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I pre-ordered as well. I'm not a fan of most Mezco cloth goods, and the uniforms on these look somewhat like sweaters, but the Thing looks spectacular, and the accessories are incredible. Mr. Fantastic's stretchy swappable parts look hella fun too, I wish Hasbro would do that same thing with an upcoming Legends release of Reed.

Same, I also pre-ordered two entirely for the dog which has a swappable head. Super-articulated animals are actually pretty difficult to find--I bought the Dungeons and Dragons Drizzt 2-pack below entirely for the articulated panther and sword effects, which are AWESOME and work great for Silver Samurai. I use the panther in Black Panther displays, and Drizzt makes a fine random elf for Thor displays. I use the small handful of GI Joe figures I have in SHIELD vs HYDRA displays.

I prefer the large, exaggerated horns like Loki wore in the comics or the Avengers film, as well as the large ones she wore from her first appearance in the comics in 2008.

For most of my life I assumed Namor was supposed to be Japanese. A decade or two ago I realized that while he was created in 1939, having him be Japanese would have become a big problem once Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, yet the title still continued on so I went to verify my assumption and found most sources suggesting I was wrong and that Bill Everett's intent was for Namor to look elven, hence the pointy ears. Looking back at the art in Marvel Comics #1 where he first appeared yep, he looks far more elven in the art there than he appears to on many of the subsequent covers of his own title and even with the way Kirby him in the Silver Age, but I haven't found a source that seems definitive about Everett's intent with Namor's appearance. If anyone knows of a source quoting Everett about Namor's visual design please do share.

It’s increased substantially. Want to insure at new value. Which is why using homeowner's insurance for collectibles is worthless for 99.9% of collectors. What, we're going to keep getting our entire collection appraised annually? It's impractical to keep doing that.

I don't see that you can visually discern anything about who's under the hood. The reason people are thinking that was a woman is from the show's credits shown in the screenshot below where stunt doubles are listed. "Variant Double" is listed as Sarah Irwin, and Sophia di Martino has said in the Instagram post linked here that's her stunt double. So somewhere in the episode Sophia di Martino's stunt double appeared, and nobody has found a viable candidate for where that is other than the final scene.

It could be the bit shown in the pic below taken from one of the teasers. Hiddleston has explicitly commented that he's glad they could incorporate Loki's gender fluidity into the show, and that scene from 1858 shown right after Mobius said he wanted help tracking down a variant version of himself features a woman in a hooded cloak apparently killing those TVA agents. That woman is in the credits as a woman confirmed to be the stunt double for an actress named Sophia di Martino playing an undisclosed part in the series that people are guessing is either Lady Loki or Enchantress. I imagine we'll find which of the two we saw in this week's episode. Lady Loki was introduced into the comics in 2008 as a female appearance Loki takes on. Norse mythology also depicts Loki sometimes taking on the form of a woman as well which is where the idea was drawn from.

Entertaining. Won't wake up early to watch it, but I will definitely watch the next.

Isn't that Myslabbedcomics.com? I haven't used it, but Ryan suggested they have no fees.

These boards and Instagram lack a unified browsing and search mechanism. Myslabbedcomics offers that, so how myslabs.com differs from them I'm unsure of. The fundamental difference between all of these--or eBay as well--and ComicLink/Pedigree/Heritage is those use a traditional consignment model where sellers ship the comics to the consignor and they ship to the buyer. That makes the transactions 100% safe, whereas the commission free or Myslabs.com 1% fee put much of the risk on the buyer and/or seller. It looks like Myslabs.com is making attempts to minimize that risk through the seller approval process so if a seller actively tries to scam buyers they will kick them off the site, but there's room for sellers who want to go out in a blaze of glory to scam a bunch of people in a short period of time before Ken kicks them out. There's NO opportunity for scamming with the consignment sites, hence the higher fees by using them as the broker keeping everything completely safe.

I like Sabine as well, but I wish her helmet didn't hug her head so snugly. The amount of force you have to use to put it on and off of her will absolutely start scraping paint off of the hair or face at some point.

I haven't read many issues of the Eternals so someone please pipe up if they know--are we sure the Eternals don't care more about the viability of the species the Celestials seeded around the galaxy than about individuals? Thanos didn't threaten the existence of any form of life in general aside from any that was close to extinction anyway, just half of the individuals. It's possible the Eternals had no real issue with what he was doing. I've read the short What If origin story of the Eternals, Deviants, and mutants and how they were all derived from life on any given planet (such as humanity on Earth), but I still don't know what motivates the Eternals or exactly what their goals are.

Sounds like the plot of every Star Trek episode where they were trying to help a pre-warp civilization without violating the Prime Directive.

Given that the Celestials will almost certainly be the origin story for mutants in the MCU then if we spend two hours delving into their designs on Earth and then see a post-credits scene teasing the product of their work being the X-Men then I'm guessing most of us will have plenty to think about on the drive home from the theatre.

I love panspermia stories so I have a bias towards the Eternals story. I loved Ridley Scott's Prometheus for that reason.

Can't really tell much other than it looks well-executed. That doesn't mean it won't be boring, although I find the idea of the Celestials and Eternals compelling so I'll be surprised if I end up being bored.

They went up for sale at Target.com around 3AM EST. They're mostly gone now, but you can still get Anakin for shipping. They'll be gone by the end of the day for most areas, so if you want one locally you'll have to go right now.

How would I know? As soon as I saw Stark I assumed he had been brought back from snapping himself into oblivion somehow.

I did pick up Obi-Wan on Thursday by calling around and asking a store to hold it at Customer Service for me. If anyone wants these but doesn't want to hunt by calling around or going in person then they MIGHT go up on their web site tonight between 1AM and 2AM EST. Target's corporate headquarters is in Minneapolis which is in the Central time zone, so usually items with a set release date go up for sale on their web site shortly after midnight CST, usually no later than 1AM CST (which is 1AM to 2AM EST or 10PM to 11PM PST). The few times I've stayed up to buy online I've seen items go live at pretty random times during that window. Popular items often don't last long because Target limits online sales of exclusives because they prefer you go into stores to pick them up so you buy other stuff while you're there, but these are being shipped out to stores in pretty nice quantities of 1 to 3 cases with each case holding I think 6 figures. Still I expect these to be gone from most stores at some point during the day on Sunday, perhaps very early on Sunday. I know some areas have already sold all of theirs to early shoppers like me.

Saw the first episode. It's OK, pretty formulaic though. Not sure I'll watch more, but that's mostly because I'm short on time to watch things little kids can't see.

An odd parallel here is that Sam Raimi left Spider-Man for pretty much the exact same stated reason. Avi Arad had pushed him to have Venom, Harry Osborne, and Sandman as villains all in the same film for Spider-Man 3 when Raimi wanted to only have Sandman, and the film ended up a mess for reasons Raimi felt were forced upon him. He demanded more control for a fourth film, Arad refused, so he and Maguire/Dunst walked. Now he's re-entering the Marvel Universe on a film that Scott Derrickson just left for a similar reason that Raimi left Spider-Man. The real question is just how much control Derrickson wanted, and how much Feige was forcing upon him. We know that America Chavez and Wanda being involved in the story was Feige, and it sounds like Derrickson had no screenplay written so even the title was devised by Marvel, so much of the framework sounds to have been created for him. Derrickson's comments since he left have only vaguely stated that the film would have been "someone else's," so whatever they were asking him to include he found unreasonable. It'll be interesting to see what Raimi does with it and which elements he incorporates that conflicted with Derrickson's ideas. You can certainly do a scary movie that's PG-13, so I'm not sure an R-rating was a sticking point.

Did I miss any Derrickson dirt explaining why he left? I would have thought something more substantial would be out by now about why he left the film, but I still haven't found anything.

If any of you guys are Star Wars: Clone Wars fans and also fans of 6-inch Black Series figures, be on the lookout for four new figures releasing this week exclusively at Target that will definitely be gone within a few days. They're set to go out on Sunday, but many stores are putting them out early or giving them to people who ask for them. I picked up three of the four today below, and the fourth is a Clone Wars-style Obi-Wan shown in the second pic. Oddly stores are putting them out in three different, seemingly-randomly selected parts of the store--sometimes in with the other Star Wars toys, sometimes in Electronics with the Funko Pops, and sometimes on a Father's Day display in the men's clothing section.

With the villain of Doctor Strange 2 rumored to be I can't WAIT for a Marvel Legends figure of him.

New rumor about the main villain, and it's who I assumed it would be all along. https://movieweb.com/doctor-strange-2-villain/ Who else would you pick to be in "Multiverse of Madness" other than the villain whose entire goal is to rule all worlds within the multiverse?