Batman The Last Knight on Earth was a DC Black Label miniseries from the team of Capullo and Snyder. It’s an altverse tale showing a dark future where Batman has been MIA for a bit and the world has collapsed. Bands of heroes and villains are still around but in much different forms from what a recently awakened Bruce Wayne remembers. It runs through the story in 3 contained issues, following Batman along with The Joker’s head in a glass bowl poking at him non stop as he tried to figure out what happens, and how to fix it.
McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse is tackling the key players in one short wave – Batman in his Asylum gear along with The Joker head, Scarecrow in his creepy AF rotting form, Wonder Woman in her Mad Max mohawk warrior getup, and Omega, a future tech Batman looking guy – no spoilers in case you guys want to check it out (Amazon / Kindle / Comixology copies here). All of these come packed with pieces for the giant Bane Collect to Build figure. He carried Scarecrow around on his back in the books, because Scarecrow has no lower half to his body. The toys are designed to work like this too, with a peg that connects the two.
Read on for some additional thoughts and over 90 HD shots of the whole wave courtesy of McFarlane Toys. These are starting to ship now, and should hit full retail in March 2021.
McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse Batman The Last Knight on Earth Bane Collect to Build Wave
Overall Thoughts:
All in all this wave nails the source material. It’s short and sweet, one wave, and you get most of the key players. There could of course be some more, and some alt versions down the road, but if they stopped here it would be satisfying. It continues the DC Multiverse trend of Batman, dark themes and Capullo stories being a focus.
The Bane Collect to Build figure is impressive, but has some issues. Legs did not connect and stay connected straight out of the box. I needed to warm them up in hot water, then jam them on there, and then cool it quickly. I repeated this several times and it shrunk the leg ports enough to grip the torso pegs.  It can still disconnect easily, but not immediate like straight out of the box.  The hands also are a tad loose, and fall out with a firm shake. After it’s all together and you don’t move it too much, it’s a heavy chunk of plastic and impressively sculpted. Paint is also tops. So do some collector surgery and get him right, then toss him on the shelf and don’t touch him :).
The Scarecrow connection is epicly done, he has a peg in his exposed innards that flips out and slips into a hole on Bane’s back. He also comes with a flight stand in case you wanna have him solo. It’s a very gross design, and it’s captured well here. McFarlane’s time on The Walking Dead toys seems to have paid off. :).
Wonder Woman is the piece I was looking forward to. It’s unique and non traditional, but not so far out there.  It’s a great modern take for the character and fits well with other new-and-different-but-still-close figs from the last year.  Sculpt, color, articulation all work. Only ding is that I prefer the head without the stubble, it’s too dark and pronounced here. The cleaner shave version in protos was better IMO.
Omega – Great sculpt and good paint, BUT, seems a bit small. He should be very similar if not a bit bigger than Batman stance wise, but he has a Batman Beyond teenager build here.
All in all, I dig it. Take a closer look below and pick up your copies at your favorite spots if you do too!
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Not sure what's all coming when, but round one is going up this week or so. First up, The Drowned.
DC Multiverse The Drowned (Batman Earth 11) Gallery
And, been waiting on this since they confirmed the team completion.
May look simpleish, but that's actual about 15 different shots each with own lighting and edits, merged together and tweaked from there. It wasn't a pure composite tho, as I did set all that up just like that (still set up like that on my shoot table actually).
DC Multiverse The Drowned (Batman Earth 11) Gallery
At first I thought that was a painting. Lord, that’s a hell of a pic. Awesome job.
I can’t wait to finish the team. I’ve seen her a few times in target, but not the whole wave she’s in so I’ll just keep my BBTS preorder for now. I have given up on mor than one crow robin. I’ve never seen him in store, and I’m not taking the chance on getting doubles at $25 a figure.
Negative not a dash.
It's Earth Negative 11.
Not Earth 11.
Please fix.
They should hire you to take the official promo shots for all DC Multiverse figures.
It's Earth Negative 11.
Not Earth 11.
Please fix.
If their photographer retires, and they offer enough to warrant me and my wife moving and leaving current jobs, I'll listen
Until then I'll just do them for Toyark.
I can’t wait to finish the team. I’ve seen her a few times in target, but not the whole wave she’s in so I’ll just keep my BBTS preorder for now. I have given up on mor than one crow robin. I’ve never seen him in store, and I’m not taking the chance on getting doubles at $25 a figure.
Sigh. Makes me wish Todd would make a legit Mera figure.
Always such a tease, I really hope he wasn't lying about making characters
other than just batpeople...
Update - Rest of Wave 4, Batcycle, McFarlane Designed Batman:
DC Multiverse Wave 4 Gallery – Robin, Death Metal Batman & Batcycle, Red Son Superman and More
Last Knight on Earth wave is up:
DC Multiverse Last Knight on Earth Bane CTB Wave In-Hand Gallery
The Joker's head is very realistic and kind or gory, but its cool. I'm glad we have these guys. Some Future State stuff would be cool.
I feel like if Scarecrow and Bane were sold as a two pack I'd get it but that's not the case and then I'm not interested enough in the whole wave to get it all at full price.
Wonder if the Wonder Woman 84 head fits on that Wonder Woman body? Not a fan of that head, especially because of the stubble.
100% feel you on that one, I keep waiting on the Dr.Fate variant, but no word on that yet, so I pulled the trigger on one of these for now, the body is great. Really curious how the rumored Todd-designed WW figure will look. Hopefully not too spiky or Spawn-esque
Damn, I wish that Batman costume showed up more in the comic. It's really cool looking.
So it was technically not really lying, but thanks to this photo shoot I went ahead and actually read the book and then went over to Dorkside to pre-order the wave. The figures already looked great but after being able to give them some proper context I actually want to get them.
So it was technically not really lying, but thanks to this photo shoot I went ahead and actually read the book and then went over to Dorkside to pre-order the wave. The figures already looked great but after being able to give them some proper context I actually want to get them.
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