Favourite sculpt and paint job so far:-

Susan Richards! Mine looks as lovely as JB drew her!

Others worth mentioning; Green Goblin was my early fave, really detailed! Venom, not a favourite chararcter of mine but beautifully painted!

I just opened my Midtown package and have the exact same problem, along with a lot of paint off the hand and lower part of the bow.  Black Spider-Man was missing a lot of paint on his outstretched hand as well.  Black Cat obviously used one of her remaining lives to escape damage. 

Don't they use the twist ties to hold the figures in place anymore?

Happily, Hawkeye came perfect for me, as did my Black Costume Spider-Man.  I did notice on the latter, however, that the center of balance is tricky.  The base appears to be just big enough so that it won't tip over, but a good stiff breeze or a bump to the desk it's sitting on may do the trick. 

I'm really glad I got Iceman now.  Nice sculpt that I wasn't able to recognize in the box.  I also like the shiny paint job to get the effect of ice.  Same shiny paint job on Black Cat that makes her costume look like leather.  Great sculpt too!  Ditto for Mystique.  Not the biggest fan of the character, but her sculpt is fantastic.  I especially like the hang of her pants.  Magneto, Wolverine, Silver Surfer and Dr. Strange are all awesome, but the one I was most excited to get yesterday was Spider-Man.  Great sculpt.  So detailed! 

Like you guys, I do occasionally get a figurine with chipped paint.  The Juggernaut I got yesterday had chipped knuckles (not your fault or problem, Ryan!), but not so much so that I would notice unless I look at him close up.  Same can be said for Thanos and a few other figurines.  My Red Skull came with one muzzle of a gun broken off, but it doesn't look so bad.  Actually looks like he's holding a grenade!  As I've said up thread, every once in a blue moon I'll get figurines with hands that have fallen off, but they're made in such a way that they are parts that fit onto posts.  A little super glue and they look just fine.

As far as my favorite figurine, that's a hard choice.  I'm really pleased with all of the ones that I own, currently at 34 and counting!  My top choices would have to be Iron Fist, Vision, Dr. Doom, and Loki.

I also decided to modify my "rule" for displaying them. The first few rows are now more or less chronological, for the original appearances of the characters. Beyond that, they're in the order they were released in England, with a few figures moved around to fill spaces left vacant by ones I skipped.