Calendar Man

I finished up the first model for my new Scarecrow crew, Calendar Man.  I will end up using Calendar Man in most of my villain teams (except organised crime), as he is a Free Agent with no know affiliates.  However with this characters gimmick of committing crimes on holidays, I though he would work great with my Arkham Knight Scarecrow (the events of Arkham Knight happen over Halloween).

The Calendar Man has never been an A-list Batman villain.  He has had several very silly concepts over the years (Batman The Brave and the Bold I am looking at you).  However my favorite interpretation of Calendar man is in "The Long Halloween" (Also one of my favorite comics of all time).  In this story, Calendar man is  presented like a Hannibal Lecter type character locked up in Arkham Asylum.  Batman is puzzled by the new serial killer active in Gotham, dubbed "The Holiday Killer".  This unknown murderer is killing different members of the mob each month on a holiday.  Batman approaches Calendar Man to try and gain insight into someone who is obsessed with dates.

The Arkham video games  also takes this role.  When you first see Calendar Man he is locked in a cell in the basement of the court house during the events of Arkham City.  He also has a very tricky play-station trophy connected to him.  To the right of the cell is a year long calendar with 12 different days circled on in.  If you sign into the game on one of those dates (in real life date) Calendar Man will have a unique conversation with Batman.  Once you do this for all 12 dates you get the trophy (or Xbox equivalent).  The short cut to this is to set your play-station to manual date, change the date to one of the listed one, then turn the game on, talk to Calendar man, save and turn the game off, change date and repeat (still a time sink but faster then doing it over a year).

I love one piece models.  This one is sculpted well and has some great character.  I specially liked the right leg with its knee brace and platform shoe.  I was thinking that could make a decent Kingpin from the Netflix Daredevil.  Since he is an Arkham inmate, I painted his jumpsuit like the pants on Joker's Henchmen.  I am using the Field of Scream pumpkin bases for my Scarecrow crew, and a jack-o-lantern seems fitting for the Calendar Man.  I also attempted to paint the tattoo ring around his head.  It is the abbreviated months (as many as I could fit that is).

The Calendar Man has a lot of nice in game perks.  He is good reputation cost at 55 with zero funding.  He has several traits that make is deadly in combat ("Assassin 5", and "Deadly Strike"). He is good at going after objectives ("Handyman" and "Mastermind").  He is also fairly resilient with "Self Discipline", "Adaptable" and an endurance of 7.  However his best rule by far (because it has so much character in and of itself) is "Thirty days has...", which gives him an extra trait depending on the month the game is played.  For example if you play a game during April you gain "Trickster", then if you play again a few weeks later in May you gain "Disarray" instead.

Kevin