2021 Update: Gut Punch

Kalibak sad there hasn't been a single releases of Apokolips figures since last update nearly one Earth year ago. Hurts a little but Kailbak gonna be ok.

 

 

2020 Hindsight

Kalibak was wondering why he hasn't had much heroclix to talk about lately. How could that be? How many Apokolips figures have come out in the last three years? Certainly something interesting has been released... Let’s see…

(clicking over to HCRealms...open Units up…)

FOUR! %$&*? Only FOUR? That is nearly one figure per year!

Since 2017's HARLEY QUINN AND THE GOTHAM GIRLS, there have been four figures with the Apokolips keyword, and they aren’t great.

• One is a con exclusive of a Kingdom Come alt future Orion..blech

• The other three are super rares, two are remakes in animated style, and then a Lex Luthor from Rebirth...blech

One can only hope they are starving the audience to lean in heavy on a set with the 4th World as the major theme. Kalibak out.

The Female Furies

If you had told Kalibak the Cruel that one day WizKids would  release a Heroclix set with thirteen Apokolips keyworded figs, he would choke the life out of a Hunger Dog with joy. The closest Kalibak ever got to an Apokolips set was SUPERMAN AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES about four years ago, which was alright, but it didn't light Kalibak's piss on fire.

What really makes this Heroclix set great, is NOT that it is named after girl-clown, but it has thirteen Apokolips figures, most of which have never been clixed in the fifteen years Kalibak has been stealing boosters! Kalibak doubts we will see its like again!  >:-(

This set had a large number of the Female Furies in it. The Furies are sometime friends, and sometime foes of the New Gods, particularly Mister Miracle. He married one of them so he should have seen that coming. Really, that's on him. Although the figure scale is off from figure to figure, and the paint looks to be applied with a severed ear, the poses of the Furies are very well done. WizKids, you done "ok" by Kalibak this time.

Steppenwolf

Kalibak here. Sad day for classic Apocalypse. It looks like we are finally getting a Steppenwolf clix but from the looks of this grainy, low-res, earth image on the left, it is not the classic Kirby villain, but instead we are getting this strange goober. He looks ridiculous. >:-(

Parademons! Part 2: Seeing Red

Early in the 1980s, DC and Kenner paid Jack Kirby to redesign some of his classic Fourth World villains for the acclaimed comic/toy line, Super Powers. Kailbak's good friends, the parademons, were arguably the most revised characters to appear, changing from a green/yellow color scheme to a shocking orange/red appearance, and instead of human form, they become much more demonic. This new look resonated with fans and even today the nostalgia for these awesome toys is so strong, the red parademon still appears in artwork and in toy form; but never in Heroclix. Kalibak still scratching his head and asking "Why?"

Red parademons from Capstone’s wonderful DC Super-Pets Character Encyclopedia 

and the red parademon from Wave 8 of the DC Universe Classics line.

Will we ever see this classic variant of the parademon in Heroclix? As the fourth unique Heroclix parademon sculpt is set to appears in stores soon, it seems eventually someone at WizKids will realize its time to mix it up and give this red parademon his due.

In the meantime, the look of the new 52 parademons is a pleasing mix of the classic comic warriors and Super Power demons. This new 52 style parademon is the model for the upcoming Heroclix figure and a creative fan could apply a little paint and have a easy mod of the red parademon if so inclined. Me tell you that Kailbak is going to be having a few Hunger Dogs painting day and night until he has his own personal red army of doom!

Apokolips Heroclix Wish List - Part 3

Glorious Godfrey

Unlike most of this wish list me, Kalibak, think finest moment of Godfrey's career actually not from original run of Kirby's book, but from the 1986 "Legends" comic. Godfrey uses his powers of persuasion to not only turn Earthlings against their heroes, but convinces them to climb into robotic war dogs from Apokolips and fight the heroes themselves. Epic. Kalibak loves war dogs.

On the game side of this, although some clixs of Darkseid have a couple slots of Mind Control, this agent of Apoklips would be the master of MC. Throw in a few clicks of outwit and you have a great support piece for your Apokolips army.

Apokolips Heroclix Wish List - Part 2

Steppenwolf

I love my great uncle, Steppenwolf. Imagine the clix this murdered could make! He is the immortal leader of Darksied's forces, and a master of weapons, and he rides around on a giant war dog! Sure he died once or twice, but what comic character worth anything hasn't?