DC Lil' Bombshells - Killer Frost review

You ever see something that unmistakably pins itself to a specific era in time? Like how Zac Efron's character in the Baywatch movie was a parody of Ryan Lochte, because that was someone who would have been topical when the movie was released originally written. Similarly, if DC's Bombshells had come out a few years sooner or a few years later, there's no way Killer Frost would be part of it. She was an ultra-minor Firestorm villain, a third-tier Mr. Freeze... right up until she was used as a recurring character on The Flash and all the other CW "Berlantiverse" shows. Suddenly she was someone worth merchandising, and thus, statues and minis and more.

She even got a running plotline in the comics, which is more than some of the heroines got! Louise L'Inconnue was the daughter of a French mother and a German father. Unfortunately, this was in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War, so all the people of her village were pissed that her mother would give comfort to the enemy, and so threw mom and daughter both down a well. This exposure to the icy water activated powers in the girl, and she used them to kill the entire village.

Killer Frost's pin-up archetype is "ski bunny." She's wearing a sweater, a skirt, and a scarf. Her hat looks like it would be one of those furry Russian ones, but it's meant to be ice. She's got skis and ski poles formed from ice, as well. The Lil Bombshell is too small and stylized to deliver all the paint details of the art and the statue: her scarf is just white, instead of pale blue with white snowflakes on it, and although they tried to capture the pattern on her sweater, it's really just two-tone blue. This isn't bad for the size, but it's still clearly a very simplified version of what Ant Lucia designed. The poles don't connect to the base or to anything else at ground level, so they tend to get bent inward before you open her.

Just like Series 1 received a full set of repaints as "Series 1.5," there was going to be a "Series 2.5," as well. Those were cancelled, but we do have concept art of what they would have been. Killer Frost's variant would have been pale, like she was formed entirely from ice. Whether that would have been achieved by paint, or if she'd have been molded from translucent blue plastic, we don't know.