Frostlord
Super Freak
Both venom and carnage look terrible. Venoms face looks so average and they gave carnage the same crappy modern Thor pose
I'm kind of surprised of all of the negativity in here.
Me too, I think Carnage looks sick!
I'll admit. I do think there was some missed areas with Venom, but Carnage just looks great and I didn't expect to see him at all. Very nice.
I really like carnage and it is bang on to the comics, but the original com is good enough for me and I'm still waiting for them to do some new much needed spidey characters instead of rehashing these already done ones..... I just picked up XM sandman and didn't want to but I don't think ssc will make these pieces in my life time so going other routes...
I checked with science and the above statement about the pose turns out that it is incorrect.
First Venom...he's like a huge silverback gorilla lunging forward at high speed. Absolutely massive, barrelling over buildings and rooftops almost ready to lunge forward plowing right into spiderman. I think the pose captures his sheer power and feral animalistic nature. Just terrifying. Yet next to Carnage his symbiote appears calmer. More subdued. More wanting to be whole. This is where I think the XM piece missed the mark. The symbiote craved for spiderman and I believe this piece captures this better.
Carnage on the other hand is just wild and completely at one with the symbiote. A sleeker predator of pure madness emerging from the rubble with his claws and tendrils extended ready to slash his opponent down like a leopard striking a monkey from a tree. The pose is not overly dramatic yet it captures what makes Cletus different from Eddie. His claws are more exaggerated. The tendrils flay out wildly not necessarily forming anything of distinction...more uncontrolled and less subdued. The symbiote stretches around his mouth like its pulling his face in different directions. His eyes are veined and bloodshot, further exaggerating the overpowering toxicity of the symbiote on him. This piece captures what is Carnage and does not require the pose to be obvious.
That's where it's heading, isn't it???
Like why no Sandman, Mysterio, Doc Ock....lots of missed opportunities that XM is capitalizing on.
That's the point about Venom, I don't picture him jumping around like a gorilla to get to Spidey, but crashing through walls and buildings with his whole body and tear them down. That's where XM hit the mark imho, but to each his own of course. The fact alone that there will be an affordable 1/4 scale alternative for Venom is great on itself
I think this turned out pretty good. It's a pass for me though. I have no love for the character.
I find that people once would buy this are saying that cause of the price increasing or that there is so many new producers of high end statues??