Tuesday, November 5, 2013

New Guardian Heroclix

The "And One Shall Surely Die!" t-shirt from the previous post was not the only item solicited this past August to include Guardian. The other was the Invincible Iron Man Heroclix set.
Get armored up for action this autumn! Build-up your HeroClix collection with the latest Marvel set to focus on the armored Avenger, his allies, and some of his most dangerous adversaries!
Iron's Man's allies include Alpha Flight, apparently. I won't try to reason that out, I'll just appreciate that there's a second Guardian Heroclix (even though I don't even play the game) to add to the collection.

And it looks like a significant improvement over the first. I love that the piece includes Guardian's force field, in a pose reminiscent of when he burst out of the ground in his first comic book appearance. I also enjoyed the "If I can just bridge this circuit" name for one of his abilities, a reference to the countdown to Guardian's death in issue #12 of Alpha Flight (first series).





A digital image of the figurine had been released a while back but I wanted to wait for an actual picture of the piece before posting about it. I lifted the one above from this site and will add it to the Collectibles page shortly.