When Waid turned Dr. Doom into skinsuit Doom that struck me as Waid wiping his butt with Dr. Doom.

Agreed. This new Black Hand is amazing. His back story made me fall in love with the character and love BN even more. He is more than just a "i makz zombi3z! R@WR!" He actually embraces death to its core and became an avatar of Death itself. Creepy but fascinating stuff.

My only real beef right now with Johns is that he brought back Shiera and left Kendra hanging somewhere. Yes, I know Shiera's soul inhabited Kendra's body, I LOVED the Hawkman series before it got canceled, but why did resurrecting Kendra's body turn her into Shiera? I LOVE Shiera and her role in Brightest Day is a great read, but I really loved Kendra's character and the dynamic she had with Carter.

Now she is gone for good(unless someone else decides to change the Hawk history...again) and why? Personally I think Johns just rather have Shiera as Hawkgirl. Since he basically rewrote Green Lantern's history, why not mess with the Hawks? Meh, I love him as a writer but sometimes I don't agree with everything he does.

Uh, why? It was a one-off story...never did I get the sense Dr. Doom would 'stay' that way. It was just another one of his absurd plans to get revenge on Reed.

Didn't he create Kendra in the first place?

Because it turned Doom into a one dimensional bad guy, ignoring the various intricacies that made Doom interesting. This is a man who challenged Hell itself to save his mother constantly so he's going to make a disgusting bargain with Hell destroying his childhood love, a woman who was completely devoted to him, just for another chance to take down the FF? I don't think so.

And here I thought he showing Doom was fed up with losing to the FF and was now willing to do anything to beat them. Even compromise his own principles. Doom is nothing if not progressive.

I don't know why everybody has to be the 'same' all the time. Like I said, I never believed for a second we wouldn't get the old Doom back, at any rate. Heck, i had more of a problem with Iron Man going to Latveria and putting Doom in jail...and it wasn't a Doombot! lol..now THAT's 'wiping your butt with' Doctor Doom!

Nobody has to be the same all the time but the change needs to make sense and not damage the integrity of the character. I despise stories where characters start doing things that aren't logically what they would do.

Well, I know how you are about this stuff. We could go all day about it. I don't think it was a 'logical' situation in this case, so what he would 'logically' do was out the window (and has been with Doom on sooo many situations, including his origin) at any rate.

Uh, what does this have to do with the DC 75th Anniversary set?

LOL...nothing. Which is why I wanted to get off that tangent. lol.

I guess it does sort of segue from the silver age DC stoggity 'old man' era stuff and Johns' love / hate of it...

Hmm. Nothing, I guess.

Back to DC75:

I just inherited the entire run (8 issues) of Steve Ditko's original Shade the Changing Man series.

Now I want him made into Heroclix - both the Ditko version and the Milligan Madness Vest version! I also found out that the Milligan version has waaaaaaay more appearances than the original version, even counting his Suicide Squad time.

Not surprised as the Original just had the original series and SS while the other had a resonably long run in Vertigo
Another character I wish they would rez

This figure is confirmed in the Watchmen set, but was misprinted as Arm Fall Off Girl.

@Sol: Hmm, maybe you're right. Still, why even go into so much detail with the character if you are just going to throw her away?

Back to the topic, here is hoping that there is a Hawkman and Hawkgirl duo in DC 75. Can't think of a better time to make one.

From Boneyards list I count about 11 that would picque my interest.

Thats a decent number.

However, if a 75th Aniversary doesnt yield some old school dude we may never see them. Here is hoping for:

Still Need (IMHO):
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Black Condor
Doll Man
Ferro Lad/Ferro
Chemical King
Al Pratt (JSA)
Commander Steel
The Star-Spangled Kid (Pemberton)
The Wizzard
Manhunter (Paul Kirk)
Brain Wave
Libra
Fiddler
Rag Doll
Lady Blackhawk
Original Mr. Terrific (Terry)
T.N.T. and Dynamite
The Gambler
Sportsmaster

If some of these dont get made for the 75th Anniversary I think their window of opportunity shrinks even smaller

I'm still expecting this set to be "75th Anniversary" in name only. Kind of like Armor Wars. (And yes, I'm still harping on that.)

But if you want any or all of those excellent choices as mods, on the combat dials of your choice---PM me, brother in bronze!!