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hmmberto said:
It probably wasn't my actual very first one technically, but this is the issue I have in mind as the first comic I ever read. I've been chasing that big group display of superheroes for 30 years! Can't believe we finally have every single character in this picture now.

But cripes, I never realized how huge Colossus is here. Did I miss the ability where he gets bigger with grief?
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That was just John Romita Jr’s art at the time. Even his Spider-man was a brick shithouse in the mid 90’s.
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Stoopid_Sandwich said:
That was just John Romita Jr’s art at the time. Even his Spider-man was a brick shithouse in the mid 90’s.
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That accounts for the bulk of the average character he drew, but Colossus is waaay bigger than he should be - especially with Guido in the picture, who stands almost the same height and is generally depicted as much wider. I definitely think he was taking some artistic liberties due to Colossus's importance to the story in this issue.
 
hmmberto said:
That accounts for the bulk of the average character he drew, but Colossus is waaay bigger than he should be - especially with Guido in the picture, who stands almost the same height and is generally depicted as much wider. I definitely think he was taking some artistic liberties due to Colossus's importance to the story in this issue.
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That’s also possible but I think it might have had something to do with the fact that Romita at the time was working with Klaus Jansen at the time as his inker, and Klaus was known for drawing larger than life superheroes in his own right. So when John drew a bunch of characters in a group shot, especially male characters, it was rare if you saw any male character with a slender build unless they were a teenage kid. For the most part his characters looked like they were all body builders and that wouldn’t change until he reinvented the way he drew spider-man during the JMS run. From that point on his characters had many different body types and size ranges. His Captain. America, Dr Doom and Wolverine were still large and imposing figures but more nimble characters like Spider-Man, iceman and Reed Richard’s were all skinny.


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Stoopid_Sandwich said:
Yeah the fighting game stop motion video is cool. Hasbro commissioned that for SDCC and I think they opened up the panel with that video but I can’t recall off the top of my head who was responsible for producing it.


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I wish they'd credit the ... artist? I'm not sure the right word to use there. Photographer, maybe? Anyway, they did a fantastic job. Same for the Origins ones that Mattel puts out sometimes. They're really fun to watch.


hmmberto said:
But cripes, I never realized how huge Colossus is here. Did I miss the ability where he gets bigger with grief?
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Right? This is one of my main 'mind's eye' pictures of the '90s X-Men, and really '90s comic books in general. But I also had forgotten how wacky-huge Colossus was. It's like my mind tuned it out. I don't THINK he was necessarily shown as being that big from panel to panel, but I wouldn't bet money on it.
 
I think, for his height, the proportions for Wolverine look right. It's just that him being that tall throws everything off. For a man that tall, he looks like he should, from that game and sometimes 90s comics. He's just too tall. I wasn't super happy with the Astonishing one being as tall as it is but its still not excessive. Don't stand him up straight in the display. But this one, crouched hes as tall as the others standing straight up almost. Its gonna be hard to fudge this one in there and make it look right.

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Chooch555 said:
I liked Capullo's run on X-Force, but those costume re-designs were... a lot. They'd make for some great toys though.
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I really loved the X-Force v2 costumes, though sometimes I wonder if what I *really* liked was the shift from Liefeld's art to Capullo's (sorry, Rob). Feral, Rictor, Siryn, Sunspot and Warpath were improvements over their previous looks. Cannonball and Shatterstar's v2 looks I like a lot, but they're tied with their original costumes. Boom-Boom's is obviously pretty out there, but it's loud and fun in a way that suits her. It's waaay better without the gigantic shoulder pads though.
 
Dan who posted a review on his channel of the Wolverine vs Silver Samurai set and does a nice assessment of the articulation and all of the new joints in Wolverine’s body



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His videos are always blindingly bright...does bro have his brightness on his monitor at zero or what the heck is going on? :ROFLMAO:
 
I always thought Wolvie’s stats (short dude, really heavy) was due to the weight of Adamantium covering his bones, coupled with the increase in muscle mass just to move a heavier skeleton around. He didn’t need to be gargantuan in proportions, but it also wasn’t out of left field for him to be depicted in such a way. But the thick bone claws definitely felt like a stretch to me, since they had so often before that been depicted as slender blades.
 
vicious said:
His videos are always blindingly bright...does bro have his brightness on his monitor at zero or what the heck is going on? :ROFLMAO:
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I will admit I’m no fan of blinding white backgrounds myself. I had to start wearing eye glasses with blue block UV protected lenses because I was suffering the effects of eye strain for the past 5-6 months now. But he is one of the very few English reviewers who managed to get a hold of this set so we just kind of have to grin and bear it until more reviews start coming in.


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NORM said:
I always thought Wolvie’s stats (short dude, really heavy) was due to the weight of Adamantium covering his bones, coupled with the increase in muscle mass just to move a heavier skeleton around. He didn’t need to be gargantuan in proportions, but it also wasn’t out of left field for him to be depicted in such a way. But the thick bone claws definitely felt like a stretch to me, since they had so often before that been depicted as slender blades.
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True but it’s kind of hard to make either sets of claws convincing if you change their shape and characteristics. If you make the adamantium blades thicker they come across looking like pikes instead of claws or having a blade like structure. If you make the bone claws thinner then they wouldn’t have the structural integrity to puncture anything and they would needlessly break every time they so much as attempted to pierce Wolverine’s flesh, along with all of that muscle. It’s a no win situation no matter whichever way you look at it.


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I think that bone claws can still be thinner and effective. As long as they’re sharp. Even if they break, he’d grow them back. It was the rough craggy looking claws that made even less sense to me.
 
NORM said:
I think that bone claws can still be thinner and effective. As long as they’re sharp. Even if they break, he’d grow them back. It was the rough craggy looking claws that made even less sense to me.
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As I understand it the reason why the bone claws looked so gnarly is because they had broken so many times and grew back. It’s basically scar tissue that gave them that knobby appearance. Also due to his healing factor being on the fritz at the time, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if that knobby bone structure was a sign of infection


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Damien said:
I wish they'd credit the ... artist? I'm not sure the right word to use there. Photographer, maybe? Anyway, they did a fantastic job. Same for the Origins ones that Mattel puts out sometimes. They're really fun to watch.



Right? This is one of my main 'mind's eye' pictures of the '90s X-Men, and really '90s comic books in general. But I also had forgotten how wacky-huge Colossus was. It's like my mind tuned it out. I don't THINK he was necessarily shown as being that big from panel to panel, but I wouldn't bet money on it.
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Animator. Stop Motion Animator.
 
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