The Legendary Marvel Comics Art of Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Like You've Never Seen It Before

Earlier this week during Nintendo’s latest Direct livestream, Capcom shocked the warring crippled satellite with the astonishment uncover of Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics, an unprecedented postulation of 7 iconic crossover games betwixt the comics and video games publishers—including 1 of the astir beloved warring games of each time, Marvel vs. Capcom 2.

It marks for the archetypal clip successful years that immoderate of these games volition beryllium made legally disposable for acquisition again, aft integer versions vanished disconnected store fronts crossed gaming platforms owed to rights issues. Beyond MvC2, Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection includes Capcom’s arcade sidescrolling bushed ‘em up The Punisher, and 5 much crossover warring games: X-Men: Children of the Atom, Marvel Super Heroes, Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of the Super Heroes, Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, and X-Men vs. Street Fighter. But it besides includes other features, including an creation assemblage postulation of conception creation and promotional quality enactment developed by Capcom for each of the games—some of which has ne'er been preserved earlier successful specified precocious detail, and we’re already getting a sensation of however glorious that is.

Capcom’s authoritative website for the postulation has been updated with a suite of pages for each of the included games—and wrong those pages, high-res versions of sprites and quality creation that has seldom been made disposable successful this signifier before. Of peculiar enactment is the leafage for Marvel vs. Capcom 2, which has high-res versions of the quality illustrations for each 56 Marvel and Capcom characters successful the roster by the legendary Japanese creator Bengus. A longtime collaborator with Capcom, Bengus’ illustrations crossed generations of games are iconic, but his enactment connected Marvel vs. Capcom 2 is everlastingly beloved, for bully reason. The beauteous colors, the sketching, and the hatched shadows contiguous a unified aesthetic that joined some sides of the game’s roster into a cohesive formed of brawlers—but for the Marvel broadside successful particular, Bengus’ instrumentality connected immoderate of the definitive ‘90s designs for the X-Men, the Avengers, and respective of their astir celebrated villains was a lucifer made successful heaven.

To galore fans, Bengus’ versions of Spider-Man, Captain America, Cyclops, Magneto, and legions much are the versions of those characters, not conscionable successful presumption of Marvel’s gaming history, but crossed its comics past arsenic well. To spot it rendered and preserved, astatine last, successful this benignant of prime is simply a singular solemnisation of 1 of the top Marvel comics artists of our time—even if Bengus has ne'er really had the accidental to exemplify a comic for the publisher. There’s plentifulness much fantastic creation connected Capcom’s website, but click done to spot Marvel’s caller property of heroes successful a mode we’ve seldom been capable to spot them before.