MUSTS for this set.

Doom (natch)

VENTURE. Kickass cyborg cowboy type who schooled Spider-Man 2099 on a couple of occasions. Everyone's not mentioning this guy - he NEEDS to be in this set - he's the closest thing to an archenemy Miggy had (well, outside of Tyler Stone, who probably wouldn't make a great Heroclix fig - he'd be like the CJ Lex Luthor).

Vulture. A nasty cannibal villain - legitimate VULTURE cred, y'know.

Venom. I don't like 616 Venom so much anymore, but Venom 2099 is still pretty cool, moreso because of the jerk the symbiote is bonded to - Kron Stone. The Stone family's gotta represent (well, we're not counting Miggy's true parentage).

Junkpile. If the X-Men gotta be present in some form, let it be this guy. He seemed cool.

Public Eye Flyboys: Few of these guys would be nice. They always harassed Spidey.


MAYBES for this set:

Bloodhawk. Yeah, lame ### name, but big ugly red monster thing with wings.

Thanatos. This guy turned out to be a version of Rick Jones! (as shown in issues of Captain Marvel, where Peter David got to resolve that storyline finally!)

Roman. The Atlantean ruler - although at this point, Atlantis was now a corporate slave colony, I believe. He had a big-### monster stomping through the streets of New York - it'd be cool to get a giant or big fig out of this set.

The Specialist. Basically a samurai dude with a flying bike.

Thorites. Goofy guys what believed there would be a second coming of Thor to save them all.

Tiger Wylde. Doom's archenemy, the man he had to wrest control of Latveria back from.

Hulk. Not a big fan of Hulk 2099, because of that goddamn trendy 'toothy slurpy tongue' look that I never liked. But I can see why he'd be put in.

Risque. Venture's cyborg sister, whom he hates with a passion. Could be fun.

Halloween Jack. I can't remember for sure where he came from - I'm guessing X-Men. But hey, he's bendy and kooky and I think he's in 616 now.

Travesty. Big hulking monstrosity that killed Miggy's favorite teacher.

The CORPORATE RAIDERS! Led by the CORPORATE HEADHUNTER. Can't remember right now. Oh, man, I loved these guys. A bunch of robot-armor lookin' types - the armor designed to look like business suits, and the main guy had a Dum Dum Dugan/Pringles Guy/Mr. Peanut handlebar mustache monocle and derby look to him. They did actual hostile takeovers by attacking ####.

Flipside - weird cloney thing, kinda combo of Spidey and Venom. Quite possibly a version of the Super-Adaptoid.

Strange 2099 - a hot chick with the Eye of Amogotto.

Goblin. Yeah, it's Miggy's brother gone bad, but it was also kinda lame, and never got the resolution it needed thanks to the creative staff quitting in a huff over editorial ####, which is what killed 2099.

Payback. Miggy's brother Gabriel had a girlfriend in the underground, who thought the S-Man was hot as balls. Then she got captured by Alchemax and put into a big-### robo-exo-suit thing.

Punisher. I didn't read Punisher 2099. Not sure how much different this guy is from Frank. I think he's a bit more 'psycho.'

Ghost Rider. Never read this one, either. Mainly a Spidey fan in 2099.

Xina, Dana, Conchata pogs? I'd like to see actual figs, but I doubt that.

S.I.E.G.E. unit armor, perhaps. Everyone likes robots/battle armor.

Man-Spider. Eh. Jerk mutated by foul science!

Jumpcut. Nasty teleporty guy - gets killed by misjudging a jump into solid objects. Grisly.

The Net Prophet. Maybe.

Thor: The false god that Doom, Spidey, Punisher and Ravage have to unite to stop.

Bloodsword. Who later become Bloodhammer and Blood-whatever-weapon-was-handy. Comedy joke, semi-parody of the trends at the time, perhaps?

Lyla. Migue's holo-maid-secretary thing that looked like a golden Marilyn Monroe. Went a little loopy later and tried to kill Miguel.

Tyler Stone. Maybe on a dial with his burly assistant Winston, he could have a good clix dial.





MUST NOTS for this set:

Ravage. Sorry, this was Stan Lee's personal gig, I think, but nah.

Skullfire. C'mon, his name is SKULLFIRE.

Serpentina. Died three issues in. Issue 4 is when I dropped X-Men 2099. No X-Men, really. I can't even remember any more of them. There was maybe a giant metal one.

Firelight. None of that lame-### 'we don't understand the internet yet' virtual reality stuff.

Marvel Knights 2099. That junk from last yearish. All of that was horsepuckey. Why call it 2099 if you're not using the 2099 universe already established? ALL OF IT WAS CARP.

OMG....this post was just ridiculous....

I realize that...and if they would put in Indy titles choices that I actually CARE anything about I would vote for them....but I had never even heard of Astro City(although I had heard of a couple characters) or Grendel...B.P.R.D. and Hellboy never interested me very much...I looked up stuff about Astro City and Grendel and Astro City ended up being my second choice even because at least the characters sounded cool...Grendel sounded horribly boring to me.

So why should I vote for titles that I have no interest in at all?

If they had put The Authority as a choice...it would of been my first for sure.

Now THAT sounds like an intriguing HC set. Far better than the options presented thus far IMHO.

I beg to differ. I read one Authority trade and was bored to tears.

Man I have never seen so much whining about a set. Do you want to know why 2099 won, or why we have 2 Marvel sets per year? Because Marvel sells more plain and simple. They didn't stop making a full Indy set because they are mean they did it because it didn't sell great. I am sorry if your pick didn't win but don't blame Wizkids. They made a poll system for everyone to vote and Marvel won deal with it. To say Wizkids fixed it is the dumbest thing I have ever heard.

I don't know ... that X-men dude with the hands that damaged or cured people is pretty cool ... and also that red flying dude with claws ...

My only wish is a Mounted Punisher 2099

woo frickin hoo - still MORE versions of the same old characters.

meanwhile, not an updated Hellboy in sight.

*sigh*

You complain about more versions of the same characters (which is like complaining that Wally West is just another version of Barry Allen).

Then you complain that they don't give you another version of the same character.


I voted BPRD number one, but c'mon.

....



I'm not touching that one.

Yuck!

I thought 'clixers had better taste than that.

Bill

We do. That's why we get 2 to 1 Marvel over DC and that's why we haven't had to put up with another horrible Indy set. Heroclix players have a taste. A taste for Marvel, a somewhat lesser taste for DC and almost no taste for obscure Indy carp.

What I want to know is where the heck all these apparent Indy fans were when Indy came out and promptly sold itself into the toilet.

DC has 2 collectors sets. Indy has 1. And now Marvel gets 1. Deal with it people. The people have spoken and guess what...we disagreed with you.

Ew. 90's Marvel junk. Sorry, but 2099 sounds like a lot of garbage. "Skullfire"? "Bloodhawk"? Ugh. Reminds me of 50 X-Men titles with crossovers every summer and Liefield drawings just by typing those names.

I'm very sorry you're offended at my being offended by lousy comic books.

Maybe WizKids is just doing my wallet a favor by releasing a 2099 set. I suppose if I really want to buy a 2099 set, I can wait a week or two before they are remaindered out.

Bill

Dear god, no...

Some people have no taste. *sighs*

Oh well -- I guess this could explain things like some other elections I could think of...