[EDITOR’S NOTE: Welcome to Clix-Mas 2018, wherein we here at Critical Missives rather foolishly try to provide you with twelve different articles in twelve days, all brought to you by either the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, or the Ghost of Christmas Future! If you need to catch up with our intro to all of this, the first Night of Clix-Mas 2018 can be found in our first post of the season, and Night 2 speculated on the next Star Trek set. And Night 3 looked at some of HypeFox’s favorite Golden Age pieces! Night 4 dropped yesterday and examined the lack of Fantastic Four in Clix for the last 6 years! Then Night 5 brought us a look at HypeFox’s favorite Sealed sets, and Night 6 saw the release of a brand new set announcement! Night 7 was a brief celebration of our 5th Anniversary!]
Welcome to the Eighth Night of Clix-Mas!
Tonight’s post is really more of a question:
With news dropping a few days ago that we’re getting the Elders of the Universe and the Infinity Gems back in Modern with next year’s Avengers: Black Panther and the Illuminati set, which past sub-theme (figures, mechanics or equipment) do you want to see return to Heroclix?
For me, it’s pretty easy (especially now that we’re getting a new Infinity Gauntlet, so that’s off the list):
I want new X-Men 2099 pieces!
Yes, the 2099 corner of the Marvel Universe isn’t always remembered as fondly as other stories 0f the 90’s, but having grown up during that era I recall actually really liking this series as much or more than any other X-tales.
(For the record, Spider-Man 2099 and Doom 2099 were actually better than folks remember as well.)
Anyway, John Francis Moore and Ron Lim still stand in my mind as one of my favorite creative teams of all-time.
How big of a fan was I?
Well, when I got a little bit older, I started buying X-Men 2099 covers straight from the artists! I spent money I probably didn’t really have back then to have them custom-framed, and they still hang on my walls to this day!
So yeah, I like these characters a lot!
And Wizkids hasn’t completely ignored them. There was a special limited edition release in December of 2006 when they made seven characters from the 2099 universe–including two from X-Men 2099 (Junkpile and Mean Streak).
Since then, we’ve gotten a really good version of Miguel O’Hara (in ASM), but nothing 2099-related since then. That’s five X-focused sets (counting the two Deadpool sets but not counting wider sets like AvX) since GSX in 2011 with not even ONE X-Men 2099 sub-Theme!
I doubt that we’ll see them show up in X-Men Adventures either, but please Wizkids! Xi’an Chi Xan, Skullfire, Bloodhawk, Metalhead, Shakti… these characters and stories are too much fun too just leave unclix’d!!
So which sub-theme or equipment from the past would you like to see updated for Modern Clix? Sound of in the Comments below, and then come back here for Night Nine of the Twelve Nights of Clix-Mas!!
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Because I’m old and have read way too many Marvel comics to retain, I don’t really recall or have an affinity for 2099. In terms of sub themes I would like to see some Hellfire Club get reclixed in modern to go with The Black King and Tri-Sentinel we recently got. I also would love to see the heralds of Galactus once again.
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Heralds of Galactus would be insanely awesome. I used to collect them back in the pre-Card days just because one of the first Marvel cosmic stories I read as a kid was the six-parter where Galactus selects the conscious-less executioner Morg to be his new Herald, and Surfer rounds up all the other Heralds to take Morg down.
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