X-Men 'Yearbook' Art Shows Why the '90s Animated Team Were So Iconic
The incredibly talented artist Amy Reeder has released an iconic '90s Yearbook-style variant cover for the upcoming X-Men '92: House of XCII #5, giving the core X-Men team hilarious and spot-on «superlatives.» Yearbook superlatives have been around for decades but gained prominence in the '90s as a way to highlight graduating seniors successes as well as lightly poke fun at their journeys through high school, and Reeder's X-Men cover captures that energy perfectly.
The X-Men debuted in 1963 but had major resurgences in the 1970s with the start of Chris Claremont's legendary 16-year run writing the comics, and again in the '90s with the release of X-Men: The Animated Series and the general increase in comics interest at the time. Classic characters like Cyclops, Jean Grey, and Storm became beloved pop culture icons in the '90s and Marvel Comics shifted the X-Men's tone to a more bombastic '90s aesthetic, highlighted in an emphasis on huge muscles and guns seen in the likes of Bishop and Cable.
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X-Men '92: House of XCII — by Steve Foxe with art by Salvador Espin and Israel Silva — is a new series from Marvel Comics that evokes the spirit of X-Men: The Animated Series. The five-issue limited series reimagines Jonathan Hickman's acclaimed 2019 relaunch of the X-Men - House of X/Powers of X — as if it happened back in the '90s, with '90s X-Men characters and attitudes, and will go all the way up through the recent Inferno event. Amy Reeder, an Eisner Award-nominated artist and writer known for her work on Madame Xanadu and Amethyst, revealed her variant cover on Twitter, boldly proclaiming, "I love the 90s and the 90s love me." Her brilliant and
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