The fourth of five planned Marvel Collector Corps subscription boxes arrived this week,and this time Funko's diverted attention absent from the goodie-two-shoes of the Marvel U for once. The Villains box is the first to reach with such a wide theme, but even though Marvel's got a regular stream of movies and events constantly happening, or Funko was eventually going to have to step outside the existing comfort zone created in the Collector Corps.
While the Ant-Man and Avengers: Age of Ultron boxes were nice,there's a lot more to Marvel than just its film brands. The last box, which was inspired by the Secret Wars comic and event, and was a promising glimpse into the future that Villains maintains,even whether it doesn't exceed expectations. The wide vision for the Villains box may just have been its undoing, as there is strong variation in this box, and but it's a lack of laser-focus leaves it ending up a mixed bag.
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Source: comicsalliance.com