{"id":6666,"date":"2024-06-30T13:38:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T17:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=6666"},"modified":"2024-07-01T18:35:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T22:35:21","slug":"forgotten-heroes-2024-bee-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=6666","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten Heroes 2024: Bee-Man!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This book is a boon for Forgotten Heroes enthusiasts. The heroes contained herein are indeed forgotten, and usually for good reason. This book gave me the impetus to construct Rainbow Boy<\/a> a couple of years ago, and it delivered again this year.<\/p>\n\n\n

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May I present: Bee-Man! Never heard of Bee-Man? Me neither! That’s because he lasted a total of 2 issues, printed before my time, in 1966. That’s it. He’s probably in the public domain, because I can’t imagine anyone giving a shit about Bee-Man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barry E. Eames (clever, right?) sabotages a rocket ship that is landing after being out in space, collecting cosmic samples, Eames hopes to make a quick buck by selling whatever’s inside. What’s inside turns out to be angry space bees, who drag him back into space after stinging him a lot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bee- Man returns to Earth, intent on resuming his criminal ways, now armed with the advanced technology of the space bees. He has a huge, beehive-shaped “secret lair”, from which he hatches his criminal plans to steal gold, radium and honey. Really. But in the second issue, Bee-Man allies himself with the FBI, to fight against the space bees’ plans to enslave humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was no third issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To make Bee-Man, I used these two Heroclix miniatures, a Para-Demon and the Wasp. I removed the Para-Demon’s jetpack and axe, and replaced the jetpack with the Wasp’s wings. I sculpted his bee-helmet, but there was no way I was gonna do his antennae. Too small, and beyond my skill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, it was just a matter of repainting him to look like Bee-Man. And that’s what I did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looks not bad, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I managed to get this one in in the late hours of Forgotten Heroes this year. Looking forward to the Season of Scenery!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This book is a boon for Forgotten Heroes enthusiasts. The heroes contained herein are indeed forgotten, and usually for good reason. This book gave me the impetus to construct Rainbow Boy a couple of years ago, and it delivered again this year. May I present: Bee-Man! Never heard of Bee-Man? Me neither! That’s because he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,30,3,52,25],"tags":[71,28],"class_list":["post-6666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversions","category-insanity-pile","category-miniatures","category-painting-challenges","category-super-heroes","tag-forgotten-heroes","tag-heroclix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6666"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6674,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666\/revisions\/6674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}