[Lbsammills51]

Recently snagged two of the SIC two-packs I'd been hunting for some time. Ixa and Dark Kiva's first up (I'll have a chance to open the other one sometime in the next couple days). Dark Kiva's great; the metallic red and the suit design in general here impress me very much. He's also surprisingly stable despite the cape pieces and all the die-cast. Ixa has less of a "wow" factor but is solid - the only bugaboo is I can't get either head to pop into the neck joint like I can get the hands to pop into the wrists, so it's a little too easy to take off (I'll have to remember not to pick him up by the head in the future). Like Mirror Knight from Ultraman, he reminds me a little of Anti-Spawn/the Redeemer from Spawn.

(Also, those fuestle things on the belts are so frickin' tiny...thankfully they stay pegged in but I would've been fine if those had just been molded into the belt instead of separate pieces. They scream vacuum bait.)