Ronan--Repaint

"Xandar, you stand accused!"
-Ronan, Guardians of the Galaxy

Ronan is a major player in Marvel comics, from tangoing with the Guardians to battling with the Fantastic Four to politicking with the Inhumans.

Unfortunately, I've managed to only actually read one comic with him in it. XD

But here he stands! The accuser of Hala in all his Kree glory!

Ronan and his magic ban hammer

The figure is a Heroclix Ronan figure from the Hammer of Thor set. I painted him the same color scheme the figure was prepainted in, which was the dual shades of green and then the tan, which in my opinion looks worlds better than the garish metallic green and yellow the character normally wears. I'm not sure which artist drew this character this way, but he had nice taste.

Look at the detail in that cape!

And as for the figure itself, I can see why people like sculpts from the hammer of thor set so much. This guy literally has as much detail as a metal miniature, and his pose is as dynamic as the Kree's accuser should be. If you can find one, definitely get one of these figures: the repaint opportunities are A-MAZ-ING.

This Guy is a BALL to play!

As someone only otherwise lightly acquainted with the character from one comic and from his brief appearance in Earth's Mightiest Heroes, I naturally hugged the GoTG side of the character pretty tight, using other Heroscape designs and the Wiki page as reference to keep him sort of comic loyal. I really enjoyed how he played: he's simple and strong. His large attack and defense are just straight up hulk-breaking fun, and the rejection mechanic of his Universal Weapon is absolutely wonderful!

He's easy and fun to play, and definitely one of my favorite bad guy characters (even out of the official options)

Ronan tangoing with the FF

So what do you think? Is he a worthy opponent or does he stand accused? Sound off in the comments below!

-BG

The Penguin--Repaint

"Clip the bat's wings"
-Penguin, The Batman

And now for the slimey old bird himself: The Penguin!

I remember being mesmerized by the Penguin back when I watched the 1966 Batman show (I'm not nearly as old as that statement makes me sound) and fell in love with the character. Poison gas always was cool... poison gas out of your umbrella was straight up awesome!

Naturally then, Penguin needed to be one of the first DC supervillains we made.

Waaaaagh wagh wagh

The figure is a Heroclix figure of the Penguin. The original figure was in a white suit. I wanted our Penguin to be wearing more traditional garb: more like my Batman the Animated Series action figure (not a hoarder.)

The sculpted detail inside the umbrella surprised me. You can see even his gun!

One of my absolute favorite renditions of this character was that of the new 'Lego Batman Movie.' I love caricatures to begin with, so the moment I set my eyes on that slimy shortfig with the oversized top hat element, I knew I wanted to incorporate elements of that character into our heroscape figure. I feel I accomplished this by giving his skin a wash in yellows and greens instead of in my usual browns and reds, giving him a sickly look.

He's not quite as powerful as some Penguin models, but he's fun by our reckoning ;)

Our heroscape characters aren't always comic--accurate. As for me, I feel like making a superhero into heroscape isn't just translating a character's powers into a game, but rather translating the character's legend into the game. Superheros are larger than life, and good ones are larger than the panels they're contained in. So are our designs.

Thus, our card for Penguin--while trying to capture the comic counterpart--also smuggles in a little bit of that classic '66 appearance in there with the poison.

(How poison damage works in our rules is that when a character reveals an Order Marker, you roll one unblockable attack die against that character for each poison marker on that Army Card and remove them.)

Admiring the Bat's ride... maybe he should get his own >:D

So what do you think? How will our old bird fair? Sound off in the comments bellow.

-BG