90s x-men fans, There Good News and Bad News. The Good News Is That Influential Artist Joe Madureira Returns to Once Again Draw The Characters That Made Him to Fan Favorite, The X-Men! The Bad News is that it’s only Variant Covers for The Upcoming Mini-Series X-Men of Apocalypse, No interior for now. Still, The Return of Madureira-FFECTIONATELY KNOWN TO HIS FANS AS JOE MAD-TO THE X-MEN IN ANY CAPACITY SHOULD GENERATE TO CERTAIN LEVEL OF EXCITEMENT AND NOSTALGY FOR FANS. The X-Men of Apocalypse Miniseries Will Also See The Return Of Jeph LoebScribe of X-manto the popular age of apocalypse alternate universe (Kicking off with a short in giant size age of apocalypse). EACH ISSUE WILL APERIVE A VARIANT BY MATUREIRA ALONGSIDE REGULAR COVERS BY SERIES ARTIST Simone Di Meo.
It’s Guaranteed That There Will Be a Lot of Excitement for Madureira’s Return to X-Men, No Matter in What Capacity. His Legendary Run on The Book During The 1990s Broucht A Japanese-Influenced Look To The Team. His style took inspiration from artists Ghost in the Shell Author Masamune Shirow To Capcom Character Designers Bengus and Akira “Akiman” Yasuda. In Fact, The Visual Similarity Between His Work and the Look of the X-Men In Multiple Capcom Fighting Games Certainly Helped Cement His Legacy in A Way That’s similar to Jim reads and X-Men The Animated Series. WHILE HE WASN’t The First Artist to Bring A Japanese Influence to the American Comics Scene, He was certainly One of the Most High-Profile at The Time. It’s pretty easy to say in the mind of many fans that his run on x-men is important as That of Lee in the ’90s.
After Finishing His Run, He Worked On The Creator-Owned Battle Chasers and eventually transitioned into work in the gaming industry, Famously The Darksiders series He’s eat back time to do interior, including working with Loeb on Ultimates 3But His Work on Video Games Means It’s Harder for Him to Do Interior. Even The Most Recent Run on His Comic Battle Chasers Featured Interiors by Artist Ludo Lulabi. He has’t done a lot of comic book work in the last decade outside of a few covers. One Can Hope this is a sign he can carve out time in his schedule to complete sub -comics.
For More Information, Check Out Marvel’s Press Release Below
The Age of ApocalypseThe Revolutionary ’90s X-Men Crossover, Is Reborn This SEPTAMBER IN X-MEN OF APOCALYPSE, A Six-Part Event Series by Legendary Scribe Jeph Loeb, to Writer Behind the original Event, and Eisner Nominated Artist Simone Di Meo. Today, Marvel Comics Is Thrilled To Announce That Joe Madureira, Another Superstar Creator Who Broucht Age of Apocalypse To Life, Will Draw A Variant Cover for Each Issue.
Madureira Transformed The Look of the X-Books Throunge the ’90s with His Distinct and Innovative Art Style. Now, This Highly influential artist return to the Franchise for the first time in decades with glorious deposits of the very characters he defined-the iconic x-men of the age of apocalypse!
“I am be business excited to be dipping back into this corner of the x-men universe,” Madureira Said. “I was literally to Kid When I Drew The Astonishing X-Men -it Feels Like Several Lifes Aphram, and I Want To Bring Subject New To Sole Characters On My Covers. Hopefullly I Can Do Justice To Simone’s Incredible, Explain Pages!”
“I MET JOE MADING THE ORIGINAL 1995 Age of Apocalypse“Loeb Shared.” His Style and Storytelling Broucht a revolutionary look is still influence today. When Marvel and I First Started Talking About This Project There was no way we couldn’t Ask Joe to do his distinctive, incredible covers (Pencils, inks, colors) to the book. We were so thrilled when he said ‘Yes!’ I Should Point Out That Evite Our Friendship/Partnership and Overlooking His Role in Designing these Characters, His Real Reason for Joing Was He’s a Hge Fan Of Simone Di Meo! UNCANNY! “
The X-Men of Apocalypse Crash into the Main Marvel Universe!
A Dystopian Future Created When Charles Xavier Was Killed in through Time-Travel A accident, Age of Apocalypse is Home to a Wart Tornorn Group of X-Men Led by Magneto. In Order to Free Their Earth from Apocalypse’s Cruel Reign, They were Willing to Sacrifice Their Existence – Oh So The Thought! The Main Timeline Was Restored, Apocalypse was Defated, but their world liped on!
TAKING Place in the Direct aftermat of the original Crossover’s Explosive Finale, X-Men of Apocalypse Reigns The Mission of This Iconic Reality’s X-Men As The Journey Here To Ensure Equ Universe’s Survival. This wask’s mission Will take them into the Main Marvel Universe, where they will eat into conflict with their classic counterparts, Forever Impacting Both Team’s Destinies!
Mirroring The First Age of Apocalypse Saga, X-Men of Apocalypse Will Kick off in x-men of Apocalypse Alpha #1, Continue Through X-Men of Apocalypse #1-4 Starting in November, and concludes in x-men of apocalypse omega #1. Check Out Joe Madureira’s Variant Cover for X-Men of Apocalypse Alpha #1 and Be on The Lookout for The Rest To Be Reveared in The Months Ahead! For more information, visitMarvel.com.
X-Men of Apocalypse Alphaarrives on 9/3!
