Comments on: Top Five Most Iconic Kitty Pryde Covers

By: True Pryde

True Pryde — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:06:43 +0000

I think this should have been the cover for the last book of Joss’ Astonishing run…

http://ravingprep.deviantart.com/art/Hurtling-Through-Space-139408969

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:44:57 +0000

I would actually call that Paul Smith cover the second most iconic, next to Days of Future Past. It actually reminds me of how bizarrely sexy his pencils used to be. I still like him now, but it’s a wholly different feel than his early x-men work.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:46:23 +0000

Uggh I can’t believe that I had X-men #143 given to me as one of my first comics as a kid and it ended up in tatters

By: keil

keil — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:37:34 +0000

Their #5 choice is spot on. They fired and missed with the other 4 choices. Here are a couple that helped define Kitty

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=39702&zoom=4

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=300152&zoom=4

By: wwk5d

wwk5d — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:44:48 +0000

eric, that was Snowbird, I believe.

By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:20:43 +0000

How about… New Mutants #63!
http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/new-mutants/63-2.jpg

By: eric

eric — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:57:12 +0000

Re: Uncanny # 138
Nightcrawler fought the polar bear from Lost?

By: wwk5d

wwk5d — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:51:42 +0000

“And I mean that not as a shot at Astonishing X-Men, just that the basic concept of most of (if not all) of Whedon’s run was to PLAY with the iconic, not to create it. The same mostly goes for Morrison’s New X-Men, as well (with some notable exceptions, like Emma Frost), which is why you won’t see any Morrison New X-Men covers for, say, Cyclops, no matter how cool a lot of the New X-Men covers were.

It doesn’t ALWAYS mean old, it just almost always means old.

To wit, if I did a Rogue Top Five, I’d have to include some stuff from the early 90s X-Men comics, because the 90s was a very important time in the definition of Rogue’s character – the whole Rogue/Gambit thing, however much people might dislike it, is a pretty darn major part of Rogue’s character.

Iron Man’s covers included a number of covers from 20 years into Iron Man’s “career,” because Rhodey becoming Iron Man and Tony becoming a drunk are iconic aspects of Iron Man’s character.

Astonishing X-Men, however good it was, did nothing to define Kitty Pryde as a character (and the first 80 issues or so of Excalibur did even less). What Whedon was doing was working with the iconic character established by Claremont years earlier. I don’t think even Whedon professed that he was doing anything but doing a sort of “love letter” to the comics he loved as a kid (and again, this isn’t a shot at Astonishing X-Men, it was fine).”

But you could always that Morrison did add some dimensions to Cyclops, and took him in new directions. Pre-Morrison, I doubt anyone would have had him ditch Jean to be with Emma Frost, of all people. I mean, that’s kind of iconic right there…

The Art Adams Hercules cover wouldn’t be all that iconic, given your logic.

Cover # 2 doesn’t really add anything to Kitty as a character either. As a cover on it’s own, yeah, it’s iconic, and very famous and what not, but it’s not like Kitty changed or anything after that story, if anything, it’s an iconic X-men cover.

If we’re just going on covers alone, I’d have maybe had AXM 6 in there…maybe have it be # 4, and have Uncanny 168 and 153 as a tie.

By: Mario Lebel

Mario Lebel — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:33:37 +0000

I’m very surprised to see you don’t have one of Cassaday’s covers from his run with Whedon on the list. I could barely remember a time where Kitty kicked so much ass.
Besides, almost all of Cassaday’s covers are gold.

By: Clint Adams

Clint Adams — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:31:03 +0000

I would like to echo the sentiment that the list should be inverted.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:38:17 +0000

#143 is one of my all-time favourite comics.

Meeting Terry Austin several years ago was was one of the real highlights in all my years of comic book fandom. He’s a real gent, and my signed copy is a real treasure to me. A great cover – a real turning point for Kitty.

By: jason

jason — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:23:23 +0000

this one
http://www.comicbookdb.com/graphics/comic_graphics/1/100/3519_20060728151634_large.jpg

By: amlah6

amlah6 — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:39:38 +0000

AXM #6 has to be on here somewhere, but otherwise good list.

By: Quincy

Quincy — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:20:30 +0000

Can’t disagree with the selections too much. #5 (Issue 168) is really the definitive Kitty Pryde issue/image in my eyes.

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By: JasonL

JasonL — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:47:12 +0000

Can’t really argue with that group. #3 would be my first choice.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:21:20 +0000

i think one of the problems with Kitty and Excalibur covers is that some of the most character defining stories in the book involving her (the relationship with Pete Wisdom, for example), have effing awful covers.

Yep, that definitely was a factor, as well.

By: jhota

jhota — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:16:01 +0000

i think one of the problems with Kitty and Excalibur covers is that some of the most character defining stories in the book involving her (the relationship with Pete Wisdom, for example), have effing awful covers.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:47:55 +0000

Just a cover that popped into my mind, is the one in which Kitty is laying Colossus ashes in UXM (372?). Very dark cover, and a closer in time too.

By: Rusty Priske

Rusty Priske — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:38:05 +0000

Brood first and how is the ‘marriage’ one not there?