Well, since
every red-blooded blogger has had something to say about
this (available soon at a comic shop near you, except that they've apparently already sold out their production run, so if you haven't already pre-ordered it, it may be too late), I will too. Here's what I have to say:
If anyone is looking for an overly-expensive birthday present for me, this is it. And no, the
Justice League Unlimited Locker Room figures are
not an acceptable substitute.
Thank you.
LATER: Note to
Sideshow Collectibles: Consider a 6" version. This dang thing is 14" tall! That's
huge! Even Barbie is only 12" tall, and that's standing up straight.
I wonder if it's worth pointing out that most artists suck at faces. Most characters, in most books, the only reason we know who they are is by the costumes they wear or the props they carry. There are exceptions, of course, and this MJ statue is so clearly MJ that she doesn't
have to be holding a Spider-Man costume for us to know who she is. Part of that is attitude (the pose that has attracted so much criticism is classic hey-look-at-me MJ), but part of it is that the face is right.
Has anyone even looked at the face?
I used to think that toy companies went over the top when they created "special edition" toys for characters that only appeared once, or character variants that never appeared in the comics (I thought of that as an interesting cover story for "we got the costume wrong").
