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TravisTheGeek — Cyclops and Jean
Published: 2012-04-21 00:37:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 1429; Favourites: 41; Downloads: 54
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Back from C2E2. Feeling really enthusiastic to draw, but also quite tired. As a result, there are parts of this drawing I'm pretty happy with and other parts I feel could have been better.Related content
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Now those are definitely great costume designs. I could love to see them do something like this in the comics. I agree with you in the comments bellow, the X-Men look cooler when they wear similarly-styled uniforms for the most part.
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Thanks a lot! Superhero costumes are really tricky, IMO, so I'm glad to hear I did alright.
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I like the costumes you went with. It's like you combined my two favorite X-uniforms into one perfect union: the later-era X-Factor costumes (primarily drawn by Whilce Portacio in the late-80's) and the Morrison-era New X-Men.
I did a whole mess of redesigns for the X-men a number of years back and my ideas came out almost identical to yours. Great minds!
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Why, thank you! Funny thing is I wasn't even familiar with the X-Factor uniforms until looking them up just now. I did quite like the Morrison-era uniforms, though. There's also a splash of Ultimate universe in there, too, though I dialed it back a little compared to the first time I tried drawing this.
I've always felt the X-Men have had some real ups and downs when it comes to costumes/uniforms. Some of them have been quite slick while others are just down right silly. I've also always preferred them to match each other. Sure, it makes sense for some of them to do their own thing (like Wolverine, I think.) and of course a few need special suits or whatever to accommodate their powers, but I think for the most part it should really be a uniform.
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I agree wholeheartedly that the X-Men look best when their uniforms are uniform. And the swing between their good designs and bad has been veeeerrry wide. I'm a heretic in that I think most of their best known 90's Jim Lee designs are actually horrible (Cyclops, Storm, Jean, that awful yellow and blue thing most of them wore for a bit) but that the Morrison-era black leathers actually were the very best fit for the concept of the team.
They aren't superheroes, and they tend to look silly to me when they dress up that way. They're a paramilitary unit trained to clean up mutant messes and protect their own. Plus, it just helps set them apart from the rest of the Marvel U; gives them a distinctness that creates interest by contrast.
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I prefer the "superheroes who happened to be mutants" x-men from the 80's & 90's ,They don't protect their own but people in general. the paramilitary stuff was interesting in paper , but the execution... PFAH, horrid ! Besides the X-factor Forever showed designs by Dan Panosian that were worlds superior to whatever Quietly designed ...
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I see it as a matter of contrast. You've got a bajillion normal superheroes in the Marvel U - making the X-men something different makes them stand out as more unique and special, not just more of the same old thing. If anything, thinking of them as being out there to both protect the good and defeat/police the bad of the mutant population is much closer to the original intent of the concept anyway; they didn't become generic superheroes until pretty late in the Claremont era and into the 90's.
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The problem is the execution. That was used as an excuse to make them into straw isolationists . Aside from the whole " we ain't superheroes" , apparently it was the spark that led to Morrison's atrocious characterization (I admire the effort he has put in making them unlikeable ! When I see his version, I tend to think that Apocalypse & Sinister were the heroes all along ) & the horrid M-day .
The X-men consider themselves as human as the average joe , that's what they fight for , that's where they're at their best! And Marvel promoted the horror that is Douchelops, a complete farcry from the real Cyclops. They play the whole " I should sympathise for him " card, IT JUST DOESN't WORK. Douchelops is a one-note prick. Making a character a jerk does not necessarily make him complex or that interesting , anti-heroes need redeemable qualities & something that makes me root for them. This one ? Sending a squad to kill his own son ?! Kissing with Paris Hilton in front of his wife grave ? Have they lost their mind !
And you gotta love how they treat the depowered ones, "you ain't mutants anymore so piss off" , jeesh , THAT SCREAMS HEROISM doesn't it ? It's not like they were friends . At least the 80-90's treated their teammates with actual respect ...
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Sometimes I'll feel a slight nostalgia towards those old 90's costumes just 'cause that was about the time I first got into comics, X-Men in particular, but then I'll actually SEE them and... ugh.
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As comic fans, we allow nostalgia to trump quality FAR too often. Just because something was fun when you were young doesn't mean it was good.
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