#mu4 — Public Fediverse posts
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Iron Man through the trading card ages!
Which card is your favorite?
#TradingCardADay #IronMan #MU1 #MU2 #MU3 #MU4 #PaulRyan #JohnRomitaJr #JeffJohnson
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Daredevil through the (trading card) ages!
Which one is your favorite and why is it Series 2?
#TradingCardADay #MU1 #MU2 #MU3 #MU4 #Daredevil #JohnRomitaJr #LeeWeeks #RonLim
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Card 137: The Origin of Cable
Things I love about this card:
1. It's another mystery that's basically "who dis?"
2. It gets solved relatively soon.
3. Lil' Cable.
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Full page of Marvel Universe Series 4 X-Men cards!
Thanks to the "themed" pages in this set, this is probably the MU set with the fewest X-Men in it (even with Psylocke sneaking onto the earlier "spinoff X-Men" page).
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Card 117: Bishop
All in all, a good mix of Blue and Gold team members across this page.
The X-Traitor plotline makes it into the trading card, setting up a later card in this series.
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Card 116: Wolverine
For whatever reason (maybe the colors?), Wolverine fades into the background more than a lot of the other X-Men against the same background.
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Card 115: Cyclops
Given what a cool and visually-engaging power he has, it's wild how few Cyclops trading cards depict him actually using his power.
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Card 114: Gambit
Someone looks like they're pushing out a fart.
The trailing energy effect is pretty cool.
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Card 113: Magneto
This basically just aping Jim Lee's Magneto, but it's not a bad look to ape. And isn't that mostly what Thibert was always doing at this time anyways? 😉
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Card 111: Rogue
Not a big fan of the almost fearful look Rogue has on the cardfront, but the large headshot on the back is quite nice and almost makes up for it.
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Card 111: Beast
Tucking the figure under the right hand border makes it another card w/a subject that feels "big".
I did not know that Did You Know fact, and am pretty sure this is the only place it's been mentioned.
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Card 110: Archangel
His wings get clipped (high oh!) by the nine panel grid, but I do like how his body extends past the bottom border. In general,
Thibert does a good job making these figures feel bigger on the card.
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Card 109: Storm
New page: X-Men! The moment no small number of you were waiting for in 1993.
Not sure what's going on with Storm's eyebrows there.
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The full 90s-riffic Fantastic Four page! Working Four Freedoms Plaza into the background is a nice touch.
#TradingCardADay #MU4 #FantasticFour #MikeManley #MisterFantastic #InvisibleWoman #HumanTorch #Thing #DoctorDoom
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Card 075: Human Torch
Guest-starring Mr. Fantastic's left fist.
These DYK facts are getting a little copy/paste-y.
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Card 051: Blackheart
Mirroring Loki, but with more stuff going on, so harder to capture a sense of personality.
I didn't realize Blackheart's origin was so specific.
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Card 041: Captain Britain
Kind of an awkward layout, making a character more or less defined by his power seem squat and compact. Frankly, the cardback figure is stronger.
UK 1st appearance gets cited w/no distinction.
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Card 032: Shatterstar
The new Capullo-designed costumes make their way into this set as well, continuing its subtheme as "the one with the new looks".
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And here is last week's full page of #MarvelCosmic cards!
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Card 018: Drax
Drax and his enormous mouth get the "bottom corner card bust" treatment.
I still want to see MCU Drax with a purple cape and a gold wrestler belt at some point.
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Card 017: Morg
Origin: Is also Silver Surfer
I know Morg was a pretty big deal around this time, but he largely faded away after the 90s, right? Or is still around doing the "angry, ruthless herald" thing?
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Card 016: Thanos
Thanos is the beginning of a trend; given that to make the 9 card picture, figures need to be placed on different "levels", the characters in the bottom row will often get relegated to mid-range head or bust shots.
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Card 015: Goddess
The central villain of 1993's "Infinity __" crossover, positioned like an angel or devil over Galactus' shoulder.
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Card 014: Galactus
Perhaps no character benefits from the nine-card single image like Galactus, who gets a strong single card via a headshot and then gets the rest of his figure depicted in the background of the rest of the page.
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Card 013: Starhawk
Starhawk's female half gets the card this series.
A good example of both the Did You Know and the one sentence origin raising more questions than answers.
#TradingCardADay #MU4 #MarvelCosmic #Starhawk #GuardiansOfTheGalaxy
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Card 012: Quasar
Appearing w/the cosmic folks vs. the Avengers, which makes sense in 1993.
I wish Earth was a little more centered so his starry cape would get lost in the starry background less.
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Card 011: Silver Surfer
Used in a lot of the promo material for a reason, this is one of the strongest standalone cards in the set. Lots of colors but the figure pops against the black background and the positioning is dynamic.
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Card 010: Warlock
New page! Marvel Cosmic!
With the final "Infinity" mini coming in '93, this is probably the last year for a good long long while (if ever) that Adam Warlock is anywhere close to A-list status, right?