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March 06, 2005
An "Action" Figure for Everyone
Highlighted in today's New York Times, Happy Worker makes these terrific figures of super heroes we can all relate to:
- Geekman: with superpowers such as "ungodly coding abilities; opposite sex repulsion; analytical reasoning; ability to create technical acronyms; less than ideal personal hygiene routine" and vulnerabilities such as "wedgies; dodge balls; unknown questions of existence; girls of the Internet"
- Moneyman: with superpowers such as "Unearthly financial dexterity; loophole creation; fuzzy math and figure fudging; money bunny attraction" and vulnerabilities such as "Social situations; irrational exuberance; due diligence; depreciation; natural sunlight" and
- Bossman: whose superpowers include, "management might; schmoozing; big picture vision & revision; yes man magnetism; power tie collection; adding value; deliverable delivery" and vulnerabilities are "shareholders; analysis paralysis; total quality management; employee empowerment; action itemitis"
Would love to see what they make of some others characters such as marketing dude, art director, sales star and maybe even, god forbid, venture capitalist - what do they think of their superpowers and vulnerabilities.
Finally, one thing was noticably missing, women. Happy workers, bosses, moneypeople and geeks should come in female versions too, but also they should have some of their own unique characters (and not just Martha and Carly either).
Also, for some nice in action shots of geekman see here and a review of bossman click here.
Posted by johnza at March 6, 2005 05:17 PM
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