I purchased the comic version of Rick on my way back from Morgantown last week..honestly, the best part of the figure is the accessories. His big bag o' guns..the sculpt is alright, but the paint apps are TERRIBLE..there are lots of misplaced dollops of paint on the buttons of the coat, his face is rouged out like you wouldn't believe and his eyes are just..crazy..as for the articulation, yeah, it's there, but it's not usable..the figure was sculped as you've seen and it seems like they just threw the articulation at it just to be able to advertise it on the front of the card..very very underwhelmed. I almost got Michonne instead, but I just wanted the bag of guns in case a later one comes out..the guns themselves are nice overall, however they have ejection ports on both sides, and several misplaced paint cues again. The fake wood-grain is pulled off quite nice on my copy though..he comes with a pistol, looks like a 1911 or clone and his hatchet..I passed on the one with better eyes because the rouge on the cheeks was just sooo terrible.
However, I will say that the quality of plastic is just tops, the joints on the shoulders, elbows and legs have ratchets to aid in holding a pose. However, that left leg is just killing me..you can futz around with it a bit, but it never looks quite right, nor does the way he looks left..
I do plan on working on the arms a bit, around the shoulders and elbows, to try and extract a little more movement from the sculpt. In this day and age, you should be able to buy a figure with a great sculpt and great poseability, but it seems like Mcfarlane is just satisfied to coast along on past merits (especially with their Halo series, though that one too is going downhill fast).
I shouldn't have to drop 20.00 on this thing only to have to fix it's problems myself. I would have loved to have seen NECA get this line, with what they've done with the Assassins Creed and it's other videogame properties, they could have really knocked these things out of the park. As it is now, they're not big enough to pose with any other series like that, but they're just a little over the size of GI JOE and the Star Wars line.
I dunno..I honestly wouldn't be so hard on this line if I didn't want so much for it to succeed. But I have the feeling that Mcfarlane was able to lowball it, considering who he is and the relationship he has with Kirkman. It's a real shame, I hope the next batch come out better.
If anybody is interested, I can provide a few pictures of my guy.
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