At this point, all DC Multiverse buys are impulse buysI’ve mentioned this before, but McFarlane Toys DC Mulitverse is a line I mostly can do without. It stems from an active dislike of their engineering - even when they do something other companies do they somehow do it in a way that annoys me. Super hard plastic, clicky ratchet joints, weird articulation, odd proportions… it’s rare that I’m truly happy with any of them, and settle for “they’re the ones making this character” levels of satisfaction. Their price points aren’t helping.
Zatanna does little to change that. By DC Multiverse standards she’s pretty good, by the standards of other lines she’s just OK. She has a hat, a wand hand, two magic effect hands with little translucent red things sticking out of each palm, a gripping hand that can’t grip the hat, at least at the current temperature of my basement, and Detecive Chimp, who’s like half the reason I got this. He’s almost a slug - he has shoulder rotation and that’s it and they definitely could have done more in that regard - but Detective Chimp.
Zatanna’s head is weird too. It looks good in profile and bad face on and just sorta weird in three-quarter view like here. It’s a little oddly proportioned and shaped, probably to match certain art from certain angles, or possibly because the license is running out soon and McFarlane is cranking out all the DC product it can while it can.
I played around a LOT with the magic effect on this and got it pretty close to where I wanted it. One thing I’ve been messing with, in the Conan pic and here, is using a texture brush eraser to “rough up” areas - in the Conan pic it was the shadows, here it’s the magic effect - to give it a less layered-on look.
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