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Salvador Larocca.

Salvador Larocca’s original cover art for X-Men # 182.

Unfortunately, Peter Milligan’s “Blood of Apocalypse” sucked (IMHO), and Larocca has yet to explore coloring his own art since that story arc. X-Men went on to be Mike Carey’s book that lead to Messiah Complex, and Larocca went on to do Iron Man with Matt Fraction.

Seriously. The whole Blood of Apocalypse arc was filled with Larocca doing inkwash and grayscale painting work. Beautiful artwork on a terrible and unpopular storyline.

X-Treme X-Men, Vol. 1 # 32 by Salvador Larocca with Colors by Christian Lichtner.

And My Inks:

‘X-Women United’ was illustrated in pencil by Salvador Larocca, with colors by Christian 'Liquid!’ Lichtner, and published as a lithograph by Dynamic Forces. there is also a companion lithograph featuring all of the X-Men.

And my inked version, from January of 2017:

some Black and White artwork by Salvador Larocca.

Larocca is underrated. He is steadily reliable, and his work is frequently stunning. People need to think of him as a marquee name. The kind of name that can promote a book on merit. Larocca is good. Really, really good.

X-Women United by Salvador Larocca, with My Inks.

X-Men, Vol. 2 # 161 by Salvador Larocca, with Colors by Christian 'Liquid!' Lichtner.