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The black Marvel NOW! Emma Frost rumor is kind of bittersweet.

It's a look that I was initially hesitant about when debuted in 2013, but really started to grow on me as the series progressed. It was an appropriate look for the shaken & dethroned queen after the events of AvsX. The need for a figure really hit though when Hasbro released the Racer X Cyclops back in 2014 and then again with Magik's 2015 SDCC release, but now it just feels a little too late. With 2017's Secret Empire bringing Emma back to her more regal White Queen persona, that current look is ultimately the style that I'd prefer to get now.

That's not to say that I won't pick this figure up, because I most definitely will. Just really hoping that with this look being a Walgreen's exclusive, maybe we'll see a White Queen version released through an X-Men wave or some other means. It's just a shame that Hasbro didn't strike when the iron was hot. Like most "modern" Marvel Legends, they get released just a little too late and by then the look is already obsolete from what's in the current comics.