Brand <3s Beast

[x5455]

Hello everybody. This is my first post on this incarnation of S_D, and I wanted to bring some Beast/Brand to you all. Checked Agent Brand's tag and did not find this, so I hope it's not an untagged repeat.

How it began... (and perhaps how it ends since SWORD was cancelled :( )

3/4 page from Giant Size Astonishing X-Men #1





C&P tags:

char: agent abigail brand
char: beast/hank mccoy
group: x-men
title: astonishing x-men
creator: joss whedon

Comments

[theanswer]

I'm so glad SWORD was cancelled. I couldn't get past the ugly art, especially the way Beast was drawn.

[darkblade]

They could have switched out the artist and kept the awesome story.

[outlawpoet]

I think that would have helped a lot.

[goblinthebamf]

agreed. I hope it's brought back as a mini, like Agents of Atlas. :(

[sherkahn]

Amen. I hope Gyrich gets some screwing over/special treatment from Osborn before it's over though. Injected with an alien bacteria or something.

[halialkers]

Nah.....Norman should alter his genetics so that he has no powers but still reads as a mutant to things like the Sentinels. And then put him in a place surrounded by Sentinels. With a slingshot without a stone. Given how screwy Comic Book science is that would be Karmic Justice of an epic sort.

[angelophile]

I'm not glad S.W.O.R.D. was cancelled because it was awesome. Rather bad sport to celebrate the cancellation of something some of us were enjoying immensely.

[theanswer]

Bad sport to enjoy something some of us were loathing entirely!

[neuhallidae]

I'm not glad it's cancelled because I was enjoying Lockheed being a drunken badass. Fraction better pull off some kind of epic reunion between him and Kitty in Uncanny, or I will be pissed.

[kingrockwell]

That's an incredibly disingenuous thing to say. Hank might've looked weird himself, but the rest of the art's fantastic!
That and it's a really great, fun book. I'll miss it when it's gone.

[cleome45]

What don't you like about the way he's drawn? (Not being snarky. Just genuinely curious.)

Not a huge Whedon-head or anything, but this snippet looks pretty okay to me.

[kingrockwell]

The commenter isn't referring to the pages in the post here, but the series S.W.O.R.D., a sample of which you can see here. That's the preview to tomorrow's issue. The fifth page features Steve Saunders' much maligned but not all that bad Beast.

[cleome45]

Ah, Thanks. :)

[theanswer]

He just doesn't look much like Beast. If he weren't blue then I would have never known.

[cleome45]

Hmm. I guess it's more feline than I remember, but it doesn't seem any more absurd or weird than some other modern character redesigns that I've seen.