Nash

By Tim

If you’ve never read the online comic strip “Sluggy Freelance,” you don’t know what you’re missing. My good friend Chuck is the person who got me reading it, and I’ve been hooked ever since. Chuck’s working on the main characters as customs, but I thought in the meantime it would be fun to work on some of the strip’s villains as a gift for Christmas.

Nash is the villain from the story arc “Phoenix Rising” and I loved his design from the moment I saw it. I even showed it to Kevin, who doesn’t read the strip, and he was instantly fascinated! Nash is made from a weird collection of parts. His head began as a Nightwing head, though it’s almost indistinguishable at this point. His torso came from a Hasbro Wildcard Joker, and hands from a Flash figure. His legs came from Atom Smasher with the bottom of his pants sculpted. I really wanted to create a new look for a trench coat figure (a lot of Bruce Wayne trench coats and Machine Gun Jokers used around here), so that’s why I went with the Joker torso, with vinyl added to the bottom to finish out the coat. His scarf was cut from vinyl, and his hat is vinyl and Sculpey. For the life of me I don’t know where that gun came from. I think an X-Men figure, but I’m not sure. This is one of my favorite custom figures, but unfortunately the picture doesn’t do it justice.

For more information on Nash and “Sluggy Freelance,” visit www.sluggy.com