{"id":904,"date":"2010-07-17T02:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=904"},"modified":"2011-02-01T19:52:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T02:52:58","slug":"minimate-spotlight-11-batman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/minimate-spotlight-11-batman\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimate Spotlight #11 Batman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #b18d58\">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><span style=\"color: #b18d58\">Every so often, a unique style of figure comes along that breaks the mold, so to speak. Each Saturday, <a href=\"http:\/\/donny-b.deviantart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Donny B<\/a> will be showcasing various offerings from Art Asylum&#8217;s take on the &#8216;block figure&#8217;, with a weekly spotlight on <em><strong>Minimates<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>With all of Art Asylum&#8217;s comic\u00a0book 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 &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v232\/DonnyB_Face\/misc\/fractalarmorbatmanspectrum.jpg\" target=\"_blank2\">Fractal Armor Batman<\/a>&#8221; or <a href=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v232\/DonnyB_Face\/misc\/antivampirespiderman.jpg\" target=\"_blank1\">&#8220;Anti-Vampire Spiderman<\/a>&#8220;), you won&#8217;t see Minimates doing that&#8230;\u00a0Well, except for a couple of Batman releases in DC&#8217;s first C3 wave. <em>Heavy Assault Batman<\/em> is one such example:<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1900\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Minimates_2010_07-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Minimates_2010_07-17.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Minimates_2010_07-17-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Behind the Image:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/>\nSince this costume is a pretty intense antithesis of Batman&#8217;s true character, I figured I would follow that deviation and light this Minimate\u00a0with a very bright neon color.\u00a0So I grabbed an orange light for the background (which was\u00a0nothing more than a wall radiator)\u00a0and a normal light to shine on Batman, so that his colors weren&#8217;t washed out by the orange hues.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">On Ebay<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22batman%22&amp;submit=Search&amp;LH_TitleDesc=1\" target=\"_blank\">Batman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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