Review – MCU – Captain America: The Winter Soldier
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Review – MCU – Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Captain America - The Winter Soldier (2014) Chris Evans Samuel L Jackson Scarlett Johansson Robert Redford Sebastian Stan Anthony Mackie Cobie Smoulders Frank Grillo Spoiler Free thoughts and Notes The second entry in the Captain America series comes in right on the heels of The Avengers, or "Phase 2" of the Marvel Cinematic universe.  I want to take a moment here to comment on how the continuity of these movies have been handled up to this point, since this is the first "post crossover" movie.  This applies to pretty much all of the Phase 2 movies, though it seems to…
Review – Marvel Legends – Absorbing Man Wave – Spider Gwen
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Review – Marvel Legends – Absorbing Man Wave – Spider Gwen

In an alternate universe on another Earth, instead of Peter Parker, Spider-man, being bitten by that radioactive spider granting him super human spider powers, Peter's classmate and sometimes girlfriend Gwen Stacy instead took the hit.  In that world was born, Spider Gwen.  It's kind of a plot born from a What-If? idea, expanded into it's own full comic series.  It's a pretty good comic series too, and an interesting take on the Spider-man concept.  As a popular character, it was inevitable that there would be a Spider Gwen figure released for Marvel Legends. The basic execution here is decent.  The…
Review – Marvel Legends – Dormammu Wave – Doctor Strange (Movie)
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Review – Marvel Legends – Dormammu Wave – Doctor Strange (Movie)

The Doctor Strange wave of Marvel Legends, the one with the Dormammu Build a Figure, is the perfect example of how awful and mismanaged Marvel Legends waves can get.    For starters, there was recently a boxed set for SDCC centered around Doctor Strange that included a Brother Voodoo, Astral Doctor Strange (Comic not movie, granted), and a Dormammu, non Build a Figure version.  So, ok, the SDCC sets are not the easiest to get, but there also aren't a ton of Strange fans I imagine clamoring for these characters, so doubling up like this instead of making less overlap seems…
Review – Marvel Legends – Juggernaut Wave – Wolverine
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Review – Marvel Legends – Juggernaut Wave – Wolverine

Wolverine is arguably the most popular Marvel comics character.  Spider-man is pretty up there and Deadpool seems to be doing pretty well, but Wolverine is, or at least was at one point, pretty up there.  It’s a shame he doesn’t' get more Marvel Legends figures really.  I mean I know I complain about all of the dozens of Captain Americas, but Wolverine is way more popular then Cap.  Maybe we just already hit Wolverine Saturation years ago and don't need more Wolverines?  Who knows. While wolverine has had a few looks over the years, and some slight redesigns, mostly in…