MisterPL Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 12 hours ago, pk13 said: You just want all of *this*. Is that a sabertooth tiger? Huh. I had not noticed that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirymate Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 5 hours ago, buttheadsmate said: ...& what's going on behind Wolverine ...whose gloved hands are those ? I... don't know... Guess the only logical thing to do is spend some time re-reading the entire Claremont/Byrne era till I figure it out. Nothing immediately springs to mind. Having observed Byrne's sense of "thumb in your eye" humor, it could be some plot he wanted to do, but got vetoed by Shooter, and he snuck it in that picture. I also note that since Emma called attention to the fact she's had work done, clearly she got them after this "picture" was "taken". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterPL Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 5 hours ago, buttheadsmate said: Take note of the Beast's stance ,where he's positioned & why ,that's the Beast I want. So Toad, Leap-Frog, and now Beast? Seems like a decent way to leverage a newly sculpted part that allows that kind of "stance." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thereasonsy Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 7 hours ago, buttheadsmate said: Take note of the Beast's stance ,where he's positioned & why ,that's the Beast I want. That's a fantastic picture & I almost started to look for Wally . ...& what's going on behind Wolverine ...whose gloved hands are those ? Right? I can't figure it out since all of the X-men are accounted for and it can't be Kitty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterPL Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 9 hours ago, buttheadsmate said: ...& what's going on behind Wolverine ...whose gloved hands are those ? I don't have nearly enough knowledge to even guess. I just know Iceman is missing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirymate Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 Iceman had wandered into Marvel Limbo for a lot of the Byrne/Claremont years. Literally quit heroing to become an accountant. Still not closer to ID'ing what looks for all the world like an apeman in an X-Men training uniform. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigvis497 Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 Pretty sure that's Byrne's unused design for Caliban. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 Yeah, that's the unused Caliban design. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterPL Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 THAT'S Caliban?! No wonder I didn't recognize him. He looks nothing like Stephen Merchant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 Fun fact: Stephen Merchant is actually a large bio-mechanical robot suit. That's why he's so... off-putting? awkward? The real Stephen Merchant is actually a small fur-ball my cat coughed up that somehow gained consciousness. It was a bit of inspired casting, really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thereasonsy Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 45 minutes ago, Turtle said: Yeah, that's the unused Caliban design. Mystery solved! Great job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mnemosis Posted July 1, 2017 Author Share Posted July 1, 2017 WHOA. Now THERE is an idea for a custom. I never knew this was a thing and I rather LOVE it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirymate Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 Gosh... so hard to see why Jim and Chris didn't go for that brilliant idea... Nothing scarier that tribble on steroids that animates chairs. Sorry we didn't appreciate your genius, John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CortherX Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 that absolutely is the original Caliban concept. how interesting that it got included but there are no signs of the New Mutants... he must've been pretty close to making the cut? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mnemosis Posted July 1, 2017 Author Share Posted July 1, 2017 3 hours ago, Mirymate said: Gosh... so hard to see why Jim and Chris didn't go for that brilliant idea... Nothing scarier that tribble on steroids that animates chairs. Sorry we didn't appreciate your genius, John. I agree, his powers working like that makes no sense. But the more deformed body would have been interesting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirymate Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 11 hours ago, CortherX said: that absolutely is the original Caliban concept. how interesting that it got included but there are no signs of the New Mutants... he must've been pretty close to making the cut? I've been a fan of Byrne's a long time. Sticking a character like he really liked but got turned down for into the background of a piece like that is totally in character for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloDelorean Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 13 hours ago, CortherX said: how interesting that it got included but there are no signs of the New Mutants... I can't see the copyright date, but couldn't it just be from shortly before the New Mutants formed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirymate Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 The New Mutants formed after Bryne had left the X-Men. The Paul Smith era. The X-Men were exiled to space, carrying Brood embryos. Then literal new mutants began emerging and Emma Frost starts recruiting some for her Massachusetts Academy/Hellions. Charles reluctantly begins counter recruiting for his school. And that's how the New Mutants team begins, with Charles pretty adamant that they are not going to be a combat team, but only be trained to control their powers. In truth, Charles too had been Brood infected with a Queen embryo, and it was subconsciously influencing him to keep the new team close so they could be infected when Xavier fully transformed. Of course, the X-Men "get better", come home, and with the Starjammers defeat the Xavier-brood. Charles mind is transferred by Sikorsky into a new younger cloned body, which is why Xavier is walking around in the Secret Wars. And ultimately Xavier decided that despite the Brood influence, creating the New Mutants was a good idea, and the X-Men continue their education. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mnemosis Posted July 2, 2017 Author Share Posted July 2, 2017 The X-Men being cured by Binary in the star chamber or whatever was my first X-Men comic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirymate Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 I think my first X-Men comic... IIRC I thought Nightcrawler looked neat and followed him back to his home title after a guest spot in Amazing Spider-Man. Think Cockrum was still drawing at the time. Problem is I back issue read around that period so much It's hard to remember which of those was my first, the issue itself long since disintegrated and was replaced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OvenproofBug6 Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 Astonishing X-Men #1, boy was that a good place to start Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke314pi Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 This was my first: Also a good place to start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mnemosis Posted July 2, 2017 Author Share Posted July 2, 2017 That cover is AMAZING Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TENIME_art Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 My first X-book: My first comic ever: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Scarlet Spider Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 First X-Men comic was something Fromm onslaught This was my First comic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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