Madonna Inspires A New X-Men Comic Book
Marvel Comics is celebrating their 70th anniversary this August and in celebration they are publishing special edition variant covers of various comic book titles inspired by music icons of the 80’s and 90’s. X-Men: Legacy #225 features Rogue striking a Vogue pose on the cover, very clearly inspired by the Queen of Pop Madonna:
Celebrating their 70 years on August 11, 2009, Marvel will be spicing up the aniversary by releasing alternate covers to many of its super-heroes magazines, inspired in Music Idols from the 80’s and 90’s. Four covers will be released on June 17 of the 90’s Decade Variant cover of X-Men: Legacy #225 designed by Brazilian artist Adriana Melo features Rogue – one of the mutants’ most controversial characters – striking a pose…
Does Madonna’s pop culture reach know no bounds? I mean, it does make sense that if you’re looking for an icon from the 80’s or 90’s for inspiration, you really need look no further than to he Madgesty herself. I have to say … Rogue looks pretty cool as Maddy. She’s even got Maddy’s monstrous hands, too!! This comic book cover looks pretty sweet … I wonder what other icons of the 80’s and 90’s they’ll be paying homage to as well.
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June 5th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
her arms look really really mannish… its kinda scary >.<
but otherwise, what a cool idea!
June 5th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
hah! They needed a celeb as old as the comic for the cover pic, LOL
June 5th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
“Come on, Rogue!
Let your body move to the music!”
I think the word play here is TOO easy. But, of course, I still love it.
June 5th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
The pose is all Madonna, but the picture looks a lot more like Marilyn Monroe to me… The hair, the white dress, th facial expression.
June 5th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
wow ARMS!
agree w/ christina
June 5th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Thanks for the info, Trent. I’m geeking out over this! Love the X-Men!
June 5th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Rogue def has Madonna’s arms!
June 6th, 2009 at 12:38 am
That’s the dress she wore in the video. And why would you call someone’s hands “monstrous”? That’s cruel. Some people just don’t have nice hands- I was born with not very attractive hands and kids used to call me mummy hands and tell me to get hand plastic surgery (?). People can’t do much about their hands and it makes you seem very petty to make fun of someone for that.
June 6th, 2009 at 7:54 am
This is such a stupid idea, but then the morons that run the comic book companies now have been successful at ruining the characters and their legacies – so full steam ahead.
I was hoping it would be a voracious crypt dwelling creature who survived on the blood of virgins20-somethings called The Cougar. Instead we get Rogue doing the Vogue…ooh, how original!
Also, they draw all the women like bodybuilders now, it’s so damn ugly. Back in the day the artists came out of fashion and ad illustration and knew how to draw women.
June 6th, 2009 at 9:37 am
so women aren’t allowed to have muscled arms?
June 18th, 2009 at 11:28 am
I LOVE THIS COVER!
I found more of the Marvel 80s & 90s inspired covers are listed at http://bit.ly/IP3D9 !!!
June 18th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Some hands are gross… I don’t think Madonna’s hands are as bad as Megan Fox’s though. I found a gallery of pics at http://bit.ly/2xyEqA that my boyfriend pointed me to!