I got this toy for two reasons. 1) To complete the Kalibak build-a-figure. 2) It's Superman with a mullet.
Mullet Superman is a depiction of what Superman looked like after the Reign of the Superman story ended. After dying and being ressurected, Superman awakens with long hair because it's hard to get a haircut when you're in a coma. And since it's Superman's hair and its strong enough to shatter a pair of scissors, well let's just say that Superman was rockin' the mullet for a while in the comics. Finally someone told him to cut his hair because he looked like a hippy and he did. (Or at least I'm pretty sure that's what happened. It was like 15 years ago.)
I'm not the biggest Superman fan. Outside of minimates, I think I've only owned one Superman toy in my life. But I enjoyed his stories from the 90's, my personal Golden Age of comics. And nothing represents 90's Superman more than Superman sporting a mullet. So if I was going to be predisposed to buying a Superman toy, this would be the one.
Also, mullets on people who should not have them are amusing.
It's obvious that the Superman creative teams in the early 90s intended him to have standard long hair, but yeah . . . ended up with a mullet.
ReplyDeleteI blame the drawing style of Dan Jurgens.