Current mood:

cheerful

X-Men painting + series pimp! (mild spoilers for Ultimate X-Men 1-69)
I picked up Ultimate X-Men via bittorrent last week, and I really, really found myself enjoying it. So much so, that during my monthly trip to the comic store, I bought several of the latest issues and gorged myself on the pretties. XD

I've never been in the fandom, but I was a fan of the comics way back in the old days. (I got my hands on X-Men no. 1 when it first hit the shelves, lol!) This was, of course, waaaay back in the early nineties when I was just a snot-nosed kid reading comics over my big brother's shoulder.

In any case, I do urge my f-list to give Ultimate X-Men a shot. It's got sex, scandal, and of course, homosexuality. (I'm currently in love with Marvel for making Piotr (Collosus) gay. And Northstar, of course, but he'd always been gay-- even in the original Alpha Flight comics.)

It's an Alternate Universe type of deal, featuring all the X-Men we know and love as barely-legal teens (heck, Bobby's only 15). Some of them, like Scott, haven't changed much from the original personalities (albeit with a serious deficiency in dealing with the opposite sex). Still, the core of his boy scout personality remains intact.

On the other hand, Jean Grey is pretty different from her original series' personae. I don't want to spoil, but yeah. (Slut much? I love it.) XD

And of course, the lovely little twist on the big metal guy's personality. Piotr, outing himself to his team? A 16 year-old Nightcrawler unable to cope with his gay teammate? Wolverine, unable to return Piotr's affections?

What, oh what, will happen next?? XDDD

Anyway, painted a quick little Scotty portrait yesterday (see my new icon for thumbnail), which you can check out here: http://www.trinitycross.net/red/g03a/xmen03.html

He's only supposed to be 18, but he's still incredibly well-built. And in one of the arcs, he had a goatee. :9 LOVE. LOVE. LOVE.