I’ve always thought Todd was an egomaniac who is perpetually trying to invent the pulse instead of keep his finger on it, so the interview doesn’t surprise me.
Yep, this. He’s got big Elon Musk vibes in this regard, although to be fair Todd actually has *some* talent and skills of his own beyond just throwing money at stuff and pretending to know things. The “business bro” persona, the obsession with absurd exploitation “trends” like NFTs and forced scarcity, and most importantly the utter inability to change his biased mind in the face of new information while continuing to insist he is an “innovator” are not just wrong-headed but also extremely off-putting. I’ve liked a lot of the things made by the company Todd owns over the years, but I’ve never liked Todd himself. He’s always dripped with ignorant hubris.
Don't forget how well Ratcatcher II sold! I never saw her - not once!
Too soon. 😭 I'm still bummed about that. My favorite character in the movie, and we'll probably never see her. The only real rep, aside from Funko, is an Iron Studios statue that's hella expensive and maybe not even in scale. Looks great, though.
What's even weirder is, with the latest Batman and Robin wave, we know Todd is at least willing to do 2 females in the same wave. Yeah, yeah- I know it's usually 4 figures to a BAF wave, but with a BAF like King Shark, he easily could've split the pieces up across one more figure, or thrown her in when he did the 5 pack. Nothing worse than an incomplete team, especially when it's only 1 member away from being complete.
@secondwhiteline Groth is intense but he isn't humorless. He certainly isn't a Putz and is very smart. He's probably the most important comics publisher of the past 40 years. His work with the Schulz estate, Barks and Disney, The Comics Journal, Los Bros Hernandez, Daniel Clowes, R Crumb, etc is priceless to American Comics. He certainly isn't the putz in the room with McFarlane despite what might have been at the time a burning zealotry towards genre comics that might have burned a little too brightly.
@derrabbi I am well familiar with Fanta and TCJ and maintain a long-running skepticism of Groth, his positions, his style of criticism, Fanta's marketing and curation and canonization philosophies, the talent they choose to show interest in vs. the talent they don't, their general cultural impact on the comics scene and labor conditions within it, their own labor practices, their frequent championing of racist material combined with their staggering lack of talent diversity, the sad white guyness of it all...Frankly, despite the good books they've put out I think the whole enterprise is just as toxic as the major publishers Groth derides. It's just academic toxicity instead of the populist kind.
And I have a seething hatred of Crumb, for that matter. So that's not a point in favor for me.
As for Groth not being the putz in the room with McFarlane, I have to question that as soon as Todd talks about that panel they were on and says, "Maybe 8 of the 200 kids in that room are the ones who become your readership later, and after the way you went at them, 1 doesn't." But you know, indie purity. It's about THE ART, right? Nothing performative about that, nothing exclusionary.
In hand pictures of Wally Flash and Vampire Nightwing on IG
mcfarlane dc multiverse reveals from wondercon
KISS FROM A ROSE!!!
baf is the nightmare bat from the deleted scene
Yes, Charles Schulz and Karl Barks, so non-mainstream. Heritage collections of Steve Ditko, Bill Everett, Bernie Wrightson, Chester Gould, Don Rosa, EC Segar, Ernie Bushmiller, Dan Decarlo, Hal Foster, Jack Davis, John Severin, L Frank Baum, Osamu Tezuka, Wally Wood, Jack Davis, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, Walt Kelly and Windsor McKay. Such indie art snobs! Clearly racists and sexists publishing Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, George Herriman, Sun Ra, Spain Rodriguez, Roberta Gregory, Dame Darcy, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Megan Kelso, Mary Fleener, Lilli Carre, Jessica Abel, Eleanor Davis, Emil Ferris, Diane Noomin, etc. But you must be right; Jim Lee and Todd McFarlane are more worthy of critical evaluation than things like Charles Burns & Chris Ware.
On the one hand, I was really hoping B&R Bane would be the BAF for the Forever wave. On the other, now I don't have to buy another Kilmer Batman.
It's just occurred to me that Two-Face won't have the guns he had in the movie. Hopefully they appear in a McFarlane accessory pack.
Cool to see more Kilmer, though I'd prefer if B&R Bane was the BAF. Might pick up Riddler and put him in a comic display.
Interested in Boomer and Starfire. Rock will be some nice fodder if those legs are new and not Grifter reuse. Superboy looks to be using Constantine legs so that sucks.
Tim Robin might be something I get. Sportsmaster is Dark Detective reuse which I'm not enthusiastic about because I'd prefer new sculpt but then again, I don't have that figure on the shelf, so I'll get him. Also wondering about that Manhunter. Just dreading the chase figures aspect of them. Perhaps it meant that those will have chase variants and not that they'll be chase themselves.
Asoka has a bunch of much clearer pics on his IG
There’s a lot of good stuff here. That Penguin, in particular, looks smashing. Probably the best Penguin ever.
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