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Basil Elks
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Nothing yet, today? 😮


   
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Day #801 - Clash, plus Isaiah Bradley (Archive Day #133)


   
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Yes to Isaiah Bradley.


   
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Isaiah Bradley is one of Marvel's best ideas this century. Definite yes.


   
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Clash is a cool enough design that I would definitely pick him up and put him on my Spidey villain shelf.    Seems easy to do from a tooling perspective but crazy hard to get the pain right.

 

And you already know that I need me some Isaiah Bradley Captain America.    Gimme that asap.    It's black history month Hasbro.   Announce this dude to celebrate that,  it would be perfect timing.    Just make the figure please and thank you.


   
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While I wouldn't say no to either if they were made, neither is really on my radar of characters I want in my collection.


   
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Yes to both!


   
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Ooh, yes to both, for sure.


   
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Yes to both (comic style) for me.


   
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I’m torn on an Isaiah Bradley figure. I still haven’t read the Truth storyline as it bothers me that the terrible history of the Tuskegee experiment, history that even now isn’t widely known, was appropriated for entertainment. Maybe I’ll give it a read in an effort to be fair to the writer and character, then revisit my opinion..maybe.


   
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Posted by: @thebluemarvel

I’m torn on an Isaiah Bradley figure. I still haven’t read the Truth storyline as it bothers me that the terrible history of the Tuskegee experiment, history that even now isn’t widely known, was appropriated for entertainment. Maybe I’ll give it a read in an effort to be fair to the writer and character, then revisit my opinion..maybe.

 

I mean... it was written by a black man to deliberately echo the Tuskegee experiment.   It wasn't exploitative in the way you seem to think.   

Read up on the writer Robert Morales.   The easiest things to find on-line are post-mortem stories of other comic creators -  Alan Moore has a good one.   

I fully appreciated the book and was a little surprised Marvel let him write it.    You might want to give it a shot.

 


   
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@panthercult

Yeah, I understood without reading it that it was analogous to the experiment. No one owns history and if the story is a means through which someone learns about the actual Tuskegee experiment, that would be a positive thing. However, as with Django, which I haven’t seen for similar reasons, I’m not sure I (me/subjectively) need pulp entertainment surrounding historical trauma that reverberates to this day. I understand that it exists and accept that people have a right to make/view/enjoy these expressive creations, but I can also choose to abstain.

 

I have had friends echo your sentiments describing the story as being good to great, so maybe I’ll sit down and digest it at some point. As I said, I’m ambivalent about the character, but I would not be upset at it being made as a Marvel Legend.


   
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I don't know Clash at all as a character but the costume is pretty cool looking and definitely toyetic.  I would probably pick him up.

Isaiah Bradley isn't a big want of mine but I am a sucker for Captain America type costumes (in most cases) so I would probably pick him up.  Not sure which version I would want, but definitely not the direct Captain America costume.  I prefer the precursor versions in the first couple pics.


   
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Day #802 - Skull the Slayer/Blazing Skull, plus Warwolves (Archive Day #134)

 


   
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Skull would be a nostalgia pickup due to my older brother having some of those comics and me reading them back in the 80s.  Plus he is a 70s creation which is a sweet spot for me.

Scare Glow, oops, I mean Blazing Skull is an easy yes.  Classic look first, but a more modern look wouldn't be out the the question either.  Definitely should have Glow-In-The-Dark paint, but I don't think ML does that.

Warwolves are an easy pass.  Don't care for the design and have read maybe one or two comics with them in it.


   
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