Empire Magazine is well known for publishing its monthly magazines with alternative covers to tempt collectors to buy multiple copies. In January 2014 they outdid themselves. 25 different covers were printed to advertise "X-Men: Days of Future Past". Moreover, the covers could be arranged side by side to make one large picture. I doubt many people have invested in all 25 copies, so here are the 25 covers. You can click on any image to reveal its context between the two images left and right.
1. Sentinel - Moderately powerful mutant-hunting robot.
2. Havok - Absorbs cosmic energy and releases it in plasma blasts.
3. Toad - Super-strong legs, prehensile tongue, gross paralysing mucus.
4. William Stryker - Mutant-hater, military man, nutjob.
5. Bolivar Trask - Robotics genius, mutant-hater, smooth political operator.
6. Mystique - Shapeshifter.
7. Beast - Superhuman strength, agility, speed and furriness.
8. Quicksilver - Runs at supersonic speeds.
9. Magneto - The master of magnetism.
10. Professor X - The world’s most powerful telepath.
11. Wolverine - Accelerated healing, enhanced senses, retractable bone claws.
12. Bryan Singer - Puppet master, franchise creator, director.
13. Wolverine - Accelerated healing, enhanced senses, adamantium-laced skeleton, retractable adamantium claws.
14. Professor X - The world’s most powerful telepath.
15. Magneto - The master of magnetism.
16. Storm - Mastery over the elements.
17. Rogue - Absorbs the mutant abilities of anyone she touches.
18. Warpath - Super-strong, near-invulnerable, and he can fly.
19. Kitty Pryde - Phases through solid objects.
20. Sunspot - Solar-powered super-strength and near invulnerability.
21. Blink - Teleporter.
22. Iceman - Creates and manipulates ice.
23. Bishop - Absorbs energy to redirect it in kinetic blasts.
24. Colossus - Transforms his skin into organic steel.
25. Future Sentinel - Super-powerful mutant-hunting robot.
Click here to see the covers combined as a complete picture. Most web browsers will allow you to scroll left and right. Unfortunately the image has been compressed to 60% of its original size due to limitations of Google's blogger software.
Nice share of the gallery. This film is so strong.. and yet something prevents it from totally blowing me away. They would have had to do something special to mess up such strong source material though, and here they were just fine slightly altering the goal posts.
ReplyDeleteI wish I could have shown the gallery bigger, but there are size limits to the pictures in Google's storage. If I can find another free place to store pictures without the limitations I'll replace the image.
DeleteThe original story is better in the comics. It has to be seen in context. A few issues earlier 13-year-old Kitty Pryde became the youngest ever member of the X-Men. Readers could have asked if she was strong enough to be in the team. The two-part "Days of Future Past" story gave the answer, when the consciousness of the future Kitty Pryde was sent back into her 13-year-old body and she had to save the world.
Of course, she was replaced by Wolverine in the film. That's a shame, but the end result wasn't too bad.