Professor Xavier is a Jerk

Generation X ‘96 (Marvel Comics - 1996)

Illustrator: Michael Golden

M.

Featuring the awesome redesign by Kris Anka. My only twist, really, is her gloves, just added that color. And guess who decided to do highlights in dark hair? This guy! Its a small victory for me, usually I get all angry and make a promise that one day I’ll do it right, without killing something. Today was a good day.

yaaaaay looks great! 

So all finished on this finally.

This was a piece i was making to go along with the announcement that I was going to be joining Brian Wood on X-men, but haha sorta missed timed that one (truth be told I didn’t expect them to tease it, but what can you do)

This is NOT a spoiler for anything. This piece was more a celebration of everyone on the team in this book. Just something done for fun.

The reason Karima isn’t on here was because I started this piece before she had been hinted/confirmed, as well as I hadn’t designed the new Monet costume, thusly using her X-factor costume here. 

plus, Shogo. all i need to say.

and I also wanted to practice a bit on how I’m going to handle each of these characters in the book.

this is also a pretty hires image, so have fun with that. i might make this a print one day as well.

so this was something i thought was something funny. 

heres a piece i did back in january, back when this book was first announced, and i drew it out of just sheer excitement

11 months between the two pieces. and that old one is so bad haha. yeesh. 

So. 

as it was shown yesterday to the cover of X-men #10, Monet is getting a new costume.

and this is the new design.

now, ill be frank this one was tough in the fact that the concept was incredibly vague on many levels.

the first, when i was doing my research and looking at all of her old costumes, there weren’t any common visual themes that ran through them. her costume would change drastically with each incarnation, and even with each of them, there was never an iconic element to them. 

the second was that brian wood, jeanine schaeffer and i all really liked the implantation of white into the costume with her most recent costume. so that was something we definitely wanted to keep.

this book now marks a new chapter for monet, so we thought a new costume was in order. I wanted to keep it simple as well. 

I increased the amount of white in the costume to sort of show a “fresh/rejuvenation” to her. i kind of wanted this to read as a clean start. but the black and red tubing was a really good look from her last costume, so i didn’t want to get rid of that.

I also really wanted to hammer the point home that she’s coming to the X-men, so what better than to make a costume that joins side by side with the storm and psylocke costume i also designed, who are also on the same team as her now, than to throw a giant X on her haha. Plus I liked where the cut between the black and white happen. I wanted to keep it away from a penguin-y look (which i kept remember the mara costume that ming doyle design which is fabulous and i really didn’t want to step on her toes). 

I wanted her to look athletic as well. She’s generally a brawler, so I wanted to show that. not a lot of fuss on the costume. and i went with something different for the boots just to not have standard looking boots. a lot of what decided the direction i was gonna go was simply not trying to be standard; the boots, the sleeve length, the gloves etc.

also, i should make note because both brian and jeanine called me out on it, is to how weird it is to see monet smile so much. but hey, what i can i say, i like my heroes happy haha.

Kris Anka is going to be joining the art team for Brian Wood’s X-Men. Hopefully he will stay longer than a few issues like everyone else so far. As of now, it seems like an artist showcase book.

With Jubes and M on the team, Resurection could be a setup for a Generation X reunion, but I am doubting it with everything else I see coming from this Ghosts story

my Marvel Now series - updated -

about a year of drawing

Cyclops - Scarlet Witch - Invisible Woman - Spider-man

She-Hulk - Iron Man - Deadpool - Red She-Hulk

Thor - Rogue - Cable - Captain America

Lady Sif - Hulk - Hawkeye - Broo

Noh Varr - Iron Man Stealth - Elektra - Nova

Gamora - Iron Man Godkiller - Starlord - Drax the Destroyer

Angela - Beta Ray Bill - Valkyrie - Magneto

Beast - Wasp - Dazzler - Magik

Banshee - Daken - Grim Reaper - Sentry

Monet - Medusa - Loki - America Chavez

looking back at all of these, I think my favourites are invisible woman, sif, beta, dazzler and medusa

Updated this piece with higher rez’ so you can actually see the characters

Monet

okay, starting my last set of these. 3 more to go.

Monet’s joining the team with issue #7 and onwards.

Awesome! I was hoping this would happen. 

X-Factor by Kevin Maguire

Anyone know what issue this is from? I'd like to own it.