The Shade: ten years in the making…

The new assortment of cheap, rather half-ass*d Justice League Unlimited action figures from Mattel includes this villain called The Shade, who’s a minor Flash rogue all clad in sleek black clothes, sunglasses, a top hat and a cane, like a post-apocalyptic spin of a Charles Dickens character.

I remember thinking ten years ago that, if they ever did a The Shade action figure I would definitely buy two: One for myself, and one for D**** because of that whole “Mr. Black” thing he’d going for himself back in the day.
It seems it’s since dimmed considerably but you just gotta stick to your guns, so come Saturday morning I’m definitely hitting the toy store, then over to D****’s.


I’m quite used to laughing at my own jokes by now, you know…