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[Va'al]

Do you remember Death's Head? The 30-foot tall robotic bounty hunter was created by Transformers godfather Simon Furman during his run in the Marvel UK series, and Geoff Senior's artistic touch.
He was soon promoted to more than a one-off character and even got his own series in the late 80s, though reduced to a human-sized robot.

With Furman's blessing, writer Kieron Gillen brought the multi-dimensional mercenary back to Marvel comics, although always as a secondary character. Well, after showing up in the background of Marvel comics for the past year, Death's Head makes his full-on return in Gillen and Dale Eaglesham's latest Iron Man comic, issue 9, and he's in his full size!

Back in 2012, Seibertron.com reported from the Toy Fair that a new Marvel Universe figure of Death's Head had been announced by Hasbro - is this a good sign for its release?

Leave your opinion and discuss this below!

[Flux Convoy]

I know it's meant to look like Death's Head. All the cues are sort of there. Sort of. Looks derivative and unnecessarily complex to me though. What was wrong with the original design? I'd be down for a Marvel Universe figure (of the old design) all damn day. I'd probably throw down for a Legends figure too. The smaller scale would be preferable to me though.

[Noideaforaname]

Why did they change his teeth into a mustache?

[Bumblevivisector]

Yeah, not crazy about this redesign either, but considering how often he kept going through redesigns back in the day, it's not inappropriate for the character. He can always change again.

Though naturally, I'm really hoping his Marvel Legends toy goes for Senior's first design, or at least the one right afterwards from when he had his first title. A 6 inch figure would be good TF interaction scale, but a 3.75 inch one would be nice too.

[Mindmaster]

Back he is, yes?

I normally try to stay away from anything Marvel-affiliated (not one for superheroes), but Death's Head is another matter, since his character does have its origins with the Transformers.

[TheForgottenTaxi]

Weird that he's showing up in Iron Man. Not complaining, but weird. You'd have expected him in one of the cosmic books like Guardians of the Galaxy. But whatever. Death's Head = I'm happy.

[craggy]

Weird that he's showing up in Iron Man. Not complaining, but weird. You'd have expected him in one of the cosmic books like Guardians of the Galaxy. But whatever. Death's Head = I'm happy.

I'm not reading it, but I believe Iron Man is in space with the Guardians right now, or at least he popped by to say hi on his way off to a different part of space. Death's Head isn't just chilling in Harry's Hideaway or anything. That'll be a space bar.

[Va'al]

Weird that he's showing up in Iron Man. Not complaining, but weird. You'd have expected him in one of the cosmic books like Guardians of the Galaxy. But whatever. Death's Head = I'm happy.

I'm not reading it, but I believe Iron Man is in space with the Guardians right now, or at least he popped by to say hi on his way off to a different part of space. Death's Head isn't just chilling in Harry's Hideaway or anything. That'll be a space bar.

So I am told, yes.

[cor2879]

I think I have a "What If?" comic buried in my collection from the early 90's (written by Furman and penciled by Senior, if memory serves me correctly) where Death's Head basically kills all of the Avengers. Tons of fun that one

[Sabrewing]

I DO read 'Iron Man', so I can tell you a few things.

This is chronologically his first appearance in comics after his creation, i.e., before Transformers, Fantastic Four, his own series, Iron Man 2020, etc. That's what you get with time travel, and, we may assume, also explains his slightly different appearance and the fact he is still big. Either that, or thank Greg Land.

Death's Head is pretty ace in these issues, being played as a 24-carat badass.

He's really more a prop than a character, isn't he? Doesn't have family, friends or romantic relationships... what does he need money for, anyway? Kinda odd.