Marvel Teams Up with Bandai for New Tech-On Avengers Comic and S.H. Figuarts

Uh... hell yes? Wow.

This came out of nowhere - the guys behind S.H.Figuarts get to design characters for Marvel now? Jesus how far this line has come.

I'm excited to see the figures, that Iron Man design looks pretty badass.

"Sleek high-tech power suits bristling with energy and amped-up attack power face off against Super Villains enhanced to match."

That sounds like Power Rangers. Meh.

First of all, Sentinel's Fighting Armor series is already doing this.

Secondly, "TECH-ON AVENGERS" is a really dumb name for a toy line.

Lastly, I'll reserve further judgement until I see the final products.

I don’t think that's the case, Sentinel is redesigning Iron Man armors to fit certain heroes, this sounds more like Injustice 2 for Marvel to me.

With them specifically being Tokusatsu inspired armors, I'd expect they'd be in line with Kamen Rider and Power Rangers, and very different than the Fighting Armor line.

I like the idea, but just from those comic pages it looks like it'll be the standard boring endlessly done characters like Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Cap, and of course Captain Carol shoved in there like anyone actually cares about the character.

Super Sentai teams usually have what - 5 members? So that's probably all five we'll get unless they toss in Black Widow or Spider-Man.

A look at the Cap design.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmgross.

So the designs look to be that new Ultraman manga style instead of classic Rider style.

Eh, not that impressed with that as that Gridman look is so generic these days. Just looks like another Iron Man armor.

I'm digging the look of the helmet, I'll be interested to see what they do with Hulk, Thor and Black Panther.

So these are the designs I presume. The figures will be revealed next Wednesday.

Out of these I think Spider-Man looks the best. The helmet really does scream "Tokusatsu" to me and its nice how they replicated his web-pattern with armor platting. The weird backpack is kind of cool too.

The rest - huh. Iron Man is Iron Man, can’t go wrong with him, but the design doesn’t wow me. Black Panther is neat; the yellow light underneath the black armor is cool. Wolverine is just weird, can’t say I like Captain America either and Captain Marvel is just meh.

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