BURIED TREASURE: Marko Djurdjevic's X-Men Redesigns

They are one of the staple properties in comic history, and you’d have to walk a few thousand miles to find a comic fan who doesn’t have thoughts on the X-Men’s future - and if they are artistically-minded, even what they should look like.

Over four years ago, some virtually unknown dude by the name of Marko Djurdjevic posted his then ideas for a visually different take on Marvel’s main mutants, over at ConceptArt.org. While Marko's work has now been removed from the site, back then fans were divided over the pro’s and con’s of his sketches. Djurdjevic stated on his old blog they motivated the House of Ideas to sign him up – so I guess the fans were in the right places in the long run.

Personally, I kept these sketches filed in my ‘inspiration’ folder, not just because it’s always great seeing another person’s perspective on established icons, but because of the presentation involved. These aren’t just sketches dumped on a white piece of paper, the whole layout and breakdown of the characters is a class-act from start to finish, and one that's always been good to look back on over the years, if not just for artistic eye candy reasons alone.

So what icon's would you want to tweak or alter the appearance of? Or are icons, once iconic, untouchable property?