REVIEW: Square Enix Play Arts Kai "Batman: Arkham Asylum" Batman and the Joker

I haven't posted any product reviews here, unless you count movie ramblings and the six issues or so I reviewed of Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors. I'm not counting, but I suck at math anyway, so who gives a shit?

I'm a huge action figure collector. And by "collector" I mean dorky man-child who opens all his toys, messes around with the accessories and articulation and spends hours posing, configuring, and re-arranging my displays. When I was a kid, we didn't have super-poseable toys that could take realistic poses. Duke from G.I.Joe couldn't hold his rifle properly in both hands; same with Lion-O and Luke Skywalker with their respective swords. Transformers were usually blocky chunks of die-cast and plastic that your were lucky if they could raise their arms to try and point their blasters.

But no more--since the late 90's, articulation has been running rampant. Toys can move in any number of realistic, fluid ways, and domestic lines like Marvel Legends made articulation the norm. But the best--and often most expensive--articulated action figures (read: boy dollies) have always come from Japan.

Such is the case with Square Enix's Play Arts line: on-model, highly detailed, accessorized and articulated figures, usually from video games (Metal Gear, Devil May Cry) or Anime (Fullmetal Alchemist, Bleach). I've only dipped my toe in the pond with Dante from Devil May Cry 4, and for $40, he's a solid, cool toy. While I was tempted to get a couple of others (Ichigo from Bleach with his Hollow mask comes to mind), they're a little pricier than my current obsession, DC Universe Classics, and larger, to boot-- my shelf space is already at a minimum. But when they announced they were making these two from one of the Greatest Comic Book Games Ever, I couldn't pass them up and pre-ordered immediately.

And to my dismay they were $20 more apiece than Dante, which brings me to...

THE BAD:

I figure I'll get this category out of the way first. The first bad thing is the price: at $60 each, they're nowhere near a good value. A fair one, in my mind, but mileage varies and I have an obsession. For the casual collector, sixty bones for a toy may not be easy to swallow. They are, however 1. Imported from Japan, and 2. Have more articulation, accessories, detail, paint applications and a much higher quality control than most domestically-distributed toys (I'm talking about you, Hasbro and Mattel).

And that quality control can vary, as well. I've seen a few other reviews that haven't mentioned this problem, but two of the belt pouches on my Batman came off during initial handling and had to be glued back on. Adding to this problem is that another one of the pouches came glued on upside down, and is firmly in place, which means I can't fix it for fear of tearing the rubbery plastic that comprises Batman's trunks.

Another complaint some might have, and this doesn't bother me as much, is that the Joker's head sculpt is off. Something about it compared to the game portrait is missing. I think a wider, broader grin and thicker red on the lips probably would have looked better, but both figures, while faithful to the source material, are a little Anime-styled, so a little artistic license is unavoidable. But a stronger Joker portrait would have knocked this figure out of the park and made him seem like a bit better of a value compared to the heavier, cape- and -accessory-laden Batman. Extra hands are always welcome, but just a gun and the wind-up teeth make you feel like Joker should have been at least $10 less for what you get.

Discouraged yet? Don't be, because there's plenty more of this:

THE GOOD:

If you haven't noticed from the pictures yet, these two, especially Batman, scream awesome. The articulation and sculpt work together really, really well, and when you add in ratcheting joints (when you move the joints, there's little clicking sounds--ratchets in the joints keep them in place), you get all sorts of fun, awesome poses. Such as:

Batman is more stable, thanks to wider feet, and although the Joker takes some fiddling with, you can still get fun and stable poses out of him. The cape on Batman is particularly cool--there's two swappable pieces for the left-hand section, one wrapping around him and a second blowing to the side. But that's not the best part: the cape sections sit on joints that ratchet, so with the right amount of patience and posing, you can get him to stand with the cape blowing back or to the side, or-- ah, hell, just look at more pictures.

                                     

THE VERDICT:

These are fun, cool-looking toys. Whether or not you think they're a good value is a matter of opinion, but you can't deny how fucking cool they are, can you? You can? Then why have you been reading this for so long? My ranting isn't for people who have non-dorky interests, go somewhere else. We'll wait.

Are they gone? Good.

I highly recommend these. They're really fucking cool. Batman is by far a better value and has more cool factor, but for a dork like me, I can't have a Batman without a Joker. So I got the set, which set me back around $140 with shipping (bigbadtoystore.com sent them separately, since my dumb ass thought they'd arrive together from good ol' Japan, so getting 'em both at once might have been a tad cheaper). Is that a lot for two toys? Absolutely. Is it the most I've ever spent on toys? Let's not talk about that and look at more of my awful pictures...


Hopefully next time I'll have something worthwhile to say that doesn't involve Batman. But don't hold your breath.

-Swift

I've been lurking on reddit for a month or so now, almost exclusively on the atheism subreddit. I repost a lot of things that I think are funny, or that make a point, to my facebook page. It's making me much less tolerant of Stupid Shit, and what some might call (by "some" I mean just me) belligerently atheist. I just don't have the patience to humor people anymore. And really, why should I? Along with the dumb shit that assaults my ears on a daily basis at work, there are usually three to five instances during the day where I ask "how are you today?"

And receive this response: "I'm blessed."

Blessed by whom? Why Jesus, of course!
And some of the folks who respond likewise are much more vehement: "I'm blessed by the best."
And some of you are probably thinking, "good for them. Good that their faith and beliefs give them some sort of validation or even comfort."
I have a hard time with this. I've been having a rough go with this idea for some time; I try, unsuccessfully, to approach religion and religious people with tolerance and amused indifference. But some of these folks who are "blessed" have probably never read the bible. And if they have, they clearly overlook certain inconsistencies and contradictions.They are ignorant, and, in my opinion, willfully so. Never mind the old testament stuff where god tells you not to shave or cut your hair, or that women should submit themselves to their husbands and god, or that whole bit about god telling Abraham to kill his son. Because that's how they feel about it: the old testament isn't for them. It was written when things were different; it's quite all right to ignore certain things and pick and choose what to adhere to.

But that's faulty logic, at best. If you devote yourself to the principles of an organization or document, you can't pick and choose what's relevant. If you start to decide what is still valid and what is not, the whole fucking thing falls apart and invalidates itself on that very basis.
And yes, I understand that there's a fundamental difference between the little old black lady telling me she's blessed and the politicians yammering about how Christians are persecuted, but it all feeds into the same problem: people want to believe in something so badly, they've made up their mind so certainly, they are unwilling to even accept the fact that they could be wrong. They continue to parrot mis- and un-informed arguments about gays, about misogyny, about prayer in schools. But you never hear them talk about how Jesus said to hate your family and love him above all else. You never hear them talk about giving all their belongings away to the poor. And I'm positive that Tim Tebow won't even mention Jesus if he starts losing.

So what's my point? I'm not sure I have one. I've been wanting to blog for awhile now, and everything just seems like intolerant rantings that aren't going to change anything. Mind you, I don't think that my ramblings warrant much attention (although I have to thank all seven of my followers for subscribing: thanks, kids!) or that they make a difference, but putting this out there doesn't seem to matter to ME anymore, either.

Religion in this country has absolutely gone berserk. It's been on a steady incline since they changed the nation's motto from "E. Pluribus Unum" in 1956 to "In God We Trust." And really, regardless of your beliefs, please at least think for a second and realize that, contrary to what all these fucking theocrats want you to believe and keep repeating ad naseum, America is NOT and NEVER HAS BEEN a Christian nation. The founding fathers were closeted agnostics, atheists and doubters, no doubt due to the times they lived in, where atheists and non-believers of every stripe (read: everyone but christians) were demonized and persecuted. They did their best to distance themselves from religion without openly stating that they didn't believe, probably figuring that if they came out, they'd be criticized or worse.

America is dying a slow death, and the politicians on both sides of a corrupt two-party system and the lobbyists who give them campaign money are doing everything they can to kill it even more. And how are they going about it? By appealing to the lowest common denominator. People don't educate themselves; even in this age of Google and wikipedia where just about anything you'd ever want to know about anything else is literally--literally!-- at our fingertips, people still want answers handed to them on a silver platter. They want cut-and-dry, easy explanations, and it's not a very big leap in illogic to say that religion is what gives this to them.

And you can't even discuss it with them. I don't know if some of the GOP candidates for next year's presidential election really believe some of the shit they're saying about gay marriage or evolution, but it's much more frightening to take a moment and think that someone, somewhere, listening to these morons speak, actually agrees with them. And they vote for these people!

I've long abstained from the democratic process, as I feel the system is so corrupt that there's no saving it whatsoever. When congress can waste time deciding that fried potatoes should be called "freedom fries" and reiterate that "In God We Trust" is the national motto, when they can decide, all by themselves, that the military is allowed to indefinitely detain American citizens without rights or trial, the people have very little power to make a difference. And these candidates that run for office? I'll reiterate that they are funded by corporate lobbysists. Anyone you vote for is already in someone else's pocket and looking out for someone else's interests--the bottom line being that they aren't yours.

God certainly isn't looking out for any of us (mostly because he isn't there). God isn't the one fucking up the country, your lives, and the human race in general. It's men doing these things, as it has always been. People who tell me they're "blessed" are merely a symptom of a much larger disease; all the tolerance and good intentions and amused indifference in the world aren't going to make it any better. There's a great deal of people out there who might think like I do, although I'm sure that their outlook is somewhat less dystopian.

I can't bring myself to find the silver lining to any of this. I mean, sure, I'd still rather be here than anywhere else in the world. I enjoy the freedoms we used to have that are slowly being stripped away even under the reign of a democratic president. I'm not saying I want to move (at least not yet).

What I'm saying is that I have a right to be intolerant of the madness that has seized a majority of decent human beings' minds. Christians and other religions' faithful have no problem telling me I'm going to hell, so maybe, just maybe, I shouldn't feel the burden of having to humor someone or simply agree to disagree. It's time that these people were told, by those of us who don't believe, that they are WRONG, and they are doing the human race no favors by propogating an archaic and hateful system of belief. I won't be doing this at work, mind you, and I won't be picking any fights, but the next time someone starts talking to me about Jesus or how blessed they are, I'm going to tell them how ignorant they are and that they need to take that shit someplace else.

I'm not anticipating that it will go well, but for my own sanity, I need to stop humoring the morons.

Feel free to comment or hit me up on facebook; for now, smoke 'em if you got 'em and cheers.

-Swift

"If You Control Language, You Control Thought"

From Dictionary.com:

ter·ror·ist

/ˈtɛrərɪst/ Show Spelled[ter-er-ist] –noun

1.

a person, usually a member of a group, who uses or advocates terrorism.

2.

a person who terrorizes or frightens others.

3.

(formerly) a member of a political group in russia aiming at the demoralization of the government by terror.

 

ter·ror·ism

/ˈtɛrəˌrɪzəm/ Show Spelled[ter-uh-riz-uhm]

–noun

1.

the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.

2.

the state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization.

3.

a terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.

 

Neither one of these describes an individual or group who is a brown-skinned, Muslim, West-hating entity.

 

In the wake of this Oslo attack (whose details I am not intimitely acquianted with but agree it is indeed a sad, evil occurence), every media outlet and government official is using every possible word other than "terrorist" and "terrorism."

The fact that this evil fuck did this, regardless of his motives, makes him a fucking terrorist. He perpetrated an act of terrorism. But nobody wants to phrase it that way. They want to make sure we don't get confused and think this was Al-Qaeda (which they had no problem wanting to pin the blame on at first, of course), because those brown people from the Middle East are terrorists.

 

It sickens me that people in power continue to twist and warp our language and change its meaning to change how we think. And where do we get off trying to redefine these two words? Mull this over for a moment: before the concept of terrorism was dubbed as such, the founding fathers were fucking terrorists. But we can't be associated with that word. We're Americans! So John Adams and the like would have been ruled something as stupid as crown disloyalists or anti-monarchical fanatics with a democratic agenda. Fuuuuck. As long as they aren't terrorists, right?

 

I fucking hate the media.

 

-Swift

Why DC's 'Re-vamp' Is A Dumb Idea

A week or so ago it was announced that come Fall, all DC Comics' titles would start over with a new issue number one. Their characters would be revamped, younger, and all have horrible, hackneyed, piece of shit Jim Lee redesigns (I'll get to you later, Jim).

Reboots and Retcons and Renumbering are certainly not a thing of the past in Comicdom. Redesigns and tweaks to costumes aren't, either. But here's my problem with this idea of starting with a clean slate: it brings up too many questions, it almost never sticks, and it pisses off faithful readers like myself.

I know that they want to keep their comics more modern, fresh, new, exciting. But doing away with several decades of continuity is not the way to go about it, and neither is alienating long-time fans. Didn't the folks at DC learn from Marvel's "One More Day/Brand New Day" mistake? Recently, Marvel had Spider-man make a deal with the devil (no, really. And yet it's Grant Morrison who gets all this shit for having Batman lost in time) to have reality altered so his secret identity, which was made public, be a secret again.
What this meant was that thirty-odd years of Spidey being married to Mary Jane were gone. Poof. Kaput. It pissed off a lot of people, myself included. People who had been reading for years were forced to ask, "what have I been reading for? You just told me all these stories basically didn't happen or matter because you (the editors) wanted it changed, on a whim."

Now, I know that comics are all imaginary shit and that none of it really happens. But when reading a story, watching a television show, etc., isn't it a huge cock-slap in the face to have the people in charge of whatever fantasy you follow say "that stuff, there? It didn't happen. We're pretending it was all a dream or something." It's the comic book equivalent of Patrick Duffy getting out of the shower on Dallas to discover it was all a dream. It smacks of contempt for your audience and a lack of talent from your writers: You've written yourself into a hole, so you conveniently undo all the events leading up to it to get yourself out. It's absolute horseshit.

And DC Comics is doing this with an entire universe of history, apparently. So characters new and old get discarded. Actually, looking at the solicitations for the 'new' titles, there's a few glaring (and infuriating) omissions and changes:

-Dick Grayson Is Nightwing Again.
Really? Really? I was praising DC for making Dick Batman in my second post here On the Fringe. I said many positive things, like how Dick was more fun as Bats, how he deserved it, how it was a fitting progression of the character and how it was a very bold move to keep Dick as Gotham's Batman even after Bruce returned from the past. Alas, I figured it wouldn't be permanent, but why now? Why is this a good idea when Grant Morrison hasn't even finished his Batman, Inc. epic? And why in sweet fuck is he wearing Chris O'Donnell's outfit from Batman and Robin?!

-Barbara Gordon Is Batgirl Again.
Why? The Joker shooting and crippling Barbara Gordon in The Killing Joke was one of the only lasting changes ever made in comics. Her second identity as Oracle was a stroke of genius, I thought. She grew up and became a huge part of Bruce Wayne's war on crime, led the Birds of Prey, and even had a tenure on the Justice League. Why demote her? Especially when you have not only Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown as Batgirl-type characters, but Kate Kane as Batwoman? Fuuuuck!

-Superman Is the First Superhero and the Justice Society of America Is Being 'Given a Rest.'
Superman being written by Grant Morrison, okay. Superman being given a 'new' costume that looks like armor, very bad. He's invulnerable. That means "bullets bounce off him even in his birthday suit." Armor is redundant and just plain idiotic. But once you get over the 'edgy' design aesthetic, you start to wonder: where does this leave the JSA? Well, it's official now: of the fifty-two titles DC has released solicitations for, JSA is not among them in any way, shape, or form. So these characters that have been around since World War Two, that have endured massive changes all in their own right, are going to (at least temporarily) cease to exist. So characters like the Golden Age Flash and Green Lantern, who have been featured prominently only recently on Smallville and Batman: The Brave and the Bold, who are now perhaps a tad familiar with people who don't read comics, i.e. the casual fans and these mythical "new readers" DC purportedly wants to draw in, don't exist? Have you fuckers thought this through at all? Was this truly just a whim on your golden boy Geoff Johns' part?

-Jim Lee Has Redesigned Many, If Not All, of the New Costumes.
Let me break this down for you. Jim Lee was a popular artist in the 90's, who, along with many other artists at the time who worked for the big two, started their own company called Image. It had creator-owned characters conceptualized and drawn by artists; some were very successful, like Todd McFarlane's Spawn, while others, like Lee's WildC.A.T.S. had their peak in the 90's and floundered ever since (going through many retcons and reboots and revamps throughout their history). Even Spawn, probably Image's most successful title, has faded from prevalence since its inception (a terrible movie adaptation probably didn't help).

So what's my point, then? Jim Lee's artwork, while solid and consistent, is dated. VERY DATED. When he left Marvel to co-found Image, he was at the top of his game. He was on the forefront of the "Everybody should draw characters with a Manga/Anime flavor" movement that came in the late 90's and early 2000's. Back then, had he been redesigning costumes and put in a position of power at Marvel or DC, it might have been a very good fit. Oh wait! He was in a position of power at Marvel back then. Remember Heroes Reborn?
Marvel rebooted Captain America and Iron Man with Jim Lee and Rob Liefield. It didn't last very long. I can't say that I've read much of it, but the geek community's consensus at the time (more with Liefield's work than Lee's) was that they wanted the Cap and Stark they knew and loved back. And I think this is where we'll see DC going sooner than later.
When Lee left Marvel, he might have been at the top of his game, but forming a company with fellow creators, being in charge of his own sandbox and getting all the media attention that Image initially garnered probably made him complacent as shit. And that complacency has not let him grow as an artist one single bit. Disagree? Look at some of his work from the start of WildC.A.T.S. now look at the promo pic for the new Justice League. Yeah, there's some progression there, mostly in his proportion and anatomy. But that 'C.A.T.S drawing is at least fifteen years old, by my estimation. His style is certainly more refined, I suppose, but for a guy whose sole job is drawing comics and superheroes, don't you think it looks like the same old shit?
Plus, Jim Lee was the Korn of comic books. Remember when Korn came out and then Nu Metal followed? That half-whiny, half-hard stuff that everybody tried so hard to be while it was popular? It created so many imitators to Korn's style that the originators seemed just as watered-down as the imitators and Korn itself almost got lost in the shuffle. That's exactly what happened with Lee. He was popular, so everyone tried to draw more like him. That era has passed, thankfully, but I fear his imitators may be sharpening their pencils again (some of them, like Brett Booth, already have a job with the relaunch at DC. And Booth's Teen Titans designs are the worst of the bunch).

Conclusion
I won't be following DC's titles as closely as I have these past few years. I was already getting burnt out on giant crossovers (Blackest Night, Final Crisis) and the continuous poor treatment characters like Wally West received in favor of their Silver Age predecessors. But Dick being demoted to Nightwing, Tim Drake possibly having no connection to Batman, and now Power Girl and the Justice Society fading into creative limbo were the final straws for me. The day after these announcements were made, I finished the third volume of Batman and Robin, and as much as I enjoyed it, knowing Dick would no longer wear the cowl soon made me sad. They've successfully built up a lot of mythology that got me back into comics over the last few years, and to discard it completely, let alone cherry-picking what elements they want to keep and what they want to ignore, has soured me on whatever awaits. I've tried to keep an open mind and rationalize that these changes likely won't stick, but anger rules my reasoning. I'll vote with my dollar, DC. I just hope others are doing the same so we can get Geoff Johns, Dan DiDio and Jim Lee the fuck out of the big offices.

-Swift

Forsooth and Have At Thee! This Doth Be a THOR Review!

Verily, thine producers of Marvel Comics' Gargantuan-Screened adventures set before themselves a most lofty task. By wanting all fair heroes to co-exist, yon producer-folk have been building to an ambitious visual and auditory feast for the young, old and nerd alike. (Okay, I'm tired of trying to write this way already.)

Thor was released on May 6th, and I've already seen it twice. It fucking rocks.

With the first and second Iron Man flicks (and The Incredible Hulk, to a lesser extent), Marvel Films has laid groundwork for what would have been, probably even ten years ago, an impossible feat: The Avengers. I mean, they've bandied around a Justice League movie before and even made a horrible TV version, but to get a bunch of Big-Name superheroes in one movie, let alone have them be the same versions of the characters played by the same actors in their own eponymous movies?
Madness, I say.

But in a day and age when you can sign little kids up for eight Harry Potter films and Hollywood is more out of ideas than ever, this is actually going to happen. They've already started filming. I won't geek out (yet) about Buffy/Angel/Firefly/Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog mastermind Joss Whedon helming it. But I will say Thor is the first of the four Avenger movies to make me really, really, reaaaaallly trying not to wet my geek drawers in excitement.

I'll try to stay away from the plot-summarizing. The cast, mostly unknowns (Renee Russo and Anthony Hopkins and a completely unrecognizeable Ray Stevenson turn up) take something that could easily come off as cheesy or being out of a kid's show and make it into geek Shakespeare. The production values show from the costumes to the FX, and the plot is not what I expected yet somehow predictable... but not in a way that feels like they're beating you over the head with 'plot twists' like most blockbuster films these days. It's almost like a fairy tale where a third of it happens to take place in the same universe that Robert Downey, Jr.'s Tony Stark, Clark Gregg's Agent Coulson and Samuel L. Jackson's Muthafuckin Nick Fury live in.

It's an enjoyable and satisfying ride. We're just starting to see the payoff of two Iron Man movies and Hulk; they're slowly but neatly pulling all these characters together, name-dropping and throwing in little easter eggs (some that work better than others; I won't say that a cameo halfway through the film was 'forced' as others have, but it wasn't necessary), and by the time the credits rolled, even before I sat through a terrible new Foo Fighters song for the 'secret' end scene, I couldn't wait for Captain America or The First Avenger or whatever the fuck they're calling it. All I know is that I'm more excited than I ever thought I'd be to see a guy wearing the American Flag as a costume in a movie.

Kirk's dad from the new Star Trek is Thor, and he's damn good. I would say this movie is probably gonna make this dude's career like Superman made Chris Reeves'. And Loki? Loki is where I really get excited for The Avengers. Yeah, Sam Jackson and Downey speaking Whedon is a pretty exciting prospect, but have you ever watched Buffy or Angel or read his run on the X-men comics? Joss writes great dialogue overall, but he loves him some villain monologuing and posturing. This guy as Loki is going to chew up scenery on a level not seen since Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs.

And speaking of Sir Hopkins, his restrained performance as Odin is note-perfect. Calm, fatherly and reserved at turns, but loud and bellowing when he needs to be. Natalie Portman turns in a great performance as Jane, Thor's love interest, dialing up all her girl-next-door charm to the point that you really believe she's a pretty nerd girl who's awestruck by the chivalrous Thor kissing her hand. The Warriors Three are cool, the chick playing Sif was good as well (although I must question how sensible her shoes are for fighting. Heels? Even the new Wonder Woman wears flights, guys.), and the human characters in the cast hit all the right notes.

And by "right notes" I should say, did we really need Kat Dennings as the comic relief? I get it. She's the almost-fugly I'm-so-snarky-I'm-cute broad in movies these days, and I want to like her, but at the same time I wanted Natalie Portman to stove her face in. It's a very minor complaint, but once the newness of the film wears off, I'm willing to bet that her dialogue is going to have many of us dorks rolling our eyes.

And that's about the only complaint I can come up with without ruining any details (and even those are minor). This has my hopes set very high for Cap's movie. And on a DC fan note, I really hope Green Lantern can stack up to this. I know they'll probably be very different films outside of being Comic movies, but if GL isn't up to par, DC and WB need to get their poop in a group real fuckin' quick. It was seriously that good. Even the girlfriend, who had not even a cursory knowledge of Thor or his character, enjoyed it quite a bit.

So fly thine ass like Mighty Thor wielding Mjolnir in a missile-like trajectory to thy nearest multiplex! 'Tis a fine moving picture, and leaveth this dork wanting more of the Thunder God's adventures!

Random Ramblings

Been awhile since I've had anything to talk about. I've been busy enjoying life with my girlfriend (and her trip of a 5-year-old) as well as drawin' shit. I've gone back to drawing superheroes a lot, for some reason, using mostly ball point pens.

Why pens? Why superheroes? No idea, really. To answer the pen question, I think it has something to do with how permanent pen is; I might start a drawing that has anatomy, proportion or perspective mistakes, but I have to live with it in pen and learn from my mistakes, in a way. Pen is also easier to layer and make darker without getting it all over your hand and the rest of the piece like you do with pencil.

Anyways... part of the drawing thing is that I want to do something incredibly geeky leading up to a certain Emerald Superhero's movie release, a countdown to be posted here. So there's that. The other part is that I have a weird divide in my talents: if I'm in drawing mode, I'm not in writing mode. I've tried; I had two unfinished articles from the past couple months that just didn't click. It's a bitch. But I should be checking in over the weekend with a Thor review, so look for that.

Until then, smoke 'em if ya got 'em and Enjoy the Ride.

-Swift

RAAAAAGE!!!

I realized this weekend that I can post pictures now that I have access to my amazing gal's digicam. This is a piece I did last year of DC Comics' Red Lantern leader, Atrocitus. The RLs puking up their napalm blood is such a visually interesting idea, isn't it?
Much, much, more to come in the following weeks and months from the left half of my noggin. Enjoy!