[Captain Nash]

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Originally Posted by TheBlueMarvel

All the 'Assistant Editors Month" content was tongue in cheek. That stuff isn't really considered canon, but it did indeed happen and people (not me, even as a kid I was discerning) paid money for that dreck. I've a 70's Visionaries FF run TPB that features an AEM story where Stan Lee, George Perez, Jim Shooter and other luminaries of the period are written into a story featuring Impossible Man with all sorts of boundaries being shattered. I'm also a bit surprised that you don't recall that ridiculous story...

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Double checked that FF TPB and the story isn't an AEM (it definitely reads like one) and it features Stan Lee, George Perez, and Jack Kirby (not Jim Shooter).

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Cracked open my Dorkside Retro X-wave and the paint applications for Cyclops and Silver Samurai are pretty bad. Additionally, Dazzler has an ever so slight pupil misalignment. However Storm is perfect, as are Patch and Iceman. I'm happy, but I may have to replace Silver Samurai as the paint is so sloppy that it borders on dealbreaking status.

to me Storm (the far and above most wanted of that wave) is almost perfect. Or at least the one I got. the darker shading of her hair was a bit more than I would have wanted and would have preferred it to be mostly white with the tiniest bit of black shading mostly for shadowing, much like in TAS - but it's definitely not a gripe enough to feel it's not anything but a fantastic figure.

My Silver Samurai had a pretty good paint job, but my Dazzler has a slightly wonky eye as well but are pretty awesome figures With Iceman being pretty standard and decent, I'm really happy with this wave.

Since I've segued into a mini review - my apologies TBM - :

I did make my own adjustment to the Cyclops figure without the optic blast slot, the one with just a little bit of the energy coming out, I cut them off and plan to shave them down somehow - would have liked one head in a pose without any energy effect.

Wolverine is just okay. Nothing really exciting going on here for me personally but I could work him in with some Madripoor type settings. Gonna neeed some mercenary/soldier cannon fodder though to recreate the comic cover it's famous for.

Overall though extremely pleased with this wave as it's given me my most wanted "new" costume for a character Hasbro style , and the alternate Dazzler too, she was a complete surprise at TF, at least this soon.