X-MEN Sketchbook: COLOSSUS

With the new X-Men movie, Days of Future Past, opening this weekend, Kyle was inspired to revisit his favorite mutant superheroes. Today's sketch is the team's Russian powerhouse... COLOSSUS! (Click the image for a bigger version.)

To my mind, the essential X-Men team has always been Cyclops, Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, and Wolverine. The fact that Colossus was never a major character in the movie series has always bugged me. (I haven't watched them in a while, but I think he has a brief cameo in X2 and some kind of small role in X-Men: The Last Stand.) I hope the new movie fixes this, once and for all.

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X-MEN Sketchbook: WOLVERINE

Today is opening day for the new X-Men movie, Days of Future Past, and Kyle was inspired to revisit his favorite mutant superheroes. Today's sketch is a guy who's the best at what he does (and what he does ain't pretty)... WOLVERINE! (Click the image for a bigger version.)

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X-MEN Sketchbook: CYCLOPS

With the new X-Men movie, Days of Future Past, heading toward theaters, Kyle was inspired to revisit his favorite mutant superheroes. We'll post a sketch each day over the opening weekend, starting with... CYCLOPS! (Click the image for a bigger version.)

Honestly, it's a shame that Cyclops was dropped from the movie series. Love him or hate him (and Grantland has a terrific defense of Cyclops), Cyke is an essential part of any X-Men team. He's so important that Chris Claremont, who wrote X-Men and its spin-offs in the '70s and '80s, tried to retire Cyclops — but he came rushing back into action!

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