James Frain will play the avenging angel on the second season of Gotham. The holy soldier plays a significant role in side quests during the popular Arkham City and Arkham Knight games. The fact that he is a murderous anti-hero likely explains why the character has yet to translate to family-friendly Batman media like The Brave and the Bold or The Batman, but the character has been spotted outside of comic books.
Indeed, Azrael lurks around the fringes the wider Batman universe. Bridging these two milestones was the miniseries Batman: Sword of Azrael, introducing the character who would step into the vacancy left by the broken bat. Bane was introduced in a special one-shot in January 1993, The Vengeance of Bane, that provided the back story of the new antagonist. Shondra Kinsolving was introduced in November 1992. The months leading up to the start of Knightfall in April 1993 were quite busy at the Batman offices. As much as the sprawling nineties even might bungle the pay-off, it benefits from a very careful and meticulous set-up.Ī lot of the key elements of the Knightfall saga were set up and signposted ahead of time. At the same time, it is clear that the writers had some idea of what they were doing and where they were going at least in the beginning. The event has a fairly solid first act, but its second act is cluttered and much of the resolution is messy and unsatisfying. The alternate hands and batarang accessories didn’t do much for me.Reading Knightfall, it quickly becomes clear that the writers had no real idea about how they wanted the story to unfold. For my money, the most impressive one is the interchangeable unmasked head which looks just like Jim Aparo’s Batman art. But, once I found the RIGHT way to position it I haven’t had an issues…that sounds filthy.įinally, the accessories are kind of “ehh” I guess. The included articulated stand was a bit more difficult, since it only seems to want to support the figure at certain angles before folding under the weight of the figure. The figure is still in the exact same pose I left him in a week ago. The joints on this figure were quite a bit looser than the Spider-Man, but not to the point of it being a problem. It’s likely one of the better wired capes I’ve encountered it doesn’t feel like it’s going to snap int two when posted and it also looks pretty darn cool on top of my bookshelf. The fully wired and articulated cape more than makes up for that, however.
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The articulation and sculpting are as topnotch as I had hoped for, but obviously the shoulders can’t quite have a full range of motion due to how the armor is designed. The figure itself is pretty good, but it’s not quite as good as the Spider-Man MAFEX I have. Mild spoilers for a 30 year old comic, but Azrael some how finds a way to add even MORE BLADES to the armor. I like this figure enough to hope that they’ll do a second version featuring the updated armor from later in the story arc. So, it’s easy to see why I jumped at the chance to preorder this figure it’s likely the BEST figure we’re going to get of Azrael as Batman. It was the ’90s and he came equipped with an awesome new costume that was some how almost entirely blades, armor, and pouches. It didn’t matter that Dick Grayson was the glaringly obvious choice to take up the cowl, this could be so much cooler. When it was announced that Azrael was to become the NEW Batman I instantly bought in. An aunt of mine had given me three of the four Sword of Azrael issues by Denny O’Neil and Joe Quesada at Christmastime and I was instantly a huge fan of the avenging angel of St. At the time, I wasn’t really familiar with Bane as a villain, but I was familiar with Azrael as a character.
I was more invested in Batman at the time (weren’t we all?) and the massive hype train that was building up following DC’s Death of Superman the previous year was too much for me to resist. I’m not being entirely dismissive of the Knightfall story arc at all. I had ordered the Batman figure at the same time in October of 2020 and was now looking forward to seeing their take on one of the more questionable Batman eras.
I’ll get back to Az-Bats in a moment, but for a brief recap, last November I got the Ben Reilly Spider-Man figure (13 months after I ordered him…) and found it to be an incredibly solid figure and an excellent Spider-Man all-around.
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