Wednesday, October 25, 2023

"Knickknack."

The Agatha Harkness figure doesn't come with her black cat, Ebony; I'm pretty sure that cat came with a Black Cat! But I don't know that we've seen her familiar lately, in any version. I looked it up the other day and I think there was some story where Agatha had to sacrifice Ebony--ah, nuts to that--but the cat would come back. If Agatha's young again, maybe Ebony is too? I was thinking she (he?) would be a fuzzy little kitten, that could probably grow to the size of a house. Getting killed by a giant kitty would doubtless not be fun! 

Also, Agatha's alluding to some current continuity, from the tail end (so to speak!) of Legion of X, where Kurt's foster mom Margali makes yet another alarming heel turn--that's maybe her fourth? I'm not sure Mystique has attacked Kurt that often. And Kurt again has a magic sword he can pull out of himself--which is at least the second time that's happened to him. (I don't plan on playing with that angle as of yet; although if he gets a figure in the Spidey outfit he could be wearing that here for years.) 

Anyway, we may or may not see them at some point, but the other reason I wanted the Agatha figure was she came with two heads (and a big backpack piece!) intended for the Build-a-Figure Hydra Stomper. I was going to take the not-Chris Evans animated Steve not-Cap Rogers head, and put it on one of the two Everett Ross figures I have, to pad out the agent-types. The Hydra Stomper head fits on that body as well, though!

3 comments:

Mr. Morbid's House Of Fun said...

Sounds like some solid story fodder for X-writers or whoever's writing Spider-Kurt's adventures. At some point other evil wizards/magic users would & should pick up on that and hunt Kurt down, forcing him to go to either Dr. Strange or Wanda for help, whomever he finds first.

If not, you could always put your unique spin on it by following up the whole thing here if you weren't already planning on doing that.

Can't wait for the 2nd season of What If? to come out next year, along with X-Men '97. From what they leaked so far, the 2nd season is directly following the events of the first but also doing it's own thing as well if that makes sense. Apparently there will be a 3rd & final season of everything goes to plan.

As for X-Men '97 I'm curious why they added Sunspot of all people to the roster. Guess we'll find out when it premieres.

CalvinPitt said...

I feel like Nightcrawler has the most stories tied up in Magick of any X-Man, including the one whose codename is "Magick."

And he really did draw the short straw on moms, between Mystique and Margali. Although the most recent Uncanny Spider-Man issue had an ad for some new book that's going to reveal untold truths about Kurt's birth, or something. Like his dad being a demon or whatever Azazel is, wasn't bad enough?

Mr. Morbid's House Of Fun said...

Oh god for real!? They really just can't leave Kurt alone when it comes to the topic of his parents.