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Title: The Dark Knight Returns Figures : Superman
Post by: Super Monkey on December 16, 2003, 11:31:31 PM
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Title: Re: The Dark Knight Returns Figures : Superman
Post by: Defender on January 04, 2004, 07:08:26 PM
Wow, neat figure. :) Not too sure about the Flock of Seagulls hair Kal's got going, but apart from that the figure looks really badass. :)

 -Def.


Title: Re: The Dark Knight Returns Figures : Superman
Post by: TriSaber on January 09, 2004, 10:39:49 AM
Geez! Looks like both Supes and Bats need to cut down on their daily gamma radiation intake.


Title: Re: The Dark Knight Returns Figures : Superman
Post by: nightwing on January 10, 2004, 02:26:06 PM
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Not too sure about the Flock of Seagulls hair Kal's got going, but apart from that the figure looks really badass.


I'm sorry, did you say "bad" or "fat"?

Miller's stuff is okay on the page...sometimes...but I don't really think it survives the translation to statues or figures.  I was watching the "Daredevil" DVD last week (something I don't recommend doing, BTW!) and in an interview even Miller himself admits his pictures are not pretty...they're meant to keep things racing along at a clip, so if he has a style at all it's "hurried." Immortalizing them forever in a static format seems to be missing the whole point.

I liked DKR and hated the sequel, but in both cases I couldn't get behind Miller's take on Superman.  So this is one less thing I have to save up for.


Title: Re: The Dark Knight Returns Figures : Superman
Post by: Gernot on April 06, 2004, 11:18:14 PM
That is the ugliest Superman piece that will be in my collection!  

It'll have a place, sure, but wayyyyyyy in the back, behind even Hasbro's and Mattel's offerings!  ;)  

If anyone asks, I'll tell them the Frank Miller Superman is the Alfred E. Neuman figure all grown up!  :D


Title: Re: The Dark Knight Returns Figures : Superman
Post by: pocketmego on May 11, 2004, 02:27:33 AM
I have a great desire to own as many Superman figures as I can.

Yet, This Superman is so hideous. I don't want him or the Hush one with the weird green crap growing on his neck.

It's a dillemma.

-Ray


Title: Re: The Dark Knight Returns Figures : Superman
Post by: Tiberious on June 16, 2004, 01:32:40 AM
I don't know if its because the pictures seem to be taken from below, but these figures look weird, fat and kind of mutated. Something seems wrong with their faces too. I much rather have the dc direct ones ^^.


Title: Re: The Dark Knight Returns Figures : Superman
Post by: Gernot on June 16, 2004, 02:18:21 AM
These figures are by DC Direct, too, Tiberius!  

I've heard rumors, though, that Mattel is planning a Superman line of action figures.  I haven't heard what scale or style they're going to be in, though.  

Oh, by the way!  This information came from Julius Marx, just so no one thinks I'm making this up.  :)

Gernot...


Title: Re: The Dark Knight Returns Figures : Superman
Post by: dto on June 16, 2004, 02:29:17 AM
Tiberious, if you take a look at Miller's "The Dark Night Returns" TPB, you'll see that the figures are actually MORE "realistic" than the original stylized artwork!  Miller portrayed an ugly future by distorting everything, making Batman into a burly beast.  He sent even further over the edge in "The Dark Knight Strikes Back".  I took a look at the TPB and had to put it down.  The "artwork" was starting to make my eyeballs bleed.