I've always been fond of the Shistavanen wolfman species, much more than George Lucas, who excised the two original wolfmen (Lak Sivrak and Arliel Schous) from A New Hope Special Edition. He believed the off-the-shelf masks looked corny, not awesome like the giant praying mantis or the guy with the devil horns. In a decision I actually agree with, Disney has said nuts to that and started incorporating the species back into canon. (Genndy Tartakovsky also somehow got away with using one.) In fact, Arliel Schous, once a longshot on par with Bea Arthur's night shift cantina barmaid Ackmena, has been rendered in plastic recently for the first time too.
Disclosure--I haven't seen Star Wars: Skeleton Crew. From everything I've read it seems like a perfectly cromulent show, probably picked apart a bit too much by people who were outside its target audience. I admire what they did, at least *trying* to connect with kids, and of course, allowing Hasbro to release a wolfman space pirate, which you can appreciate even if you don't care about Star Wars.
Brother Bruti comes to us from the ill fated Epic World of Action, a 4" scale kid-targeted line that was 0.25" taller than the previous 45 years of product for no reason in particular. Because of that he's a little oversized compared to what he should be, but it's not like there's a surplus of Skeleton Crew figures to display him with. There's a couple in this line (counting Brutus), one in Vintage, and...that's it? Aliens and droids are close enough to fudge the scale difference. And as stated, I haven't even seen the show, and statistically you probably haven't either. If I had to guess most Captain Brutuses are going to end up towards the back of a cantina or Jabba's palace setup.
He leans pretty hard into the pirate aesthetic, with a captain's coat and a bandolier of extra blasters. I doubt they're single shots so it's not practical the same way an earth pirate would carry extra pistols, but it looks cool. He has two more sculpted into the holsters on his brown PVC kama, and a loose silver blaster to hold along with a short sword. You'll notice his right foot is kind of coming off the table--it looks like he's sculpted to be taking a step forward, but the stiffness of the kama makes it hard to flex his leg back far enough so that both feet are on the ground, and even then he'd still probably tip right over. He almost needs to be brandishing his tools of the trade as a counterbalance.
Because he comes from a kid line (and is a "deluxe" figure no less), company policy dictates that he must come with a big dumb missile launcher. It's meant to plug (loosely) into an extra oversized harness that you can shove onto his torso, and no, that doesn't fix his balance issues. It can also just plug directly into his back so he can make like Boba Fett in an alternate universe 1979 where his backpack was functional. I never cared for accessories like this as a kid, and I care even less for them as an adult who writes about toys for fun.
If you liked the character, and you're not as hopelessly devoted to archaic form factors as I am, just get the Black Series figure. In that scale he actually has several of the children from the show to menace. If you're into monsters and pirates, or you miss Super7's The Worst, this figure fits right into that aesthetic. Plus it's always exciting to see cantina aliens in new contexts. Like most Star Wars toys of the last few years, I can really only recommend this guy at clearance prices. Get a stand for him though.
