I had posted it last year, but the 30th of december!
It's a french cover for an X-Men magazine by Jean Frisano, it's the beginning of Paul Smith on Uncanny and Binary blasts Broods by dozens!
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Right. I had actually seen those panels before, but I for some reason completely deleted them from my mind. I guess the image of her burning head got so stuck in my mind I forgot there were moments like these. I think some artists didn't get the memo, though, because some of them clearly portrayed it as her skin and not fabric, like in here:
The design looks so much better when you see it as red and not just big holes, IMO.
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I guess she didn't get seen much powered down back then, if one comic shows her looking normal and another shows her with red skin and no hair!
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To be fair it was nearly a decade between the introduction of the Binary identity for Carol (1985) and the Operation:Galactic Storm (1992)events where the bald and naked (instead of red fabric) panel comes from.
Going back to the original issues: Uncanny #164 was artist/designer Dave Cockrum's last issue on the title so theres not much I can dig up (without the issue in front of me) to show what his intentions were with the costume. He certainly didn't shy away from showing skin in use of similar designs with Storm, Saturn Girl from Legion etc
...but immediately thereafter "powered down" Carol is shown wearing red and Cockrum would have certainly have been available in the Marvel Bullpen to consult and even then his designs were revered so I tend to think either:
1) Cockrum intended it to be red fabric
2) Editorial stepped in and asked that it NOT be a revealing costume
3)"Seeing" Carol's human face is a conscious choice on her part and she "powers down" that part of her body to show it. Similar to Human Torch de-flaming his hands when he carried someone back in the day. (unlikely since the flaming edges of her costume also disappear when she dims her corona.
Replying to my own reply, apologies. Found a digital version of the Cockrum issue. Looks like indeed, he DID intend it to be a flesh not fabric, lest there was a coloring error!
bruuh I got so much headcanon to flesh out and evolve powers including her binary ones
so many years were unnecessarily lost with the Binary years and the exile that went along with that.
Maybe someone will tackle those lost years someday. I wouldn't be against Carol's title occasionally giving us a one-off story about her time as Binary.
Starman used to do a yearly one-off where Jack Knight would visit with his dead brother's ghost. Aaron right now is doing one-off issues exploring the Avengers BC in between arcs. Something like that with Carol would be great.
If it were me, it'd be Carol telling Kit a bedtime story about her old adventures in space (anyone else still remember Kit?) and the entire issue would be drawn like a kid's bedtime story and written as if Carol were telling it, with Kit interrupting and asking random questions constantly.
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I thought about that too, but I think you can clearly see on that page that this isn't the case. Look how her head its colored as just a plain red, while the body(suit) has this sort of metallic effect with the black shadows, they don't match at all. On the first issue where this costume showed up, this wasn't the case, as the body and head had the same coloring, but on this one(and some others), it definetely looks like they intentionally colored the head differently, as to show it's not the same as her body, and so when she shows up with her normal face and hair in the next page but fully covered, it doesn't look odd.
I think it was his intention for it to be her skin but then editorial changed to a suit so that it wouldn't be too sexualized, kinda like how they covered her belly on the original Ms Marvel costume later.