I pencilled this while drunk, inked it sober and colored it angry. A gamut of emotion.
Jesse Quick has had a crapton of costumes, none really fantastic. It’s hard to be a speedster character, particularly in the Flash family and have a unique look. Unfortunately, I don’t know that I did any real great shakes here. Ah well.
Patsy Walker is a weird character. Starting off as a romance/comedy character and becoming an Avenger. I don’t mind her original costume, but it is a little bland, especially for a character with a modelling background. I tried to fashion-up the costume, but there is a reason I’m not a fashion designer. Also, my first instincts were to make her costume red and black, which is so overdone, I knew those instincts were wrong. They’re still wrong with the choices I did make, but at least there’s no red.
I read a short story once in an old issue of Marvel Comics Presents featuring Gladiator. It was a pretty great introduction to the character and managed to explain his entire schtick and tell a compelling story in 8 pages. He was a reformed Daredevil villain who opened a costume shop. This kid comes in and wants a custom Gladiator costume with working blades. He makes the costume but realizes the kid is going to use it to become a villain. So he dresses up in his old costume and scares the kid straight. It was good and had weird art and I loved it. Being a reformed villain, he doesn’t show up too often, but when he does, I’m always a fan.
This redesign is trying to combine the elements of his costume with that of an actual roman gladiator without hopefully being too ridiculous. I do like his normal look, but also feel like it needs some change. Mostly the colors, I think.
Last night I “watched” Ghoulies II. And by that, I mean that I slept through the majority of it. I will not be picking up where I left off on it.
Don & Dawn Allen. Goddammit, Barry Allen is the most boring fucking character even when he names his stupid fucking kids from the future. Fuck Barry Allen. There was a reason he was dead longer than he was alive as a character. ‘Cuz Wally West is the best. Anyhoo, at some point, Barry moved to the future, got married and had kids. In the future. Then he abandoned them to return to the past to die. The kids grew up to have their own superspeed powers and shitty, shitty costumes.
I decided to change their looks to be homages to their Flash lineage rather than poofy purple dresses.
So one thing I’ve noticed is that I tend to really like the original costumes of the characters I’ve been redesigning (Mr. Terrific excluded). Electro is no different! I love the ridiculous oversized mask and the corny lightning suspenders and the lightning flared gloves. It’s glorious and I would gladly pay to see Amazing Spider-Man 2 in IMAX 3-D if Jamie Foxx were in that costume.
So, as usual, I tried to keep the redesign reminiscent of the original. I toned down the mask, got rid of the undies, changed green to blue. Thought about changing the yellow to white, but that screamed “ice” to me more than “electricity”.
Last night I watched The House of the Devil. A few months ago, I had watched another Ti West movie called The Innkeepers (and by a few months, I think I mean over a year). I loved that one, but for whatever reason I never got around HotD. I remember it disappeared off Netflix shortly after I had seen Innkeepers. Somewhere along the line, it came back. I was going to sit through another episode of Arrow last night when I saw HotD back in my queue. It’s very good. It’s a slow-burn movie and I’m guessing a casual watcher would hate it. Not as good as Innkeepers, but the building of tension and dread are all very well done.
Drawn for Matt Brassfield for some reason.
Terry Sloane, the original Mr. Terrific, had a Mr. Terrible costume. A very long time after his death, he was replaced by Michael Holt and got a pretty sweet updated outfit. Even the New 52 version of Holt’s costume was neat. Unfortunately, that’s all I had in mind while trying to come up with a new look for Sloane. I went for streamlined and tried to incorporate elements from both Sloan’s O.G. look and Holt’s, as a sort-of bridge between the two. The biggest hurdle is trying to figure out where to slap that “Fair Play” slogan. I think it’s adequate.
Havok has had his share of terrible costumes. Pretty much anything past 1994 or so. I’m pretty sure you can add this one to the list. For me, you can’t get past the perfection of his original outfit. It’s great and if you don’t think so, there’s the cliff off which you can dive.
I’d also like to point out that TRON ruined comics forever.
That said, I tried to keep this simple and slightly reminiscent of his original look with something to call back to the headgear (which again, is great) without doing the headgear.
Same problem with Captain America,every variation of the patriotic superhero costume has been done. That and I’ve really liked both of Patriot’s costumes from “Young Avengers”. I’m not sure what’s happened to the character.
I gave him Cap’s energy shield thing from back in the mid 90s, during one of Mark Waid’s run. Can’t remember if it was pre or post Heroes Reborn.
Posting this super-early from the hospital as my Dad checks in to surgery.
The problem with redesigning Captain America is that every variation of a patriotic superhero has pretty much been done. That and everytime Cap has been redesigned, it’s usually not for the better. This is definitely not an improvement. But I like an old-school cap when artists would hint at the scalemail armor instead of drawing every individual scale. I like the flared gloves and swashbuckler boots. I like the lack of a utility belt.
But what the fuck do I know?