Did you like Jim Lee's X-Men designs?
Jim Lee bought up high standards for comic book art in the 90s but I still find the New X-Men & Astonishing X-Men designs superior to his X-Men designs.
I have to admit that I liked his design for Dazzler. She basically made Jubilee redundant with how cool she looked - Jubes' look and lack of power development just can't compete with Ali's design and powerset to me.
His designs did make them look more like a team than they usually do. I suspect that was also the reaon for giving Wolverine his yellow costume back.
That being said, it was such a shame that Jean lost that fantastic Phoenix costume due to the retcon.
And my favorite Jim Lee costume? The X-men Strike Force training uniform! I would totally cosplay that with the right materials if I could!
The training uniform is by far my favorite costume he designed. I liked the first few issues when these were worn instead of individual costumes.
Even if Storm's outfit was silver, though...it was still pretty ugly to me. I actually had that same thought, but when you see most of the way she was colored, it was a flat white.
Those were done by Mark Silvestri and Dan Green. They premiered two issues before Jim Lee took over.
@immolation: Well, than that only leaves Dazzler's new costume as one I think Jim Lee did well on. The rest are pretty much misses for me, but the '90s were a bad time.
Bought all of these when they came out. Damn I’m old AF
yup me too lol
@mcklayn: nice
@selina_sublime: Unapologetically 90s yet you don’t like his designs for the X-Men at that time? Pft.
Anyway, those looks are so iconic that it took a long while before they changed outfits of everyone.
@hercuthor: X-Men #1 was my first as well and they still hold up for me. Can’t believe anybody who was a nineties freak wouldn’t at least, like these designs.
@marvelboy1974: Excellent examination of the costumes. Especially with interpretation Storm‘s costume colors. Something that doesn’t make sense that people only thought white.
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