More Watchmen for Wednesday

-
Back in 2000 or so, there was a move by DC Direct to produce collectible figurines based on the Watchmen trade paperback to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the miniseries. However Watchmen writer Alan Moore, who has a very strained relationship with DC Comics (to say the least), managed to exert his creator's rights and got the project canned (Read an interesting article on the matter here).

Imagine my surprise then when I opened my weekly Figure Fanatix newsletter and discovered that a brand new series of Watchmen collectible figurines is available. As it turns out, Alan Moore's dissociation of himself from the Watchmen film created a loophole for DC and Warner Brothers to create a line of figurines based on the movie as opposed to the comic.


It's really a pity I don't have the space to expand my collection beyond my single Medusa-head wielding Kratos figurine, because I really like the look of these 7 inchers, which come in at around R200 each.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Yeah, saw these figurines at Figure Fanatix at Tyger Manor on the weekend. Not bad looking at all, but I really don't like DC's insistence on poseable joints though.
10:58 AM
Pfangirl said…
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of those kinds of joints either.

Very cool though that you can actually get to the shop and check things out "in the flesh." Models and figurines are something I actually prefer to examine before purchasing to ensure I'm picking up the best painted, best quality one.
9:22 AM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Is the rebooted Lara Croft gay? Evidence for and against...

-
Image
As some of you know, I’ve been fangirling hard over the new Tomb Raider , the first entry in the video game series since 2008, and ostensibly a reboot for the entire franchise . Taking the form of an origin story, Tomb Raider 2013 depicts the events that transformed a beautiful, if bookish, archaeology graduate into a pistol-packing adventurer with a devil-may-care attitude. We meet Lara Croft as a pretty, fairly ordinary 21 year old, brooding over her work notes, listening to her mp3 player and very much confined to the shadow of her male mentors. By the end of the game, however, she’s taken charge – she’s had to! – and, battered, bruised and bloody, she’s both a survivor and hero, right down to rescuing the princess and carrying her away in her arms. Yeah, this is probably the best point to mention that there will be some Tomb Raider 2013 spoilers in this post, so read ahead with caution. Anyway, I loved the game. Technically it’s near faultless, it looks beautiful, the ov
Read more

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Queer Icon (Part 4)

-
Image
Part 4: The mystery of Lara Croft’s sexuality “Now what’s a man gotta do to get that kind of attention from ya?” – Larson Conway (Tomb Raider, 1996) Despite being an icon for many queer pop culture consumers, Lara Croft’s own sexual orientation remains ambiguous. Outside of the Top Cow comics and live-action films – where Lara is blatantly heterosexual, with a fondness for slightly scruffy bad boys (who keep betraying and hurting her) – the character comes across as primarily asexual. Kurtis Trent is the only male figure who even comes close to being a love interest in the game series. Lara's apparent sexual disinterest is despite the adventurer appearing very sexually attractive herself; a figure of desire with bee-stung lips, voluptuous breasts, toned stomach and impossibly long, athlete’s legs. Yet Lara is never dominated by sexual yearnings or romantic affections. She is very much in control of herself at all times. It’s worth noting, however, that over time th
Read more

Ladies I Love: Part 2 - Rhona Mitra

-
Image
Following on from the first post in this series , you may realise that I have a very definite type. Anyway, today we profile model-turned-actress Rhona Mitra . This 36 year old Briton is of English, Irish and Indian descent. You'll have seen her pop up on the big and small screen multiple over the past decade and a half, although Mitra's claim to fame is that she was the second ever model (some say first if you rule out "unofficial"  Nathalie Cook ) to play iconic video game character Lara Croft . From 1997-1998, Mitra could be found in PR material, as well as at trade shows, events and conventions as a flesh-and-blood embodiment of Tomb Raider 's kick-ass archeologist lead. There have been many official Lara Croft models over the years , but as far as I'm concerned Mitra remains the best. In my mind, of all of them, she most closely resembles the video game character in terms of facial features. Plus she comes from money and had a rebellious boarding
Read more