SubscribeNote: Up here in the Northern hemisphere it’s getting cold outside, and artist George Kambadais shows us that even the X-Men need some winter wear. He’s outfitted them in costumes reminscient of Frank Quitely’s New X-Men designs but with a twist. With all the great “baseball” issues of Uncanny X-Men, was there ever one with a snowball fight? - Chris A.
Scott
/ December 12, 2011Aw man, I love that Jean Grey. That look on her face? How composed she is? Love it.
dnwilliams
/ December 12, 2011Brilliant.
Michael Nelsen
/ December 12, 2011Great stuff, George!!
Love the old school X-men cast. All my favorites!
Jay
/ December 12, 2011Lose the X on the knees, it’s overkill. I like the gray on Scott because it ties in the visor more than any other suit he’s worn…but how is it staying on his face? Cyclops & Wolvie’s boots need work, less flashy on Cyc more on Logan. Logan’s single color mask works great. The short gloves all around are a nice touch too. Kitty should be ice scraping Colossus…or maybe that’s Wolverines job! Love that George resisted using hoodies or skicaps. Over very nice.
Shiner
/ December 12, 2011Colossus would be terrible to hug in the winter! And I’d have drawn Wolverine jumping holding two snowballs, but I like the costumes.
wade
/ December 12, 2011so cool!!!!!
(where’s emma though…? ho, thought it was the new/astonishing x-men)
still, so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bryan
/ December 12, 2011While I didn’t like Quietly/Morrison’s redesigns, I do like these. Curious, no?
Dedpool
/ December 12, 2011It’s like the return of the Morrison Era X-men with a more comicbook feel.
DaniSpite
/ December 12, 2011It’s a gorgeus mix of the Quitely leather design and a classic spandex suit. I love the roster, too. Add Nightcrawler and Storm and it would be perfect.
tbolt
/ December 12, 2011Really dig the Quitely filtered thru Bruce Timm vibe this gives me. The sunglasses on Bobby is a nice touch.
The Harp
/ December 12, 2011Great designs, character personalities are intact, and the art is fresh and energetic. Love everything but the X on the knees. Nice job!
George Kambadais
/ December 13, 2011Thank you very much for your responses!
I’ll do a second part with Nightcrawler,Emma, Storm and others soon ;)
meesha
/ December 13, 2011What’s Wolverine wearing on his head? Is it made out of wood? The rest of the designs are great even though they’re just stylized versions of Frank Quietly’s basic designs.
Mertle
/ December 13, 2011As a point of interest, has Kitty Pryde ever served on an X-Men at the same time as Jean Grey. Because I’ve been racking my brain trying to remember if they’ve ever been X-Men together and I can’t think of a single instance.
The night Kitty joined the X-Men was also the night Dark Phoenix took over, then when they went to the moon to fight for Jean’s life Kitty stayed behind. Then years later when Jean rejoined the X-Men’s gold team, Kitty left America to start Excalibur. This is where she stayed, on and off for years until Jean died at the end of Grant Morrison’s run which led to Kitty rejoining the team for Joss Whedon’s AXM.
Do these two have a history or does Kitty Pryde just hate all telepaths…ever?
Sam
/ December 13, 2011Mertle-
I know they served together on during Claremont’s 200ish run (around X-men #100.) They may have been on the team at the same time when Excalibur disbanded in the late 90′s and Kitty, Kurt, and Peter came back to the team, but I can’t find any shared covers from that period.
Here’s on cover with them together, though.
http://www.uncannyxmen.net/covers/showgallery.asp?fldAuto=6&ID=xmen&title=X-Men%20(2nd%20series)&page=7#
Jesse Grove
/ December 18, 2011Great stuff, lotta fun. I actually really like Cyclops’s boots. In response to the question at the end, X-men 165 from 2005. Salvador Larroca snowball fight. It’s a super cheesy issue, Chris Claremont writes, and for all those reasons it always put a big smile on my face.
Diego Gómez
/ February 7, 2012My stab at Couture Phoenix: http://designnurd.blogspot.com/2010/12/phoenix.html