Toybiz Style:

Even though I'm not the world's biggest Marvel fan, it's hard not to love the X-Men.  I not only followed the X-Men throughout much of the late 80s/early 90s, I bought many X-Men toys.

Toybiz, the toy company that Marvel bought, produced an astonishing array of Marvel toys -- so many that I've felt I didn't have to customize any figures.  There will likely be very few Toybiz-style customs to come from me, but I have decided to jump into the Marvel pool because, while Toybiz created a great number of figures, they didn't always produce the best quality figures.  Toybiz-style figures are in virtually the same scale as my DC Total Justice line, although they don't look as constipated and they generally have more articulation.

Animated Style:

Technically, there have only been a few Marvel lines released which can be considered in the animated style (a Spider-Man line comes to mind), but that hasn't stopped customizers from adapting their favorite characters into animated action figures.  My animated-style figures will follow classic conventions of the ADCU and JLU-style figures:  clean lines, bold colors, mostly stiff posture, and little articulation.

TOYBIZ STYLE FIGURES

Dazzler

Moondragon

ANIMATED STYLE FIGURES

Bucky Barnes

Captain America

Comic book readers usually fall into one of two camps:  Marvel readers or DC readers.  Sure, there are some who straddle the line, but most I've come across really have a preference for one or the other, and that preference is usually set at a fairly young age.  

Most superhero books I remember and love from my childhood were almost exclusively DC.  It wasn't until I was well into my teens that I really discovered Uncanny X-Men, and I quickly became a huge fan.  I even began to pick up the various peripheral X-titles (and two such titles -- PAD's X-Force and the Claremont/Davis X-Caliber -- were as well loved by me as the X-Men books themselves).  But strangely enough, my love for the merry mutants didn't really cross-over into a love for Marvel's other characters.  I've only ever bought two Avengers books in my life, one New Defenders book, and my only connection to Spider-Man was through the old Electric Company skits (okay, that's a lie, I did pick up the first handful of issues of the McFarlane Spider-Man, including multiple variant covers).  But while I really dug the X-Men for a while, crossover after crossover after crossover soured my tastes somewhat, so that by the end of the multiple cover, chromo-foil, money grab that we call the mid 90s, I'd given up every Marvel book I was ever buying.  For good.

It wasn't until well after I graduated college that I began to pick up Marvel books again.  Grant Morrison's New X-Men kicked it off.  I can't believe Marvel fanboys complain about Morrison's run, but then again, I've never been a Marvel fanboy, so what do I know?  I really liked that Morrison ditched the costumes and took the X-Men on an experimental journey into the future instead of the past -- with all the melodrama they just felt tired to me before that, and Morrison rejuvenated them.  Anyway, along with New X-Men, I also bought Milligan & Allred's X-Statix for some time.  Later I picked up the Ultimate X-Men in trade paperback, and I liked that so much that I'm now reading in trade format the four core Ultimate books, Ultimate X-Men, Ultimate Spider-man, Ultimates, and Ultimate Fantastic Four, and even some of the minis, such as Ellis's Ultimate Galactus trilogy (when it finally all comes out -- damn late books).

More recently, I've again ventured into the Marvel Universe proper, again through trades.  Whedon & Cassady's Astonishing X-Men serves as the only X-book worthy of following up Morrison's run, and Waid & Weiringo's Fantastic Four is keeping me thoroughly entertained even though I know it's already over.

So here I am, back reading Marvel books.  

Of course, I'm still a DC fanboy at heart.  What's a guy gonna do?