McFarlane DC Multiverse

This is great news. WildCATs was my favorite. Spartan is plenty, but if they could crank out Grifter (long coat) and Zealot, that would be amazing. The full field team of Voodoo, Maul, Warblade would be a dream come true. Add Void, Emp, Majestic, Savant, Ladytron? My head would explode..
So I just found out about this figure’s existence literally two weeks ago.

And I just found it and bought it at GameStop. If I hadn’t been in this thread, I still probably wouldn’t have known about it. And if I found it today without that knowledge, I’d have thought I was hallucinating.
f1a3495d141ff571762505911424de96.jpg
 
Last edited:
So the Kelley Jones Batman has the wrong symbol? Bummer, but definitely right out of Todd's playbook. Nice not to be tempted (unless there's a variant).

I guess it more or less depends on which Kelly Jones they were aiming for. His 90's run mostly had the yellow oval, as that was the look at the time, but depending on shadows and the mood Jones was going for it would occasionally appear as just a grey bat (or, sometimes, an all yellow bat). During this period, you really never got great looks at Batman without him being swallowed up by his cape...Jones went for an aesthetic of "this is how people see Batman, instead of this is how Batman looks."

Then you get to the Red Rain trilogy, and I think (I could be wrong) there was no yellow oval there.

And modern books with his artwork feature just the bat.

My bigger issue with this figure is the coloring, I know blue was often used in the olden days as a stand-in for black but by the time Jones was doing Batman in the 90's, Batman was black-on-black to match the movies. So I don't know why they went with blue and gray on the figure.

If they were going for 90's, he should look like this...but I guess we already got one of these? I don't remember now:
Batman515.jpg



This was the closest I could find to blue and gray, but I don't think it's actually intended to be blue:

495-2.jpg


Edit: @AceofKnaves beat me to it, and more succinctly to boot :P
 
After the first six months or so of Todd holding the license, I became a big supporter.
Those first few years, I was a big supporter too. New sculpts, decent price. Mega figures for $40 and vehicles for less than $100.

Then about mid way the wheels came off. He started doing four different lines (regular, digital, page punchers, "collectors edition") endless gimmicks with platinums/ red platinums/ exclusives, endless arbitrary price gouging, source-accuracy is an afterthought on half the releases. It got really un-fun.
 
Yup.

The *line* was at its best when the character selection was garbage, and then the character selection got *much* better as the line itself got MUCH worse.
 
So I just found out about this figure’s existence literally two weeks ago.

And I just found it and bought it at GameStop. If I hadn’t been in this thread, I still probably wouldn’t have known about it. And if I found it today without that knowledge, I’d have thought I was hallucinating.
f1a3495d141ff571762505911424de96.jpg
Man, and I remember giving DC Direct so much shit about scale 25 years ago. Savage Dragon, Spartan, and Grifter all look like they belong to 3 different lines.
 
Man, and I remember giving DC Direct so much shit about scale 25 years ago. Savage Dragon, Spartan, and Grifter all look like they belong to 3 different lines.
I don’t think my camera angle is doing them any favors though. Grifter is probably too short, Spartan too tall, but Dragon feels about right.
 
I think Grifter is about right. Spartan has been portrayed as a bigger guy in the DCU than he was at Image. Dragon is way off in hand. Height is about right. Proportions are way off. Including that pin head.
 
This really the only Kelly Jones Batman I need. It looks much better than the blue and gray version they showed at SDCC.

 
Back
Top