I got my Kingdom Come Superman and Wonder Woman toys in the mail today.
I have to say I’m a little disappointed with the coloring job. (Doesn’t it look good in that picture?) The sculpts are awesome but the blues and reds on both of them are way too bright. The colors are suppose to be a little muddy like the fuzzy morality of the comic. Instead we have the bright primary colors of truth, justice, and the American way. Any other Superman figure and it would be OK, but they should have put a little more energy into better coloring (especially for what I paid for them). Wonder Woman is a little too thin also, but otherwise they are pretty damn cool toys. Not as good as the MacFarlane stuff, but still better than about 90% of the other stuff out there. I just wish the Batman from Kingdom Come didn’t look so lame, as I still don’t have a Batman figure for my collection. Although if the Jim Lee designed DC Direct line of ‘Hush’ toys looks as cool as Lee’s sketches, I might not have to wait long for one.
There are two new CDs from two new bands that I think you should all check out: the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the Raveonettes.
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs I first saw on Conan and they so totally blew me away with their live performance that their name just kind of got stuck in the back of my mind. They played Y Control, which I think is probably the best track off of the album. They are just amazingly animated live (which I can say for almost no other bands I’ve seen). Then I saw them on Letterman I think and again they were awesome, so I decided to pick up their CD. They kind of sound like a combination of the new garage rock sound combined with 80’s music, punk and the Cure, and the lead singer Karen O sounds like PJ Harvey gone wild. It’s quite an addictive sound, with lots of great tracks on the album. Pick it up.
The Raveonettes are this Danish duo who are obsessed with pre-Beatles America and 50’s movies and with making their albums based on single keys (this album I have is all in B flat major). It sounds great, like Phil Spector-ish Rock n’ Roll transplanted in the new millennium. A hint of country here, a hint of blues there, and a Beach Boys sound over there, all made into fun, addictive love songs. It’s real good stuff.
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Yeah, saw the raveonettes on letterman last night. Ihey were pretty groovy.
Does that Superman figure have joints? What’s the point of that? It’s a statue, not an action figure. If they’re gonna put joints on it, there should be more than three.
Damn, I wish I watched Letterman! Damn it! Oh well.
It should have been a statue. The joints serve no purpose other than to make them look less cool. For instance, Wonder Woman has a neck joint, but her hair makes it so you can’t move her head. Why a joint then?