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Wednesday – 10 March 10
Another Comics and Sushi Wednesay dawns. And, from a glimpse at Diamond’s “New Releases” page, it should be a good day.

Last night, Chris came over to play HeroClix. He had an idea for a match that he lovingly referred to as “Femme Fatales.” I, on the other hand, referred to it as something much more simplistic: “Catfight!” (Pictures can be seen here.)

Chris brought a team of figures with which he was more than “passingly” familiar:

Gamora
Jean Grey (Age of Apocalypse), with Mental Shields
Loki (female version) and
Ms. Marvel (Skrull), with Fortitude

Yeah. Ouch. I picked a team with some figures I’ve used before, but a couple that I’ve either never played or only played once or twice:

Batgirl
Circe
Dawnstar
Marvel Girl (“First Class” version)
Spider-Girl and
Storm

No feats. That’s right: No feats.

The game started off with both of us making crappy dice rolls. Then my dice decided to get into the game… and decided to get out of it again, just as quickly. It was lovely. Then began the back-and-forth “good roll/bad roll” portion of the game for both of us. The game wound up coming down to our last figures – I had Dawnstar, he had Loki. Loki won.

It was a better game than I’d anticipated, especially given the fact that I pretty much just threw my team together and didn’t put in any ringers/cheese.

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