Howard Funko

Vinyl-figure collecting has a very fixed grammar. Oversized head, stubby body, features boiled down to the simplest possible reading, and this take on Howard plays it entirely straight, which is exactly what people who buy into the format want. The appeal is that everything ends up speaking the same visual language, so a row of them reads as a set no matter where each character originally came from. It is a display piece before anything else: cabinet fodder, desk company, or the gift for someone who already owns forty of the boxed ones and would rather have a version nobody else on their shelf has. Coming as a single file, it is also a sensible way to find out whether you enjoy collectible figures before committing to a large multi-part build.