It Came From Darkmoor...: Rachel Summers

Tuesday, 27 August 2013

More Heroclix...

Well, the mysterious 'Mr Friend' linked to this HeroClix product on the last post and I felt I just had to post it up here.

Cop a load of this...

It's only the Excalibur lighthouse. Not just Excalibur, but the ruddy lighthouse too!

I have no idea how half of the things translate when actually playing the game but their card, which can be seen below (click and open for an enlarged version), includes a skill named 'CHASED BY NAZI DINOSAURS... FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION!'

Which has pretty much wins it for me.

More details on HeroClix' own website.

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It Came From Darkmoor...

...in October of 1976, on the moors around a research facility. For a few years thereafter it lurked in the shadows, doing its own thing, telling its own tales, until suddenly it found that it was a bit a successful. It began to grow, create more of itself, embrace licensing and raise its profile higher, until the day came when it's older Brother had to take notice of it.

'IT' was Marvel UK.

This is a blog dedicated to the mostly forgotten (But ultimately worthwhile) British corner of the Marvel Universe. Its titles, its characters, its former imprint and more recent revivals. God knows they all seem to gnaw away at my brain so often that, since 2007, I thought that I may as well find a way to exorcise them in a constructive fashion.

This site was the result.

So welcome, friend. If you loved Captain Britain, or if you remember Death's Head, or even if you're just curious about what the hell Marvel UK had to offer back in the day, then pull up a pew, embrace the nostalgia, and pray that there may yet be some kind of future for these Properties, Characters and Places.

Contrary to some people's beliefs they were mostly written in-continuity with the American Marvel Comics.

You may not see them as often as the likes of Iron Man, Spider-man or Captain America, but they are still out there.

Come read about a few of them...