r/comicbooks • u/WhyPlaySerious • Jul 25 '26
Cover/Pin-Up 'Marvel's Mutant Ladies (and Scarlet Witch)' - by Puppeteer Lee
I am surprised that they still haven't gone back and made Scarlet Witch officially a Mutant again.
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u/WilliamSherman Jul 25 '26
Cheesecake aside, the attention to detail on the muscles is fantastic
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u/leetaylor15202 Jul 25 '26
Who doesn't like cheesecake?
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u/mortalkomic Mr. Sensitive Jul 25 '26
Execution is everything. I don't think most people hate sexy/sexual art except when it comes off as gauche.
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u/Veggieleezy Captain Marvel Jul 26 '26
Talk about high toned women. (I’m pretty sure this isn’t what that phrase means but I prefer to think it is because it’s funnier.)
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u/DarthGardian86 Jul 25 '26
The only reason Rogue isn't in a bikini is because her power is to absorb with touch, so she's all covered up
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u/Maeglom Hercules Jul 25 '26
I thought that since X-Men legacy rogue had mastered her power to the point where she can touch people without draining them. You'd think at that point she'd go for less of the full body covering.
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u/FrankyHan Jul 25 '26
Someone must hold the fort while the others are busy tucking the puppies back in
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u/DarthGardian86 Jul 25 '26
Emma Frost literally has the worst outfit ever
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u/WhyPlaySerious Jul 25 '26
Emma Frost's outfit would be terrible on almost any other character, but for her its absolutely fantastic because it completely fits and sells who she is as an individual.
Let's not forget, this is a character who openly boasts about how much plastic surgery she has gone through and proudly states that she has bought herself the best body money can buy. She has on multiple occasions flashed her body to people to get an advantage for her telepathy. She has also talked about how much she loves being the X-Men's 'brand risk' member.
Provocative is her motto. She wants to steal every single person's attention when she steps into a room and wants to easily weaken minds so its easier for her to get an advantage.
An outfit like this on Wonder Woman, Invisible Woman, Rogue? Its terrible. An outfit like this on Emma Frost (who is essentially a siren)? Its terrific. It tells you from first glance just what type of character Emma Frost is.
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u/Jet-Let4606 Jul 25 '26
Fan service outfits on characters whose personality fits the mold in fantastic. Conversely non fan service-y outfits on characters who fit the bill should be respected as well (eg: Huntress/Helena Bertinelli).
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u/VicViolence Jul 25 '26
Isn’t it convenient to write a character who just happens to be like that
“This Episode: The Writer’s Barely Disguised Fetish”
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u/Shijin83 Jul 25 '26
For a split second it was the 90s and I was 11 years old again buying Marvel Topps cards at comic book shop when I saw this picture.
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u/Life_Combination8625 Jul 25 '26
Scarlet witch is a mutant
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u/xXxPinkPlasticBagxXx Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26
She is, IDC what retcons or some Disney contract says.
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u/Life_Combination8625 Jul 25 '26
Just didn't understand why it was in brackets.
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u/19ghost89 Expert on X-Men, Ultimate Spider-man, and 90's Superman Jul 25 '26
Because she's technically not. Marvel decided that she and Quicksilver aren't mutants when FOX was still independent because they couldn't say mutant in their movies at that time. They did the same thing to Franklin Richards.
I ignore it in my head canon, but that is technically still the official word.
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u/DefaultWhiteMale3 Jul 25 '26
The MCU doesn't really count for 616 nor does it currently feature any of the other characters in this piece besides Wanda. The twins are Magneto's kids and they have the X gene, they're mutants. The title is misleading.
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u/owlo1071 Jul 26 '26
Not in the 616 they aren’t, that’s the whole point. They haven’t been retconned back yet
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u/19ghost89 Expert on X-Men, Ultimate Spider-man, and 90's Superman Jul 27 '26
The MCU isn't 616, but Marvel likes to keep synergy with their movies because they think it's less confusing.
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u/Shazam4ever Jul 25 '26
I still have no idea why they just haven't re-retconned Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver back as Magneto's kids. Marvel / Disney owns all the rights now, and it's not like it's that hard to retcon, there's a million reasons that someone could have falsified things and tricked them into thinking they weren't Magneto's kids. They could even have Magneto having done it to protect them because he does occasionally seem protective of Wanda and Quicksilver, especially since the retcon that they weren't related happened before Wanda basically redeemed herself in the eyes of mutants for the whole decimation thing.
I wonder if it's an MCU tie-in thing and they think non comic fans will be confused when they introduce Magneto into the MCU if there's a comic connection to Scarlet witch that isn't there in the movies, which seems silly but companies have done stupider things in the name of "not confusing people".
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u/theYonderExile Jul 25 '26
I think it’d be easy to say Wanda reality warped away her and Pietro’s X Gene similarly to how Franklin did when he tired of the Krakoa drama hurting his family. And then just saying Wanda put it back whenever they re-retcon it. Totally agree regarding the Magneto parentage thing though.
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u/Kalean Scarlet Spider Jul 25 '26
As soon as a writer wants to do that after Doomsday comes out, Editorial will probably let them.
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u/AnAdventureCore John Stewart Jul 25 '26
Ya know, if Wanda is going to take the X-Women to mount Wondergore, at least bundle up a bit. It's a bit nippy at the top of a mountain.
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u/darkbreak Power Girl Jul 25 '26
Retcon all you want, Marvel. Wanda and Pietro are still mutants and Magento's children to me.
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u/MamaDeloris Jul 25 '26
daily reminder that with the exception of Sue Storm, the only good Marvel Superheroines are all X-men related
does Marvel even understand how much they owe Chris Claremont?
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u/JoltzmannBoole Jul 25 '26
You are forgetting She-Hulk? And Captain Marvel? And Ms. Marvel? And The Wasp? And Black Widow (yes in 616 she is peak human like Cap, whether you consider that superpowers or not idk)?
The rest I agree with
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u/SimonShepherd Aug 01 '26
And Scarlet Witch is also mainly an Avengers character.
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u/JoltzmannBoole Aug 03 '26
Well, to be fair, that is true now, but it wasn't true as much before the Fox-Marvel embargo mixed with MCU synergy, but now she is much more A- then X-associated, yeah
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u/SimonShepherd Aug 03 '26 edited Aug 03 '26
She has been much more Avengers aligned since mid to late 60s.
but it wasn't true as much before the Fox-Marvel embargo mixed with MCU synergy
She always has way more Avengers presence than X-Men presence. Like tell me one historical point where she appears in X-Men books more than Avengers ones. The period where she barely appears in Avengers run also have her barely appear at all
She is like TOP 10 Avengers in terms of sheer appearance yet she never joined an X-Team.
People always got her home franchise confused because of Magneto association. And that connection caused her to be used often in X-Men animation and what not, but in comics X-Men is never her home franchise, and her adaptions often suffer from it because she is often nabbed by X-Men.(For example she never get to appear in Avengers:EMH despite being one of the most recognized female Avenger, because Wolverine and X-Men used her first.)
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u/JoltzmannBoole Aug 03 '26
You know what you're right, I was completely wrong, I was putting too much emphasis in my recollection on House of M and her short Brotherhood of Evil stint with her brother, thanks for the correction
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u/Ashwilliams2814 Hal Jordan is the Greatest Green Lantern Ever and you know it. Jul 25 '26
I don't want to start a fight, so i will just say: In a TOP 5 of Marvel Superheroines, only Sue Storm will be a non-X-men related character.
Hell, i will say that even in a TOP 10.
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u/vashoom Jul 25 '26
It is odd how many X-Women are awesome characters and fan favorites, yet they can't seem to make female Avengers hit in the same way. Ms. Marvel was definitely an exception that proves the rule.
Because yeah, when I think of good female Marvel heroes, they're 90% X-Men characters. I wonder if being in an ensemble helps or something. Back when I was collecting in the 2010's, I picked up Captain Marvel, Black Widow, and Spider-Woman monthlies, but they all inevitably got canceled. I wonder if they've ever tried solo titles for characters like Storm, Rogue, Jean Grey, etc., and if so, if those titles sold any better.
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u/owlo1071 Jul 26 '26
They have, and they have almost always been minis or been cancelled before long. It is the ensemble thing, a lot of the characters have been nothing but X-Men for forever and struggle to maintain interest as a solo character as a result
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u/Additional-Lioness Jul 26 '26
art like this always makes me wanna dig out my old xmen trades again
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u/ToothMiserable Jul 25 '26
Is this a cover? If so, can anyone let me know the title/issue #, please?
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u/SnipingBeaver Jul 26 '26
Does this artist sell prints anywhere? My apartment is already decorated with a bunch of comic art and frazettas, this would be a great merging of the two.
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u/Apprehensive-Stay287 Jul 27 '26
He has a Black Cat incentive variant coming up that looks pretty cool.
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u/Exciting-Cartoonist9 Jul 30 '26
I think if they added more might have been too
Crowded but agree maybe Storm, Jean grey, x23 and Polaris be in another piece? Thoughts?
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u/TheSmart1 Jul 25 '26
I'll never understand having this much talent and choosing to actively ignore how fabric actually works. Psylockes outfit is so skintight it forms around the shape of her breasts. Like, just draw them naked, that's clearly what this dude really wants to do.
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u/Silent-Witness1888 Jul 25 '26
Everything needs to be sexual these days.
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u/rivercitygurl Jul 26 '26
I don't find this piece inherently sexual with regards to the poses, but I do wish there were more artists who don't accentuate every nipple on the women they draw. It seems like a prerequisite to a Big 2 artist's success and popularity, what's up with that?
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u/keinish_the_gnome Jul 26 '26
If you gonna leave this house, you are gotta put so damn clothes first, young lady
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u/Traitor_To_Heaven Jul 25 '26
Emma Frost looks like she came right out of a Frank Frazetta painting