Comments on: 10/1 - Curious Cat Asks...

By: Chris Griswold

Chris Griswold — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:49:06 +0000

I hope they revert to lion Beast from New X-Men. That's my Beast. The one for adults.

By: JB

JB — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:57:59 +0000

soon hopefully

By: GQ

GQ — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:50:41 +0000

For starters, Beast's current look is more of a lion than a cat.
Check out Quitely's New X-Men to see how he is supposed to look. Cassidy's tiny-faced cat version is utterly ridiculous.

Lion > Ape.

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:18:38 +0000

here are so many cat-like characters running around the marvel universe its probably right behind flame powers as the most generic power set ever.

I do believe you, but I can't think of a single one - unless you count Black Cat who isn't really at all cat-like. Personally I like the cat-like one, but I'd be happy if he evolves/devolves into something else - but (assuming they stick with mamals) other than dog and bear it's all going to get silly. I don't think rabbit beast or squirrel beast would really work. Maybe if they allow reptiles or insects in it could get good.

By: Jack Norris

Jack Norris — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:48:34 +0000

They've already done the "revert Beast to his more human form" plot once, which also coincided with that stupid plot where he was losing his intelligence. Also, some people don't seem to remember that his first transformation into a more bestial form was not a "secondary mutation" but the result of Hank taking his own "mutation catalyst" formula, which seems to have been conveniently forgotten about; I was kind of disappointed that it wasn't even mentioned during Decimation, even an offhand remark about how it wouldn't help would have been nice.

By: John Trumbull

John Trumbull — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:39:25 +0000

I hope it's soon, as the cat look is SO different it's hard for me to identify with him as the same character. John Cassiday draws the cat look well, but for me the blue furry monkey man will always be the REAL Beast.

By: Lord Paradise

Lord Paradise — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:13:24 +0000

Just because people are used to it doesn't mean Ape-Beast didn't look really stupid. Cat-Beast really isn't like other "Cat" characters, in terms of his build and powers, and I think it's a much better look for him. I think Secondary Mutations are a fine idea overall, as it lets writers do new things with old characters. Hopefully the writers won't ignore that Professor X stands to inherit all of Cassandra Nova's telekinesis powers. Then he can become a field member of the X-Men (or another group) and have something to do other than deal with the consequences of his past mistakes.

By: Nitz the Bloody

Nitz the Bloody — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:46:10 +0000

I'd like to see him devolve further, perhaps into some sort of squid-like creature. But if we have to regress to any particular past Beast, I vote for the developmentally disabled Hank circa the original X-Factor, whose intellect diminished as his strength rose, thus leading to some unintentionally hilarious dialogue.

By: Vichus Smith

Vichus Smith — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:57:02 +0000

Oewn G:

The human Beast doesn't look like Colossus. They are both strong men, but Colossus is more built like a weightlifter while Hank (we're talking from back in the day) is a little less in shape, and bulkier than colossus

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:42:27 +0000

With due respect to people who like the cat look, I honoslty want it to go away. There are so many cat-like characters running around the marvel universe its probably right behind flame powers as the most generic power set ever. His ape form was a much more original idea, at least compared to another cat charcter

By: Stefan

Stefan — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:30:40 +0000

I like the old look but I like the new look better. Unfortunately only a few artists can draw Cat-Beast -- Quitely, Cassaday, Bianchi, anybody else? -- and he looks pretty silly under most others' pencils. But when he's done well it's brilliant.

Fraction just gave him increased flexibility in fingers in UXM 501, so it looks like they're going for the best of both worlds -- Cat-Beast, but with enough dexterity to act more like the old apelike Beast when he wants.

By: Joe Rice

Joe Rice — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:01:33 +0000

I hate "ape" Beast. Human isn't awful but it's weird and hard for most artists to do. I like cat Beast best. I wouldn't mind him getting even more animalistic.

By: owen gieni

owen gieni — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:50:06 +0000

Human Beast also looks too much like human Colossus, which is why that shouldn't be an option either. He needs to look like his own character and not like Logan or Piotr (even if he predates them). When in doubt defer to Quitely or Bachalo, they get it right.

By: the Phantom-Longbox

the Phantom-Longbox — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:43:43 +0000

I should state, however, that he was never drawn to LOOK like an APE.
He didn't have HANDS for FEET or anything like that, but just that he was often called an "ape" by foes and scared humans alike.

Just to make clear that I'm NOT SAYING that he was ape-like.
Just enough to RESEMBLE an ape.

X_the_Phantom-Longbox__

By: the Phantom-Longbox

the Phantom-Longbox — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:41:23 +0000

Two things:

1) The old fast-taking, joke-telling, bouncing, blue-furred Beast was VERY APE-LIKE.
That was because when he was in his primary mutated (HUMAN) form, he had big hands and feet and his feet were quite dextrous (he was able to use them like hands), and that carried over into the blue-furred incarnation (but with claws added).

He was "mistaken" for an ape several times in fact. Once, for instance, when the X-MEN were captured by MESMERO and put in a traveling side-show, Beast came to break them out and the roustabouts exclaimed that one of the APES must have got loose (and were VERY surprised to hear him SPEAK - and exclaim that he was an AVENGER).

2) I know that for the "Marvel Classic Figure Collection" (those lead-based statuettes available from the UK) they wanted to sculpt him in his old "blue ape" look, and Marvel execs insisted that he be rendered in his new "cat-beast" look.

SO, I'd imagine that this look is here to stay for awhile.
Unless... perhaps, BENDIS wants to use him in the old look.
Joe Q always lets Bendis have what he wants.
(Or those nude photos of JQ with the donkey show will be released to the internets)

X_the_Phantom-Longbox__

By: Rusty Priske

Rusty Priske — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:36:12 +0000

The current version looks so much worse than the old one that I can't believe they haven't changed it back already!

By: Vichus Smith

Vichus Smith — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:53:34 +0000

jazzbo, if a cat Beast falls in the woods and it's not in your pull list, does it look really odd to you?

I agree with Bat2supe. At least tease beast with another turn back into his human form. Just a dude with really big feet.

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:26:40 +0000

and never once imagined beasts blue wolverine-haired form was remotely related to an ape

Neither did I. But then until I read it it hadn't occurred to me that the new look was a cat either - though I can see that - especially when Greg Land traces a lion to draw him.

By: R. J. Sterling

R. J. Sterling — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:15:33 +0000

Curious Cat, stop saying "revert BACK; it's redundant and stupid. The Beast's face never did look apelike, a better word for which is "pithecoid".

By: Bat2supe

Bat2supe — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:37:49 +0000

Bring the Hank McCoy human beast back, at this point going old school is the only viable option.

That 2nd mutation thing is really a lame idea