{"id":28664,"date":"2014-07-14T01:31:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T06:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=28664"},"modified":"2014-07-14T01:31:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T06:31:10","slug":"dc-collectibles-earth-2-wonder-woman-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=28664","title":{"rendered":"DC Collectibles Earth 2
Wonder Woman Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a> To a lot of companies, nostalgia is a resource; it’s to be mined, molded, packaged, and used to make money. In some cases, the companies that control the things we love have folks in place that operate out of a sense of nostalgia and then we, as consumers, partake as well. I think most of us enjoy when that happens. Other times, companies decide to forego nostalgia. Collectors tend to not appreciate that quite as much. <\/p>\n

Normally, I’m for the “New”. I love old stuff (this site is full of it), but I love new ideas, reimaginings; seeing what someone else can do with a new take on an old thing. I will never say a certain movie shouldn’t be remade or an old story shouldn\u2019t be revisited. If they ever try to remake Back to the Future. I’ll watch it. If it’s good, I’ll add it into my BTTF-love. If it’s bad, I’ll go back and watch the old ones. I’ll still have the DVDs or holo-whatevers. And they’ll still be fantastic, and, in some ways, lionized a little more by a bad remake. I guess I\u2019m saying that I\u2019m a nostalgic beast by nature, but that I\u2019m not always beholden to it. <\/p>\n

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I have tried to be that way in regards to DC Comics and the New 52. It doesn’t show in my articles because I have and continue to utterly fail at it. The desire is there – I latch on to the solicits like they’re shiny objects, but I keep picking the DC books here or there only to find out that I’m just not into them. There are things I like. Scott Snyder on Batman is great. His Batman still acts like Batman to me. I don’t think New Guardians is a great comic from month-to-month, but he’s definitely regular, old Kyle Rayner and I heart that so I keep buying. Azzarello & Chiang on Wonder Woman is well-written and well-drawn, so that book has had me the whole time. For the most part, that\u2019s all DC I buy. I think it\u2019s a quality thing, but that\u2019s a different story for a different day. <\/p>\n

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The other reason I think I can’t get into it is that I don’t feel like the vast library of my characters, safe in their back issues, is enough. My back issue library just doesn’t feel like a classic movie or old TV shows on DVD that I can revisit. The DCU was never static like that. The DCU was organic, growing – even when something silly came along and collapsed or rebooted things, that was part of its organic history. It was one story. In a sense, the New52 is still part of it – a universe reimagined by Pandora’s interference, but that just further tricks me to believe something that I don\u2019t think will happen anytime soon: I’m waiting for my characters to come back. I’m waiting for Superman to act like Superman. For Wally to show up. For things to be put “right”. It’s silly. Particularly to the other part of my brain, the aforementioned one that is okay when things change. It just popped up there, I\u2019m waiting for Wally, not Barry. It’s the same part that of me that loves Kyle more than Hal. Green Arrow is one of my favorite characters. It doesn’t get much better than Bronze Age Oliver Queen, but Connor Hawke is way cool if you ask me. <\/p>\n

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That part of me – the part that gets so tired of things being chained to “how it was” should rejoice in the New 52. It doesn’t. The closest it has ever come to that was the announcement of Earth-2. This fantastic teaser image rolled out of DC at the time. It featured DC’s trinity fighting a horde of Parademons. Superman looked young, almost like Connor Kent. Batman was fighting with Nightwing’s escrima sticks, Wonder Woman was more silver than gold and her hair had the hint of Donna Troy’s starfield. I was stoked. But it was just wishful thinking, the book was the same old crew (at least at first). <\/p>\n

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It made me realize the key difference between what I liked and what I thought I should like: legacy. For the period of time I was reading comics, DC changed many details now and again, some I would I get hung up on and others I didn’t. But what didn’t change was Legacy. The Flash franchise is the best example. There was Jay, there was Barry, Wally, and so on. That\u2019s no more. It was essentially deemed that Wally was too complicated; he was removed. The rest of the legacy universe soon followed. I point all this out because it’s integral to why I bought this Wonder Woman, and presumably will buy the Batman & Superman that go with her. If we’re strict with ourselves, I’m buying a trio of (mostly) dead heroes from an alternate universe. But really, I’m out to buy what I thought they were when I first saw them: Connor Kent, Dick Grayson, & Donna Troy as the Trinity. Continue to Page 2…<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Earth-2 figures have not been great. It’s disappointing because we’ve seen some great figures coming out of DCC for the Arkham figures and the Capullo figures, but it seems that some of the old DCD is still around. The Earth-2 Batman looks like a figure from a decade ago. The Flash doesn’t even look that good. I saw them before Wonder Woman and was worried. It was almost rightfully so, she was almost crappy. The problem with her was mostly paint though. Her mascara was painted 75% of the way around her whole eye, leaving only the section from the pupil to the inner part of the eye free. Had this been left alone, she might have been okay, but DCC added a pinkish inner eyelid skintone there. The result was a bug-eyed, insomniac Wonder Woman. Or maybe even a hungover one? It did not look good. I passed on it the first time I saw it. By the second time, I figured I could salvage it. She was never going to look as good as the presell, but it would work. I was planning on some custom work anyway.* <\/p>\n

* – In the original teaser, WW was all silver. In the book interior her traditional gold elements resurfaced. The figure matches those.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sculptwise, the figure is well done; the best in the wave easily. She’s an all-new sculpt and her armored look gives for a nicer figure than simple spandex-fare. The armor could be a might more detailed, but this works as a comic-based figure to be sure. The non-armored areas also feature nice touches like the lace on the bodice and the head sculpt is well done too. The proportions seem a little more Victorian, but it could just be the pale skintone and large eyes throwing me off. I like it though. It’s also well served by the hair being close enough to the neck that it looks like it’s hanging naturally, but far enough to keep it from fully impeding the neck articulation. <\/p>\n

The paintwork obviously had one glaring issue that nearly took the figure down, but the eyes were at least sharply done if not smartly done. There was a little slop on the silver\/blue areas on the boots, but the line work was pretty agreeable. I might like to see the figure a little less pale, but it works. <\/p>\n

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As has been true in most recent DCC releases, articulation is a key feature on the action figure instead of being a hindrance like olden days. WW features a ball-jointed neck with some great range despite the long hair. The hips and shoulders are also ball-jointed. They don\u2019t have as great range as we’re used to seeing these days, but they work. The limb articulation is interesting just for how it’s hidden. The bare right arm is what we’d expect: a bicep swivel, hinged elbow, and wrist swivel (above the gauntlet). The left arm though uses the layers in the armor to hide a mid-bicep and forearm-swivel on either side of a standard hinge joint. Like a MOTUC figure, the skirt hides the ball-joint hips and again, layers in the armor are used to hide the single-hinge knees and a low thigh swivel. The figure finishes off with hinged ankles. I would like to see a little more, as always. Mostly, rocker ankles in place of the simple hinges as that would be the most bang for the buck. <\/p>\n

Wonder Woman includes one accessory, her sword from the comic. It looks oversized, but this is Wonder Woman. She speaks softly and carries a big stick; it\u2019s just her nature. It’s also a nice sculpt, though, like the armor, I wish the details could be a little sharper. And, hey, a loop or scabbard on the figure wouldn’t hurt either. It just doesn’t look right to tuck it into the lasso (cause you\u2019re not supposed to, I know).<\/p>\n

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Overall, it feels weird buying a figure to be something other than it is. It’s silly to feel that way, I know. I make modifications and customizations all the time. It could just be how my interest level in the figure came about. When I thought it was Donna, I wanted to read the comic. I wanted the figure. When I found out Earth-2 wasn’t the comic I wanted, the need for this figure kinda went with it. But yet, I can cheat the system here it seems and so I have. I’ve got a decent figure of Wonder Woman with a sharp sculpt and some fun articulation. I did have to take an x-acto the eyes to flesh out the nice head sculpt underneath, but that’s the least of what’s going to happen when I got get my silver paints out here after the review is published\u2026<\/p>\n

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