"quite possibly the best Avengers run of the modern era "
Once you take Busiek out of the running (or just remember Kang War), that's not much of an accomplishment.
Yellow Daredevil/Elektra. The original Daredevil costume was always one of my favorites, and I remember desperately looking for the Spider-Man Classics variant, but never finding one. Then my dad came home from the comicbook store one day with this set and I was totally hooked.
Because this particular costume was pretty consistently drawn with the black trunks. The fact that the last one was missing them was one of my issues with it.
My Aliens Series 3 set finally arrived! I really like Bishop, even if he is a bit drab, Kane is thoroughly cool, and I'm surprised by how much I like the Dog Alien
NECA can be a little hit and miss on joint quality. 90% of mine have been okay, but I had one Xeno break at the hip, and my first Striker Eureaka broke in a couple of places.
In other news, I got the Alien Queen for Christmas, and I love it so much!
Mine wasn't actually a single comic, it was this bad boy:
Given to me, along with an empty comicbook box to fill, by my dad on my 5th birthday. It was followed shortly by this:
which to this day remains one of my favorite pieces of reading material. I've read it cover to cover about a hundred times.
Finally got my set of these for Christmas. Overall, I really like them. And all of the Aliens have the proper feet, so that's good. Sadly, both of Burke's hips tore off of the waist piece right out of the box. Looks like I'll be going to CS for that