Skottie Young is Magical and also some Pete/MJ

[auggie18]

First, you take an event that is being not very well received due to numerous problems with its core concept. Then, you add Skottie Young.



and suddenly everything is okay.



I honestly bought Cable's new book for this alone. (The fact that Forge is in it and not crazy/dead helped.)


Heck, it even works on good books!





And I already posted this, but it's being posted here to show the magic working on what has to be one of my least favorite event comics ever.




(Yes, I'm aware that none of these are really "stories." But c'mon, you gotta go "awwww!" at Skottie Young. It's SKOTTIE YOUNG!)

Also, an MJ/Peter moment I totally love from Spider-Man: Reign.



I didn't really like Reign that much, but some parts... *sniff*

 

Comments

[rordulum]

That first image, is that Nico Minoru appearing in a book with Laura X? Because I really wanted the New X-Men and the Runaways to face off before their respective books were cancelled (and the New X-Men were gutted as a team).

How much do I love Mockingbird giving Gambit the suspicious, disapproving glare in that splash panel?

Also, Gambit should do that with his cards in the 616 Universe as well.

Plus, Hawkeye has sucker arrows!

[icon_uk]

How cute is Wiccan here?

[shadowpsykie]

I hate what I've heard of Reign but this scene is amazing

[silverhammerman]

Skottie Young is pretty much great. I wish we could see him doing interiors on a Marvel book, his art is great even beyond adorable babies, but I think he's doing other stuff right now.
Also, it's kind of weird to me that Marvel is having him do so many covers right now. Him and Paolo Rivera, they just seem to be doing an oddly large amount of covers.

[arilou_skiff]

Yeah, his run on... Academy X? New Mutants? New X-men? Whatever the hell that title was called at the time, was awesome. (just gorgeous)

[rordulum]

New X-Men.

His first arc, the one set in Limbo, had a great cartoony finish to it. The art was full of character, and the inks gave it a lovely sheen, so that each panel looked like an animation cell.

But then he did Children of X-Men, where he inked them himself. The look and feel was completely different. Gritty, scratchy and moody, and just spectacular.

I didn't care for the makeovers he gave a couple of characters, but his work on the book was just brilliant. And this is coming from someone who actually really liked Paco Medina's 'square-jawed hero and cheesecake' style on the previous dozen issues.

[goggle_kid]

For the record while the first issue of Avengers Arena isn't as bad as I expected... (Heck I'll probably be around for at least another two issues.) I would much rather read a book about the kids playing full-contact dodge ball.

[leikomgwtfbbq]

Skottie Young is one of my current favorite comic artists. That style's just so fun and energetic!