I hardly make posts nowadays, not many things in comics excite me. Three kids marriage, tenure, Covid-19, etc. Imagine how refreshing it was seeing art for the upcoming Hellfire Gala courtesy of EW. Storm channels her inner Beyonce and Monet’s hat screams Lady gaga.
Check out the previews below and take the jump to see Emma Fost being the Queen of fashion she is!
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Dauterman said he started the project by getting on a group Zoom call with the other writers and editors involved in the X-Men line so they could give him ideas about the general direction they wanted for the designs. For Storm, the senior X-Men member and Omega-level mutant with the power to control weather, the team said they thought it’d be cool if she literally wore weather.
“So I gave her a cape made of clouds and lightning,” Dauterman said, on top of ideas he’d jotted down years ago in case he ever got to design a Storm costume one day.
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Monet St. Croix was part of the Krakoan strike team that heroically sacrificed themselves to destroy an anti-mutant Sentinel space station in House of X before being resurrected. Now, she’s leading X-Corp alongside Angel, and her Gala outfit shows off her high-class grace while also hinting at her monstrous form.
“M’s outfit is a Gala version of a pantsuit, and the fascinator is meant to echo her Penance hair,” Dauterman says.
Hickman’s X-men line has been entertaining me recently despite not reviewing anything so I can’t wait to see where this goes.
[Source: EW]