Musings of an Inkd Geek

 

I swung by GameStop the other day and, to my surprise, they had a large amount of Marvel Legends. I went with the intention of finding some Jazwares Fortnite figures, specifically Agent Peely. I entered in search of a banana and left with a frog instead. The randomness of hunting for action figures. This guy is one of the lesser known Marvel characters. Frog-Man is part of the Stilt-Man Build A Figure (BAF) wave. He comes with only 2 pairs of hands (fists and open), and the extra parts are an arm, hand and gun for Stilt-Man. Still, Froggy is a pretty cool looking figure. Basically a dude in a frog suit, he's green with lime green gloves, back-pack and strap, and flippers. He has painted scales throughout his body. In his open mouth you can see 2 white eyes against black. And underneath his feet he has 2 springs for jumping action. One thing I noticed is that his waist section and upper thighs are a different shade of green than the rest of his body. He's sculpted and painted we...

My first new figure of 2021 is the Mafex Hush Batman black version. The blue version had dropped last year and when the reviews came out and I saw how good it was, I was going to get it. But then I saw that a black version was going to be released in January, so I pre-ordered this one instead, since I prefer this color scheme. The only difference between this and the previous release (besides the color) are that this one comes with a gargoyle stand, while the prior one came with an extra unmasked Bruce Wayne head.  Batman looks great. The details of the sculpt and the paint apps are clean. He sports a subtle black wash throughout his torso, arms and legs that help to give them definition. He's mostly grey and black, with bright yellow utility belt. The cape has 4 wires inside (2 on outer edges, 2 in the middle) that allow you to bend it into some really cool poses. Even the bottoms of his boots are sculpted. I did notice that on the head with closed mouth, the mask line rests just ...