Jor-El: One of the most overdone and tired portions of the pre 80's revamp of the Superman mythos was the unceasing obession with Krypton and it's former inhabitants. Superman was always running into uninspired, so called imaginary situations that put him face to face with his dead parents. It was one of the things that really turned me off about Superman comics when I was growing up. The 90's animated series did a wonderful job of marrying the Byrne revamp of the Krypton mythology with the classic version and presented a truly inspired and endeering demise of the fabled world in the series premeire of the show entitled "The Last Son of Krypton". The costume designs for the characters seamlessly combined the Flash Gordon inspired look of the classic version with the more antiseptic, streamlined look of the Byrne version. It was the best of both worlds and I was hooked immediately. Jor- El has been sitting around in my studio half finished for some time now and I finally found the time and the inspiration recently to finish him off. He uses a Mattel Justice League Superman variant as a base. All of the detail was dremmeled, filled and/ or sanded off and the arm, leg and shoulder details were sculpted on using Gepaxio (two part epoxy putty). The collar and drapery are thin sheet styrene glued into place. The gold bar and epulets are sheet styrene and thumbtacks respectively. Supermans hair was shaved down and sanded smooth and the headband (made of thin strip styrene) was glued into place. The whole thing was painted up using acrylics and he was sprayed with Testors Dull Coat. I'm pretty happy with him on the whole and he looks eerily cool next to my Mattel Superman. If I can ever see my way clear to locating another Wonder Woman figure I would love to do a version of Jor- El' s wife Lara.
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