Happened to notice some new Justice League figure packaging at Target last weekend. It's orange and has the new DC logo, so it caught my eye. But what stopped me cold was the Superman figure...
I know it's tough to see in a 400x312 jpeg, but that is the friggin' Black Mercy taking up the accessory slot. Like most action figure accessories, it's an unpainted hunk of raw plastic straight out of the mold, but still... that's the Black Mercy. Finally, kids everywhere have the means to slip Superman into a psychic coma wherein he lives out his greatest wish while the other heroes work to snap him out of it!
Here's what it looked liked in the JLU episode...
I am so glad that they changed up the Superman model to this more personable version. The first season Superman looked awful.
And here's a detail from the cover of Superman Annual #11 (1985), "For the Man Who Has Everything," one of the greatest Superman stories ever told.
From comic to cartoon to toy.
I'm also happy that we live in a universe that grants us Booster Gold (plus Skeets!) action figures, although it's a shame that we likely won't see a proper Blue Beetle to accompany him.
