Instead of posting some unpublished artwork today, I decided to draw your attention to a blog called Secrets Behind The X-Men. It has several well researched articles regarding stories and concepts that didn't make it to print. One of the most recent articles mentions Sketch, a character who was originally designed to become a new X-Man.
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| Sketch and the X-Men by Adam Kubert |
The entry reads: "When Claremont took over Uncanny X-Men and X-Men vol. 2 in 2000, the idea was to introduce a new X-Man in each series. The one was Thunderbird in X-Men vol. 2. Claremont told about the other in Wizard #103: “She’s actually an animation artist from Japan. She draws things and they come to life. We call her Reanimator.” However, when she was introduced in Uncanny X-Men #383, it was under the name Sketch. And then she was never seen again. Claremont commented on it to Cinescape.com in 2001: ”Also lost in the shuffle: More on Sketch.”
The site is filled with tons of information about ideas that never came to fruition. As a fan of Chris Claremont's X-Men stories, I was sorry that his return to the X-Men was cut short. However, counting X-Treme X-Men, X-Men Forever, a third turn on Uncanny X-Men, Excalibur, New Excalibur, Exiles and GeNext, his output on X-Men related titles nearly equaled the number of issues on his first historic run. For further reading, check out :
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