Check out this Threadless.com design submission by artists codenamed “badbasilisk” and “silverqe,” which reimagines Professor Xavier and some of his most popular X-Men as bad-ass, tattoo-ready animals. That’s Cyclops above, and he’s probably the least awesome one, so you’ll have to click through to see Storm as a horse and Professor X as a cute little mole in a miniature wheelchair. Be sure to check out this page too, in which one of the artists walks you through the process, and you can see how they asigned various animals to various X-Men.
I’m not sure I could ever bring myself to wear a shirt like that—as cool as it is, it’s still an X-Men shirt of sorts—but I buy a comic book featuring these animal/X-Men amalgams drawn in that style in a heart beat.
If Marvel’s doing Lockjaw and The Pet Avengers comics, why can’t we have an all-animal X-Men team? It would hardly be the most superfluous X-Men tie-in ever…
