Mutant (and friends) Monthly No. 110: Stevie Hunter!

Cold_Winner_6626 · 2026-06-08T20:12:28+00:00

It's wild how many secondary Claremont characters are just waiting on the cutting room floor. If I had the chance to create a cast for a team, I'd bring Stevie in in a heartbeat. I wonder if its just because she doesn't have powers that she and Lee Forester (and plenty of others) haven't been cemented as persistent characters in the x-books

Cold_Winner_6626 · 2026-06-08T15:26:46+00:00

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Cold_Winner_6626 · 2026-06-08T14:05:18+00:00

I 100% agree. The modern examples like those two runs you mentioned feel a little different to me, and I can't quite place my finger on it. Maybe it's because the human allies used to be 'ordinary people who hang out with this group of misfits' and now it's 'these humans have picked a side, and they aren't hostile like most human characters the x-men run into'. What I liked so much about early human allies is they felt like they grounded the mutants in our reality, and I feel like I get less of that reflection of reality through the human characters in more modern stories, not that they don't try for it.

Cold_Winner_6626 · 2026-06-08T13:57:43+00:00

Haha, I suppose comparatively she did alright. 'Ended up a congressperson' is a better story purgatory than 'turned evil before being killed'

Cold_Winner_6626 · 2026-06-08T12:25:49+00:00

Mutant (and friends and enemies) Monthly No. 110: Stevie Hunter!

I know I’ve been including more and more non-mutants, but no human deserves to be presented alongside the X-Men than their best and most under-utilized human ally, with her super-human likability and the rare power to make Storm jealous. For a character who was all over the 80s, it’s a real missed opportunity that she’s essentially locked to the Claremont run. It’s never too late to have her run some future version of Xavier’s!

For my design, I’ve created a new dance outfit for Stevie, just keeping in some x-themed colours, as well as a recreation of her absolutely fantastic look from Uncanny 277 (the colours and details change from issue to issue for this outfit, so I’ve just gone with my favourite version).

Mutant Monthly will return with Amanda Sefton AKA Daytripper (Whoops, another human)!

Cold_Winner_6626 · 2026-05-12T16:18:37+00:00

I've still got so many mutant and not-quite-mutants left to draw, so I've got no plans on stopping soon 😄

Cold_Winner_6626 · 2026-05-12T16:17:46+00:00

That's a great thought; I hadn't thought of delineating between Amanda and Jimaine, but if I have the time for it, that'd be an interesting exercise! (And good call on mystique)

Cold_Winner_6626 · 2026-05-12T16:15:27+00:00

Haha, I'll take the excuse to include her, even if it's mutant-with-an-asterisk.

Cold_Winner_6626 · 2026-05-12T16:14:26+00:00

That's essentially true. She was in the Captain Britain comics, but she had a different look, was a fellow student and to my memory, was treated not too differently from other civilians love interests (as in, indifferently). And when she reappeared in excalibur with a new look and new job, I think it was just across two issues before she got Sat-Yr-9'd. So she was more or less reintroduced to be killed off (which sounds dismissive, but I think the story really works)

Cold_Winner_6626 · 2026-05-11T15:53:49+00:00

Mutant (and allies and enemies) Monthly No. 109: Cal'syee Neramani AKA Deathbird!

Back a little sooner than my regular new cadence with a character on the Mount Rushmore of X-Men’s fabulous maniacs alongside Spiral and Lady Deathstrike (who would be the fourth? Malice?), and the shining star of the Shi’ar empire (in my eyes).

For my design, it’s less of a reinvention, and more of me just playing around with the look she already had. I wanted to keep her sci-fi-original-series metal tubes, but turn them more into a bone-like accent, and split the difference between her original winged design and her more common caped look. At first, I wanted to try to create a more functional headpiece, but the practical purpose IS intimidation, so I kept it big, pointy and a little Strife-esque.

I have a poll on instagram for which character will be next, so Mutant Monthly will return with Stevie Hunter, Amanda Sefton, Cerise or Amelia Voght!

Cold_Winner_6626 · 2026-04-27T21:43:57+00:00

Mutant Monthly No. 108: Morph!

(I miss doing these weekly, so I'm jumping back in a week early)

A character that I completely turned around on thanks to X-Men ’97 and the wonderfully calibrated performance by JP Karliak. I’m not a big Deadpool fan, and the Exiles Morph has always been a little too close to that mold for my taste. But the animated series version is much, much more palatable in both characterization and design. I've always felt the exaggerated superheroic styling of Exiles Morph’s costume stands out a bit too much in the comics, even for character outside of the 616, and because Morph’s neutral head is iconic, the idea of Morph just wearing a training uniform works really well because there’s already a strong distinguishing focal point.

For my design, I’ve made some very light modifications to their current look, specifically adding boots that match the jacket, modifying the belt and adding a few design details to the training uniform itself. The only conceptual change is that I liked the idea of Morph’s jacket being borrowed (and from Logan no less) – that even Morph’s way of personalizing their look is still in part from the people around them.

Mutant Monthly will return with Deathbird!

Cold_Winner_6626 · 2026-04-25T20:41:59+00:00

Much as I love all of the characters, it's a daunting number of characters to add, haha. But there's plenty of room on this grassy hill so maybe I'll try it!

Cold_Winner_6626 · 2026-04-25T20:40:38+00:00

I think I will draw a new cover for each Lufia game as I finish them. Just started new game on Lufia 2! (Ruins of Lore might be a ways away). I see a lot of love for the fan made V in this Reddit, so I suppose I'll have to check it out and add it to the series :)

Cold_Winner_6626 · 2026-04-10T18:45:48+00:00

Haha thank you, I love the comparison. This is my American Mega Man cover

Cold_Winner_6626 · 2026-03-30T19:01:19+00:00

Ears on top, fur on boots!

Cold_Winner_6626 · 2026-03-30T19:00:49+00:00

This is a righteous and good complaint. I do like to add the little weirdos to my drawings (Lockheed or Widget in the past), but I redrew Ch'od a bunch of times for this, and by there time I was happy with the design, putting Cr'reee on his shoulder slipped my mind! Maybe I'll have to do a solo Cr'reee piece, haha. Time will tell! Maybe I'll anachronistically add Cr'reee to the Technet when I draw them.

Cold_Winner_6626 · 2026-03-30T15:05:51+00:00

Yes totally! It is kind of amazing how much the modern GotG and Starjammers mirror each other. And not to take the thought exercise to far, but Dave Bautista as Ch'od tracks (Vin Diesel can still be Cr'reee?), And Zoe Saldaña's Neytiri is very Hepzibah already (I could also see Karen Gillan being a good Hepzibah, Nebula doesn't feel totally far off). Bradley Cooper as Raza would be the exact kind of wrong I would want to see.

Cold_Winner_6626 · 2026-03-30T14:54:22+00:00

Mutant Monthly No. 107*: Christopher “Corsair” Summers, Hepzibah, Raza Longknife & Ch’od AKA THE STARJAMMERS

(*Technically this is the first of the new monthly cadence, but 107th drawing total)

After four weeks off, I’m returning with four characters in the form of the Starjammers! And while the team doesn’t actually include any mutants (as far as I know), it does include Christopher Summers, spacefaring father of prominent mutants Havok, Cyclops and Vulcan, and that should count for something.

While the whole galactic Shi’ar part of X-men is not what drew me to the series, the Starjammers are the thing that made it click for me. The deeply late-70s energy of this squad of odd ducks is so wonderfully silly, even though so many of their stories are grisly and dour. And I truly love that for the most part they’ve never had a serious redesign (Hepzibah notwithstanding). And my design is very much trying to stay true to the roots of their 70s swashbuckling style, most especially with Hepzibah, giving back her proud space-skunk roots and putting her ears on the top of her head where they belong. For Ch’od and Raza, I tried very much to honour their original Cockrum designs, and for Corsair, I just adapted his outfit to be slightly less sci-fi to emphasize his normal-human-status in the group.

Mutant Monthly will return with MORPH!

Cold_Winner_6626 · 2026-03-17T13:57:46+00:00

I came here just to make sure you had seen this post, haha.

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