Sunday, October 23, 2011

Bold Fashion Choices--Child Abuse

While the recent X-Men: Schism series revolved around the morality of making soldiers out of young mutants, the series ignored the biggest danger of allowing teens to be X-Men: the costumes!!

Travel back with me to a time when young Kitty Pryde designed her own super-hero outfit (Warning--NSFHE (Not Safe For Human Eyes)):






And leave it to Magneto to make the realization it took Wolverine 30+ years to come to:

Kids should never design their own costumes!!

(Oh, and obviously, Wolverine's right, the X-Men and New Mutants never, never EVER sent teens into combat...except for every issue ever.)

Panel from Uncanny X-Men #149 & #150, art by Dave Cockrum, Josef Rubenstein & Bob Wiacek and Glynis Wein.
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6 comments:

  1. Martin GrayOctober 23, 2011 at 6:12 PM

    Ah, good times. Kitty was made a grown-up far too soon.

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  2. tomOctober 24, 2011 at 6:44 AM

    Her costume looked pretty good compared to when Jean redesigned the original X-men's looks with their first individual costumes

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  3. snellOctober 24, 2011 at 6:52 AM

    I have to disagree, Tom. While Jean's costume certainly wasn't good, at least it was clean, and not a haphazard, clashing assualt on the eyes.

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  4. tomOctober 24, 2011 at 8:52 AM

    I guess I was thinking about the one she designed for Angel.. the red suspenders over yellow with a blue cowl and striped wristbands

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  5. snellOctober 24, 2011 at 4:06 PM

    Good point--Warren's costume was one of the 10 worst of all time.

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  6. AnonymousOctober 24, 2011 at 9:20 PM

    Who knew Kitty was colorblind?

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