The online reaction to the first images from next year’s X-Men: Apocalypse has been an interesting thing to watch. Fans are excited to see the likes of Olivia Munn and Oscar Isaac as favorite characters like Psylocke and Apocalypse for the first time. But what is more intriguing is that there is so much excitement over how well the comic book characters came to life in the movie, with their close resemblances.
The issue of faithfulness to comic book costumes — or, rather, that movies would want to be faithful to the comic book costume — is a relatively new thing when it comes to superhero movies, at least in this current cycle.
