Superpovoir, a French comics news site, has reported that with Astonishing X-Men #31, Phil Jimenez, currently of Spider-Man fame, will be taking over art duties for Simone Bianchi.
Jimenez has been well-known for taking some high-profile assignments, including Infinite Crisis, the Barack Obama cover of Amazing Spider-Man, as well as part of the current “American Son” arc in Amazing Spider-Man. His last work on X-Men was with Grant Morrison, during the Planet X storyline in 2002-2003.
UPDATE: The Superpovoir site has since taken this off their web page, and the Google cache no longer works.
June 14th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
AHH! The Wolverine with a soul patch look. That lasted, what? Two issues before they shaved it off?
June 14th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Isn’t Simone Bianchi supposed to be doing a Thor (regular or limited series?)run? Jimenez on Astonishing X-Men wouldn’t be a huge surprise
June 14th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
They’re still letting Ellis write AXM??
No offense, but that series reads like he doesn’t have his heart in it at all.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:47 am
I would love this. I dropped the book after three issues of Ellis’ run. Like preston said, just no heart in it.