Marvel fans, get a look at the Steve Rogers and The Hydra Stomper 1/6 Scale Figure Set by Hot Toys. What if … Peggy Carter became the first Avenger? When a Hydra spy sabotages Steve Rogers’ Super Soldier procedure, Peggy Carter steps up to take the serum in his place. Successfully enhanced, she takes on the mantle of Captain Carter while Steve Rogers continues to fight by utilizing the colossal “Hydra Stomper” armor created by Howard Stark.
The Steve Rogers 1/6 Scale Figure features a newly developed hand-painted headsculpt, and a meticulously tailored outfit which includes a sweater and flight suit with gear harness. The figure also comes with a backpack plus a selection of interchangeable hands which allow for a variety of poses.
The perfectly scaled Hydra Stomper stands at an immense 22.04” tall and features LED light-up eyes and arc reactor. The semi-articulated body can be moved at the head, shoulder, arms, wrist, and waist. Skillfully painted with weathered effects, the figure also has thrusters, shooters, and a cockpit that opens.
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Marvel fans won’t want to miss the Infinity Ultron 1/6 Scale Figure by Hot Toys. Marvel’s animated series What If…? explores alternate realities, but few are as chilling as “What If… Ultron Won?” Housed in Vision’s Vibranium body and wielding the Infinity Stones, Ultron has become an unstoppable force. In this eighth episode of the series, he easily dispatches the Avengers and Thanos. That’s when his deadly plan to wipe out humanity on Earth expands to include the entire Multiverse.
Inspired by Marvel Studios’ What If…? animated series, the Infinity Ultron 1/6 Scale Figure features a specialized body with diecast elements and over 30 points of articulation. The newly developed helmeted headsculpt has LED light-up functions on the eyes and Mind Stone, plus a magnetic flip-up design which reveals a hand-painted metallic red-violet facesculpt.
Ultron’s collection of Infinity Stones are mounted on his armor and also feature a light-up LED function. His outfit is completed by a red cape trimmed with gold, which has wire embedded in the hem for additional styling options. Ultron is armed with a double-headed spear to assist with his diabolical plans.
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I might get hate letters from the over-sixty crowd for saying this, but 50 years after he killed off Gwen Stacy in the legendary Amazing Spider-Man #121, plotter Gerry Conway does an incredible job course correcting it in What If…? Dark: Spider-Gwen #1, which is co-plotted and scripted by Jody Houser with art and colors from Ramon F. Bachs and Dee Cunniffe. Of course, this comic won’t have the historical value of “The Night Gwen Stacy Died”, which made superhero comics grow up for better or worse with the death of a key Amazing Spider-Man supporting character and also set a precedent for the “women in refrigerators” trope. But it’s a heartstrings-tearing look at loss and revenge through the characters of Gwen Stacy and Harry Osborn that definitely lives up to that “Dark” subtitle while offering a sliver of hope and heroism in the end. In many ways, it ends up being a classic Spider-Man comic, but with Gwen Stacy instead of Peter Parker picking up the mantle as she takes responsibility for a big mistake she made and defending New York as a masked hero.
A recurring theme throughout What If Dark: Spider-Gwen is the toll that secret identities take on interpersonal relationships beginning with Gwen realizing that she never really knew Peter Parker, and that Harry Osborn never knew him either as well as his father Norman Osborn. Conway, Houser, and Bachs channel pain and loss throughout this one-shot, and most panels of Gwen are her alone channeling her grief over Peter’s loss into revenge. Even though Mary Jane offers her comfort and companionship, Gwen doesn’t bond with her until the very end of the comic after her life has plunged even deeper into darkness. What If Dark: Spider-Gwen is an elegy to the isolated, lonely superhero constrained by turn of the century genre conventions and lacking the vibrant community around contemporary heroes like Miles Morales, Jaime Reyes, Kamala Khan, and even Superman when Brian Michael Bendis wrote him.
While Conway and Houser’s writing adds new psychological depth to the character of Gwen Stacy that wasn’t present in her original stories, Ramon F. Bachs and Cunniffe’s art capture the look and the feel of that transitional period between the Silver Age and Bronze Age of superhero comics. The original Green Goblin suit and the Osborns’ tire tread haircuts are intact, but there are plenty of shadows, dark warehouses, and guns. The heroes might still be wearing primary colors, but Dirty Harry and Death Wish were showing in the cinema so putting on a trench coat and extralegally shooting a criminal wasn’t out of the question although Gwen justifies her pointing her father’s service piece at the Green Goblin to be justice because it belonged to a former police officer. The confrontation between Gwen, Harry, and the Green Goblin has masks and costumes, but lacks the wordiness and pro-wrestling-style fight choreography of the excerpt from Amazing Spider-Man #121 that opens the book.
Bachs’ art does the heavy lifting in the big emotional climax with some gorgeous, nostalgia-tinged work from him and Dee Cunniffe demonstrating how much Gwen loved Peter and also acts as a nice homage to Jeph Loeb and the late Tim Sale’s lovely Spider-Man: Blue comic. It’s a gorgeous page with sparse narration from Houser that is immediately undercut by the barrel gun and a reminder of the Dark in What If? Dark. This page and the whole last act of the comic are a reminder that all wearers of the Spider-Man mantle come from tragedy and an inability to stop bad things from happening like Harry Osborn becoming the “New Goblin”, or the death of their friends, families, and lovers.
Despite the title, What If? Dark Spider-Gwen isn’t a piece of edgelord superheroics. It’s actually a comics legend getting to revisit one of his classic storylines and with the help of co-writer Houser and artists Bachs and Cunniffe, Gerry Conway gets to give Gwen Stacy agency and a robust character arc even if the inciting incident of the story (Spider-Man drowning) is a little flimsy.
Plot: Gerry Conway, Jody Houser Script: Jody Houser Art: Ramon F. Bachs Colors: Dee Cunniffe Letters:Ariana Maher Story: 7.9 Art: 8.3 Overall: 8.1 Recommendation: Buy
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Marvel fans won’t want to miss the Infinity Ultron 1/6 Scale Figure by Hot Toys. Marvel’s animated series What If…? explores alternate realities, but few are as chilling as “What If… Ultron Won?” Housed in Vision’s Vibranium body and wielding the Infinity Stones, Ultron has become an unstoppable force. In this eighth episode of the series, he easily dispatches the Avengers and Thanos. That’s when his deadly plan to wipe out humanity on Earth expands to include the entire Multiverse.
Inspired by Marvel Studios’ What If…? animated series, the Infinity Ultron 1/6 Scale Figure features a specialized body with diecast elements and over 30 points of articulation. The newly developed helmeted headsculpt has LED light-up functions on the eyes and Mind Stone, plus a magnetic flip-up design which reveals a hand-painted metallic red-violet facesculpt.
Ultron’s collection of Infinity Stones are mounted on his armor and also feature a light-up LED function. His outfit is completed by a red cape trimmed with gold, which has wire embedded in the hem for additional styling options. Ultron is armed with a double-headed spear to assist with his diabolical plans.
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Popular “comic” characters debuting in animation isn’t new and we might have the next hit in Kahhori who will debut in Marvel Studios‘ second season of What If…?.
The series reimagines classic Marvel stories in new ways. The episode what show what happens if the Tesseract fell to Earth and landed in the sovereign Haudenosaunee Confederacy before the colonization of America.
The Tesseract becomes a gateway to the star and leads Kahhori, a young Mohawk woman, on a quest to discover her power.
The episode was written by Ryan Little who had a close collaboration with members of the Mohawk Nation like historian Doug George and language expert Cecelia King. The goal was to ensure authenticity. The episode takes place in the Mohawk language and is informed by the history of the Akwesasne region in what is now upstate New York.
Kahhori is debuting in more than just the animated series. She already has her own Funko Vinyl Soda figure.
Two new Funko Vinyl Soda figures based on the second season of Marvel Studios‘ What If…? have been revealed. You can get the brand-new character Kahhori and a new Captain Carter. Order yours!
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This site contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links and make a purchase, we’ll receive a percentage of the sale. Graphic Policy does purchase items from these sites. Making purchases through these links helps support the site.
Marvel fans, get a first look at the Steve Rogers and The Hydra Stomper 1/6 Scale Figure Set by Hot Toys. What if … Peggy Carter became the first Avenger? When a Hydra spy sabotages Steve Rogers’ Super Soldier procedure, Peggy Carter steps up to take the serum in his place. Successfully enhanced, she takes on the mantle of Captain Carter while Steve Rogers continues to fight by utilizing the colossal “Hydra Stomper” armor created by Howard Stark.
The Steve Rogers 1/6 Scale Figure features a newly developed hand-painted headsculpt, and a meticulously tailored outfit which includes a sweater and flight suit with gear harness. The figure also comes with a backpack plus a selection of interchangeable hands which allow for a variety of poses.
The perfectly scaled Hydra Stomper stands at an immense 22.04” tall and features LED light-up eyes and arc reactor. The semi-articulated body can be moved at the head, shoulder, arms, wrist, and waist. Skillfully painted with weathered effects, the figure also has thrusters, shooters, and a cockpit that opens.
This site contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links and make a purchase, we’ll receive a percentage of the sale. Graphic Policy does purchase items from these sites. Making purchases through these links helps support the site.
The first of this year’s Emmy Awards were presented on Saturday. Chadwick Boseman was honored with a posthumous Emmy for his voice performance on Marvel Studios‘ What If…?, an animated series on Disney+.
Boseman’s wife, Taylor Simone Ledward, accepted the award. She said:
What a beautifully aligned moment it really is that one of the last things he would work on would not only be revisiting a character that was so important to him and his career and to the world, but also that it be an exploration of something new, diving into a new potential future.
Boseman beat other Marvel voice overs including F. Murray Abraham’s work as Khonshu on Moon Knight and Jeffrey Wright’s work on What If…?.
Boseman passed away on August 28, 2020 from colon cancer. He kept his condition private after being diagnosed with stage III in 2016, continuing to act until his death and through his treatment and multiple surgeries. He completed numerous productions before he was taken too soon.
The Marvel Animation panel was held today during San Diego Comic-Con. In it, we got an update as to where various projects stand and when we might see them.
We’ll have to wait a bit to watch Spider-Man: Freshman Year. The film will debut on Disney+ in 2024. Will we get another live-action film that year to go with it?
With the first season being folded so much into the MCU, it wasn’t a surprise we’re getting a second season of What If…?What If? Season 2 will debut on Disney+ in early 2023.
Also touched on was the already announced Marvel Zombies. The villains of the show that were shown include Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, Bucky, Captain Marvel, Captain America, and Abomination. The heroes standing against them shown were Yelena, Kate Bishop, Shang-Chi, Red Guardian, and more.
X-Men ’97 is what folks were really looking forward to when it came to the panel though. The original heroes, Rogue, Gambit, Wolverine, Jubilee, Cyclops, Storm, Jean Grey, and Beast are back. Also shown were Sunspot, Cable, Bishop, Forge, Nightcrawler and more. Villains included Calypso, the Emma Frost/White Queen, Mr. Sinister, Sebastian Shaw, and more. But, in the oddest twist, Magneto is the leader of the X-Men!? An image has surfaced with Magneto wearing a similar costume as worn in the “Trial of Magneto.” The show will premiere in the Fall of 2023.
