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Mark Brooks Finishes His Rogue Pose, But With Additional Apocalypse

A couple of days ago, Bleeding Cool posted a TwitterX from Marvel Comics cover artist Mark Brooks, featuring Rogue, in a familiar pose

Published Fri, 19 Jan 2024 05:57:13 -0600

by Rich Johnston

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Mark Brooks showcases Rogue in iconic pose from X-Men Animated Series.
Brooks humorously adds Apocalypses to his Rogue sketch after feedback.
Artist Mark Brooks began with Image Comics and now specializes in X-Men.
Brooks' career includes work on popular comics from Transformers to Han Solo.

A couple of days ago, Bleeding Cool posted a TwitterX from Marvel Comics creator and cover artist Mark Brooks, whose recent career has seen him drawing and painting detailed X-Men images. He likes to share his work processes and this week, that meant drawing the X-Men's Rogue in a rather familiar and memed pose, saying "A quick warm-up from this morning. If you know, you know."

It originated from a certain X-Men Animated Series of the nineties, with Rogue knocked off her feet by the mutant supremacist Apocalypse.

And it became the most read thing on Bleeding Cool over the last two days. But yesterday, Mark Brooks posted a sequel, saying "I take critiques very seriously so when people said that the Rogue warm-up lacked Apocalypses I listened. If you know, you know. Intended to be an homage and tongue in cheek. Please don't be offended."

How could anyone be butt-hurt over something like this? Rogue was created by Chris Claremont and Michael Golden for the Avengers, becoming a villain before joining the X-Men, where she has remained a prominent member ever since. Including a memorable rendition in the cartoons and movies.

Mark Brooks' first published work was in 10th Muse, written by Marv Wolfman for Image Comics, and his first cover work was for the Atlas #1 one-shot for Bleeding Cool's own publisher Avatar Press. His other early work includes Transformers: More Than Meet the Eyes for Dreamwave Productions, G.I Joe vs. the Transformers for Devil's Due Publishing, and Ultraman Tiga for Dark Horse Comics. And he has been working for Marvel Comics since 2004 on Spider-Man, Cable & Deadpool, Amazing Fantasy, X-Men, Fantastic Four, and more. He also drew the five-issue Han Solo miniseries, before becoming a primarily cover artist for Marvel, where he has specialised in drawing the X-Men characters during the Krakoan Age for the franchise.

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