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Tony Midyett
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Posted: 21 November 2011 at 7:01am | IP Logged | 1 post reply

Love the commish, JB! I wonder...have you ever thought of
designing an Avengers uniform? Might be kinda fun to see
that.
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Steven McCauley
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Posted: 21 November 2011 at 7:26am | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Love it -- love it!

The only "change" I would make is to have Wolverine with his distinctive mask.  He does look fairly "Beast-like" in his pose.  I think that would help with identification.

This is so awesome.
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Greg Woronchak
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Posted: 21 November 2011 at 8:42am | IP Logged | 3 post reply

I ONLY draw for fun!

If only everyone could gravitate to work that they really enjoy, rather than simply cashing in a paycheque... the world might be a happier place!

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The only "change" I would make is to have Wolverine with his distinctive mask.

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When I was working on this piece, there were a number of considerations I kept in mind. One, of course, was that the X-Men, in their original "school uniforms", did not have distinctive, individualized looks, unless they were specific to their powers. Thus, Cyclops had his visor, and the Beast had bare hands and feet. Marvel Girl eventually got that pointy variant on a domino mask, which sort of made sense, given the amount of hair she needed to contain under a full head mask. Even letting some of it fall out the back would not have been an ideal solution.

So, drawing this, thirty years after I did the original version for the COMIC READER, there were a couple of things I considered, one of which I implemented. Ororo had worn her distinctive headdress when she was "in the wild" in Africa, and it was incorporated into the costume Xavier gave her, so I realized it should be treated as something more significant than just a costume element. It was obviously something important to her. So, this time I included it.

Wolverine's mask/headgear was another matter. Having already changed it once, between his appearance in THE INCREDIBLE HULK and GIANT-SIZED X-MEN, it seemed it was not something that he would consider particularly important. And, in fact, extrapolating along the lines established by GSXM, it seemed that, having rather dramatically QUIT the Canadian military (later, Alpha Flight), he would probably not want to keep the outfit they'd issued to him.

One of the changes I made between this and the original cover drawing was strictly in my head. On the original, you can't see Colossus' hands, but in my head he was wearing gloves. With his hands visible in this later drawing, I realized gloves were not particularly practical for him, and so gave him something like his more familiar wristbands.

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Posted: 21 November 2011 at 9:33am | IP Logged | 5 post reply

The only way I'd want to see this changed is by the addition of 22 pages of story behind the "cover."
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Brian Miller
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Posted: 21 November 2011 at 9:40am | IP Logged | 6 post reply

LOVE IT!!
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Larry Gil
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Posted: 21 November 2011 at 12:04pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply

Love this as well...John and George Perez do teams like no one else.

Hope that new superhero book is full of new characters.

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Peter Hicks
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Posted: 21 November 2011 at 12:44pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply

"...sometimes the mistakes in coloring were not the fault of the colorist. "

Indeed. The Sentinals are one of my favourite villains, but they seemed pre-disposed to being miscoloured.  In 3 out of 4 of their first story arcs, they would spend an entire issue with orange limbs instead of purple (see X-Men 15, Avengers 104, and X-Men 99) and look like robot clowns.  Only the Thomas/Adams/Palmer story arc got their colours right in every issue.

Was their next appearance in Claremont/JBs arc, and were they coloured right in all those issues?

 

 

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Peter Martin
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Nightcrawler looks very interesting like this. I think he works the best (Cyclops excluded, who obviously works perfectly in this costume).


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Posted: 21 November 2011 at 1:55pm | IP Logged | 10 post reply

Nightcrawler looks very interesting like this. I think he works the best (Cyclops excluded, who obviously works perfectly in this costume).

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Interesting! Second to Cyclops, I would have said Wolverine works best. In my drawing he is wearing just the basic school uniform, with no need for add-ons, like Banshee and Storm, or subtractions, like Colossus, or holes punched anywhere.

Well, maybe the backs of the gloves!!

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Flavio Sapha
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Hm. I don't see how wearing a mask would do Nightcrawler any good
(especially with his ears sticking out like that).
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Hm. I don't see how wearing a mask would do Nightcrawler any good…

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Cal it team spirit!

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