30 years of dead Elvis

The 30th anniversary of the death of Elvis is coming up on August 16th. It’s a pretty big deal and they’ll be doing all sorts of crazy stuff in Memphis, Tennessee. I’m an Elvis fan but not a real big one. I just basically like the theory that he faked his death and is still out there some place. That concept was covered nicely in the film Bubba Ho-Tep played by the always amaziningly funny (pre Burn Notice) Bruce Campbell.

So anyway, I really didn’t know about the 30th anniversary until I heard about it from Chris Staros. Who is a gigantic Elvis fan, probably the biggest that you’d run across at any comic book convention. He said he liked the Buba Ho-Tep movie and when I ran across this action figure (Wizard World is covered with toy booths) from NECA I had to buy it for him. It’ll probably end up in a box in the Top Shelf warehouse but it’s the thought that counts. It’s actually a pretty neat sculpt.

Being a semi-Elvis fan I’m glad I was able to draw my version of dead Elvis for the Recalcitrant Jones and the Deadbeats comic in Students of the Unusual. I actually dressed up as dead Elvis for Halloween about 10 years ago. No I will not post a picture of it.