lujho
09-15-2006, 11:39 PM
I know this is an old statue but I managed to pick one up brand new from my comic shop for almost half the original listed price. Impulse buy. But when I got it out of the package I didn't regret it.
Now while the book DK2 was of questionable quality, millers DK2 design is actually one of my favourite Batman designs. And while I'd prefer the statue was just Batman alone without Catgirl... or even if it was Carrie Kelly as Robin (though that wouldn't make sense as it's the DK2 version of Bats), it's still a really, really nice looking piece, and it's a great version of the Bat.
It's realistic and cartoonish at the same time - the proportions are Miller's "big hands/feet" cartoony style, but the bodysuit looks like cloth with none of the kind of muscle detail showing through that 90% of comic artists draw, that would logically not be there. He's not a bodypainted naked man. And the boots and gloves *look* like boots and gloves because they are thicker again than the bodysuit.
http://www.gatewaycomics.com/catalog/images/S_dark_knight_strikes_again.jpg
Now while the book DK2 was of questionable quality, millers DK2 design is actually one of my favourite Batman designs. And while I'd prefer the statue was just Batman alone without Catgirl... or even if it was Carrie Kelly as Robin (though that wouldn't make sense as it's the DK2 version of Bats), it's still a really, really nice looking piece, and it's a great version of the Bat.
It's realistic and cartoonish at the same time - the proportions are Miller's "big hands/feet" cartoony style, but the bodysuit looks like cloth with none of the kind of muscle detail showing through that 90% of comic artists draw, that would logically not be there. He's not a bodypainted naked man. And the boots and gloves *look* like boots and gloves because they are thicker again than the bodysuit.
http://www.gatewaycomics.com/catalog/images/S_dark_knight_strikes_again.jpg