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Thom Price
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That's a stunning Starfire sculpt; it's also probably the best female face I've seen on these figures.  Only two minor quibbles.  I can't believe I'm saying it, but the breasts actually look too small.  Also, the boot feet are terrible; her entire costume is sleek and sexy, and then it looks like she's wearing workboots. 
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sorry haven't noticed the boots .......
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GORGEOUS figure, easily the best female sculpt from either line.

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Pity she has such a generic face.
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Ryan, that's the Anti-Monitor from Crisis
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Grim

Did eaglemoss do well on prof X ?

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Yeah, that Starfire looks nothing like George Perez.
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Yeah. George Perez is a man.
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Love the Starfire figurine.  Also think Shazam! looks fantastic.  I'm totally not seeing what you're seeing, John Bodin, as I think he captures the character perfectly. Big old "pass" on the Anti-Monitor, however.  No affection for the character.
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The appearance of the Anti-Monitor and Doomsday this early in the game
suggests an even more liberal application of the term "classic" than we find
with the Marvel figurines. DC has a history that stretches back to the very
beginning of the "Golden Age", and it seems like there are a WHOLE lot of
characters who should be on the list before these two.
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Agreed.
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Are there any golden age characters planned?  I would think Flash (Jay Garrick) or Green Lantern (Alan Scott) would be shoe-ins.

If they get to Supergirl I really hope it's not the current Supergirl but instead the hotpants/puffy sleeve version from the 70's

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 Matt Reed wrote:
I'm totally not seeing what you're seeing, John Bodin, as I think he captures the character perfectly.


I was actually kind of kidding about the pose -- going for a bit of that brilliant Emery Calame-esque wit (and it was a swing and a miss, I guess).  I do think that it's a superb sculpt given the scale, but with that cheesy grin and the one fist thrust out like that, well . . . I must be a sick puppy because the first thing that came to my mind was "circle jerk!"  To my credit, my wife made a very similar observation when I showed her the picture.

THIS is what I mean about how Cap's pose makes his placement in a display a bit, er, tricky:



I'm just sayin'.

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