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time has lost its effect on me, but the suffering continues.
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(If you haven't read it—and it is removed from all of the above by a decade—but Sailor Moon is fully a fourth entry, across the Pacific, in the category of "Comic accompanying major commercial, merch-shilling kid's media being extremely thematically coherent and idiosyncratic in spite of its goal.")
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(See also Hama's GI Joe (haven't read more than a few issues, but I'd be remiss to not give it mention on reputation) and Steve Murphy doing whatever he wanted in full environmentalism-art-book mode at points on TMNT Adventures while ostensibly shilling for Playmates...kind of.)
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I don't think there's a funnier moment of kinetic game design in a commercial release than the Revenant coming up the bridge elevator in the first level of Plutonia. Not actually a difficult encounter, but it's a comically timed kick in the teeth that communicates everything about the game's ethos.
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Scale is also important. Two characters in different scales simply cannot produce an engaging or dynamic photo together, no matter how hard one tries. It is for this reason that it is essential to only purchase figures in strict representation of their in-media scale if one hopes to enjoy the hobby.
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Tony did good. There are now two dedicated threads that allow tariff discussion. One for transformers only, and one for other toylines.
Allowing discussion is the only way people wake up to how terrible this is, and all the different ways it’s going to ruin everything they care about.
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It's surprising how involved the 86 van mold is. Not the worst ever, but still... it's a blocky robot turning into a blocky vehicle. Sometimes I wonder if the team has to meet a parts quota for the price point
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Marvel Optimus is like the best guy in the world—to a fault/even when it's not pragmatic—IDW Optimus is...who is this guy? Electrocuting Megatron in Chaos Theory really did not sit well with me. Maybe if it came as a subversion of a well-established Op, but it doesn't, so...
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5) IDW Optimus sucks. Between his less sympathetic background and every writer immediately rushing to make him the center of some sort of flaw- or confidence-based drama, it never feels like it actually sets up the inspiring leader it then wants to subvert. He's a cipher at best.
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I'm actually excited. I get big MP-10 vibes from MPG-17. It's a breath of fresh air after years of the slavishly-toon-accurate direction for MP.
If I had anything critical to say with my first impressions it's that I wish they went further with the reinterpretation, like Classics Optimus did
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2!
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i empathize with whoever the guy is.
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Marvel Heroes, Categorized By Response To Humour (Courtesy of "Friend of the Post" Charity Brandt)
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Looking forward to it!
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Like, look at these!