Chris Owens Autograph Card

Here is a signed card of actor Chris Owens as Jeffrey Spender from The X-Files, an FBI agent who definitely is the son of the Cigarette-Smoking Man and alien abductee Cassandra Spender, and possibly main protagonist Fox Mulder's half-brother:

It's card #A-5 from Inkworks' 2005 The X-Files Connections set; however, I have never purchased a pack of cards from this set - instead, these come from a "Celebrity Repack" by card company Razor and was in a sealed top loader with a sticker that said "Authentic Uncirculated", like this:

Apart from playing in The X-Files, Owens has had bit parts in many other TV series and small parts in the films Cocktail starring Tom Cruise (1988), The Recruit starring Al Pacino and Colin Farrell, (2003), The Incredible Hulk starring Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth and William Hurt (2008) and RED with Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman and Mary-Louise Parker (2010).

I have yet to watch the current X-Files season, because I like to buy the DVDs/Blu-rays and binge-watch, so I'm always a season late on everything, but at least I don't have to deal with either commercials or  having to wait one to four weeks for the next episode.

Anthony Hopkins Clothing Card

So, uh, here's a bit of a downer. I actually got this card in a re-pack of sports cards, which also contained a golf autograph (since traded) and mostly (common) baseball and basketball cards - obviously not a pack meant for me, unless karma wanted to repay me for a past sin. It's from Razor's 2010 Pop Century collection, which was essentially a six-card box containing three autograph cards and three Celebrity-Worn Wardrobe swatch cards, probably at a ridiculously high price; my card is #SW-6 in the set, and features a piece of clothing (either a dress shirt of the inside of a blazer, in my opinion) guaranteed to have been worn by acclaimed actor Anthony Hopkins:

The Good: Sir Hopkins is an Academy Award-winning actor, known worldwide for his portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in The Silence Of The Lambs, Hannibal, and Red Dragon.

The Bad: I'm not a huge fan.

The Ugly: well, the card, overall. It's an awful design - I get the ''actor / theater curtain'' thing, sure, but why blue and not red? And why not a picture? Why so bland?

On the plus side, the celebrity's name is reprinted on the back, so it's not all generic. And my particular swatch has stitching on the side... which I can see because the swatch doesn't even make it to the edge of the hole.

I seriously wonder how little effort went into this sub-set (from images I've seen online, the autograph cards are light-years better), so much so that it makes me doubt the authenticity of the pieces; I don't think a company with so little financial means for a proper card design could be bothered to purchase their ''authentic clothing'' from renowned auctions (Sotherbys?) and instead am leaning towards some garage sale in Dayton, Ohio or a shady Ebay seller with a lower-than ''5'' rating...