Just how much of a dream-come-true is this? Painting covers for Uncanny X-Men on a superb, year-long, epic space-saga?

I'm loving every minute of this and have already finished the next cover, where I actually get to paint some X-Men! More of that pic in a soon-to-follow update.

For now, feast your eyes on the cover to issye #483 - with Vulcan, Deathbird and D'Ken allied, things look to have gone majorly pear-shaped for the X-Men...