Retirement stinks. This time, these sets get the axe from Modern Age:
- Brightest Day
- DC 75th Anniversary
- Giant-Size X-Men
- Green Lantern Movie
- Green Lantern Movie Fast Forces
- Captain America
- Watchmen Crimebusters Fast Forces
- Warriors of Asgard Fast Forces
- Street Fighter
Not counting any pieces among my favorites for their respective years of release — because OF COURSE I’ll miss seeing them in Modern Age — there’s a definite list of figs that I’m sorry to see go. Here are numbers 8 and 7.
8
Kilowog (Green Lantern Movie 008)
It took a LONG time to get a Modern Age Kilowog back in the game. Far too soon, he’s gone again, with no new one in sight. It’s a far cry from 2011, when the game was LOUSY with Green Lanterns galore.
So while he sorta serves as proxy for all the other GLs phasing out, this Kilowog gets the sorrowful wave goodbye for being my favorite of the lot. (Salaak nearly got the slot.)
#7
Dee Jay (Street Fighter)
Like the ‘Wog, this happy kickboxing Jamaican represents the whole Street Fighter crew, being my favorite. I never played him half as much as I wanted to, though — he just gets crowded off the highly competitive keyword teams he fits, Celebrity and Martial Artist. Golden Age may help him as he can equip the Lunge feat to combine with the SF TA for a five-square reach for a jump-in light 2-damage attack.
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Retirement’s not ALL bad, though, because of figs like this:
Sin (Captain America 209)
At 80 points with mediocre stats, a trait requiring a Golden Age figure to activate AND a 23-points-cheaper version in the same set, there was almost no earthly reason to use this piece in Modern Age. Now, at least, she’ll see some use on Hydra teams unless there’s a cheaper, better version available like Sin (Fear Itself 009) Crossbones .
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Tomorrow: Three more.