Hot Toys CMS The Dark Knight Returns 1/6th Scale Collectible Figure

[sj2106]

Criticising the execution and accuracy of the figure is fair enough but is it really worth posting just to say how much you hate Miller's art? Clearly this figure isn't for you but must accept how popular and influential The Dark Knight Returns was.

For me it's almost perfect and hopefully leads to more comic versions of Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and other Justice League characters. The better this sells the more likely it is we get those figures.

 

[jye4ever]

Sorry but every iteration of Batman including Hush look less intimidating next to DKR.

 

[GodParticle]

Looks great to me. My favorite comic version of batman. Almost went for that 3rd party one a while ago

 

[slynger]

Miller’s art has always been divisive. However, this story came at a time when comics were tanking, big time.

One reason or another, DC okayed a grizzled, old man Bruce Wayne and let Miller run with it - arguably, the pivotal series turned the comic book world upside down.

If this sells, and I think it will, we could get a Joker, Kelly and possibly Supes.

 

[karamazov80]

Criticising the execution and accuracy of the figure is fair enough but is it really worth posting just to say how much you hate Miller's art? Clearly this figure isn't for you but must accept how popular and influential The Dark Knight Returns was.

Since the design of the figure is based off of Miller's art, I think it's a fair area of discussion. Personally I think Miller's art was at its apex in the late '70s and early '80s, where he was hinting at the expressionism that was mentioned earlier, but still keeping it conventional and aesthetically pleasing. I feel that, yes, he was getting more expressive over time, but also lazier. The simplicity of his later work must take a fraction of time to draw relative to his work on Daredevil. That was also something I observed with John Byrne. He didn't take the time to really flesh out his art starting in the late '80s, and though he is one of my all-time favorite artists, I started checking out by his run on Namor and Wolverine.