If you look back at my pictures from Toy Fair, you’ll notice that Arthur’s holding his trident pretty close to its head. The paint lines between components are nice and clean, owing to the modular construction, but the application on trickier spots like the lips and along the hairline is well-executed, too. The paint detail is excellent, and I especially like the varied tones on the shirt. I’m not totally sold on the sculpting of the brow, but unless I’m all up in his face, it’s hard to notice.
The mold is quite good-I love the pose, the wave-and-rocks base, and Arthur’s figure detail. Like all of Diamond’s Gallery pieces, the construction is essentially molded plastic. Even with the scale-mail and the black trunks, this one looks refreshingly pure. The first thing that struck me when I took this Aquaman out of his box was how much cleaner and simpler he looks than the Justice League statue I reviewed a month or so ago.
Drawing patterned fabric is rather tedious, I imagine, and a potential visual distraction on the page. New 52 and other outliers notwithstanding, the comic book costumes for our beloved DC heroes tend to have fewer design embellishments than their cinematic counterparts. DST sent one out for me to take a look, so we’re going to do just that. Diamond Select Toys has been trickling out an entire wave of comics-based Gallery statues this year, and Arthur Curry is the latest to hit stores. It’s the yearquarter of Aquaman! With his first major motion picture scheduled for December, and his first major crossover arc since Throne of Atlantis beginning last month with Drowned Earth, the once and (presumably) future king of Atlantis is going big for the end of 2018.
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