Catching up on some back news, now that I’ve got regular net access back again. Toyfare is running a second fan poll for DC Universe Classics, featuring Captain Marvel Jr. (how would they name him on the package – “Shazam Junior”?), Geo-Force, Libra, Raven, Toy Man, and Uncle Sam. The big hitters for me are Raven of Teen Titans and Toyman from the Legion of Doom.
I’m going to have to think pretty hard about this, because I don’t think we’ve had any word on of the other members of the first fan poll, which ran last year at this time and yielded The Question as the winner, due in DC Universe Classics wave 11. I think that poll had a bit of a stronger list of characters, at least based on what I read in DC, so I was hoping that we’d get more of them. Huntress and Catman are two biggies for me.
DCU FAN POLL: ROUND TWO
Mattel’s taking it to the fans once again with another fan choice poll, allowing you to choose the next DC Universe Classics figure
Get ready for yet another election. Don’t worry, this one won’t involve smear campaigns, newspaper articles or those annoying commercials. This time you’re voting for something really important, an action figure sculpted by the Four Horsemen.
The masterminds behind the red-hot DC Universe Classics action figures want your opinion on who should join a line that already includes an eclectic mix of DC heroes and villains from Batman and Robin to Atom Smasher and The Question the winner of the last fan choice poll from ToyFare #133. The figure will pop up in plastic in the Fall of 2010 for the series’ 15th wave. So, check out the following six nominees, then make your voice heard
DCU FAN POLL: ROUND TWO
CAPTAIN MARVEL JR.
You’ve already got your Captain Marvel and your Black Adam, so why not round out the male side of the Marvel Family ignoring Osiris and the Wizard of course with Freddie Freeman here, the young crippled lad who could speak Captain Marvel’s name and ride the magic lightning. Freddie’s gone through some changes since first donning the blue duds, including a brief period of calling himself CM3 cause if he said his own name, he’d turn off his powers, duh and, more significantly, becoming the new Captain Marvel in the pages of Judd Winick’s The Trials of Shazam.
GEO-FORCE
Created by Mike W. Barr and Jim Aparo, Prince Brion Markov here has been a member of the Justice League of America, but is probably more known for being a member of many incarnations of the Outsiders, starting with the original team from Batman and the Outsiders. Since his creation in 1983 this brother of Teen Titan betrayer Terra shares similar abilities as his earth-moving sister at least now he does, has gone through quite a few changes, most obviously from his original green and yellow costume to his current brown and orange version. Currently starring in The Outsiders, Geo-Force has gone through a resurgence in popularity of the past few years and was completely awesome kicking Deathstroke’s ass in DC Universe Last Will and Testament.
LIBRA
Obscure until last year, Libra played a pretty big role in Grant Morrison’s Final Crisis miniseries along with all the tie-ins that went along with it. We’re still trying to fit all the pieces of Final Crisis together in our heads, but Libra cut a pretty intimidating swath through the villain community. Not only did Libra have Lex Luthor working for him, but he also iced the Martian Manhunter with fire, of course. We don’t want to spoil anything but, we cheered when Lexy shot Libra and explained he was actually the Anti-Life Equation. Oops, spoiler He’s also not Barry Allen like we all thought
RAVEN
A figure of Raven would get us one step closer to having a full team of Marv Wolfman and George Perez’s New Teen Titans. We’ve already got Kid Flash, Cyborg, Starfire and Robin well, there’s a Tim Drake Robin and a Dick Grayson Nightwing. Aside from everyone’s favorite brooding hooded mystic, you’d only need Wonder Girl Donna Troy and Beast Boy to round things out. Not too shabby. Plus, just imagine how much fun the Horsemen would have with that hood and cape Won’t someone please think of the Horsemen
TOYMAN
In case you haven’t figured it out yet, the DCUC team really likes “Super Friends,” so it’s no surprise they went with this cartoon-inspired jester-like incarnation of the Superman villain for your voting pleasure. This Toyman would also continue the trend of including “Challenge of the Super Friends” Legion of Doom members in the line. Solomon Grundy, Sinestro, Black Manta, Giganta, Riddler, Captain Cold and Gorilla Grodd have already made the cut, so that just leaves Toyman, Cheeta, Scarecrow and Bizarro. Do your part and bring these long-lost fiends together again
UNCLE SAM
Aside from being the living embodiment of the raddest country on Earth that’d be us, the pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths version of Uncle Sam lived on a world called Earth-X populated by the acquired-by-DC Quality Comics characters. What made this world different? The Nazis won WWII Since continuity’s been rewritten a time or ten since then, Sam has a simpler origin now and leads the Freedom Fighters: A group made up of most
