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Matthew Chartrand
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Posted: 17 December 2007 at 7:35pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

I found my answer at Bugeyedmonster.com. They are apparently called Metal-Man.

Thanks for the replies anyway.

MC

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Dave Aikins
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Posted: 17 December 2007 at 10:15pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Black Hole???
Micronauts???

rookies...

Yeah, they're Metal-Men. The first guy is missing his red wing/jet pack. The other two also came with a plastic accessory, although I don't think theirs were as cool as the jet pack (I'm biased cuz I still have that one on my shelf...).
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Posted: 19 December 2007 at 6:37am | IP Logged | 3 post reply

Here's one that arrived yesterday. Bit of a surprise. Monsters in Motion
notified me a few weeks back that it had shipped, but there had been no
further email with the tracking number, as usually comes within the next
couple of days. I was on the verge of contacting them to see if it had gone
astray, when the box turned up on my front step.



Nice job on this sculpt. Seems to fuse elements of Dave's and my versions
of the character. (Clearly Dave's pose, of course.)
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Flavio Sapha
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Posted: 19 December 2007 at 6:45am | IP Logged | 4 post reply

Wow!  Beautiful Phoenix! 
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Al Cook
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Posted: 19 December 2007 at 7:22am | IP Logged | 5 post reply

Got Dave's hips, too -- which is a good thing! Hubba-hubba.
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Posted: 19 December 2007 at 7:42am | IP Logged | 6 post reply

Got to wondering how it might have looked with the color scheme Dave
intended. . .

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Adam Hutchinson
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Posted: 19 December 2007 at 7:49am | IP Logged | 7 post reply

That's a great Phoenix statue!  Seeing it Photoshopped with the white is kinda neat.  After all these years of seeing the costume in green, the white is strange looking. 

JB any idea why the costume's color was changed from what Dave intended?

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Posted: 19 December 2007 at 7:56am | IP Logged | 8 post reply

As far as I know, from what Dave told me at the time, there was no deliberate "change". He turned in the pages, assuming the costume would be colored as he intended, but apparently no one told the colorist, who went to green and yellow, since those were Marvel Girl's colors. Unfortunately, if I am remembering the sequence correctly, the next time Dave saw the job was the make-ready, and then it was too late.

(The make-ready was a coverless copy sent back to the office by the printer. In theory, it was the first off the presses, and any errors in the printing could be corrected at that point. In practice, it often seemed the make-ready was the last copy off the presses. I have no personal experience of any mistakes being caught and corrected in this fashion.)

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Gil Dowling
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Posted: 19 December 2007 at 8:02am | IP Logged | 9 post reply

You can never go wrong with White/Gold costumes....

Of course the only thing missing on that statue is a Phoenix effect...
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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 19 December 2007 at 11:30am | IP Logged | 10 post reply

If they were going for the classic shot from X-Men#101, shouldn't Phoenix be screaming?
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Posted: 19 December 2007 at 11:51am | IP Logged | 11 post reply

Thought I'd post a picture of The Ladies, now they seem to have settled into
a semi-permanent configuration.



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David Henriot
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Posted: 19 December 2007 at 12:38pm | IP Logged | 12 post reply

About the "white phoenix", it's looks great to me, really, but... in real life.
I'm not sure of the same impact in a comics.
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