Alex Ross Joker

[Figuremaster Les]

I got the DCD Alex Ross Joker today. Not happy with the facepaint. Too cursory, but the overall sculpt and posture and facial expression are great! I almost want to repaint him in Joker colors just for the hell of it...but I don't think I will. He's in that black tux.

Look for repaint pics soon.

After the Wonder Woman now. Just saw these for the first time today. Not bad.

[BlackKnight]

My Favorites in that line are the PlasticMan, With his various interchangable parts he comes with, & the Hal Jordan. Great Stuff.

You should repaint the Joker, add some purple Bro. It would look Killer.

[Figuremaster Les]

Good call Jase. Great minds...
Hey, only thing wrong with this Joker, he's taller than the same series Batman. What's up with that?!?!
Like Cas says, the DCD boys need rulers!

[radioscooter]

Well, couple things here. Don't think I am sticking up for DCD and their scale problems - I am just as disgusted with them as anyone else.

That being said - I think Ross has a lot of input into these and that they wouldn't be that haphazard in their production. Especially since I think that those two were both sculpted by Tim Bruckner. I wouldn't be surprised at all if he just wanted Joker taller.

Additionally - I have always thought that they should stick to ONE sculptor per line. I really love Bruckner's work. But when they added Karen Palinko's sculpts to this line I dreaded the results. And I was right. I think the Hal Jordan GL is one of the weakest in the entire line. It's a nice GL, but it doesn't have that reall ROSSY look to it that Batman, Superman have. IMO.

[faithfulbutler]

Ok,firstly to the figs then i'll bitch about DCD issues.
Thanks to the lovely Kevin i got this full set last week.I am loving Plas,very clever concept for the fig which only raises the issue of which parts to put on him for display.GL,not a truly faithful recreation of Ross'design but he'll do for me.Ivy,nice,a bit too tall and Skin is the wrong colour.Tidy up and a Repaint planned for her and i'll be much happier.WW,i'm happier with her than i thought i would be after seeing pics online.Sloppy Paint is the only real issue i have but i can fix all that and will in the near future.
Joker,i've been fired up about getting this figure since i first saw the preview.I'm happy with the Black Suit,i know it's not traditional Joker attire colours but Ross paints him this way and i love it for being different.Actually,the Ross Mad Love pic of Joker and Harley is my Desktop background and one of my all-time favourite Ross pics.His Face and Head,well,it's pretty good.I like the way DCD did the Teeth but the Purple around the Eyes,what were they thinking?I guess they felt compelled to get Purple on the Joker somewhere,but the eyes?!?I'll definitely be re-doing the Head paint.

Scaling issues within DCD is a big thing these days.Not just between the different lines but within the same lines.There is a lot of speculation going around that DCD is making a move towards 7" scale but this has not been confirmed in any way.
I totally agree with Scot,one Sculptor,one line,that consistency is needed!I truly believe DCD is being hurt sales-wise by their inconsistency in Sculpts and scale and when you pay a higher cost for these figures you expect some sort of respect shown to your consumers.Now i don't collect a lot of DCD but i am getting all the Ross stuff and they'll be standing alone so it's not such a big issue in this case.But what about the multitudes of Collectors who like to mix together the different lines?Who want a Justice Poison Ivy that towers over their IC Batman for example?In a couple of months there's a couple of new KC Figs coming out in the Elseworlds line,i hope to god that they are in-scale with all the previous DCD KC figures or i will NOT be happy!
I could go on and on here but i won't bore you all.Rant over.