First Look - DC Universe Classics Deadman - thefwoosh.com

Have you checked your local comic book stores yet for DC Universe Classics Wave 11? It seems that’s where they’re hitting first, and I’ve heard both full assortments and solid cases have arrived. Fwoosh’s DisThunder picked up a Deadman at a local shop and has put up a First Look at the new body.

Looking at Deadman, I keep thinking how simple it’d be to make a Disco Nightwing. Not that I really want one… 😀 Sinestro, on the other hand, would be a welcome redo using this body.

Well, let’s get one thing out of the way: this sure as hell ain’t Black Manta with a collar. Deadman is a completely new sculpt, from head to elf-shoe. He is much skinnier and more skeletal than I was expecting, and that’s certainly not a bad thing. I suspected at SDCC that Deadman might use a “faked” open collar; i.e. the collar and the bare chest actually being a separate piece layed over the buck body’s chest, but that is not the case. Brand’s chest is sculpted with the chest-striations and all, and the collar merely plugs into the chest to create the appropriate change in texture. Very impressive, but that does mean there’s some new parts in store for the next character to take advantage of this new “buck.”