WIZARD MAGAZINE part 4

ANATOMY OF A COVER VIDEO EDITION

WIZARD #95: This issue with a cover date of July 1999, marks the first time Alex has painted the X-Men; not the original ones from the 1960s which we saw in Marvels, but the so-called "new" X-Men from Giant Size X-Men #1. These characters include Storm, Banshee, Phoenix, Nightcrawler, Colossus and Wolverine. He painted them the way they appear in their early issues by Chris Claremont, John Byrne and Dave Cockrum. I'm just going to say that I really like this painting although I'm not too crazy about the lighting of the characters, I prefer it when Alex puts them in broad daylight. But there's a reason for this odd lighting, check out the video I uploaded below to see and hear Alex's comments on this piece.