a splinter faction of these rascally guys was found hiding behind the water cooler. somebody should give them a good scolding - http://super7store.com/store/detail.php?item_id=12578
what an awesome surprise for anyone that couldn't get one at retail.... love the gummy green goodness of this guy....
I was very excited to score this one at the store while on vacation. I love the weight of the Organ Bat and clear green? Awesome.
This is an awesome release. Not only is the bottle green vinyl cool, but the metallic gold and blood red accents make this baby look very nice next to other recent releases that share the same.
I can't believe this is still sitting around. I was dying for it when it first released. Then I lost hope once it was constantly sold out at S7 distro stores. I'm so glad I scored it at retail directly from S7. I <3 S7
Yep, I was very pleased with this one, once I actually had it in-hand. The blood-red on the digits and the red and orange on his facial ... ummm ... 'feature' (valley? injury? mouth?) against the deep translucent green is killer, and with 90% of the paint on the top 1/2, it also hints at the fade-to-clear Jya Bat. Overall, I think this is among the best of the Bats - Not to be missed.
Mori's sense of color relationships is brilliant in part because unlikely-seeming combos almost always work. Sometimes they can take a little time to get used to and to grow on you. The one that I still find a bit jarring is the paint on the WF45 Chaosman, sometimes called "Toxic Avenger" (not to be confused with the recent green Toxie.) Light blue on flesh ... that's just plain weird, as is the paint application. But at the same time, it's just exactly right. The little bits of yellow on blue recall vintage schemes, and the pink eye "pops" as a reminder that the weirdness of the thing is intentional. It might look "ugly" at first sight, but with time, you get it, and realize that Mori knows exactly what he's doing. We tend to focus on the genius of the sculpts, but sometimes I think there's a whole intuitive world of the understanding of color in Mori's work of the sort that can't be taught or even necessarily copied well. It's one of his creative gifts, something that might have been trained out of his system given "proper" art school education. In that way he reminds me of things that the great psychedelic poster artists of California in the 1960s would say ... "we forged our style by breaking the rules, working from opposite ends of the color wheel instead of looking for safe and pleasant harmonies."
