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Wraith


I'm working on a figure of Wraith. He's not really a character that I'm into, but it's interesting to be trying to work on him.
This is his description from Wikipedia:
Wraith (Zak-Del) is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe. His first appearance was in Annihilation Conquest: Wraith #1 in Annihilation Conquest.
The character was created to mimic the sensibility of western movies, especially
Sergio Leone's "trilogy" of the movies about the Man with no name played by Clint Eastwood. The character is thrust into a science-fiction story with horror overtones, mixed with themes of DC's Superman, both comic and the movie version. Thus, in a western manner, Wraith's after his family killer, but as with Superman his father was a scientist who saved his son by transporting him to a different part of space at the last minute. Similar to Richard Donner's Superman the movie, Wraith receives spiritual counseling from his long-dead father. Wraith's eventual role seems to mash both the Western and Superman mythologies enabling him as a neutral factor with the reluctant messianic role of deciding the outcome for the region he has come only to find his father's killer in.

Hmm, seems a bit deep. And I don't buy the Superman parallels. Wraith is a space emo gunfighter. I chose to do him because I thought it would be challenging to try and make a character that I'm not too interested in, and that is not the kind of figure I would usually go for.
Wraith has a 'polymorphic' weapon, which means it's basically a gun that can become a sword or a whip or whatever.






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