In celebration of the 17th anniversary of Scott Pilgrim, series creator Bryan Lee O'Malley drew a print referencing a classic Jim Lee X-Men pin-up.
"The story behind this poster is one day the Scott Pilgrim characters all just happened to be in the same poses from that iconic X-Men poster by Jim Lee and someone took a photo and this is a drawing of that photo," O'Malley tweeted. "It's like a million monkeys on a million typewriters thing."
The print is available for sale on the Oni Press website for $75, alongside two variants with altered colors. The main version was colored by Nathan Fairbairn, who also tweeted an image of the original Jim Lee art that inspired it. Fairbairn wrote that there was "nothing but love and respect for the king."
Lee's art, showing the various members of the '90s X-Men roster lounging by a pool, was included as a poster in 1991's X-Men #1, which was written by Chris Claremont and illustrated by Lee. Selling around eight million copies, the issue received the Guinness World Record award in 2010 for the Highest Selling Single Comic Book.
Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life, O'Malley's first book detailing the life of part-time musician Scott Pilgrim -- who would go on to battle the exes of his love Ramona Flowers in six volumes and a feature film starring Michael Cera -- was published in 2004.
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