So, in conceptualizing this comic series, I was thinking about what Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau said about how they conceived The Mandalorian, in the early going. Thinking about playing with Star Wars action figures, when your older sibling took all the “good” ones, and left you with the, well, the leftovers. B-listers, at best. Comics creators at the Big Two publishers have been doing that for decades, making hay out of forgotten, ignored, or thinly characterized characters (John Ostrander’s Suicide Squad comic, for instance, and the West Coast Avengers, did a great job of growing your affection for characters you didn’t necessarily care about, before).
As I was trying to assemble the cast of my comic, I tried to pick from the less-marquee characters, myself. Obviously, when you’re picking through your old action figure collection, and looking to buy new toys, to supplement them, you’re limited to characters who’ve been released as toys. You’d think that would be limiting, anyway, but there have been a lot of toys sold over the years. I threw that motivating concept away, once I found some fun action figures of the marquee Marvel/MCU characters, but the heart of my comic still beats for the unsung heroes!
This post predated the (domestic, U.S.) release of the Black Widow movie by almost a good 8 months, so I had no real idea what David Harbour’s Red Guardian was going to be like, but I was still so enamored with his Chief Hopper from Stranger Things that I had buy his action figure, and characterize him like a stereotypical maudlin Russian brawler, who acts like a cartoon character when he’s drunk, and drinks to suppress his feelings. I feel like my instinct was pretty accurate! Also, I like that movie, pretty well.
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