Beast's feet - editorial decision or alien invasion?

[The Law]

This is something that has been on m nerves for a long time. When Frank Quitely was drawing New X-Men, cat Beast was drawn with very different knees and feet than he's had afterwards. Knees bent the other way and I think he had hooves. That's long since changed. Was it too much of a pain for other artists to draw, or is there some other, more sinister explanation?
- I'll go back to the real world now.

[PhilipClark]

Maybe it's a third mutation. They changed back...

...or maybe other artists are just lazy.

[changingshades]

he looked like the devil

a giant furry blue devil

[En Sabah Poo]

Do you have an example of this? Because I don't remember it. Maybe Frank just drew him with really thick quads so it was visual deception.

[FredC]

What it was was that he was a cat-beast. It was one of the introductions to the "Secondary Mutation" idea.

Hence his cat-like feet and face.

[En Sabah Poo]

By the by, who came up with secondary mutations? And when?

[andrew french]

yeah, they changed him in astonishing. he got those lame pants and normal legs instead of his sweet manly man open leather jacket, above scary tiger legs (from Morrison's New X-Men natch)

[c. page]

Do you have an example of this? Because I don't remember it. Maybe Frank just drew him with really thick quads so it was visual deception.

it was feet like a cat's hind paws.

[En Sabah Poo]

it was feet like a cat's hind paws.

Right, I understand what its supposed to look like, just wondering if anyone had a picture because I can't rememeber it and don't have any volumes of New X-men anymore.

[FredC]

By the by, who came up with secondary mutations? And when?

I think it was a concept touched upon by Morrison, relating to some extent to the extreme amount of mutants being born in the MU. Then, I think Chuck Austen got ahold the idea and went nuts, and pretty much... ruined it.