MR. FREEZE - DC Collectibles Greg Capullo Designer Series action figure

Mr. Freeze was released as figure #7 in the DC Collectibles Greg Capullo Designer Series of action figures. He stands nearly 7 & 1/2" tall and features a terrific sculpt and flawless paint job. The dome is easily removable and he holds his freeze ray gun in his left hand (somewhat loosely).

The package is collector-friendly, and shows off everything you are getting very well. The back shows the other figures in the wave: Red Hood, Catwoman, and Thrasher Suit Batman. Freeze's sculpt is credited to Matthew Brouillard and Jonathan Matthews, and it really is exceptional.

The face is great: angry and restrained at once, with a fierce determination. No one will stand between Freeze and "his Nora" (even though it's revealed in "City of Owls" that Nora is not his wife, nor has he ever really even met her - interesting take on the character)! There's a tuft of mohawk atop his otherwise bald head, with a bit of dark blue wash to bring out the wrinkles on his lighter blue skin.

His freeze suit apparatus is likewise well-detailed without being unwieldy. The chestplate features a couple of gauges or dials, simply painted white, and a couple of rubbery tubes wind around the sides to the scuba-gear-like tanks on his back.

I particularly love the containers stuffed into the pockets on his legs. The way they sit, and the pants form around them make them look incredibly realistic - they look like they ought to be removable! The texture on the pants extends all the way to the shoes, and appears like tiny hexagonal designs.

The freeze gun is overly weird in design, but I think that's true to the art work. Highlights are done in blue. In fact, there's a whole lot of blue and gray going on here. That said, DC Collectibles did a nice job of adding depth to the figure with the darker blue wash.

The figure actually poses quite well - much better than my pictures show. The head is on an excellent balljoint, with lots of tilt available for personality. The dome is a cinch to pop in and out, so it's easy to get to the head. The shoulders are balljointed, and there's a swivel at the biceps, which is a little impeded by the odd armor there. The elbows are not great: single hinge with not a ton of range of motion. Surprisingly (once they were freed up), there's a waist swivel and an ab crunch hiding under the chest armor! The hips go in and out, as well as forward and back. There's a much-appreciated swivel at the thigh, and double-hinged knees! There's another hinge at the ankle, but that's the one weak spot on my figure: they are pretty loose, so he tends to want to fall over unless he's balanced perfectly. In all, he's a very posable figure, despite the great level of sculpt detail.

Overall, this is a really great Mr. Freeze figure! His detail isn't quite up to that of the Deluxe Arkham Asylum version, but otherwise he's better in just about every way. In fact, he's so well-done that I'm going to have to look into tracking down the other figures in the line...