Saturday, November 4, 2017

Archangel


Archangel, or Warren Worthington III, is one of those comic book characters who has gone through a lot of changes over the years. His original power was just having huge feathered wings and being able to fly. Which seems pretty good until 47,000 other mutants all come along with better powers than you. Some bad guy tore up his wings and in a convoluted series of events he ended up with razor-sharp metal ones instead. He complained about it a lot, but deep down I think even he knew they were a vast improvement.

Saturday, October 14, 2017

Colossus


The Russian Colossus is capable of transforming his body into "organic steel", a metallic form capable of great strength and invulnerability. He's also pretty handy with a paintbrush.

Saturday, October 7, 2017

Moondragon


Moondragon is a powerful psychic, master martial artist, and manages to rock a bald head and make it work. A member of the Avengers for about 17 seconds, she's most often found in space hanging out with the Guardians of The Galaxy.

Friday, July 14, 2017

Lady Fantomex


Lady Fantomex has one of those great superhero names that tells you exactly what she is: a lady version of Fantomex. She pretty much just has the power to run well in a coat, and is a great marksman. Once a member of the Psylocke led Uncanny X-Force, I have no idea what's happened to her since... because modern comics are a terrible, badly-written mess.

Sunday, June 18, 2017

Professor X


Professor X, or  Charles Xavier is the leader of the X-Men. The "world's most powerful telepath", he was originally wheelchair bound, then could walk, then was in a wheelchair again, then could walk AGAIN. Like most longstanding comic book characters he's been pretty much ruined and maligned by modern writer's, with the exception of a character saving stretch of X-Men Legacy comics by Mike Carey.

Saturday, March 18, 2017

Juggernaut


Juggernaut, or Cain Marko, is literally the red-headed step-brother of Professor Charles Xavier, founder of the X-Men. Due to a magic gem he found while he and Xavier were serving in Korea he became the magical Avatar of the demon-lord Cytorrak, an unstoppable* 'juggernaut' with incredible strength and invulnerability. He wears a magic helmet that keeps out psychic powers; it's meant to be unbreakable, but literally every fight he has with the X-Men ends with the helmet breaking and one of their fifty telepaths frying his brain.

(*Character may be unstoppable in name only, and may in fact be frequently stopped by the likes of Spider-Man.)

Sunday, March 12, 2017

Invisible Woman - Negative Zone


The Invisible Woman, and the rest of the Fantastic Four, had an adventure in the Negative Zone and returned to find the colours in their costumes had been inverted. Because of SCIENCE! Also, she had short hair.

This is a re-colouring of The Invisible Woman's classic costume.

Sunday, February 12, 2017

Danger


Danger was once the holographic training room of the X-Men, who gained sentience, tried to murder them all, and then eventually joined the team. That's actually a way more common pattern than you might think. Apart from being a robot Danger can project holograms, shift her form, and come up with all sorts of deadly weaponry.

Monday, January 2, 2017

Jubilee


Jubilee - Mutant firecracker, Wolverine side-kick, mall-rat... vampire! She was one of the best things about the X-Men in the 90's, and also one of the best things about the 90's X-Men cartoon. Even one of the best things about X-Men: Apocalypse, despite barely being in it! She can throw plasma 'firecrackers' or mini-explosions of bright light and can wear a yellow (plastic I'm guessing!) trench coat like nobody's business.