Tag: Marvel
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Double Review: Marvel Legends – Marvel Knights Clea and Blade
Marvel Knights is a line of in-universe superhero stories aimed at a mature audience with more violence and adult language. Heroes in this line include the likes of Daredevil. Power Man, Doctor Strange and Blade. Hasbro has released a wave featuring heroes from the Marvel Knights comic and we will look at two of them;…
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Review: Marvel Legends – Squadron Supreme Power Princess (Void BAF Wave)
Do you ever wish for a DC and Marvel Comics collaborative toy line? Back in the 1970s, we had the MEGO’s 12-inch and 8-inch World’s Greatest Super Heroes line. There was even the smaller Pocket Heroes line. Sure, they both have their toy lines, but McFarlane’s DC Multiverse does not scale with Hasbro’s Marvel Legends,…
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Review: G.I. Joe Classified Series Chuckles
With over 150 characters in the G.I. Joe franchise, it is easy for some to be forgotten about. They might only get one figure and not even appear in the cartoon. Some do show up in the comics, and it is usually the comics where they get the most attention. A character like Chuckles, a…
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Quick Review: Marvel Legends Daredevil (Elektra), Moon Knight, Rogue, and Kingpin (MCU)
I am trying to get through my backlog of reviews I want to do, so I will quickly go over some Marvel Legends that I picked up in December. First up from the Spider-Man subline is the Elektra Natchios Daredevil. In the comics, Elektra took over as Daredevil for Matt, and now they are like…
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Review: Marvel Legends The Infinity Saga Gladiator Hulk
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been going on for 15 years now. Through the movies and T.V. series, there have been times in which they try to adapt stories from the source materials. With the nature of comics, sometimes the story features characters that have not been introduced yet or events too large a sale…
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Review: Marvel Legends Avengers 60th Anniversary Captain Marvel and Doctor Doom
Secret Wars was a twelve-issue min series back in 1984 that took various Marvel heroes and villains to Battleworld, where they fought for the amusement of the Beyonder. The heroes included the Avengers, Spider-Man, Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau), and the X-Men, and the villains included Kang, Ultron and Doctor Doom. As part of the Avengers…
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Review: Marvel Legends Spider-Man: Green Goblin and Mary Jane Watson
1990’s Spider-Man the Animated Series helped to reintroduce Spider-Man and related characters to the general public. While not adhering to the comics, it showcases many of his friends and foes he’s encountered. With the accompanying toyline, we got many of them in plastic form. While we go such perennial villains like Green Goblin, we didn’t…
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Review: Marvel Legends Fantastic Four Franklin and Valeria Richards
The Fantastic Four is one of the cornerstones of the Marvel Comic universe Through their pages, there have been a lot of characters introduced (like Galactus and Doctor Doom) that have made their own marks on the comics. Even while defending the earth from threats from the Negative Zone, the team leader, Mr Fantastic and…
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Review: Marvel Legends Spider-Man: Doc Ock & Aunt May
The early 1990’2 was a golden age for superhero cartoons. Starting with Batman: The Animated Series, we saw other comic book heroes adapted to animation with storylines either adapted from the comics or written in a way that did not insult the viewer’s intelligence. One such cartoon was the Spider-Man animated series in 1994. Focusing…
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Review: Marvel Legends – Agent Jimmy Woo (WandaVision)
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has had its share of reoccurring minor characters. Some of them, stay within the confines of a specific series. But with the Marvel shows on Disney+, some of these characters get more screen time to develop. In the WandaVision series, we see the return of Agent Jimmy Woo. Previously an Agent…
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