Weather Wizard's STAS design is kind of a lateral move in ridiculousness.
on May 6, 2010 at 12:01 am
I totally found new Justice League Unlimited single-packs and three-packs at Target this morning! Does this stuff happen anymore? It was a Christmas miracle.
In single-pack land, there were retro-Brainiac and Kandor Superman and Asian The Atom. …Of brow-raising note, the customary screen captures on the back of The Atom’s card seemed to photoshop The Atom into having the new guy’s costume. Sneaky!
The three-packs included the Penguin/Batgirl/Nightwing set that I’d forgotten about, which I considered briefly despite having all those guys, and a Superman/Weather Wizard/Livewire set. I guess it’s a set that celebrates the “Fuck Superman” group from that episode in which he dies, since the two villains are members of it. What I really want is a friggin’ Toyman. He was in that group! But he’s not an easy repaint, so he’ll continue to get sidelined.
Despite my grousing, I am legitimately happy to get two new villains. A new Flash villain is always wanted and… yeah, Livewire is a new villain. God, I hate Livewire. I want to bash in her throat with a sledgehammer so she can never speak again. I can’t stand her voice. Or her character. Her last name’s pretty cool, though.
Three-pack dudes basically never get accessories. Accessories typically only come with the single-packed dudes. And yet, Weather Wizard comes with his little dildo wand, which is the source of all of his powers. ALL of his powers. He’s not the Weather Wizard without it, he’s just Dorkily-Dressed Grown Man Man. He’s not even a good hand-to-hand fighter or anything! So I like to think the inclusion of his accessory is an acknowledgement of his inherent lameness.
If I ever see the Nightwing/Batgirl/Penguin set again (ha!) I might pick it up. I forgot to examine the packaging to see if Batgirl’s been retrofitted with a foot peghole and a stand. That would be worth the purchase. My current Batgirl DOES NOT STAND. You have to bury her waist-deep in sticky-tack to keep her from keeling over.
Has Lori Petty ever not been the most annoying person in the room?
Bite your tongue. Her Tank Girl is genius.
Well, if they ever make a Flash porn parody, The Weather Wizard would be a good choice for it…
Nice to see someone who likes Penguin and Batgirl. She generally seems to get less appreciation than Robin from the companies, and he is one of the few Batman villains that isn’t crazy and yet is well-written.
Only half of Two-Face is crazy.
Of all the Weather Wizard designs, why did they have to go with that one. Ergh.
I’d imagine they went with the DCAU design because this is a DCAU toyline.
I know, but … gah. I’m a sucker for Timm’s designs and this is the only one I’ve seen that I actively dislike.
Weather Wizard is awesome, dude, he just looks horrible in S:TAS. But in the comics he is a suave dude with an awesome pointy collar and vast weathery powers.
Well, to be fair, in the comics it’s been mentioned that after waaaay too much exposure to the darned thing, he’s probably meta now and the wand is just his Magic Feather. Unless people who can shoot guns magically pass that ability down toward their infant children.
Then again, this is a man who suddenly acquired the power to control the very weather itself and decided to conduct a bank heist using multicolored snow and a getaway rainbow. Between him and Raider, it’s just weird that Piper’s the first Rogue out of the closet.
Meh. I’m not a fan of that design of Mark anyway.
Oh sweet, my avatar is Kra’ang!
BrING me APril o’NEIL!
Well, that is how the second Icicle got his powers….
Wait a second…is…is Weather Wizard’s accessory a tongue-piercing?
You obviously have the limited edition Killing Joke Batgirl, with Paralyzed by Joker action feature.
Ohhh nooooo…
I got found the new JLU 3-packs yesterday at Target as well. The new single packs were no-where to be seen, or were long gone. Anyway, I got both sets, and Penguin, Nightwing and Batgirl have all been retrofitted with a foot peg holes, and have one stand between them.
They made a JLU toy of the Dr. Choi Atom? Dammit, one more must-have JLU I’ll never actually have.
“Keldor Superman?” Keldor? Turn in your geek license, sir.
Unless Superman is going to turn into Skeletor, which would be pretty sweet.
Is it just me, or is “Weather Wizard” actually the silliest name ever for a villain trying to take over the world?
Weather Wizard tried to take over the world? I thought he just tried to knock over banks.
How does someone manage to pee in an arc like that?