251. Flaming Carrot


My pal Jason loves The Flaming Carrot and asked for him to be redesigned. Which is weird. His most prominent thing is that his head is a gigantic carrot that’s on fire. Can’t really improve on that. Jason then told me he wanted to see F.C. as a more traditional superhero, so here we go.

250. Black Panther


I was hesitant to do a redesign on this character. I think Panther’s costume is so slick and simple that there doesn’t need to be any drastic redesign to it. So I just sorta “New 52’d” this one and just added some lines. I made some other tweaks too. The mask is the big difference. It still feels unneccessary.

B.P. is, however, one character I’d like to write an “ultimate” version of. I’ve always thought it was ridiculous that Wakanda is supposed to be this hidden country that is also the most technologically advanced place in the world, but the citizens run around in loincloths, wielding spears and living in grass huts. Wakanda should be a high-tech utopia, like living inside a computer. It should be Tony Stark’s wet dream.

It’s a groovy time for a movie time:

Dark House Terrible movie I gave up watching far too along into it than I should admit.

Torture Garden An anthology Tales from the Crypt-type movie featuring Burgess Meredith in the wrap-around as Dr. Diablo, a carnival barker type character who shows different characters their grisly fates. Jack Palance and Peter Cushing are also in one of the stories. It was enjoyable if forgettable

Room 237 My friends Jason and Kathleen warned me to not watch this movie. They watched about 20 minutes and it pissed them off. However, they thought they were watching a documentary about “The Shining” instead of what it really is: a documentary about crazy, crazy, bat-shit insane motherfuckers. I dug it a lot.

249. Grifter


Grifter was a member of the same assassin’s guild as Zealot. When she was cast, he voluntarily left as gesture of support. Grifter and Zealot share an on again/off again relationship. While never particularly liked among the guild, he was respected. Free from the restraints of the guild, Grifter has become even more of a jokey jackass. When Zealot joined the WildCATS team, Grifter joined as well only out of loyalty to her, not particularly caring about the team’s goals.

Bonus! When I drew these redesigns, I had intended to color them more in-depth and release them on the blog as one giant image. So, here’s a mock-up of that.

So tomorrow, less fan-fiction, more gibber-jabber.

248. Zealot


Zealot is a warrior from a secret guild of assassins who have been involved in nearly every major event in history. She was ousted from the guild when she was seen and botched an assassination. Living outside her “family” for years, listeless with no direction, she finds a new home with the Wildcats and a new purpose, fighting otherworldly monsters and things she never imagined could be real.

247. Warblade


Reno Bryce is a veteran wounded in combat, losing his arms. As part of an experiment at Marlowe’s medical research facility, Bryce was given two prosthetic arms made of a special kind of metal. Bryce can control the shape and flow of the metallic arms.

246. Voodoo


Priscilla Kitaen (ugh) is a voodoo queen. When Marlowe & co. discovered that one of the other-worlds is steeped in magic, they searched for an expert.
I didn’t want this version of Voodoo to be an empty stripper, nor did I want her to be dressed like one. Being the “sexy” member of the team though, I still decided to give her the most skin-baring outfit of the group (outside of Maul). I also made her a black woman, because I’m 99% sure she was supposed to be, but was never drawn in that manner. Her costume is very loosely based on actual clothing worn by voodoo queens and priestesses.

245. Maul


Dr. Jeremy Stone is a scientist working for Jacob Marlowe. When one of the other-dimensional creatures came through a portal and was incapacitated, Stone studied the body and began to experiment. He crossed his DNA with that of the creatures and soon discovered that he could turn into a humanoid version of the beast. Everytime he turns into the creature though, the longer he is in that form, the dumber and less controlled he is.

244. Void


Dave Sim’s wet dream?

Void is a teenage girl from china who discovers that she can teleport from dimension to dimension. Jacob Marlowe and his team rescue her from some of the bad guys who want to use her abilities to destroy and/or rule the other dimensions. She can’t control her abilities too well, so Marlowe creates a suit which allows her to channel her powers correctly. She decides to join the team to pay Marlowe back for saving her life and for the suit.

243. Spartan


Hey hey hey! It’s Rocktober! And it’s time to start my theme month! All through this month (all 31 days) I will presenting redesigned superhero and supervillain characters. Because it’s Halloween, and dress-up and stuff.

I’ve got a lot of good suggestions and some idears of my own, but I am always down to accept more. If there’s a superhero or supervillain you’d like to see redesigned by me, let me know in the comments, or on muh Facebook or the Twitters.

I’m starting out the theme month with a theme week: WildC.A.Ts (Covert Action Teams). I’ve even given a tweak to their backgrounds/origins/whatever.

Jacob Marlowe is a Tony Stark-like engineer/industrialist/scientific genius, etc. etc. He and his research team at his corporation have discovered a breach into three alternate dimensions – one of primative monstrous mutant creatures, one of highly intelligent alien life, and the other of magic. Having breached these dimensions, he realizes that he also has brought great harm to our world and assembles a team to help protect it.

Spartan is puppet. It’s a robotic marionette that Marlowe controls. It allows him to lead his team in the field of battle. Every thought and action of Spartan is Marlowe, safely back at the home base.

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Yesterday, not only did I finish watching Battlestar Galactica, but Breaking Bad also ended. We had a viewing party last night. And by party, I mean I hung out with this guy:

And two other people were there. We ate Taco Bell. And then I went home.

I liked the ending to both. Stay tuned to The Stupid Sexy Podcast for more in-depth discussion than you ever wanted about Breaking Bad. Maybe some Battlestar talk. Probably not.

With a sort of emptiness in my soul now, I watched the movie Excision. It stars Traci Lords, with bit roles by Ray Wise, Malcom McDowell and Marlee Matlin. It’s about a delusional, outcast teenage girl with disturbing sexual fantasies about corpses and surgery. It’s okay. I kept thinking throughout that it would be a great short film and then found out that it indeed started as a short. It really collapsed under the weight of its (really not all that long) longer running time. It’s labeled as a horror movie, but it really isn’t. At all. It’s just a weird, gross, gory, disturbing drama about a mother and a daughter.

Right at this moment, I am watching a film called Seventh Moon. The concept is very interesting. A young American couple is honeymooning in China. They piss off the locals by being Ugly Americans (although, not really. I’ve seen worse) and get abandoned in the middle of nowhere on a night when living creatures are sacrificed to ancient ghosts. It’s directed by Eduardo Sanchez, who co-everythinged The Blair Witch Project. Despite this not being a found footage movie, the camera is super fucking shaky, but it doesn’t really matter because I can’t see a motherfucking thing that’s happening. I don’t think they could afford lights. So, I’m kind of pressed to stop watching because this is goddamn annoying. This might as well be an audio drama.

Update: The movie is now being lit by a cell phone.

Update 2: Fuck this movie.