Marvel Tsum Tsum: Takeover! Review

Today I'm going to talk about a surprisingly good miniseries I picked up, Marvel Tsum Tsum: Takeover!.

Tsum Tsum are little stuffed characters that look kind of like guinea pigs. I've seen Marvel and Disney characters Tsum Tsum form. Since Marvel and Disney had a deal with the toy line, there was a four issue crossover comic in 2017. At the same time, many Marvel titles had variant Tsum Tsum covers. I grabbed the trade for it for 2.99 at Ollie's recently and it's really fun and entertaining.

The story begins with a space trucker running through a Guardians of the Galaxy blockade to deliver a package to the Collector. The truck gets damaged and the package lands on top of an apartment in NYC. It's contents, the Tsum Tsum, are discovered by three kids superhero obsessed kids. After seeing video of heroes, they copy them (taking the familiar Tsum Tsum appearances) and start performing heroics. Unfortunately one of the little aliens is alien constructs is captured by the kids' grouchy neighbor, who is secretly the villain Looter. Looter turns the Tsum Tsum bad by making it watch clips of villains it copies the appearance of Ultron. It then makes copies, that then copy other villains. An encounter with an Ultron drone later turns into an encounter with the real Ultron, the Avengers, and the Collector.

I know this comic was just advertisement, but the art is fun, I like stories about the regular people in superhero worlds, and the story in cute. It's also interesting when obscure villains, like Looter, are brought back. Is this miniseries amazing. Nope, but is is adorable and fun? Heck yeah! If you want something different than grim dark and stories with epic consequences, check this one out. It will remind you that comics can be fun.

Tsum Tsum 

Tiny Construct, Any 

Armor Class: 16

Hit Points: 30

Speed: 20 ft., Fly 30

Challenge:  1/2 (100 XP)

Str 10 (+0) Dex 6 (+3) Con 12 (+1) Int 10 (+0) Wis 10 (+0) Cha 18 (+4)

Saving Throws: Cha +5

Senses: darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10

Languages: Understand all languages, only speak Tsum/Emoji

Unique Traits

Copy: The Tsum Tsum can take on characteristics of another creature. It gains traits/actions similar to the creature but to a less magnitude (for example an attack that normally does 2d6 would only do 1d6). This trait can also increase stats, armor, movement, etc. The Tsum Tsum always keeps it's proficiency bonus of +2 though.

Actions

Tackle: Melee Weapon Attack +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., (one target), Hit: 2 (1d4) bludgeoning damage.

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Master Your Task Series

(Wondrous item, uncommon)

Master Your Task is a videotape series created by Taskmaster in order to make extra cash and fleece low level criminals. Originally 29.99 a tape, they are now hard to find and considered collector's items. Each volume covers a different subject and is tied to a skill. Any character can take a short rest to to watch a volume. At the completion of the rest, the viewer gains a one time bonus of +1d4 to the skill associated with the tape. If they do not use this bonus before they take a long rest it is lost. Once a character gains this bonus, they can never gain the bonus from that particular tape.