Fresh Take: Everyday X-Men

"Everyday X-Men" by Chad Sells

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Being an X-Men is a busy job. Between the fighting, the schooling and the baseball games, there’s not much time for anything else — or is there?

Vreeland cartoonist Chad Sells has begun depicting Marvel’s mutants during their off-time in a new series of illustrations dubbed “Everyday X-Men.” The 16 images released so far show various X-Men (and their enemies) in their leisure pursuits … and interestingly enough, many of them are in their ’90s-era duds, if they’re wearing anything at all.

"Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been obsessed with comics — reading them, writing them, drawing them. The X-Men have always been some of my favorites, especially the ’90s Jim Lee era that I was first introduced to,” Sells tells IGN. “So I wanted to try and draw some of those iconic and nostalgic characters, but without relying on just hyper-sexualizing the characters or putting them in exaggerated, contorted action poses."

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