plaseebo customs' sum
courtesy of Bob Conge from Plaseebo Customs, these are photos of the Plaseebo "SUM"
figure urethane cast of the prototype (sculpted by Bob himself). the prototype was on
display for the first time at the 2007 SDCC [blogged] - the limited edition figure will
measure 8" X 8" and will be available this fall from Plaseebo.net = *coolness*
personally, this is one of the more thrilling sculpts i've seen in a while - it's baby-cute face evoking a sense of innocence; a sense of naivety of who or what "it" is, and what it had done and am going to do ... all the while trailing a huge protoplasmic-pile of human neglect (and human parts!), 'alive' in it's detailed-sculpt, mind-boggling in it's inception, IMHO - lurve the wrench-hand too!
/// CLICK HERE TO READ THE ORIGIN OF SUM
on which the character development of the figure is based)
THE LEGEND OF SUM
[copyright Bob Conge 2007]
Driving home from the local red neck bar one moon lit summer night, Roy swerves his pick up toward a dark shape that is slowly moving along side the road. A loud CRACK shatters the darkness as the front tire breaks the giant snapping turtles' shell in two, right down the center. The great snapper rolls down the embankment into the stream and Roy's laughing fades as the truck turns to cross the bridge to his shabby farm house across the stream.
The turtle, floating belly up is carried downstream to the other side and is swept into a quiet eddy where he sinks watching the moon fade from yellow to blood red through the darkening water.
This small pool cut into the bank of the stream was at the back Roy's property and he used it as his personal dump site. The water caught in this hole became a terrible toxic soup of motor oil, fertilizer, broken toys, bones and entrails of many slaughtered animals, rusty tools and who knows what else.
Over the next few months, a strange transformation took place in this evil chowder as it baked in the summer heat. A creature of revenge, born of cruelty and neglect slid its way out of the sickening mess one dark September night.
Roy's body was never found, nor could anyone explain the slime trail from the bedroom through the field behind the house.
Over the years that followed, other neglectful farmers vanished on moonless nights and folks reported vague sightings of a creature that seamed to be cobbled together from a collection of garbage, an old doll, bone, rotted skin, and broken tools, with a large snapping turtle skull for a head. They call him "SUM".
