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Michael Hatton
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"the character doesn't look as if he has one eye."
What is that light in the middle of the X on his face? Doesn't that make it look like he only has one eye? Or is that not normally going to be there?
I instantly recognized Magik and Cyclops even though their costumes are different, but I had no idea that was Emma Frost and Magneto until somebody said so. Are the others new characters?
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Andy Mokler
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That's what makes me laugh about the pouch-belt craze that has permeated comics for some time now. Has anyone other than Batman actually pulled something out of their pouches?
What is it these artists think super-heroes need to carry around? Money? Keys? I.D.? Batman has a reason for his belt, none of the others seem to.
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Mike Norris
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Yeah, I keep waiting for Captain America to pull out his Caparang.
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Michael Todd
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I thought that the belt pouch craze of the 1990's was so that the heroes could carry around their Pokemon cards and Tamagotchi pets.
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John Byrne
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"the character doesn't look as if he has one eye."What is that light in the middle of the X on his face? Doesn't that make it look like he only has one eye? •• Not to me, and I have drawn Cyclops two or three times.
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John Byrne
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…emma using her diamond form.•• Ohhhh… THAT'S what that is! I thought she's just finished filming a scene in a porno movie.
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Eric Ladd
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"Doesn't that make it look like he only has one eye?"
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It looks like he has a LED at the bridge of his nose. The position of the light seems too low to suggest an eye. The space to the right and left of the X looks like "eyes" to me and thus negates the name Cyclops.
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Joe Murray
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| ...emma using her diamond form. •• Ohhhh… THAT'S what that is! I thought she's just finished filming a scene in a porno movie. ****** And here I refrained from asking "Who spackled Emma?" |
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Armindo Macieira
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I usually like Bachalo's art, but IMO he has some problems drawing adult women. He's a perfect fit for a teenage book, though...
Edited by Armindo Macieira on 18 January 2013 at 8:41am
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Dale Lerette
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Rudolph the Red Nosed Cyclops... ...all joking aside they remind me of the Inhumans. Cyclops feel more like Black Bolt to me.
Edited by Dale Lerette on 18 January 2013 at 11:14am
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John Byrne
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Stan Lee maintained that one should be able to pick a character out of a group based solely on his/her name alone, without any prior knowledge of that character, or anyone else in the group. Consider this shot of the original X-Men:
Try to imagine you have not heard of any of these characters before. Which one is Iceman? Which is the Beast? Angel? And which one looks like a Cylcops?* Now apply the same question to the illustration on the previous page. Can you pick out those characters by name alone? Is there, for example, based solely on that drawing, anything to distinguish Cyclops from Magneto? ______ * I have mentioned before, actually having experienced the terribly depressing moment, more than once, of asking a fan at a con why he thinks Cyclops is called "Cyclops", and being told "because he fires energy beams out of his eyes."
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Michael Todd
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That made me think back to when I was very small and had to beg my mother to read my comic books to me, for some reason she always read "Cyclops" as "Ky-clops", I thought that was his name until elementry school set me straight.
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