Howard the Duck is a fun piece to play if you're a fan. Even without being one he offers a useful set of skills for 35 points.

Howard lets you choose your support power. Either cancel Willpower and push him to get some cheap Perplex, or keep him on his top click for Contingency Plan.

He's got good keywords, his Flurry and Perplex give you a small chance to deal 4 damage in one action, and he's cheap.

What more do you want from a talking duck?

Check yourself or this duck will quack foo your @$$!!!

What could have been purely a fun figure to use for laughs becomes a serious figure for his boatload of viable keywords. Howard's got a half dozen or so keywords that he can be a cheap, welcome addition to theme teams for to lend 3 clicks of perplex. And hey - he can do some good in combat as well if it comes down to it; you'll feel amazingly fulfilled when you perplex his damage up to 2 and deal 4 damage with him in a single turn with flurry! Even more; 2 turns in a row on his 2nd click with willpower!

Please correct me if I'm wrong. But didn't WillPower get changed to not being optional?

It remains optional.

These duck doesn't quack around. Stealth + Willpower gets Howard where he needs to be (in the back, ready to use your Theme Prob whenever you need it) and stealth prevents everybody from knocking him off that amazing Contingency Plan leadership. All the other Defenders, Namor, Skyways Silver Surfer, Dr. Strange, and Valkryie all have amazing Move and Attack or long range, so anybody basing Howard will be joining in on the sitting duck party.

I absolutely love this character. Those keywords are simply incredible. The Willpower makes him great for using team probability control. He makes an excellent support piece with Contingency Plan. All 5's.

This is the first piece I think to grab when I want to play Animal Man. Every power he has is useful.

Mine is broken and I can't get his tiny feet glued back on.

Played ol' Howard for the first time with an Animal themed team. He picked up the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak and did work. For 35 pts, can't really complain. Love the stealth/willpower 1st click and great keywords.

This Duck just got a WHOLE lot more playable with the changes to leadership!!!

Yeah, watch out for all those sub-35 point figures with a 1-3 chance of losing a token.

He really deserves a 5 star rating.