Posted by Jer at 10:29 AM on
Friday, May 25, 2007
After seeing the success of taking popular Marvel properties and turning them into zombies, Marvel now seems to be ready to take their ever-popular X-Men franchise and turn them into hideous trolls:
I think that the artist here really captured the horror of "trollness" in these figures. Troll-Magneto's wild-eyed stare while baring its fangs is suitably terrifying, while the grimace on Troll-Psylocke's face looks like she's thinking of new horrors to visit upon the world, and Troll-Rogue looks like she's contemplating some tasty-looking baby and wondering how many bites it will take to get the little thing down into her hungry belly. I think Troll-Colossus looks kind of weak in comparison to the others -- he's less "hideous Troll" than he is "kinda-ugly Goblin", but in context I think that other figures draw the "hideous Troll"-ness out of him...
What's that?
Those aren't supposed to be Trolls?
That's actually a statue of the X-babies? Those adorable little knock-offs of the X-men created as a joke by Chris Claremont and Art Adams back in 1986 as a gag that got beat into the ground for a few years after that?
Nope. Sorry. Don't see it at all. I'm fairly certain that those Trolls in the top picture are not supposed to be X-babies. I mean, if they were, they'd kinda look like the X-babies, right?
I think that the artist here really captured the horror of "trollness" in these figures. Troll-Magneto's wild-eyed stare while baring its fangs is suitably terrifying, while the grimace on Troll-Psylocke's face looks like she's thinking of new horrors to visit upon the world, and Troll-Rogue looks like she's contemplating some tasty-looking baby and wondering how many bites it will take to get the little thing down into her hungry belly. I think Troll-Colossus looks kind of weak in comparison to the others -- he's less "hideous Troll" than he is "kinda-ugly Goblin", but in context I think that other figures draw the "hideous Troll"-ness out of him...
What's that?
Those aren't supposed to be Trolls?
That's actually a statue of the X-babies? Those adorable little knock-offs of the X-men created as a joke by Chris Claremont and Art Adams back in 1986 as a gag that got beat into the ground for a few years after that?
Nope. Sorry. Don't see it at all. I'm fairly certain that those Trolls in the top picture are not supposed to be X-babies. I mean, if they were, they'd kinda look like the X-babies, right?
Labels: comics, marvel, superheroes, toys, weird stuff, x-men
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