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 Jacaerys Velaryon & Sara Snow ~

Commissioned by the lovely @ashaismz !

First time drawing these two! Although we haven't gotten to see them on HOTD, it was really great that I got the chance to depict them! ❤️

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The Uncanny X-Men: X-Men [1980s’ the Australian Outback era] sketch (2020)

[this piece was a charity auction for Creators4Comics initiative to benefit the Book Industry Charitable Foundation (Binc).]

[Marc Silvestri’s the Uncanny X-Men Vol. 1 #221 [3rd panel] (1987) homage/recreation]

Art by: Ryan Kelly

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"Isn't it weird that [thing humans commonly eat] is poisonous to literally every domesticated animal" I mean, there's a pretty good chance that [thing humans commonly eat] is at least mildly poisonous to humans, too. One of our quirks as a species is that we think our food is bland if it doesn't have enough poison in it.

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I think I've heard multiple times that Mr. Sinister originally was going to be... some kind of projection of a kid in the orphanage Scott was raised in. Has this idea ever been explored by other writers, be it for Sinister or another character?

Yes, originally the plan was that the kid who had bullied Scott in the orphanage was also a mutant, and had created Mr. Sinister as his idea of the ultimate villain...and Gambit as his idea of the ultimate hero. Hence why Sinister in Inferno keeps calling Cyclops a "sissy" - which is an oddly childish insult.

Far from exploring Claremont's rough concept (because I don't know how much room to run there is there, tbh), later writers went in a completely different direction - first there was the whole business with Sinister's genetic war with Apocalypse where he was trying to breed Cable as a weapon to take down his creator. The big innovation was Kieron Gillen's decision to reinvent Sinister as a camp Victorian eugenicist - hence the whole idea of "Sinister as a system" and his increasingly baroque use of genetics to turn mutants and the x-gene itself into objects to be exploited - which Hickman ran with in Secret Wars and HOXPOX, and then Gillen et al. refined in X-Men, Immortal X-Men and Sins of Sinister.

Now there's a really complex story going on with the original Nathaniel Essex, the four suits of Mister Sinister, Orbis Stellaris, Doctor Stasis, and Mother Righteous, and their life-or-death competition to become Dominions that really ran with the ideas Hickman introduced in HOXPOX.

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what team would you rather be on? Growing up in the humid south with the dysfunctional family of the brotherhood  under mystique….orrrrrrrr…… learn science at science camp with the marauders.

I would choose the brotherhood personally but eternal life as a clone in an aircondtioned lab is tempting.

-peter

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“Defiant to the end!”

Uncanny X-Men #213 - Psylocke vs Sabretooth

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Civil War: House of M #1 - “Rise” (2008)

written by Christos N. Gage art by Andrea Di Vito & Laura Villari

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I respect the marvel comics smoking ban AND I think there are characters that just feel like they should smoke and wouldn’t quit. With that said, Gambit honestly isn’t one of them. Like Remy being an ex-smoker feels the most right for his character. More than smoking and more than never having smoked. I almost resent the smoking ban more for not letting him talk about quitting smoking. I want an issue where he’s irritable in quitting and when writers show him being tempted to be less of the person he’s become I want them to symbolize it with smoking.

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love the fact that remy's nickname is le diable blanc. like the thieves guild took one look at him and went "that's one freaky little white boy". and they were right.

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Gamby baby of New Orleans

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Mister Sinister and Gambit By Clayton Crain

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Gambit, Pyro, Sinister and hmmm??? Any guesses?

By kurtssingh

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Babs Tarr