Unlike Negative Man, I actually really dig this figure. It’s hardly a fair comparison since Negative Man is just a dude wrapped in bandages and Blue Devil here is, um, a blue devil. Either way, this is a great looking figure with a lot more unique sculpting than Negative Man. Just check out his head sculpt. Sure he’s got all the devil trappings going on, the horns, the double goatee, the ears, but he still looks like somebody you could go have a beer with and maybe play some Xbox Live afterwards. I’m also imaging he says “dude” a lot, and if you’ve read his books and he doesn’t, I don’t want you breaking my misconception. The color scheme is pretty simple, but the two-tone blue and yellow is certainly pleasing on the eye.

Blue Devil comes with a staff, so he can join my Aquaman, Jack Knight, and Golden Pharaoh in their childish, “Ha-Ha, We Have A Staff And You Don’t” DCUC Clique. [Seriously, they all taunt the other figures on the shelf all day long, Batman gets good and pissed about it, too. -FF] He also comes with the torso and cape pieces for the C&C Trigon figure.

It’s not uncommon for me to get into reading a character’s funny books solely because I liked their action figure. I don’t think that’s going to be the case with Blue Devil, though. I’ll give his back story some points for being original, but there’s nothing about it that really makes me want to rush out to the used comic shop and pick up a stack of them. Besides, I’ve got enough back issues of comics that I am genuinely interested in as it is. Nonetheless, if you’re a fan, I think you’ll probably dig this figure a lot. If you’re like me and picked him up just for Trigon’s parts, well, you could do a lot worse. He really is pretty cool.