DC Origins Solicitation Info - HCRealms

DC Origins Solicitation Info - HCRealms

Mods #12-22 AVENGERS FOREVER

This is a great little series and introduced me to Genis-Vell and Songbird. I picked it up on ebay a couple of years ago but the series (came out in 99. It was the first Avengers comics I bought in over twenty years and the millenial year-special quality is astounding from the treasures I collected as a kid. Carlos Pacheco's art is inspiring. I was inspired. What could I do? Hmmm....

Ba-da-boom - 1 repainted Wasp with wings broken and re-set, 1 minor weird-arsed mod to the already fabulous Songbird (Wiz-Kids standards are soaring, she is a great example - except for the dangerously thin ankle and a pose that has her sort of heading for a crash landing, face first... the pink sound-wings help balance the mod, somewhat) and Yellowjacket, Giant-Man, Hawkeye and Cap (a leaping, shield-chucking Cap).

The PHOTOS are all fairly clear & detailed, CLICK them.

HAWKEYE


SONGBIRD


YELLOWJACKET











WASP












Then I just HAD TO do more... the supporting characters were more fun than the worn-out Avengers on their time-tripping, alternate-reality-filled romp. This picture summed up the theme - the cavalry!


Kang (V Kang) with ridiculous BFGs, Rick Jones (on an Exp Domino base) & The Supreme Intelligence (Hmmm... Oracle! I used V Hepzibah's base, range reduced to 0 - 27pts w a copy of Oracle's dial - not comp legal but fair). Libra (Roo Elongated Man) is at the back.


The Supreme Cycle (V Lockjaw, what else could it be? A Harley trike for over-powered SUV lovers with all the features of a Tardis from the House of Kang. Front and rear seating - anywhere, anywhen - there you are, all cool-like...) is made entirely from an old Ghost Rider bike, Hawkeye's skycycle and the Black Knight's mechanical steed (all chopped into bits) with 3 wheels (from a tank sprue), 4 round hatches, 1 plastic Terminator Flamer and two indiscernable bits from the bits box.


I made it for the "feel" rather than as some sort of reproduction and you can hang The S.I. off the back even though The S.I. is specifically meant to sit on the ICWO card (hence, no need for the Bat's TA). The S.I. looks bigger off the back of the bike (as he is way not to scale but the green, brainy, fishtank-guy still works for me). In Contact With The Suprememe Intelligence... I was originally going to use Exp The Brain - which I thought I needed to keep - as the S.I. but I misplaced it. Oracle on Card works way better.

Captain Marvel - Supernova/Avengers Forever...

Wow.... this is freaky. I have just completed a themed collection of mods and repaints (mainly mods) of all the main characters in the Avengers Forever series. Captain Marvel (Genis-Vell, the soon-to-be Exp Heroclix fig) is the only character I did not attempt as I knew he was in Supernova. When I completed Hawkeye (the last of the six) and took a look to see if there were Supernova teaser previews up... well, there's Legacy/Cap M (Jnr)/Photon (MkII). Gosh... So, 11 mods & repaints to follow... 6 Avengers, 4 pivotal supporting characters and 1 cool vehicle.

Storage

Collection Shelf - Top & Bottom (above & below left)
and my trades bag (below right) and U&LE Trade box (above)

Repaint #3 & Mod #11 Sentry

It may sound silly but I repainted Sentry to clean him up and then make him look all wet and dirty (and allude to night maneuvers but it is tricky painting inferences). He has that Aquaman on skid row thing happening but he still has to look real strong and pretty determined. If he's gonna bother gettin' off the floor he'd better have a darn good reason... the sculpt does as he's flying with dukes up!



OK. So I'm all happy with my Sentry and then I get an opportunity to pick up the New Avengers #2 Sentry trade. Uh... the secret history... oh... Ohhhh.

Well, in a nutshell, the depressed 'I am a walking mega-bomb, what am I going to do next' thing is out and an uber group of Marvel hero-types stage an intervention, a sort of hero-eye for the straight meta-guy. White Queen heads the makeover. The whole image needs a clean up and Emma's got the stuff to do the job! After a quick wipe up and mental slap around... ba-boom!

The power of
ten thousand
exploding suns!





So the previous Sentry, the Breakout Sentry, the dysfunctional tank Sentry, well, he was just a 'phase' that now seems too-quickly over. The bearded (Boom-Boom-Booom) butt-kicking stressed-out super-dude is no more and the =g-l-a-r-e= All-New " SENTRY Guardian of Good " is the look of things to come.

What a transformation we have! A hero my mum would be proud to have over for a cuppa. A 21st century hero in line with this age... bright, hopeful, powerful and with supportive peers. He has the glowing "look" and he has that clean-cut old-school poster boy charisma and he even (like C.Marvel & C.Kent - more Kent as he is married, happily so it seems) has BIG hero oozing out from his very pores. 'Cept this Big S is blond in contrast to the the dark haired DC types (ah, the twist) and his now-cooler-than-it-ever-was-to-be-a-wonder-geek buddy is Reed Richards (rather than, say, Bruce Wayne) and he has Tony Stark (AND Reed, the Bolt, Doc Strange, Prof-X and Namor) watching over him (Namor is staring...). So he is the conservative SUPERhero with the potential to be anything... and not all of it good.

I like Bob. I think we can expect interesting things in his character development... unless the big-boys have an agenda.