I’m on a boat right now, safely out of the country during the fallout from that Christmas Eve strip. I am a shrewd man who values his life.
Hey, that's an anachronistic hairdo on that John Stewart!
Last Monday I talked about my Manhunter Robots JLU set and how I was still on the lookout for the counterpart 3-pack that included Despero. Well, I found him the next day! And this is me writing about him that night, but in a post scheduled for… the future!!! Technology is grand.
(I always wonder, dude, what if I suddenly die? How weird will it be for these updates to continue popping up after I’m gone? Well, just in case, ooooOOOoooOOoooo speaking from beeyoonnd the graaaaveee…)
Anyway, check out this Despero. Man, he sure is Despero! Like the Manhunter episode, I didn’t particularly care for Despero’s episode either. Which is weird, because the second season of Justice League was pretty great. But at least Despero sounds like Goliath! I kept expecting him to tell people about how one thousand years ago, superstition and the sword ruled.
Despero the figure is kind of a disappointment because of his size. Why did they use the Green Lantern body? That’s the shortest of bodies! Even Katma Tui casts a shadow over him.
Reverse Michael Jackson disease!
Speaking of Katma Tui, man, what kind of friggin’ name is Katma Tui? It sounds like a Jawa war cry or someone spitting or something. Anyway, it’s nice to have her in her real skin color, rather than that brownish hue her original toy was. I was also surprised to discover, after putting both Katma Tuis together, that their uniforms are different. And I did some Internet sleuthing and learned that Brown Katma is based on her brief appearance in a later episode, where she has a more-revealing Green Lantern outfit and appears to have darker skin. That was nice to learn. I’d previously worried that Mattel made her black just because John Stewart should only be dating other black chicks. No, they were just following an errant screenshot.
No screenshot can fix that receding hairline of hers, though. Yikes.
In conclusion, the spell is broken, and Despero lives again.
I am the Lord of the Monkeys, and I approve these Gargoyles references.
… What the hell did both those toys do to Katma? She’s Korugaran! They’re not white or black
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinestro
Seeing as there’s not a single damn comic pic of her, apparently, there’s a picture of Sinestro for reference. Same planet, same species. Yes he’s pink. Somehow these people make pink skin badass. Don’t ask me.
That really is odd, Jet, as I have the 6″ Katma Tui figure from the Kilowog wave of DC figures, ans she’s sporting a mighty fine magenta skin tone, I might add.
There are plenty of pictures of Soranik Natu, who is also Korugaran, and was Katma Tui’s successor as the Green Lantern of Sector 1417. Korugarans are actually sort of a purplish mauve, not precisely pink.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soranik_Natu
“I kept expecting him to tell people about how one thousand years ago, superstition and the sword ruled.”
It was really weird watching the Spawn cartoon for that exact reason.
I assumed that given the nature of Korugaran skin tones, Katma Tui’s first appearance was after many months of being out of direct sunlight, and her second one was after she got lots of nice sun on Oa in that oddly revealing suit, so she tanned right up. Somewhere between the two extremes is actual normal Korugar skin tone, as is exemplified by Sinestro, who — say what you like about his ethics or morality — has always known the right sunblock to use.
I’m sending a copy of this comment to Geoff Johns in an attempt to get him to make it canon.
Wow, Megamind has been working out! Isn’t Despero usually red?
Katma Tui’s DCAU design is I think a cross between her comics appearance and Soranik Natu. It ends up looking worse than either. That belly shirt/bra and, of course, the hairline. And I don’t know why they couldn’t give her red skin like other Korugarians.
More lavender or magenta than red. Although he does shade a bit toward red under some colourists, but rarely actually red.
The figure is cartoon accurate, though – they blued his colour up a lot, apparently. Much like they shifted Katma’s skin closer to human skintones. DCAU’s colourists clearly hate magenta.
Not in the DCAU/Diniverse.
Doubtful, since Soranik Natu’s first appearance was in November of 2005, and Katma Tui’s last appearance in the JLU cartoon was originally aired September 18th, 2004.
-airfox
Ah, just plain old bad design choices then.
Dude, when Goliath endorses a crazy space religion involving a purple tree flame, you start to believe it yourself before the episode’s over.. Especially when it’s those 45-minute episodes they used to have.
I thought Katma looked red on tv, it’s just that when your outfit’s green, you dunno if the red is genuine or a contrast-illusion
I saw “Jonathan Frakes” and thought Star Trek. I think I’m the wrong kind of geek.
Goliath also used to do the bumps into and out of commercial. “We now return to Justice League, here on Cartoon Network!”
I, uh, kinda watched that a lot…
What? No Boondocks Jokes pertaining to Revitiligo?
Revitiligo…and I don’t care…