
It's bad enough that you face death each time you perform your trapeze act, but being shot by a mysterious killer? That's just too much. Unless some mystic force lets you to return from the dead to posses the living in order to find justice. Yeah, in that case it might be worth it.
What's also worth the risk, is spending a few dollars to get the Deadman figure from Mattel's DC Universe Classics line.

Distribution for this line has always been a bit random, so I'm currently seeing three or four different waves at retail. Deadman is from series eleven, which boasts Green Lantern Kilowog as a "Collect & Connect" figure. That makes the weird scarcity of series eleven (in my area anyway) all the more lame, because Kilowog looks like an awesome figure.
I've been on a huge DC jag for a while now, and it's had a lot to do with my interest in the more obscure Golden and Silver Age heroes. Deadman is a perfect example, and it doesn't hurt that he's seemingly a major player (though now alive) in the current Brightest Day series.
As always, the Four Horsemen have delivered a brilliant version of what's really a very creepy character. The nicely articulated and lanky limbs are executed perfectly, as is the ash colored zombie-esque head.

All in all this toy is great, which makes the ever increasing price for figures from this line a little easier to accept. I'm not exactly wild about seeing a ten dollar figure go for nearly fifteen dollars, but given that these are some of the best toys out there, I'm not exactly surprised either.
2 comments:
Comic book superheroes are direct descendants (inspirationally speaking) of circus performers. The tights, the bright colors, the capes etc - all of these were used by the circus act who would wow children at the turn of the century as entertainment that predates tv, movies and even comic books.
Those kids, inspired by the circus train rolling into town and it's menagerie of daring performers and sideshow freaks would later go on to populate the world of comic books with rainbow clad heroes and freakish, deformed villains.
That's a great comment.
It's funny... "going to the circus" came up in conversation here at home yesterday. My son mentioned that he'd love to go (has never been), and it occurred to me that not only haven't I been in ages, but I don't know if they really exist anymore.
As popular as comic book characters have become in the mainstream lately, I wonder if that "classic" circus event is ready for a comeback.
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