MARVEL's Death's Head Made An Action Figure? Cool!
This is not a blogpost/feature about an "art toy", but rather a comicbook-themed action figure, and someone whom I'd least expect to be made into an action figure, and that has piqued my personal interests! The character in question is MARVEL's "Death's Head"! Spotted on the pegs at Toys'R'Us Tampines Mall, under the MARVEL "Infinite" Series.
WHO-IS: "Death's Head is a fictional comic book character, a robotic bounty hunter (or rather, as he calls himself, a "freelance peace-keeping agent") appearing in the books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer Simon Furman and artist Geoff Senior for the company's Marvel UK imprint.
The character was later redesigned and relaunched as Death's Head II, acting as one of the flagship characters for Marvel UK's 1990s expansion. This version of Death's Head also inspired two spin-off characters, Death Wreck and Death Metal, each of which starred in its own limited series" (Wiki)
He was not a particularly favorite of mine, truth be told, but I marveled at the presentation of the figure, of how his cobbled up design made it in print (looks like X-Men's Colossus wore Wolverine's costume hahaha) and his medieval-style weapons of an axe and mace? AWESOME! I have a first few issues of the comicbook too … I am always down for more "obscure" characters being made toy, and I do not mean "custom versions" haha!
Now I wanna see "Death's Head II" and "Death's Head 3.0" made into toys too! In fact I would love to see some 80s-90s comicbook characters made into good looking quality action figures. With the advent of 3D printing now, maybe even one-offs (versus customized versions) would prove interesting, no? HHmmm
