Newsarama has a preview of the first series of DCD’s Blackest Night figures, due at your local comic book stores next Wednesday. Although I’ve only cherry-picked DCD in the past, I may be picking up all of these. I’m a sucker for Green Lantern stuff, and while my primary collection is DC Universe Classics, it helps that these are all aliens, making scale differences forgivable.
DCD Blackest Night Series 1 – Atrocitus
DCD Blackest Night Series 1 – Boodikka
DCD Blackest Night Series 1 – Boodikka – alternate face
DCD Blackest Night Series 1 – Earth 2 Superman
I really think that this is going to be a big winner for DC Direct. There’s obvious visual appeal, there’s the popularity of the current story, and there’s the fact that it digs deep in support of the universe. Newer characters abound, and Arisia gets represented in the third assortment. If you’re into DC Direct overall, you’re going to want these. If you’re really into Blackest Night, you’ll probably want these. Things may be dark in the DCU, but it looks pretty bright for DCD in the near term.
Fwoosher PJ picked up the exclusive Batman figure that’s included in the special edition of Superman Batman: Public Enemies on sale at Best Buy today. He confirms that the figure is indeed from DC Direct, contrary to what I posted yesterday. I’m not sure why DCD told me the figure wasn’t theirs when I asked them about it.
I picked up the Best Buy Superman/Batman Public Enemies DVD today and the promo figure is a DCD figure. It says it on the box and base of the figure. It’s just like the New Frontier Green Lantern and Batman vs Dracula figures were. He’s just a new sculpt (like Bats & Dracula were) and not a scaled down figure like the new Frontier figure was. Here’s some pics-
In the superhero urban vinyl genre, Marvel has Mighty Muggs, but there’s no such beast for DC, at least in the mass market retail channel. I had wondered about Mattel’s Attitubes prototypes that they showed at San Diego Comic-Con, but now remember that there were no DC ones shown.
I wonder if that’s because DC Direct has the exclusive on vinyl figures. If you’re curious about their offerings, called Uni-Formz, Action Figure Blues has pics of the Uni-Formz Superman on their Facebook page.
A couple of days ago, I was lamenting having to move all of the action figures I had, not because we were moving, but because we had decided to install new carpeting. A few of them were on display in a small bookshelf that was mostly filled with books, and the balance were stored in big plastic tubs that I used to call “Staging Area One.” The carpet went in earlier this week, and I’ve been spending the last couple of days setting up the new display.
The new hotness - action figure display
We got rid of the old bookshelf and added more shelving cubes. In all, there are forty-nine 1-foot square cubes, and I’ve got figures in thirty-one of them, and extra figures and customizing supplies in fourteen more. I’d guess I’ve got at least five times more display space than I used to.
I would have loved to bring you this review of the five DC Direct Hal Jordans, but with the craziness of San Diego Comic-Con on top of the craziness of how this exclusive was sold, there was no way. OAFE’s Rustin Parr has some great pics of them (I really like what they did with the packaging) as well as a few choice words for DC Direct.
DC Direct San Diego Comic-Con Exclusive Skittles Hal Jordan
Each figure uses the same base body as the “classic” Green Hal, but with minor sculptural variances so it is effectively a repaint of the Superman/Batman Series 6 figure (though with a new torso, as that figure had a hole in the chest for translucent Lantern symbol projection).
The figure is an excellent example of the high caliber of sculpting DC Direct is known for.
