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Philippe Negrin
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Why was it so hard and so long for Kitty Pryde to get a costume ? There was so much costume instability that it reached a ridiculous point and if I remember correctly, there was one issue in the 2nd Dave Cockrum's run, where the costume question became an inside joke. I think that we had to wait until Alan Davis's Excalibur for her to stabilise on an outfit, and even then it never looked like a proper superhero costume...Well I'm rambling but the question remains. Why was it so difficult to create a costume for Kitty ?
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Thad Studebaker
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I always read it as a teenaged girl who changed looks as often as many, if not most, normal teenaged girls do.
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John Byrne
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Kitty wasn't supposed to "get a costume". She was created to be the first of a second string of X-Men, who would be the students that the originals used to be. She was never supposed to get out of the black and yellow school uniform.
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Pat Ditton
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--- on the same note -- I wasn't happy when THE NEW MUTANTS (original team) were given costumes. They should have stayed in the "student" gear and only made appearances in other books -- wearing that same student gear. Sort of like Harry Potter - he wears the school uniform when he's at school.
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Philippe Negrin
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And yes, she never looked better than when wearing the black and yellow uniform. Thanks John.
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Wallace Sellars
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I wasn't happy when "the strangest teens of all" stopped being teens.
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Peter Svensson
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The Strangest Twenty-Somethings of All!
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John Byrne
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If only that bit of topcopy had remained! It would have solved so many
problems!!
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Stéphane Garrelie
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As far as it comes to Kitty, it seems JB isn't the only one to preffer her as a teen. Tom Grummett the artist on New Exiles writen by Chris Claremont:
GRUMMETT ON KITTY PRYDE: “Kitty is the classic Kitty Pryde, under-16 version that I remember from way back when. This is the Kitty Pryde that Chris considers to be the definitive one, so we’re going to go with that. For the first four issues, she’s kind of in the background…because she’s afraid if she leaves, she’ll cease to exist or find her way back.”
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This Kitty is from an alternate reality.
Edited by Stéphane Garrelie on 01 February 2008 at 5:00pm
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Vinny Valenti
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Grummett, eh? I wondered what he's been up to. Not that you could tell from the above images, but his work is very JB-influenced.
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Matt Hawes
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As I recall, in an interview, Dave Cockrum mentioned that Kitty kept changing outfits because she was supposed to be acting like a teen-aged girl, always looking for a new look (or something along those lines).
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***Wayne Kerr
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Personally, I was rarely enthused with the way Kitty was portrayed after JB & CC introduced her, during CC & Cockrum's run, she seemed to get strangely YOUNGER (almost patronizingly "child like" in my opinion), whereas when pencilled & introduced by JB she was like a breath of fresh air from the usual "cliché of "how teens are".
Edited by Wayne Kerr on 01 February 2008 at 6:15pm
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