In the Eyeof the This week: GIRL ON FIRE

Peyton: This piece just pops with light. It's feisty, powerful, and an icon amongst comic book fans. You can find it at Reading Cinema.

Chloe: Oh! It's that Predator guy. The one painted on the wall in the lobby.

The answer: Ha, no, loser. Close, though. It's the painting of Jean Grey from X-Men. It's painted on the wall on the second floor.

There are a few really nice art pieces over at Reading Cinema, but the one that stands out the most is the fiery Jean Grey piece from the hit film X-Men: Dark Phoenix. It was the highest-grossing movie of 2019 and the film that single-handedly convinced Martin Scorsese that superheroes are the only real cinema. Kidding, it was awful. It has a 22% on Rotten Tomatoes, and its best review was that it was “an entirely watchable movie”.

Movie aside though, the painting is just stunning. The guys and girls over at Reading have used a poster image from the movie as a base and then added the flame effects around her DIY style. It's a striking image, one that every comic book nerd can appreciate. Its attention to detail is just awesome, they actually made her look cool in their version of the piece.

You can say this artwork stands out because of its ability to take something that is awful (X-Men: Dark Phoenix) and make something truly beautiful with the leftover pieces. It's a reminder to us artistic folk that our work can always be better, and we can always improve on it no matter how bad. That's kind of beautiful, isn't it? I hope so, because Dark Phoenix was really bad.

Song Recommendation: X-Men ‘97 Theme.