Best Beast Ever

Totally swiped this image from Newsarama-blog - featuring Del Rey Manga's character interpretation of Hank McCoy aka The Beast for the upcoming "X-Men and Wolverine OEL manga titles, due out in spring 2009 from Del Rey Manga and Marvel."

I'd like to see him jump up and around, and hang from a ceiling reading a book! LOL - by gawds but I think the wittle tie is adorable. I think I've been hanging around art toys and designer plush for forgo my comicbook-roots LOL - check out the Newsarama-blogpost for designs-sketches of the other (decidedly-humanoid looking) X-Men. And you can preview the Wolverine-manga" "Prodigal Son" here :)

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WHAT-IS: "The Del Rey Manga and Marvel collaboration was first announced at the New York Anime Festival 2007. The collaboration includes two manga series: one based on Wolverine and another based on the X-Men team. Done in a shôjo (girl’s manga) style, the X-Men manga will be illustrated by Indonesian artist Anzu (The Reformed) and written by the husband and wife team of Raina Telgemeier (The Baby-Sitters Club graphic novels) and Dave Roman (Agnes Quill)." [via Newsarama-forum]