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He definitely feels like a "love to hate" character and looks the part, but I have to say that, with a book revolving around the idea of reforming villains, there are plenty of established bad guys that I feel could fill his spot.

I think it's funny that they went out of their way to replicate the deco of the Wolverine figure to make it less accurate to the comics but more accurate to the original toy, but they went the opposite route for the Iron Man figure, making it inaccurate to both the comics and the original toy.

That is the Classic Iron Man I've been waiting for. Pinless and with rollerskates. Just wish they stopped giving his unibeam and energy effects that blue tint that they didn't have prior to the MCU, but at least the unibeam is not as blue as in the A.I. Tony figure. Regardless, the pinlessness and the rollerskates were my biggest wants. I can let the other inaccuracies slide. Golly, I might end up buying four of these. One to replace the 80th Anniversary one, one to replace the body of the A.I. Tony figure, one to keep MIB next to my MIB OG Secret Wars Iron Man, and one to play around with as a desk buddy.

I audibly just squawked.

Yeah, existing subscribers get the new kits as well, you just need to be subscribed to the Annual Plus plan already. It's a cover-only rendition of a "Spiderized" Moon Knight created as part of a "Spider-Verse Variants" line of covers to celebrate the release of the third volume of the anthology series Edge of Spider-Verse back in May 2023: I'm pretty sure this Marvel Legends figure here is the first time he's been given a name.

Kinda weird that they made the entire set Wolverine-themed except for the Marvel Legends figure, especially since the set of variant covers that Knight-Spider comes from included a Spider-Man/Wolverine hybrid (and it's not like Hasbro wouldn't have made it without the waldos): Maybe they had no spare Wolverine bucks around considering all the 50th anniversary releases lol Regardless of the figure, I'm glad they returned to the blister packaging after skipping it for Nova. It goes the extra mile. I mean, I won't be upgrading my Unlimited subscription for this stuff, but it's still something I can appreciate.

>"Iron Man wave" >Looks inside >Punisher and U.S.Agent Really hoping there's some Chinese whipsers involved here. I can reluctantly overlook U.S.Agent if they do his Force Works costume since it's tied to Iron Man, but I'd hate to see the Punisher, even if it's Punisher War Machine (they did that figure not long ago too). Would really love an Iron Man wave to be 100% Iron Man-themed. I know Hasbro slips in some oddballs to get them out there, but the reason Spider-Man waves get their fair share of Ghost Riders, Night Thrashers and Shang-Chis is because he's the character who gets the most waves. Iron Man waves are few and far between.

I like the MK 50, but my biggest issues with it is that it goes a bit overboard with the organic line-heavy design language. Plus, it commits what I think is one of the cardinal sins of Iron Man designs, which is featuring not enough gold for the Golden Avenger. Too little gold and too spread out. I think the MK 80 strikes a better balance because the way the gold is distributed plays nicer with the flowiness of the design language. The combination of the red shoulders with the gold sides help guide the eyesight toward the torso and accentuate its V-shape. So it has enough gold to emphasize Iron Man's silhouette and give the eye some clear-cut areas where it can rest instead of getting lost in the sameness of ther red while also providing a complementary color, but it doesn't have too much gold it undermines the flowiness by making the areas of the armor too clear-cut.

The more I look at this armor, the more I wish Marvel hadn't gone overboard with the MK 50 in Infinity War, only to course-correct at the final second with the MK 85 for Endgame, and that instead this had been the design of the MK 50, and that it had been used in both movies. It's really the best of both worlds.

I'm still elated from this series announcement last month. I loved Gerry Duggan's Iron Man run and my biggest gripe with it is that he ended it so soon, so getting more of Duggan writing Tony (and Rhodey!) in a sort of spiritual sequel while still having a separate Iron Man run in the horizon is beyond thrilling. Keeping my cake and eating it too. The lead-up to this announcement was also a bit of a rollercoaster. First, there was no official announcement of Duggan's run ending despite him mentioning it off-handedly in his Substack. Then there were no news on the solicitations for August and September. Although Duggan's final two issues were being used to set up this West Coast Avengers revival, there were still no news. And although Spencer Ackerman's Iron Man run was eventually announced for October, there was no indication that the WCA plot thread was being followed up on. So it was a very suspenseful ordeal lol

Why did we have to lose the Mysterium Armor so soon 😭 The premise sounds really interesting. I'm all for Iron Man going back to corporate thriller territory, but this armor downgrade is pretty grating. Uber capitalism is a threat abstract enough that you don't need to physically nerf Iron Man to make it menacing. Heck, I think it'd be better if not even Tony having his most powerful armor yet could truly help him against what Roxxon and A.I.M. are up to. There's a reason Lex Luthor is Superman's archnemesis. Because Luthor duking it out with Clark is not the crux of their rivalry. Even if the Mysterium Armor is only temporarily out of the picture, and even if we see it featured for a few pages in issue #1 before it's benched, it's still annoying how writers seem to need to make such a clear cut between their run and whatever came before.

Didn't expect them to make Iron Man helmets other than the MK 3. Hope this means a battle damaged MK 50 helmet is on the table, it'd be a great prop to have in one's shelf, and a lot more accessible and cheaper than the one Beast Kingdom did:

Oh. Oh damn.

Wasn't All-New Wolverine the best received legacy character from its litter and isn't Tom Taylor's run lauded as one of Laura's best books, though?

I already have Tobey on pre-order. Depending on how Andrew turns out, I might just end up convincing myself to pre-order all three Spider-Men. What little we see here of Tom looks pretty good, especially the colors they picked.