Now we’re starting May off with another pair of CMON’s Marvel Zombies bystanders. Basically I was working on these when April rolled over to May and kept going for a little while before stalling out again. I’m not particularly familiar with either of these characters, but they’re apparently both X-Men adjacent. Trish is a reporter who was also Beast’s girlfriend. She’s also been race-swapped more recently because apparently it’s fine to do that with secondary and less important characters to increase representation, which doesn’t work for me on either level – disrespectful to the fans who enjoyed the characters for years or decades, disrespectful to the characters, and also disrepespectful to the people being “represented” becasue we’re going to change this secondary character so you’re represented because this character actually isn’t that important but now you’re “represented” by a token minor character. All rather than making a new character. Anyway, I’ll pause on that particular rant for now.

In the end I painted Trish with a mid skin tone that can represent the variations found in almost any ethnicity in the US. Mostly so she still matched the card ok while being passable for the original version. William Stryker I vaguely recall (in name only) from my X-Men comic-reading days. Obviously he’s also a bad guy of some description and he was apparently also in most of the X-Men movies, so I also don’t remember him from there as well! Both of these figures are from the X-Men Resistance box, so unlike many of the Kickstarter Exclusives, should remain moderately within reach for players trying to track them down.