Considering most of the Avengers are beloved in the MU, it’s kind of chilling to see them in the same position when not all the members are mutants. Cover art by Paco Medina and Juan Vlasco.Ī variant cover of Captain America has Cap and Sharon Carter in front of a poster of the Avengers. This is also a bit minimalist as the evocative poster image is still there, but there are no labels to tell a viewer anything about the status of those faces. Wolverine’s (daughter? sister? clone? Have we decided what the proper reference for her is?) X-23 is in the protector stance and Hellion is her distressed dude, though he is posed a little more ready to fight than ready to be protected as is the case for most of the secondary characters in these homages. These days, nothing’s really popular unless Deadpool has spoofed it, parodied it, or otherwise made fun of it and DOFP is apparently no exception. And the X-Men we know and love are either “apprehended” or “slain.” This hit very hard when it came out and, looking at it even now, some of that wincing reaction comes right back to me.Ī lot of the most well-done Days of Future Past homages are from Marvel editorial themselves. Wolverine, with grey temples somehow (despite the healing factor), and an adult Kitty Pryde, pinned by a spotlight whose glare implies terrible things about the future.ĪTTENTION: You are now entering a controlled zone. In case you’ve forgotten or are new to X-Fandom, this is the one that started it all–the original by John Byrne, inked by Terry Austin. So I thought it’d be fun to run down the top ten homages, spoofs, and ripoffs of the famous Days of Future Past cover. We’re a little over a month to go to the latest X-film, X-Men: Days of Future Past (Bryan Singer).
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