{"id":873,"date":"2010-07-10T00:01:43","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T07:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=873"},"modified":"2011-02-01T19:51:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T02:51:58","slug":"minimate-spotlight-10-stargirl-and-s-t-r-i-p-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/minimate-spotlight-10-stargirl-and-s-t-r-i-p-e\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimate Spotlight #10 Stargirl and S.T.R.I.P.E."},"content":{"rendered":"

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. <\/span>Every so often, a unique style of figure comes along that breaks the mold, so to speak. Each Saturday, Donny B<\/a> will be showcasing various offerings from Art Asylum’s take on the ‘block figure’, with a weekly spotlight on Minimates<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Geoff Johns has spent the last few years climbing the ranks of DC Comics, and he’s gotten pretty high up. Along the way, he has influenced many different storylines and characters – most notably resurrecting Hal Jordan as Green Lantern, Barry Allen and the Flash, re-establishing the DC Multiverse, and bringing us the monumental ‘Blackest Night’ event. That’s just naming a few of the bigger things he’s had his hand in\u00a0over the past few years. Well, before he made the big splashes that I listed above, he gave birth to DC Comics’ Stargirl<\/em><\/strong> and her robotic-suited “sidekick”,\u00a0S.T.R.I.P.E.<\/em><\/strong> You may recognize Stargirl from her appearance on Smallville, or maybe one of the growing number of comic book storylines she’s been involved in since her creation. Or maybe you’ve seen her in Minimate form \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

When\u00a0DC\u00a0Comics\u00a0launched their second Minimate line, they decided to move on from the C3 concept, and embraced the idea of integrating the 2.5 inch Minimate design where it was appropriate.
\nUp until that time, all comic-based Minimates were one standard size: 2 inches. DC felt that certain characters needed to stand above others, and that led to the\u00a0release of larger characters such as Bane, Brainiac 13, and Clayface, whose heightened stature contrasted the size of normal characters who were still\u00a02 inches.<\/p>\n

One of the characters who got the taller body treatment was Stargirl’s protector, S.T.R.I.P.E.<\/p>\n

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Behind the Image:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This was a really simple photo to take – I simply found an image\u00a0of an American flag from Google, and then positioned the two Minimates in front of the computer screen.<\/p>\n

On Ebay<\/span>: Geoff Johns<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minimate-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}