Batman Armory and 1/6th Scale Batman Figure By Hot Toys

   I don't buy a lot of toys. This is mostly due to the fact that all the super-cool adult toys I want are super expensive. For example, Sideshow Collectibles and Hot Toys are now allowing you to pre-order a 1/6th scale Batman figure with a full armory not dissimilar to their 1/6th 1966 Batman figure... in fact it's the same thing, just with all the nifty faces and gadgets of the Chris Nolan movies.

  

I am Batman and you can too.

   So, for the low low price $624.99 you can own not only Batman in all his interchangeable chin glory, but Alfred and Bruce Wayne as well. There are cheaper versions available, but who wouldn't want a 1/6th scale Christian Bale watching over them as they slept?  I mean just look at the disturbingly realistic skin texture...

I contain a 1/6th scale model of Christian Bale's SOUL

   For the NERDS who are interested I will also point out the figures of Wayne and Pennyworth have 30 points of articulation and come with the costumes seen above. The Armory itself has functioning lights and storage for all of Batman's Bat-gear. The suit also has storage for all of Batman's equipment.

   

   The box includes:

The 1/6th scale Batman Armory Collectible features:

• Authentically detailed 1/6th scale Batman Armory in The Dark Knight
• Approximately 37 cm tall
• Movable armory doors
• Movable armory shelves
• Light-up function on armory ceiling with remote control

The 1/6th scale Batman Collectible Figure features:

• One (1) Batman head with patented Parallel Eyeball Rolling System (PERS) and four (4) interchangeable lower part of faces capturing his classic facial expressions
• One (1) complex Batman body featuring fabric material covered with armor

Costume:

• One (1) Batsuit collar
• One (1) black cape
• One (1) pair of black boots 

Six (6) pieces of interchangeable gloved palms including:

• One (1) pair of fists
• One (1) pair of relaxed palms
• One (1) left open palm
• One (1) right palm for holding batarang

Weapons:

• One (1) surudoi saw
• One (1) nunchuck
• One (1) cutter
• Two (2) smoke bombs
• Three (3) sticky-bomb guns
• Three (3) grappling guns
• Three (3) Batarangs for attaching to utility belt
• Four (4) mini mines
• Six (6) ninja spikes
• Eight (8) Batarangs

Accessories:

• One (1) set of wire
• One (1) antidote injector
• One (1) drill
• One (1) set of drill bits
• One (1) big hook
• Two (2) holders for Batarangs attachable to utility belt
• Three (3) utility belts
• Three (3) gun holders
• Three (3) holders attachable to utility belt
• Four (4) hooks
• Five (5) sets of grappling gun clips
• Fourteen (14) mini canisters
• Fifteen (15) pouches
• Twenty seven (27) rounds of ammo
• Armory stand with the movie logo

The 1/6th scale Bruce Wayne Collectible Figure features:

• Newly painted head sculpt with authentic and detailed fully realized likeness of Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne in The Dark Knight
•  Movie-accurate facial features with detailed wrinkles and skin texture
•  Approximately 30 cm tall
•  Body with over 30 points of articulations

 Seven (7) pieces of interchangeable palms including: 

• One (1) pair of fists 
• One (1) pair of relaxed palms 
• One (1) pair of holding palms
• One (1) right palm for holding batarang
• Each piece of head sculpt is specially hand-painted 

Costume:

• One (1) light blue shirt
• One (1) dark red tie
• One (1) black pinstripe vest
• One (1) black pinstripe blazer
• One (1) pair of black pinstripe pants
• One (1) pair of black shoes

Accessories:

• Figure stand with Bruce Wayne nameplate and the movie logo

The 1/6th scale Alfred Pennyworth Collectible Figure features:

• Authentic and detailed fully realized likeness of Sir Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth in The Dark Knight
• Movie-accurate facial features with detailed wrinkles and skin texture
• Approximately 30 cm tall
• Body with over 30 points of articulations

Seven (7) pieces of interchangeable palms including: 

• One (1) pair of fists 
• One (1) pair of relaxed palms 
• One (1) pair of holding palms
• One (1) right palm for holding batarang
• Each piece of head sculpt is specially hand-painted 

Costume:

• One (1) white shirt
• One (1) red tie
• One (1) black vest
• One (1) black blazer
• One (1) black coat
• One (1) pair of black pants
• One (1) pair of black shoes

Accessories:

• Figure stand with Alfred Pennyworth nameplate and the movie logo 

So, if you are a giant Batman super nerd with money to burn your collection would not be complete without this figure. Go pre-order it right here. 

Back Issue Flash Back - Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #128

Hey guys, in the segment I read an issue from my collection and review it. today I'm talking about Batman Legends of the Dark Knight issue 128.

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My Personal Issue

      This is part 2 of a 5-part team-up of Batman and The Green Arrow. In this book Batman discovers that Wayne Enterprises and Queen Industries are making and distributing a highly toxic defoliant to the East Asian Country of Dhabar. Their Client, Minister Skave, has put a price on Oliver Queen's head for reasons undoubtedly attached to the young future telling prophet prince whom he looks after. At the same time Vivky Vale, writing an article about the prince, interviews Skave at his home.

   These are easily my two favorite characters. I have loved Green Arrow and Batman since I was a kid so this pairing is just wonderful. Both Queen and Wayne are written perfectly with Dennis O'neil at the helm. These personalities paired with the art direction of Sergio Cariello with Matt Ryan and Rick Taylor doing the ink and color respectively gave these characters a flawless quality. The art style feels like a brilliant meld of classic and modern. I could gush all day about the gorgeous art in this book, but that's not all that works for it. The layout is also great. About the first 2/3rds of the book are about Batman and Arrow. The other third introduces us to Skave and Vicky Vale's part in the series. I suggest everyone have this series, Legends of the Dark Knight 127, 128,129, 130, and 131, in their collection. The Arrow + The Bat = a great time to be had by all!:)

Nightwing: The Series

   Nightwing: The Series is a fan-made 5 part mini-series that follows Dick Grayson as he goes on a solo crime fighting career as Nightwing. Check out the first episode below to see some familiar faces.
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  Synopsis from the creators: “Nightwing: The Series follows the story of Batman’s former sidekick, Dick Grayson aka Robin. After a falling out with his mentor, Dick abandons Gotham and everyone in it. Emerging in the City of Bludhaven years later, Dick takes on the guise of “Nightwing” easily defeating the petty criminals who infest it. But he soon realizes he may have bitten off more than he can chew when a mysterious and dangerous assassin only known as ‘Deathstroke, begins targeting Bludhaven citizens. Can he defend his new home and the lives of it’s inhabitants from the most dangerous foe he’s ever faced!? Only time will tell in this epic 5 part mini-series!”

Top Comic Book Picks for 10/1/2014 [SPOILERS]

I'm back again this week with more of my top picks and suggestions for the week of Oct. 3rd, 2014.   

What I have read and loved this week:

   Edge of the spider-verse #4 is about a spider-man who is very different from the spider-man we know and love. Patton Parnel is abused by his uncle Ted who took him in after his parents died. He tortures small animals and insects already so when he gains his powers evil reigns. He feels a hunger for flesh, he begins to mutate into a spider and kills several animals, his uncle ted, and attempts to kill his love interest Sarah Jane before getting interrupted by Morlun who proceeds to rip Patton's arm off. The story ends and climaxes in a very tales of the crypt kind of way with baby spiders bursting out of a bite mark Patton had given Sarah Jane... subtle...

Mutating Spider Creatures Smell Just Like Roasted Chicken

   The latest installment of this story was beautiful. I love cheesy horror stories like Tales of the Crypt and Creepshow and all that stuff so seeing one of my favorite childhood characters get a b-movie makeover made me smile. I'd love to see what happens in this universe with all these radioactive spider-babies running around busting out of peoples faces. Go pick this brilliant book up for a good fun time.

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   Gotham Academy #1 introduces us to Olive Silverlock, Maps Mizoguchi, and Gotham Academy. In this, their first adventure, Olive, in her second year at the academy, is instructed by headmaster Hammer to show Maps the ropes and get her adjusted to life at a boarding school. Maps, in her first year, is excited to spend time with both Olive and her own brother who also attends the school (and formerly dated Olive). Issue 1 introduces us to some other characters, Colton Rivera the troublemaker, Pomeline Fritch the bully, all the usual school archetypes. However, this school is in Gotham City and that means things are not always what they seem. There are rumors floating through the student body of a specter haunting North Hall. Olive seems deeply troubled by some tragedy that appears to have something to do with Batman. And someone or something is lurking in between the walls of Gotham Academy

Olive (left) and Maps (right) run to class
in skirts that give me a headache if I stare too long at them. :(

   I don't read a lot of comics geared toward kids. I like my comics either bloody and spooky or superhero oriented. This one, however caught my eye from the first time I heard about it and this week it was finally released. The spooky ancient feel of the academy is right up my alley. The art style by Kerschl, Geyser, and McCaig was just beautiful with it's simplistic design choices accentuated by really well placed shading and line work, and this optical illusion-like transparency they give to things like Olive's skirt is just so pretty to look at without distracting you. I will be reading this every week.period. Go get it... read it... now, dammit!
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   Thor #1 brings us into a whole new world of Thor. After a battle on the moon alongside the Avengers, Thor  is sapped of his ability to wield Mjolnir by Nick Fury who has been given the powers of The Watcher. With naught but a whisper he fell our God of Thunder who must now deal with being rendered powerless. At the same time Frost Giants have attacked a base in The Norwegian Sea in search of our heroes hammer by the orders of Malekith. Our hero, wielding an ax, bursts into the underwater base to defeat Malekith. In a shocking turn of events Malekith wins and slays our God... The hammer is left sitting alone on the moon waiting for someone worthy to wield it. It finds exactly that.

Lady Thor, Oh NO!!

   A female Thor... that's new. I don't really think it's anything to make a big deal out of yet. I mean, I don't know anything about her back story, her character, her personality. I really need to read a couple more issues to make a decision about this character. That being said, Thor looked like a bad ass with that ax and I hate to see him die. this is Thor, I mean, THOR guys, I think his apparent death is a way bigger deal than a woman picking up the hammer. I'll definitely read at lest the first couple issues of this Thor to see how it develops (which is saying something since I usually don't really like Thor all that much).
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These ALSO came out this week and you should read them as well:

Bucky Barnes: Winter Soldier #1
Captain America #25
Figment #5 (of 5)
Guardians 3000 #1
Legendary Star-Lord #4
Men of Wrath #1 (of 5)
Action Comics #35
Grayson #3
Green Arrow #35
Green Lantern / New Gods: Godhead #1
Injustice: Gods Among Us: Year Two Annual #1
Lobo #1

Constantine on NBC - First Look

   Our first look at the new NBC show "Constantine" is here. I haven't followed much Constantine, but I have always loved the concept. So I looked at this first look and I just can't for an opinion yet... which is super weird for me cause I love judging things prematurely. This show will follow John Constantine, occult detective and con artist, as he fights his way through hordes of demons. All of which want to rule/destroy/haterape the human race.

 

 Constantine will be played by Matt Ryan a British actor who hasn't done anything I would have ever watched. That being said he looks pretty Constantine-y all decked out in his trench coat, which button-down, and tie which, very soon, will be the only thing audiences will be able to associate him with.
   I don't watch NBC... ever. It's not out of principle or anything, their shows just kinda suck. HOWEVER, with Constantine,  Aquarius (David Duchovny`s upcoming crime show), and HEROES RE-GODDAMN-BORN, I expect I will find more and more reasons to tune into NBC over the next couple years. I'll definitely have to read up on my Constantine and Hellblazer before the series premier Oct.  24th at 10 PM/9 PM Central Time.

Top Comic Book Picks for 9/24/14 [SPOILERS]

In this weekly segment (I'm doing it twice this week) I go through my top comic book picks of the week.

Top 3 this week:

   Deadpool #35 focuses mostly on Wade Wilson's relationship with his kid, Ellie, Who is currently living with Agent Preston. Deadpool decides the best place for him is near her so he buys a house next door... completely rational. Alongside this story line we have the North Korean X-Men being brought to Xavier's schoo... I mean the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning to be taken care of by Beast. We have yet another story alongside both of those involving Dracula fixing up a Spider-Slayer with which to to kill Deadpool... that didn't work out for him...

Does he look a bit like Mr. Freeze to anyone else?

  
 I loved this book it had all the witty charm and class we expect from Deadpool (ball lightning jokes for example) while hitting the odd heart string along the way.
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   Batman: The Dark Knight #23.4 [The Joker's Daughter #1] is the story of a young girl, Duela, Who sees beauty where others don't. Her face scarred from self mutilation, Duela is disowned by her family and runs off to live in a tribe of sunken city dwellers. Even they will not love her. One day she finds a mask of flesh... Joker's face floats past her as she stares in to the water that flows through the caves of the underground city. With the face she has power and with power you don't need love. She does away with the tribe's leader and vows to bring her beautiful ugliness to the world above.

Totally sane...

   This story got a little all over the place, but I actually want to see more of this character. She has been scattered here and there throughout the DCU over the years, most notably in Teen Titans. She is a manipulative little trollop who does everything she can to cause absolute chaos and corrupt absolutely. Duela is a frightening force. With nothing to lose, everything to gain, and a twisted love of all things twisted I'm excited to see her quest for power in future adventures.
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   Edge of the Spider-verse #3 takes place in a universe where Aaron Aikman, a molecular biologist, who re-sequenced his DNA with a that of a spider and was given great power. In this adventure He battles Naamurah an inter-dimensional being who finds a bridge to Aikman's world through the subconscious mind of a brain damaged young girl. Naamurah took the young girls body over and convinced her mother, a robotics engineer, to build a kind of mind controlling exoskeleton to graft onto her victims bodies in order to conquer the world. Spider-man discover the truth and rushes to stop the invading horde of brainwashed victims only to be stopped by Morlun.

Looks like a left over cover from an abandoned
Iron-Man/Spider-Man Crossover

   This whole series seems convoluted, ridiculous, and full of plot holes... and I love it. It's such a neat concept that really sucks you in. You want to see all the different Spider-men, their costumes, origin stories, styles. It really refreshes Spider-Man for me and I can't wait to see what happens next.
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Those are my top 3 for the week of Sept. 24 2014. A few other great stories you should pick up are:

Batman #23.4: Bane
Batman / Superman #3.1: Doomsday
Batman and Robin #23.4: Killer Croc

Detective Comics #23.4: Man Bat
Wolverine: In the Flesh #1 (2nd Printing)
Young Avengers #10
Itty Bitty Hellboy #2 [so goddamn cute]
Sex #7
The Other Dead #1