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This Is How Mark Brooks Warms Up With The X-Men's Rogue

Mark Brooks, likes to share his work processes. And this week, that meant drawing the X-Men's Rogue in a rather familiar and memed pose.

Published Tue, 16 Jan 2024 10:28:07 -0600

by Rich Johnston

Last updated Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:58:43 -0600

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Mark Brooks warms up with a classic Rogue pose from the X-Men series.
The pose has sparked memes, unofficial merchandise, and fan engagement.
Rogue's history is celebrated, from villain to X-Men mainstay.
Brooks' Marvel work spans from early illustrations to notable cover art.

Mark Brooks, whose recent career has seen him drawing and painting detailed X-Men covers and images for Marvel Comics, 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."

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

With plenty of age-inappropriate comment over said pose over the decades. Including this rather excellent knock-off action figure which was sold on Etsy for $60, Sold out now, of course, as "Thicced Up Rogue".

This Is How Mark Brooks Warms Up With The X-Men's Rogue — Thicced Up Rogue from Etsy

The new X-Men '97 Animated Series revival will be along on Disney_ sometime soon. Might we see a homage to such a memorable scene within? 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. He also posts his political opinions online, which sees people on YouTube try to cancel him. But this time, they probably won't mind if his opinion is that Rogue is just fine. Maybe he might get criticism from the other direction, but that's the internet these days, is it not?