dmstarz's 250 favourite marvel comic covers no117
Heh, what a brilliant and slighty risky idea for the cover. Wonder how the pitch went? "What's the cover, Alan? An all out action scene? Some foxy x-ladies?" "Actually, I kinda like Nightcrawler's tail..." A few years back, Marvel pretty much dispensed with their covers having anything to do with what was happening in the comic book itself and asked their cover artists for portraits. They seemed to have (partially, at least) rescinded on this policy, which I think is good as some covers (especially of dear old Spidey) became very same-y. But whenever an artist put his head on the block for a truly original image like the one above, the result is inspiring. Granted it probably wouldn't add any new readers to the book, but any Kurt Wagner fan probably picked this up with a stupid big grin on their faces.