Okay -- that's it.

I'm calling "HOME MAKOVER" and sending them these pictures !!!

haha

Very interesting combination of old and, well - not new - but, "old and pop".

Not wanting to hijack the thread - but, Mr Byrne, do you have any particularly significant antique or historical statues/art that can be shared in this thread?

It's one thing to build an elaborate suit for an actor to wear in a movie. That's pretty much done and done. But the more complex the costumes, uniforms, et al have become in the comics, the long they take to draw. There was a time when characters like Taskmaster and Jack of Hearts were the exception. Now, it seems, even outfits that used to be simple find ways to include extraneous details (think of Batman's Adam Westian pouch belt, for instance). And with the fondness so many artists have for belts and pouches and flanges and metal technique. . . .

So - do we call those DC Women collectibles - "Busts" or "Busts'n'Butts" -- they all seem to be designed, not from the waist/chest up - but from below their thighs up. 

From here on, they shall be referred to as "DC Women B'n'Bs"

Nice sculpts, though -- I'm very tempted to collect them-----but I must be strong.  Bowen only is my rule (that I broke for the Star Trek Captains line)

excessive detail.

PREcisely. The reason I love "retro" art so much, like D. Cooke and Mignola, is how simple the design work is ie lack of overt detail and musculature. Robots look like robots from the 1950s. Superman looks like a fairly normal guy, not a bodybuilder with a glandular problem.

The excessive OCD has to stem back to a problem in the creative culture...it isn't enough to just draw a guy in blue tights, he has to be some artist's wet/sex ideal, or rather what the artist feels is important instead of what the READER needs.

Of course, the thick-headed musclebound Superman seems to sell, so what do I know?

I like the design of Cheeta and how she almost crossing that 4th wall, by interacting with her base. 

I like the Bowen/Maddox sculpt of Kitty Pride for that reason, she's phasing through her base.

I'd love to see other sculpts like that, maybe a caped character - perhaps a Batman statue do something like that, like a Bill Skienkivitch (spelling) or Mark Texera design with that "living" cape that flows everywhere and over the base but also over the edge of the base onto the shelf the statue sits on.  That would be cool.