Storm during her '80s mohawk days. The radical makeover was courtesy of her best friend Yukio.
Super-speedster Impulse, before he changed his moniker and costumed identity to Kid Flash.
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
When Lightning Strikes
Eh, busy week so far. Feeling tired and bleh and looking forward to more work 'til Saturday. Anyway, I'm just gonna share a pair of penciled drawings from four years ago:Storm during her '80s mohawk days. The radical makeover was courtesy of her best friend Yukio.Super-speedster Impulse, before he changed his moniker and costumed identity to Kid Flash.
Storm during her '80s mohawk days. The radical makeover was courtesy of her best friend Yukio.Super-speedster Impulse, before he changed his moniker and costumed identity to Kid Flash.
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Ahh the mohawk Storm! That was I think my favorite era of the X-Men (since hindi ako umabot sa John Byrne era) - when Rogue first joined and is still an outsider in the group, when Storm had a mohawk and lost her powers, when Kitty and Colossus broke up - I eventually grew to like John Romita Jr. and Dan Green's uneven and rough art due to the stories. :)
Hey Gumby! I started reading the X-Men during that period, too. I was a little weirded out by the book when I saw it (it was 1984, I think), and at the same time I felt attracted to it, because the characters were barely recognizable from those 1970s National Bookstore reprints. Kitty, Storm, Rogue, Kurt, Rachel, Logan, Colossus... they felt like a close-knit family to me. Even when I re-read those old issues now, I still root for them. :)
The line-up in the FROM THE ASHES storyline will always be the best for me - Storm, Rogue, Shadowcat, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Wolverine and a walking Professor X. When Phoenix II came aboard eh I liked it even more! I didn't care much for Cyclops so was happy when the leadership of the team went solely to Ororo.
I think my first non-reprint X-Men book was issue #188, when Rachel revealed her past (or the X-Men's future) to the team. Great storytelling by Claremont!
im a comic collector myself, i've had complete series and those special edition x-men comics till they all burned along with our house in makati... i gave up collecting since that fire. i love the mohawk storm look
by any chance, are you into nude sketching, too?
Gumby- I agree. Claremont used to be good. That era and his early New Mutants were exciting for me. The Annuals drawn by Art Adams were special, too.
I still remember that Storm was powerless for three years. And in the issue you mentioned, Rachel Summers said something like, "The X-Men are special, not just because you're superheroes, but because you're mutant superheroes."
Ree- Aw, that's too bad. Hope you'll get into reading comics again soon. Thanks for visiting! :)
Chris- Yup, I can do that. But it's been a while since I did. Why, anyone interested?
wow! i'd love to pose for you! posing nude for artists is cool! ha!
seriously, i'm dabbling in nude water color painting. you know of any school, institute, group, whatever, i could enrol in? fine arts colleges in universities kinda intimidate me. i'm just a hobbyist.
Hey, I really admire nude models. Takes patience and guts (or balls, depending). :)
I'm not really familiar with nude drawing classes... last I attended one was way back in college. I think the artists' groups, those named after the days of the week, they hold nude sketching sessions sometimes. But I'm not really sure how people can join...
Maybe you and a few artist friends can gather and invite volunteers who can pose. ;)
hey!!! my friend's boss enjoyrd your LNA and she did enjoy it and siad that it was radical. She was like asking if LNA has a sequel. Thanks for the comments and i linked you on my blog site though. If you wanna check just click on the (+) sign on the upper right hand corner...tc!
Hello Fallen Angel! Glad that she liked it. No sequel planned so far... but will let you know if and when something happens. ;) Take care, too! :)
I'd volunteer. He he! I had one scheduled sometime last year but the photog was out of the country.
By the way, at last I've been to Comic Quest at Festival but was able to buy only Vergara's Purgatory work. Trip to Tagaytay was unavailable. A friend sent in Sin City from the US and I was rooting for Lamb and St. Swithin's as usual. Kwento lang.
Naks. O ayan, may volunteer na. :)
Trip to Tagaytay, I haven't gotten a copy of that myself. But if you like Arnold Arre's work, he'll be releasing his thick, thick Mythology Class compilation before the year ends, I think. :)
St. Swithin's... pag nakakita ako, sabihin ko agad sa iyo.
wow, sky, that's cool! i haven't posed nude for a photographer yet but i guess that would be quite an experience. i'd love to do that, too, if given the chance.
so where will your pics be exhibited? is that a pro photographer or also a hobbyist? i'm also into photography, by the way. just starting.
storm is a mystery. shes african (american?) with blonde (bleached?) hair. nice energy, pun intended, on the artwork! ^_^
Thanks Max. Storm has always been unique physically. Her facial features are almost Caucasian. Her hair is naturally silver and her blue eyes have cat-like pupils.
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