Brad Hague wrote:
"And here I was starting a communication with Jim thinking I was the only looking at getting a commission piece with the Silver Surfer (my favorite character since I was a wee lad) and now we've got this great pic with Phoenix (one of my favorite X-men).

Yeesh... there's no where to go but down now... I can't think of a better commission pic."

O come on, Brad... all the ideas you listed sounds great and intriguing... and in the hands of the master... would you truly bet against JB taking on of those ideas and actually toping this one?
Remember JB draws a mean Doom and a mean Mephisto.

JB wrote (on Famke Janssen as Phoenix):
"I supposed it tell us much about Hollywood, that the casting director looked at lush, voluptuous Jean Gray and cast a stick."

Aren't casting directors' eyes actually somehow broken? It's a bit like comparing Picasso's cubism to real life... There are eyes and noses there, but rarely in the right places. ;)