Domino

Magik

Magik (Illyana Rasputin) is a teleporting mutant who was sucked into the demonic Limbo dimension as a child (great job babysitting X-Men!). Growing up there as a slave of the demon Belasco, she learnt both good and evil magic. Ultimately creating her Soulsword from... well part of her soul. She also began manifesting more and more metallic armor over her classic New Mutants costume, kind of like the ultimate in over-accessorising.

Domino - X-Force Black

Domino (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_(comics)) accidentally (or 'luckily', see what I did there?! SHE DOESN'T HAVE LUCK POWERS!) stumbled into one of Wolverine's X-Force operations, shot a bunch of clones, and became part of the team.

Getting The Look
X-Force was drawn by two very different artists, who took turns doing the arcs. For some reason they drew Domino's costume so differently, it might as well have been two entirely different outfits. So I'm going to do them both (because you didn't demand it, and no-one is reading this anyway)! The first is the version as rendered by Clayton Crain. In general his art on X-Force, though amazing, was so dark it was hard to make out little details... Like what the fuck people were wearing. So from what I can tell Domino's uniform was basically a black collared combat outfit, with some cleave, holsters and pouches.

Rachel Grey - Jean Grey School

After returning from space Rachel Grey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Summers) hung out at the Jean Grey School in Wolverine And The X-Men, but was only shown teaching once that I can remember. She probably spent the rest of her time seeing a therapist to try and figure out why she likes spikes so much. Despite the fact that they were part of her original hound costume; given to her by the people that imprisoned, tortured and forced her to hunt down other mutants to be slaughtered.

Getting The Look

Even though this costume makes no sense from a character perspective, I still love it. Pouches, the spikes, a jacket which is really just long strips of material whipping around... What's not to love.

Dani Moonstar - Moonstar

Dani Moonstar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Moonstar) is a Native American and one of the original New Mutants, kind of a teenage class of replacement X-Men from the 80's. She originally had the power to project three dimensional images of a person's greatest fear, later learning how to generate arrows comprised of this psychic energy. For a while she wore a mask and masqueraded as a villain, confusing her friends despite the fact she was using her own last name as a codename... So I guess they're just not very bright.

Getting The Look
This is one of those costumes where the details changed frequently, almost in every issue, but I think this version captures the elements that stayed consistent. It's especially close to the later, more refined look that Moonstar donned.

Re-Colour Week

This week I'll be posting character styles that are re-colourings of costumes that have already been featured on the blog. For example Uncanny X-Force Psylocke, and Dark Phoenix Jean Grey.

Rather than repeating myself, I'll simply link to the original post and specify the colour differences and any slight style changes. If there are any entirely new styles, I'll list how to obtain them, the way I would in a regular blog post.

Magik - Marvel Now

Magik (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magik_%28comics%29) is the little sister of Colossus and an X-Man in her own right . Artificially aged in a demon dimension as a child, she's missing just enough of her soul to be creepy, which might also explain why she decided to start taking fashion advice from Marvel Now Emma Frost.

Getting The Look

Marvel Now Magik has one of those big, impractical, glowing swords you see in a lot of fantasy MMORPGs. Once you have that the rest of this look is pretty easy to put together (OK, except for the shoulders. The shoulders are hard).