FINGERS. I mean, *really*! It’s a conspiracy! It’s a plot! It’s *consistent*. And I just wanted to let you all know that I’m bitter about it. :)
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The June picture in my 2000 Strangers In Paradise calendar was nice.
I think it’s a birthday month conspiracy. My birthmonth is October. And who did Elfquest pick for their October pin-ups in the calendar? Picknose and Oddbit :P :)
The June picture in my 2004 hockey calendar is nice; a picture of Martin Brodeur in an action shot (similar to this one :)
Oh, yeah, forgot to mention in that first link that Marty’s the blond on the left. :>
I have to agree. I’m similarly cursed with a June birthday. Most of my calendars are naturey ones, and one’s a renaissance one. The naturely ones all have pictures of either semi-boring fields or non-descpript woods (in one, May is wildflowers on a big, glorious mountain, June is a field (just a field) and July is a red canyon), and the ren. one is some dopey-looking guy eating something. Dull, dull, dull!