Phoenix: Custom Action Figure by stormantic

This is a Marvel Select Phoenix action figure as based on designs of Marc Silvestri’s art for Grant Morrison’s run on New X-Men. I really liked this figure for it’s clear orange plastic and overall fiery divaliciousness, but hated it for the white plastic square you can see in the inside (it’s a two sided puzzle piece to keep the wings on).
So, I glued the wings in place and repainted the entire bird, starting in the middle. I used red paint to cover up the white square area and then used different reds, oranges, yellow and even gold to accent the fire areas. I tried to keep some of the see through plastic intact. I painted Phoenix’s hair the same as the bird and applied lipstick and black eyeliner (natch!). I also gave the face a gold wash. What do you think?

Storm Sunday: Marc Silvestri

Here’s some hot old school Marc Silvestri art from When Uncanny X-Men had my favorite post-Claremont/Byrne team lineup. It’s right before Colossus rejoins and makes it four guys (Longshot, Wolverine, Havok and Colossus) to four females (Storm, Psylocke, Dazzler, and Rogue) which was a lot of fun. And since this is supposed to be **Storm** Sunday, here’s another Silvestri image of Ororo from this era.

Fierce! (And this is Storm leading the team without any powers! Hot!)

And then Madelyne Pryor came along and f****d it all up. Clones. Retcons. Editorial. Ugh. Happy Sundays, folks.