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I kind of lied in my previous post about my vision for ❌ X-Men: The Animated Series ❌. I said I began reading the comics during the Claremont/Byrne Dark Phoenix Saga, but actually I first got into the series during the Claremont/Smith run a couple of years later.

The stories were so dense and there were tons of references to earlier issues, so I raided the bins at my local comic shop and filled in all the gaps, beginning with the Dark Phoenix Saga. So, even though now, decades later, I feel like I started reading the series at that point, technically this was the roster when I picked up my first issues of The Uncanny X-Men. Jean was gone, but Rogue and Kitty (and Lockheed!) were on the team, Storm was rocking her punk look, and Wolverine had traded the blue and yellow for browns.

I’d guess most people prefer the more familiar 90s Rogue design, but I love the costume from the this era. As for Kitty, whose wardrobe back then seemed to change every couple of issues, I decided to play it safe and give her the standard team outfit of the time.

Description

I kind of lied in my previous post about my vision for ❌ X-Men: The Animated Series ❌. I said I began reading the comics during the Claremont/Byrne Dark Phoenix Saga, but actually I first got into the series during the Claremont/Smith run a couple of years later.

The stories were so dense and there were tons of references to earlier issues, so I raided the bins at my local comic shop and filled in all the gaps, beginning with the Dark Phoenix Saga. So, even though now, decades later, I feel like I started reading the series at that point, technically this was the roster when I picked up my first issues of The Uncanny X-Men. Jean was gone, but Rogue and Kitty (and Lockheed!) were on the team, Storm was rocking her punk look, and Wolverine had traded the blue and yellow for browns.

I’d guess most people prefer the more familiar 90s Rogue design, but I love the costume from the this era. As for Kitty, whose wardrobe back then seemed to change every couple of issues, I decided to play it safe and give her the standard team outfit of the time.