Alias Shazam?

Is it just me, or does this Mary Marvel action figure kinda look like Jennifer Garner?

Super DC Direct thoughts

Looking over DC Direct's scheduled offerings for 2005, I can't help wondering if the Composite Superman figure means a Curt Swan-George Klein style Superman figure isn't in the pipeline. The Composite Superman figure has much more of a Weisinger-era Swan feel than any of DC's previous Superman figures.

And that would be fine with me; just before Christmas I picked up the utterly perfect First Appearance Superman figure, based on his depiction in Action Comics #1, and I'd love to have a whole shelf of different artists' interpretations.

Even Alex Ross' young Superman action figure looks old. His Flash figure, oddly enough, reminds me of Darwyn Cooke's rendition of Flash in New Frontier. I say "oddly enough" because it's hard to imagine two more dissimilar artists in comics -- Ross is on the far edge of photorealism (most of the time, anyway; his cover of Marvel's 9/11 benefit book HEROES was much looser than most of his other work), while Cooke is, if possible, even more stylized and stripped down than Bruce Timm's "animated" style of drawing.