Action figures have long been a perfect compliment to comic books, since every kid (or kid at heart) has that natural desire to act out adventures with their favorite heroes off the drawn page. Every so often, a unique style of figure comes along that breaks the mold, so to speak. Each Saturday, Donny B will be showcasing various offerings from Art Asylum’s take on the ‘block figure’, with a weekly spotlight on Minimates.
With all of Art Asylum’s comic book releases, they have followed one very cool rule of thumb: Every character design is based off of a comic book event, era, or even a specific artist. While a lot of toy companies try to exploit the market by producing weird (and often lame) variations of a character that he/she would never be caught dead doing otherwise (variations like “Fractal Armor Batman” or “Anti-Vampire Spiderman“), you won’t see Minimates doing that… Well, except for a couple of Batman releases in DC’s first C3 wave. Heavy Assault Batman is one such example:
Behind the Image:
Batman is a creature of the night. He looms in shadows, and avoids brightly lit areas if at all possible. And since he loves blending into the dark, he would never wear a fruity costume with purple and pink highlights.
Since this costume is a pretty intense antithesis of Batman’s true character, I figured I would follow that deviation and light this Minimate with a very bright neon color. So I grabbed an orange light for the background (which was nothing more than a wall radiator) and a normal light to shine on Batman, so that his colors weren’t washed out by the orange hues.
On Ebay: Batman
wow. that is a terrible costume destine for Batman. It almost seems as if there are some Predator design elements in it.
I’m glad you showed it off … and with such a bright background! It’s definitely not the real Batman … but it’s sure great to poke fun at.
Comment by Doorman — July 17, 2010 @ 5:35 pm