{"id":21555,"date":"2012-10-22T03:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=21555"},"modified":"2012-10-22T03:01:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T08:01:21","slug":"dc-classics-com-club-infinite-earths-poison-ivy-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=21555","title":{"rendered":"DC Classics.Com: Club Infinite
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<\/a> Classics got its erstwhile start as a Batman line nine years ago. Six years ago, a Batman theme held down every other wave of DCSH. And DC Classics (2008-2011) certainly never strayed too far from Batman & his rogues. With all that Bat-history, it\u2019s inconceivable<\/em> that we\u2019re just now getting to Poison Ivy.<\/p>\n

You know that ridiculous lettering system we use to determine the importance of things like comic book characters? Normally, I love the idea of quantifying things, but I\u2019ve never really seen any clear rules for it. One collectors\u2019s C-list is another collector\u2019s H-list*.<\/p>\n

* – We never really hear about the H-List. We tend to get lazy around D or so and just jump straight to Z. I suppose that makes sense; it tends not to matter much after B-list these days.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m bringing this up because I find it very difficult to determine what letter each Batman villain gets. I ask you, do you consider Poison Ivy a primary Batman villain? (And, geez, how long is your list of primaries?)<\/em> She has a lot of pluses: she\u2019s nearly 50 years old & an original Kanigher creation (along with Sheldon Moldoff), she\u2019s made the jump to both film & television, she\u2019s likely the most high profile villainess after Catwoman. She\u2019s definitely up there, maybe just on the periphery of the core group, similar to Freeze or Two-Face. <\/p>\n

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And yet, it feels like it\u2019s taken forever to get her into Classics. It\u2019s crazy that circumstances have made her a limited online exclusive targeted to collectors. I\u2019m not lamenting that she\u2019s a wasted slot in the subscription \u2013 she needed to be in the line and retail appears to be only the A+ list for some time. She needed to be in the line and her spot in the subscription is a good thing. <\/p>\n

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But it does have its drawbacks. As I said, she\u2019s a fifty year-old character and one that\u2019s had at last two distinct eras of looks. When her name was thrown out in the great 2012 subscription push last year, the \u201csoda vs. pop\u201d debate rolled out immediately. For most of those fifty years, Ivy appeared as a normal human with an affinity for leafy clothing. In the 90s, she was given a green makeover similar to the figure presented here. The green skin is very popular, but the love of classic runs deep. Ivy is one of the few figures, like Zatanna, that I wish Mattel had figured out a way to release twice. Unfortunately, in the subscription, the only variation available is quality control. Continue to Page 2…<\/a><\/p>\n

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Poison Ivy has a surprising amount of new tooling, but her arms and legs are a mish-mash of Star Sapphire & Donna Troy (right down to Donna\u2019s annoying left hip). The re-use is mostly acceptable, but the figure is really hurt by not having unique hands. It just doesn\u2019t seem right that Ivy can\u2019t be posed commanding her plants to attack. <\/p>\n

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Ivy did get new feet, two torso pieces, and her head sculpt. I\u2019m in-between on the torso. While like what\u2019s there, I really wish the 4H had taken things up a notch. I love the leafy outline and it is relatively comic accurate, but I would\u2019ve loved to see some scroll work throughout the one-piece suit or even more leafy coverage (though that\u2019s more appropriate for her classic look). <\/p>\n

Atop all that though is a killer head sculpt, possibly my favorite female head sculpt in the entirety of the line. The face is a classic 4H face, but it looks fantastic here and the hair on the figure is perfect for Ivy. Any problems I have with the body, the under-detailed costume, the fists, are cancelled out by the head sculpt. It\u2019s fantastic. <\/p>\n

The paint work on Ivy is relatively straightforward. I got very luck with some great paint on the face, but there were some bad spots on the upper body (it\u2019s molded the color of the suit with a thick coat of light green to match the skintone). <\/p>\n

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Articulation is standard for the line with the only notable exception being that annoying mid-torso swivel. I\u2019ve come to accept it \u2013 its aesthetic value is very high even if it does limit how the figure can move. It\u2019s a begrudging acceptance though. Everything else works as it should with the exception of the left hip. There haven\u2019t been many Ivy reviews, so I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s mine or widespread, but like Donna it just doesn\u2019t want to stay flush in a vanilla pose. <\/p>\n

Ivy included three accessories, all vines. I\u2019m kinda in-between on these. She needs them, the figure looks far too plain without them, but they annoy me when they slide down or slip off altogether. I\u2019ve got it so the ones on her arms stay up easily, but the leg one perplexes me.<\/p>\n

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Overall, Ivy was long, long overdue in Classics. In a way I wish she had been done sooner. I want to say a better tooling budget would\u2019ve saved this figure, but the biggest visual decision, to keep the costume relatively detail free, was tooling-neutral. Would the 4H have elected to sculpt the vines to her arms where the tooling not a concern? Or would they have mimicked the torso and kept with the less is more aspect? I don\u2019t know. Other than the lack of an open hand, my handful of dislikes really can\u2019t be pinned on tooling alone. <\/p>\n

Looking back over the review, this is another one of those \u201cdeath by a thousand cuts\u201d, but that\u2019s not the whole story. I pick on the costume, but it\u2019s mostly accurate. The head sculpt is killer. Some articulation is gone, but the figure does look better for it. I\u2019ve wanted a Classics Ivy for a long time and this figure feels that void nicely.*<\/p>\n

* – Though I still want a classic version, but that seems a likely as getting Ivy\u2019s sidekick Honeysuckle these days…<\/em><\/p>\n

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