In for Replica. One of a handful of heroic Skrulls. I liked her addition to the Guardians team.
pass on Bling.
Weekend catch up:
Death Throws… These are super minor and obscure characters that I just sincerely doubt they ever make their way down to. Oddball might be easy enough to make and, I won’t lie, he’d be a kooky fun character to have on the shelf. He’s also the kind of character I could see being used as fodder in an MCU project… but the rest of them, I just don’t need.
Aegis - the stupid monsters unleashed mech is a pass. Don’t need it, don’t want it. The ‘Proemial God’ (whatever that means) version is also a pass. She looks like a rather generic riff on the Silver Surfer in those first few images and isn’t particularly inspiring or visually interesting enough to get me to care. The New Warrior kid though - that guy I’d buy as a figure. There are other New Warriors I want, nay need, first - Silhouette, Turbo, NAMORITA - but I’m down for expanding that roster and would pick up Aegis and add him to the display.
Replica - I’m a bit of a sucker for unique Skrulls and the fuschia colored outfit would look good in a display - but again, I’d be miffed if she were to get a figure ahead of Charlie-27, Martinex, Starhawk or Nikki.
Bling - absolutely want. She’s a fun X-Men character. I kind of like the outfit with the mini-skirt and jacket - but I’d take her in the full black and yellow X-Uniform as well.
I'd get both. 🙂
Double pass today.
I would be all in for Replica. Mostly because of being in the Guardians books right during my prime reading days.
Bling is a pass.
I'd certainly buy both Replica and Bling!, but Bling! would be the higher priority of the two for me personally. I love the more modern X-Men characters.
A little bit of catch-up by saying I'd be in for Replica, but pass on the other following character choices.
Chief Examiner has an interesting look, but his story wasn’t particularly enriching. At this stage, I’d likely pass on him.
Phantom Eagle, on the other hand, would be a pick up in any of those looks. Classic look would be preferred.
I'd get both, the classic 80s handbook version of Phantom Eagle, please. 😀
I remember falling for the hype on that QuestProbe mini-series that was a crossover with a video game that I did not play. Obviously when a series is trying to serve two masters, the primary of which is not to tell a good comic story but to advertise a tie in product, the results aren't great.
So, Chief Examiner isn't a figure I have to have in my collection. I do think that he could potentially be easy to do with a repurposed Mysterio helmet and a slim robed body that could initially produce Grandmaster for the line.
That being said, Is it clear that Marvel owns the Chief Examiner? That character might have been the intellectual property of Adventure International the defunct video game maker that went bankrupt before the release of issue 3 - making them cancel Issue 4, which was to feature the X-Men. The story was eventually published in Marvel Fanfare #33. In reading the history it says that Chief Examiner was co-created by Scott Adams and John Byrne
It looks like Scott Adams (not the Dilbert guy) remains the owner of the IP from Adventure International, so it might be that some rights deal might have to be worked out, though I suppose if that were true they wouldn't have published the story intended for issue four in Marvel Fanfare. His story was then 'finalized' in an issue of Quasar. So, that would suggest Marvel retains the rights to the character - but Scott Adams is still alive and it's possible he has some claim to the character as co-creator for an outside, non-Marvel company.
He hasn't appeared in a comic since Quasar #38 in 1992 - so seems an unlikely choice for a figure. But nothing is impossible, I suppose.
As for Phantom Eagle - I'm not sure I need a figure of the Golden Age look... but the modern look really just kind of looks like 'Mr. Moonstone', but I still like it better than the GA version. I'd buy that figure.
Pass on Chief Examiner.
A classic Phantom Eagle would be fun in a baf wave I liked.
Chief Examiner would be a maybe on sale.
Phantom Eagle in his classic blue/red look would be a yes.
I'd buy both if made, but neither is a priority for me to actually want to get made.
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