[TheBlueMarvel]

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Originally Posted by Ultra Seven

Know something? Your post made me really stop to think about how cool this line is. It’s easy to get lost in “where’s Stingray?” or “why’s Tigra based on her modern look?” and easy to forget how crazy it is that I have the luxury to bitch about my super-articulated, detailed Tigra figure. We’re at a point in the line where our collective complaint is Banshee. Banshee! The depth and breadth of ML is unparalleled (we have three Dazzlers!), and I’m guilty of being unappreciative of that.

To one of your other points, I am so happy to see someone else galvanize Dwayne McDuffie as the immense talent that he was. Those cartoons were my gateway drug into comics, particularly JLU. His episode “To Another Shore” sticks out to me as some of the best writing (not TV, not comics, *writing*) I’ve ever encountered. The heart and hope that he brought to the DC Universe is to me the essence of comic book heroes.

Yeah, I'm still waiting for appropriately scaled fists that I don't have to paint and match for Wonder Man and Namor, but I'm getting Morg, Nova, Firelord AND the Fallen One. Lol I know I'm 1 of maybe 10 (lol adjusted my numbers from the last time I said some shit like this ) people here that want those characters. I can't really grumble too much.

Dwayne McDuffie is a legend in my book for his on point letter to Marvel alone. That said, Milestone had some similar tropes, but Hardware (damn cool character) and Icon (even with his conservative ass) more than made up for the Tech-9's (who was only really annoying for his name, the character's personality was cool). I was impressed that DC gave Dwayne the creative space to make a bunch of characters that appealed to communities of color and embraced them into DC proper, if only, via some trial crossovers to test the waters.