Posted: 20 September 2018 at 9:58am | IP Logged | 2
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The artists drawing her drifted further and further off model until straight hair became the model.
Cockrum played nice and stuck with the curls JB created her with. Paul Smith drew it as "wavy" rather than "curly". Early on, Romita was trying to imitate Smith's style, but later on as he moved away from it, you see Kitty's curls return. Milgrom, Art Adams, and Sienkiewicz drew her with curls.
But once she was over in Excalibur, Alan Davis gave her lush, wavy hair, that wasn't as curly. That seemed to stick. The artists that followed Davis on Excalibur all seemed to just interpret that look as Kitty having straight hair. Ever since then, it's been straighter and straighter.
With straight hair, and the generic X-Men uniform she wears, there is really nothing visually distinctive about Kitty anymore. Hopefully with the relaunch, they'll rectify that.
Edited to add: Or, hopefully X-Men: Elsewhen will become a reality and that will influence X-Men artists going forward.
Edited by Dale E Ingram on 20 September 2018 at 10:02am
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