Rough Drafts of X-Men Characters

We all know that rough drafts are called that for a reason.

Well, writer and comedian Paul Laudiero's Shit Rough Drafts Tumblr turns Hemingway's famous quote "The first draft of anything is shit" into reality with equal part humor and panache. Like this imagining of what the rough draft of X-Men characters by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby would be like.

Max Knoblauch (previously on Neatorama) illustrated the X-Men characters we now now and love:

And a few that didn't make it pass the second draft:

View the originals at Shit Rough Draft and Max Knoblauch's Tumblrs. Or if you like that, you can also get Laudiero's book Sh*t Rough Drafts on Amazon.