The All-New, All-Different X-Men (with some classic X-Men as well). Click on the image to get to the PDF (right click to download).

Updated Professor X PDF, 06-01-2010.





More coming soon.

Cheers,
Tim

Thanks for posting these. It's interesting seeing different people's takes on the characters, and it's clear you put a lot of thought into your write-ups.

May I ask one question about experience points? Did Thunderbird have a lot of experience before joining the X-Men. Or do the new X-Men earn enough experience points in Giant Size #1, and X-Men #94-95 to bring him to 12th level?

Thanks! You have a very clean approach to translating characters that captures their spirit and powers well. I especially like how you made sense of Colossus' transformation and Wolverine's skeleton. Bravo!

I've been having a blast knocking these PDFs off. I would like to do some X-Men villains as well so who knows what's next. I've also been grabbing the various character images from cover scans or pics from the actual comic and then I tweak them in Photoshop to give me the pic(s) I use in the PDF.

I have a Phoenix write-up that's giving me some trouble and I want to tackle the original X-Men as well. The original team went their own ways when the All-New All-Different X-Men took over. Over time, each member has found his or her's way back on the team at one point or another. Naturally a Magneto write-up would have to be done as well.

I'm thinking of putting a page together for these PDFs under the name of 'Children off the Atom V&V Campaign' or hopefully something snazzier.

I've been meaning to start a similar V&V project but with a Fantastic Four theme... one of these days I will.

Cheers,
Tim

I've been grabbing pics from the 90s to late 100s of the X-Men books. Actually most of the cover pics are from the Official Marvel Index of the X-Men vol 1 (1987). The cover scans are printed on good quality paper in that series so they scan better than newsprint pics.

I've been having trouble with the Phoenix write-up because she is so damn powerful then I realized that if I'm doing a what if situation based on Giant-Sized X-Men 1, then perhaps Jean Grey never became Phoenix. I decided to shelf my Phoenix write-up (for the time being) and focus on the original X-Men next.

Go right ahead dsumner. I agree about Phoenix feeling like a NPC. That's why I'm going to do a Marvel Girl write-up instead. I found the best picture of Jean Grey in her green mini-skirt outfit for the PDF.

I think I might present both versions of the Beast. The human looking one and the blue & furry one. I like both aspects of the character so I will probably do a write-up for each. Course there's also Iceman and the Angel.

Cheers,
Tim

Here's some more PDFs.

Updated the Beast PDF, 06-03-2010.









I also have plans for a blue & furry Beast and Phoenix PDFs. Then I guess it is time for some villains.

Cheers,
Tim

Thanks John. As for your suggestions...

Fantastic Four - Most definitely!
Avengers - On my wish list
Defenders - On my wish list
Champions - On my wish list
New Warriors - Sorry, probably not. Not a series that I've read.

Cheers,
Tim

Black Bolt wrote on May 31^st, 2010 at 8:35pm:


I was just teasing you.

I love the write ups, they are neat, elequent and proffesional looking.

dsumner wrote on Jun 1^st, 2010 at 8:14am:

I don't know yet since I haven't gotten that far, but it will probably be various late 70s/early-mid 80s Avengers (maybe around the time of the Korvac Saga). If I do Alpha Flight, it will be the Byrne version. At the moment I'm looking at villains that appeared in the X-Men like Count Nefaria, the Ani-Men, the Hellfire Club, the various Sentinal types, etc.

Harkker wrote on Jun 1^st, 2010 at 11:39am:

No plans for Excalibur but you never know. I want to do a write-up for Shadowcat but first I will probably do an earlier version of her to go with the rest of the All-New, All-Different X-Men. So expect an Ariel write-up (in her green costume) before I get to the Shadowcat one.

Cheers,
Tim

I've noticed the odd typo, formatting issues, or miscalculations in to hit or damage modifiers in some of the write-ups. I'm updating as I come across them but I will edit my posts to let everyone know which PDF has been tweaked.

Harkker wrote on Jun 2^nd, 2010 at 7:34pm:
Some argue that Kitty Pryde was actually Lockheed's pet?

By the way, these write-ups really are sweet!

This is off topic, but I really wish Polaris had stuck with her original green costume. Sure it was a little over the top, but it looked great with her green hair. I think her purple costume was very weak.

Nice work! I like how just about everyone has Heightened Endurance A. It fits the "mutant physique" discussion of the original series from the 1960s (especially with Angel's origin story and Havok's introduction). Even the Marvel RPG of the 1980s gave mutants an extra rank of Endurance.

Great art selections as well. I recognize most of the issues that most of those comic book shots are from. Neal Adams and John Byrne were the only artists who made Marvel Girl look good in her yellow/green get-up!   

Well, if you're doing requests, I second the request for Mystique's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (Mystique, Rouge, Blob, Pyro, Avalanche, and Destiny).

Since your doing Byrne art how about some Alpha Flight?

Cool, I always look forward to seeing any version of Cap. My first wife played a version of Scarlet Witch. Would like to see how you write it