That Batman is cool, but not $60 cool after McF shipping. Pass. I did pre-order Rann Swamp Thing from BBTS, though. Swampy is just a character that I'm always a sucker for.
I personally don't understand why this Batmobile design was so popular back in the 90's. It looks like a diabetic slipper. And what is going on with those wheel wells??This would be a sweet JLA Bat, but at $50 I'll wait for the next round. That said, it's time for a Norm Breyfogle Batmobile!
I personally don't understand why this Batmobile design was so popular back in the 90's. It looks like a diabetic slipper. And what is going on with those wheel wells??This would be a sweet JLA Bat, but at $50 I'll wait for the next round. That said, it's time for a Norm Breyfogle Batmobile!
When did you start reading comics? For me, my first Batman comic was a Breyfogle Detective Comics issue 602 (1989, I think). This was the car he had up until the end of Knightfall, so it was just the coolest thing for me next to Keaton's. I think our favorites are often colored by when we get into something.
I personally started reading Batman comics in 1992 after seeing Batman Returns in theaters. But my first Batman comic was the "Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told Vol. 1" Anthology collection. I wouldn't discover Norm Breyfogle's work until around 1998-99. I actually had a kidney transplant in August of 98 and had a whole bunch of underlying issues post surgery so for 6 months I was confined either to a hospital bed or a hotel room. So during that period my parents bought me a whole heap of comics and trades to keep me distracted. It was at that point where my Batman comic collection exploded and I was getting everything from Knightfall, Contagion, NML, Batman Adventures and a ton of Crossovers comics. So yeah I was exposed to a whole bunch of batman material in a relatively short period and from a variatey of decades. Its why I have just as much fondness for the Golden Age era as I do stories like NML and Batman War Games. The Bronze Age to the early Post Crisis years became my favorite era of Batman.I personally don't understand why this Batmobile design was so popular back in the 90's. It looks like a diabetic slipper. And what is going on with those wheel wells??This would be a sweet JLA Bat, but at $50 I'll wait for the next round. That said, it's time for a Norm Breyfogle Batmobile!
When did you start reading comics? For me, my first Batman comic was a Breyfogle Detective Comics issue 602 (1989, I think). This was the car he had up until the end of Knightfall, so it was just the coolest thing for me next to Keaton's. I think our favorites are often colored by when we get into something.
And of course after my transplant and post surgery issues were over, I discovered more comics on my own. I started reading more Daredevil, Spawn, Black Panther, Captain America, Deadpool and I read more of Spider-man and X-Men too.
I saw a few more pics of the Breyfogle Batman set on IG under more natural lighting, and the grey doesn't look quite as dark as in the promo pics. No doubt it's darker than Norm's suit in the comics, but still looks great, IMO.
In a weird way, it's kind of what I picture a blue/grey suit would look like "in real life," if that makes sense. Don't get me wrong, I love the Super Powers/Jose Luis Garcia Lopez light blue & grey also, but not sure how that goes with a "menacing figure of the night..."
I got my notification that I did not win the platinum GL Corps figure from EQL. That's after buying 3 of the regular version through the McFarlane Toy Store website. I am not a platinum member or anything like that.
It's a bummer to not win, but I do appreciate that McF actually TELLS you when you don't win a drawing. Feels like a lot of drawings like this leave it up to you to find out if it's even happened or not.
I was lucky enough to have won a Platinum GL, which I honestly didn’t expect after getting lucky with the Question.
I did actually email the McFarlane store after the GL case sold out in a nano second. They said that’s the only way to get a chase without the run fair lottery. Not sure how true that is when my set of clock king, red hood, and rag man came with a red hood chase instead of the regular.
I personally started reading Batman comics in 1992 after seeing Batman Returns in theaters. But my first Batman comic was the "Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told Vol. 1" Anthology collection. I wouldn't discover Norm Breyfogle's work until around 1998-99. I actually had a kidney transplant in August of 98 and had a whole bunch of underlying issues post surgery so for 6 months I was confined either to a hospital bed or a hotel room. So during that period my parents bought me a whole heap of comics and trades to keep me distracted. It was at that point where my Batman comic collection exploded and I was getting everything from Knightfall, Contagion, NML, Batman Adventures and a ton of Crossovers comics. So yeah I was exposed to a whole bunch of batman material in a relatively short period and from a variatey of decades. Its why I have just as much fondness for the Golden Age era as I do stories like NML and Batman War Games. The Bronze Age to the early Post Crisis years became my favorite era of Batman.I personally don't understand why this Batmobile design was so popular back in the 90's. It looks like a diabetic slipper. And what is going on with those wheel wells??This would be a sweet JLA Bat, but at $50 I'll wait for the next round. That said, it's time for a Norm Breyfogle Batmobile!
When did you start reading comics? For me, my first Batman comic was a Breyfogle Detective Comics issue 602 (1989, I think). This was the car he had up until the end of Knightfall, so it was just the coolest thing for me next to Keaton's. I think our favorites are often colored by when we get into something.
And of course after my transplant and post surgery issues were over, I discovered more comics on my own. I started reading more Daredevil, Spawn, Black Panther, Captain America, Deadpool and I read more of Spider-man and X-Men too.
Ah, yeah, I can see why the Breyfogle 'mobile wouldn't be a big hit for you. With that huge range of books, there were many subjectively cooler and better designed cars, for sure. For me, it's just tough to beat my first love, so to speak lol
Sorry to hear about the surgery complications when you were a kid, I've been there myself. Good on your folks for hooking you up with some fantastic reading material, that sort of stuff certainly helps to distract from real life. Some incredible worlds to get lost in.
I grabbed a Breyfogle Batman off of Todd's site, I've been trying to decide if I want to go with the wired cape or the posed one so I thought I'd go back and grab a 2nd figure so I don't have to choose. Sold out. Ah, well. It actually lasted longer than I thought it would.
@therealsmallville Thanks. honestly I'm doing okay now and the transplant has lasted 26 years so things are going well. And my Batman collection has exploded to nearly 500 books thanks mostly in part to DC's efforts to reprint all of their stuff, especially from those early days. And I am grateful we finally have a Norm Breyfogle batman. As much as I would prefer the blue and grey costume, I have enough of those. And its nice to get the darker costume. It's kind of an under represented era. And this is a first to even have a Batman based on Norm Breyfogle's work. I'd never thought this day would come.
Naming a figure specific to a certain era with the actual product being inaccurate to said era is a McFarlane staple.
Still, the "Breyfogle" Batman is neat on its own and I might have bit had I not been consumed with family obligations all day. Now it's sold out. Oh well.
Yep... got the e-mail that I'm a Todd Toy Store loser once again. I guess it was worth a shot. Now time to start checking those GameStops
I like these Batmans with a wired cape and array of hands. But I'm really in for $23 or less. $30 with the base. As-is it sure feels expensive. Feels like it should be $40 at most.
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