Man, busy day here on PGPoA. For those of you who get these missives via an RSS feed, I apologize for all the new items–but this couldn’t wait.

The New York Comic Con is this weekend, and Mattel has been hinting that they’ll be revealing all sorts of DC-related goodness at their Saturday panel. But to get the ball rolling, they’ve sent some photos to Action Figure Insider of the latest addition to the DCUC ranks–Lightray! Click on the pic for the full article and more photos.

My thoughts: Mattel continues to intrigue me with its DCUC characters choices. As a big Jack Kirby fan, I have no complaints about getting another action figure of a New God. Perhaps this is the SDCC exclusive, rumored to be an alien?

As always, the Four Horsemen’s sculpting and paint work look amazing. But I found it a bit amusing AFI’s article states, “This has been a good year for Lightray”–since he just got killed off in the comics. Fortunately, this is comics, so he should be back in a month or two. A year, tops.