On Aug 19, 8:03 pm, Billy Bissette wrote:
> Jinx wrote in
> 686643f39... DeleteThis @26g2000hsk.googlegroups.com:
>
> > At the tail end of the X-Treme X-Men title, Rogue received an
> > elaborate sleeve of tattoos from a mutant called Paint. The moment
> > that happened, I thought to myself that it would be a nightmare for
> > other artists to keep track of that physical characteristic and that
> > either artists would keep her in outfits where she with fully covered
> > arms or inevitably, someone would forget to include the tattoo when
> > drawing Rogue.
>
> > I didn't keep close track to see if either happened.
>
> > Has there been any instance where the tattoos have been shown of
> > late? Decimation would have given a good opportunity to do away with
> > them. They could easily say the tattoo faded because Paint lost her
> > powers.
>
> Weren't they supposed to be temporary from the start? Paint could
> both create and remove them, and Rogue was just in an experimental
> phase at the time. (Tattoos were only part of it.)
The ink was present for at least one subsequent storyline I believe so
it seemed to indicate that it was a less than fly by night addition to
Rogue's visual.
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