Gone, gone, oh tiny man...

...rise itty bitty Etrigan!

I got this Etrigan in a set of Batman the Brave and the Bold Action League figures from a co-worker for my birthday.

As I said last week, I hadn't been collecting Action League figures before, but I now know that they are pretty cool little toys; and I do loves me some Etrigan!

It's pretty amazing that my co-worker, who only knows I like Batman, would pick out the one set I have considered jumping into the Action League genre with due solely to it's inclusion of Etrigan. Of course, she had and still has no clue who Etrigan is, so some greater force must have been at play here.

Hmmm...

Could it be....

Satan?!?!?

The set was a two-pack of figures that also included Batman in his armor from the Brave and the Bold episode this set is based on.

Dark Knight indeed!

Time After Time

The most recent episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold teamed Batman with Etrigan the Demon in Victorian London, in a story highlighting the origins of The Gentleman Ghost and also teaming Bats with the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes.

In a moment of unbridled and totally unexpected awesomeness, Batman's tattered costume is fixed by the magics of Etrigan, altered to better reflect the time period and - here's where comic nerds the world over screamed a squee of delight - exactly duplicated the costume worn by Batman in the Elseworlds tale Batman: Gotham by Gaslight.

Batman: Gotham by Gaslight is my favorite Batman "what if" (or as DC calls them, Elseworlds) story and if I recall it is the first story under the Elseworlds banner. It places Batman in the Victorian era on the trail of Jack the Ripper and is illustrated with amazing art by Mike Mignola.

So I have my DC Direct Gotham by Gaslight Batman and my DC Universe Classics Etrigan, and I decided to team them up as an homage to one of the coolest episodes of Brave and the Bold yet!

G by G Batman has limited articulation in the manner expected from DC Direct, but he's a beautiful replication of the art of Mike Mignola.

Etrigan has all the articulation of the DCUC figures, and is a beautifully rendered comic version sculpted by the amazing Four Horsemen for Mattel.


What an awesome and unexpected team-up! Thank you Batman: The Brave and the Bold for being so freaking cool.

Etrigan and Again

I briefly reviewed Etrigan here before,
'Twas in an older ToyRiffic post of yore.

But I wanted to soon get straight back to him,
So his entry today is not on a whim.

Etrigan here, he is a rhyming demon,
Whose shackled in Hell, he is not a free man.

But fused to a man by the wizard named Merlin,
Etrigan oft gets reprieve from Hell's hot burden.

He's now summoned forth by the noble J. Blood,
When forces arise against that of the good.

Etrigan is DCUC Wave One's best,
I would almost have been happy sans the rest!

His sculpt and his likeness are simply tres groovy,
Hey WB, please make a Demon movie!