I love Havok, but…

by Stephanie Lantry

Hey modHeroes! Remember when the nice people at Society6 ran a promotional deal for FREE SHIPPING on prints? They’re doing it again! 

To celebrate, I remastered a handful of classic modHero prints and posted them in the shop JUST FOR YOU!

Phoenix! She-Hulk! Alpha Fight! Norman Osborn! Havok & Polaris! Storm!

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Promotion expires January 13, 2013 at Midnight Pacific Time. *Offer excludes Framed Art Prints, Stretched Canvases and Throw Pillows with insert.

I love Paolo Rivera. A Voltron print of his has been over my desk for ever. Also: Why are the robots French?

Mythos: X-Men - Paolo Rivera

(Source: imnotdaredevil, via amazingxmen)

(Source: amazingxmen)

DANGER
The killer is in the building!!!
No, wait…  It’s worse than that.
The killer IS the building!

She locks the doors for you, keeps the beer cold, and lord help you, she probably sees what you look at on the internet. Danger is the ghost in the machine, a sentient computer program running the X-Men’s “Danger Room.” Just, you know, a high-tech training facility built to try and KILL every person who walked in the door. The X-Men never knew she was buried in the wires going stir crazy until she flew off the rails and became quite a horror show.

The X-Men won back their home, and Danger got over herself. But now, when Wolverine kicks back with his iPad 2 to spend his day off watching VH1 Classic, he’s got to wonder.. Who’s watching back?

*Revised for 2011!*

Prints available here.

THE X-MEN

The Children of the Atom!
The Strangest Teens of All!
The Fab Five!
Born with a special X-gene in their chromosomes, Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast and Iceman, leap from the shadows to ensure a brighter future for all humanity, under the creepy but endearing tutelage of Professor X!

A metaphor for teenage awkwardness+
an analogy for the civil rights movement=
comic book gold!

To me, my X-Men!

What does it mean to be an X-Man?
In the 60s it meant you were different than everybody else, harboring a painful secret that the world just wasn’t ready to know about. The way you were born set you apart, and you lead an exiting but perilous double life!

In the 70s, being an X-Man meant you broke all the rules. You looked great, fought hard, and challenged the idea of “normal” on a global scale.

In the 80s, things took a dark turn. Paranoid times meant living underground with your back to the wall, enemies at every side. The greatest challenge: to remain true to your ideals, despite living in a world that saw you as a disease to be eradicated.

The 90s were about getting your act together and learning to smile for the camera. You got a cartoon and a video game. You got a line of toys. Apocalypse sort of stunk things up for a while, but you got back to your status quo soon enough.

In the 00s, you were all over the place. Being an X-Man meant inheriting the earth in lots of messy ways. The world was your playground. You got a little wild. You got a little trashy. (Yes, I’m talking about YOU, Emma Frost.) Teachers at the school wore black leather. Life was pretty cool. Then, an editorial edict/magic spell caused pretty much every mutant to lose their powers unless they were A) Super Popular or B) Needed for a statistically dramatic death later. Religious nuts started bombing school busses, and suddenly it wasn’t so fun to be at Xavier’s anymore.  The stakes had been raised. Being an X-Man meant being in crisis-mode!

So, where does that leave you now? Being an X-Man means being part of a pseudo-religious separatist paramilitary cult??? Great! Pull on those tights and line up behind the guy with the red visor!

PHOENIX

Who doesn’t love powerful women?

Jean Grey started out as Professor X’s darling student, who could move objects with her mind. Books, levers, furniture. All sorts of useful stuff. She starts being able to read minds too. Her boyfriend, Cyclops - totally cool with that.

Then comes a trip into space. Who knew that flying through a solar flare could give a girl such a makeover? (see: Fantastic Four) Suddenly she’s casting fire and rearranging molecules. Wow! But not to worry, she’s still Jean. Not some fiery avatar of a passionate space god. Right?

Hey, let’s just focus on the now. A butte in the desert. She takes off Cyclops’s visor. His terrible optic blasts? She turns ‘em off.

It’s that moment you wait for, when the characters in a story are really, really happy. What could go wrong?

THE X-MEN

The Children of the Atom!
The Strangest Teens of All!
The Fab Five!
Born with a special X-gene in their chromosomes, Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast and Iceman, leap from the shadows to ensure a brighter future for all humanity, under the creepy but endearing tutelage of Professor X!

A metaphor for teenage awkwardness

+ an analogy for the civil rights movement

= comic book gold!

To me, my X-Men!