So... there was a time when I would have been rushing an article in production talking about the latest release. Not so much anymore. But I'm digging the new Genesis 9 and the new Michael 9. I don't know why they chose to utterly discard some of the improvements they made in their "official" material settings (and GOD! please lose that fucking orange transmission color). Here's my take on the V9 male skin version on Mike 9. I'm not a huge fan of the "Oscar Isaacs" skin... it does indeed make him look old. But some tweaks to those materials would probably help. It's time that we, as customers, come to the realization that what we say has so little impact on how the company is going to design, market, solicit, etc. Its not like the old days where customer input mattered. Whoops, feel free to shoot me for saying something like that. There are other forces driving the evolutions of things in the marketplace. There always have been and the excuses that were always trotted out by the company and "published artists" alike about why they did or didn't do x, y and z were just convenient enough placebos to mask those other forces at work. Anyway, I like him. I don't care if I can't use every damn thing I've bought before to dress him up...I WILL buy newer versions of old things if they seem worth the investment (and you KNOW that you will TOO, so just stop bitching). Long live Mike.