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Originally Posted by Jason Abbadon

I find that each new armor -the ones that are distinctive and memorable- take some getting used to.

I recall (old man voice) the uproar over the Silver Centurian armor (my personal fav) because of the shoulders and it being well, silver.

Then people hated the modular and telepresence armors because they had no mouths.
Then EVERYONE hated the War Machine armor- myself included. It seemed like Tony had betrayed his "not making weapons anymore" ideal untill it was revealed that he'd made the armor specificlly with Jim in mind.

Everyone hated the first Hulkbuster and I loathe the WWH version- love me some JrJr but he cant design an armor to save his life.

You'll come aound...we all do once we see how badass the armors are in action!

Anyway, here's a pic of the Armored Avenger line:
Marvel News Reviews Images and more - MarvelousNews.com
Repaints with new accesories....at best we'll see a nice mandarin variant in the future- that would make my day.
I doubt I'll pick up the rest of these though.

The Silver Centurion armor is probably in my top 2 favorites of all time. I agree that JRjr can't draw armor. His art in Avengers is pretty damn painful and keeps me from enjoying the story too much. That Hulkbuster looks really good in the Iron Man tie ins to WWH. They made a SHS figure of it. I think it would be cool to see a figure get made of it (see how i keep it on topic?). I don't see me coming around to the new armors any time soon. Especially since Larroca is drawing the main Iron Man series and I really dislike his art. I also feel like War Machine is a character that is better when you can actually see him in motion and not on paper. Seeing and hearing all the guns blazing makes for a visual treat and it isn't the same on paper.

Don't want to sound like I just bash artists so I'll say that I really like Jim Cheung's Iron Man. He did a real great job in the Illuminati issues. I liked Oliver Copiel's take on it too in Thor #3.




I haven't seen the new 3.75" figures at all, the only ones at stores near me are Classic Iron Man, Neo-Classic, the movie Armors, Guardsmen, Dynamo, and T-Man. I've never seen Comic Monger Comic Whiplash, Mandarin, Silver Centurion Iron Man.. Basically nothing good. I've seen 6" but even then it was just the a bunch of Mark VI and T-Man once. I grabbed T-Man quickly, now I'm gonna be keeping an eye out for Dynamo and Initiative War Machine. I really hope Hasbro keeps up the 6" line after this wave.