John Cassaday, artist on the upcoming Marvel NOW! title Uncanny Avengers with writer Rick Remender, has released a number of sketches for the characters’ redesigned characters to MTV Geek. This time out, we get a look at the mutants–so don’t be surprised if tomorrow there’s another installment that examines the redesign of some of the human characters we’ll see in the title.”Rick and I had some specific directions we wanted to push things with a couple of the characters, but in general it was John’s design sense which carried the day,” Marvel Senior Vice President of Publishing Tom Brevoort told the site.For Havok, Brevoort described the reinvention as “moving back towards the way Neal Adams originally depicted his powers working visually back in the day, only maybe modernized a little bit,” telling MTV, “So yeah, no glowy Tron lines necessarily, but a while lot of concentric circles.”Like all of the redesigned characters we’ve seen close-up so far, the approach seems to be somewhat more real-world and functional than just the traditional superhero spandex, but not quite taking it to the extreme of a Dark Knight-style armor suit or even an X-Men movie-style thing where they’ve got uniforms and leather (although the idea of team costumes is apparently still not completely off the table).
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