DK2 Flash

 The Flash

The Dark Knight Strike Again

Mattel - Walgreens Exclusive

The Dark Knight Strikes Again was pretty bad (not "All-Star Batman" bad), but this Flash figure is pretty decent!  Flash is a Walgreen's exclusive priced at $20, but I held out long enough to find one on clearance for $10 while on vacation.

 

I'm not sure why Barry Allan decided a romper would be a good uniform change, or why to go "Zoom" with the color scheme, but it's different and not wholly visually displeasing.  I mean, it is fairly accurate to the source material, but then again, Frank Miller doesn't make a lot of sense.

My favorite part is the boots.  The lighting bolt off the back is neat, as are the new lifts.  Maybe decades of being a speed demon has been murder on the arches?  Who knows, but the Frankenstein effect puts this retooled/repainted Flash almost a half an inch over his predecessors.  Though cool, the boots also give the figure its only negative.  The leg above the ankle comes from a full-jumpsuit Flash, and its obvious from the weird muffin-top of skin above the yellow.  I guess laces are foreign to him... gotta tie 'em tight if you're gonna break the speed of light, right?

 

For a retooled figure, the changes make sense and isn't bad as far as variants go.  And he comes with a few accessories to sweeten the deal:  a miniaturized Atom figure and an old-man Bruce Wayne head.  Having the Armored Batman from waves back really helped me pull the trigger.  Still, I got him on sale, and wouldn't have paid over $15.