Whitechapel - REMAKE/REMODEL: the Great Inter-dimensional Pope-Off (closes Weds 27th Feb)

REMAKE/REMODEL: the Great Inter-dimensional Pope-Off (closes Weds 27th Feb)

2013-02-12T01:30:26-08:00

The REMAKE/REMODEL meme is one of my favourite things. Artists need a place to show off and Whitechapel should always be It. A handful of entries will be showcased on Bleedingcool at the end of each challenge.

THE RULES:

This is for ART ONLY. Any pen-portraits, or crappy scribbles padded-out with words, will cause a deployment of the Urethral Attack Maggots. And a banned account.

No stock-photo manipulation. No half-arsed bollocks. Anything deemed to be piss-takery will be nuked from orbit. Original photography is fine.

No more than ONE submission by any one person.

In a slight twist to the regular rules, each image should be accompanied by a text caption of ONE SENTENCE ONLY, in the form of a note describing the portrait’s subject for All Of History. More on this below.

INSTRUCTIONS:

EXTRADIMENSIONAL PONTIFEX

Yeah, it’s time to pick a new Pope.

Luckily the papal conclave has taken the advice of the hip young brand-management firm it hired and grudgingly accepted that the extant College of Cardinals is a shower of corrupt withered gargoyles with dubious moral records and an unhelpful insistence upon secrecy. And smells faintly of pee.

Even more luckily, the Vatican’s world-renowned Science Division has just successfully invented the means to travel between dimensions. ‘Huzzah!’ quoth the Cardinals. ‘Let us outsource to a new pope – an exciting pope, a strong pope, a pope to unite the world beneath the soothing guilt-infecting mantle of the Cult of the God-On-A-Stick and his Dear Old Mum – from across the myriad of realities!’

YOU. Yes you. You get to choose.

Will it be the charisma-emanating Pheremex III from the hormonal Vatisphere on reality DR3quark? The warlike BLOODMITRE IIX from the grim meathook FisherConquests of the 26th Century? Or homely Wendy-The-First, who got round the mean old “No Chicks” rule by eating a quantum wafer and transubstantiating into a vast genderless astral NunNebula (currently orbiting Saturn)?

Your task: You, oh artist, have been charged with producing the first official Pontific Portrait.

You will accompany it with a single line summary of your Pope’s magnificent reign, as if culled from the Annuario Pontificio, of the form:

POPE’S TITLE & NUMBER; dates of reign; Pope’s place (and reality/timeline) of birth; notable act(s) or legacy of reign.

You have two weeks.

AMEN.

REMAKE/REMODEL: the Great Inter-dimensional Pope-Off (closes Weds 27th Feb)

2013-02-12T06:37:22-08:00

Ha! Oh wow... welcome back R&R, this is going to be something special

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2013-02-12T08:12:33-08:00

Ah... the days when small furry pontiffs from Alpha Centauri, were real small furry pontiffs from Alpha Centauri!

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2013-02-12T08:12:54-08:00

Ladies and gentlemen, let's get blasphemous! Time to show people that Whitechapel can still light the fuse...

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2013-02-12T08:22:46-08:00

Cardinal, poke them with the soft cushions!

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2013-02-12T14:11:31-08:00

Sacrelicious! Can't wait to see what all you talented people turn in.

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2013-02-12T15:43:29-08:00

I am SO checking on this thread every hour now.

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2013-02-12T18:19:54-08:00

Hooray!

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2013-02-12T20:53:17-08:00

Is the correct answer not X-Men nemesis and super-villain Mojo? Watch the smoke signals to find out!

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2013-02-12T21:21:01-08:00

I'm not sure Mojo is disgusting enough for the job.

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2013-02-12T22:15:52-08:00

That sounded like a challenge to me.

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2013-02-13T07:45:17-08:00

I'm pretty sure I have some gauntlets here somewhere. I keep them around for throwing down.

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2013-02-13T13:39:23-08:00

It's great to have the R&R challenge back. And I must say this challenge makes a change from remaking comic book characters or comic book concepts.

But one piece of advice: be mindful of Catholicism and be careful not to submit anything that might offend, even unintentionally.

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2013-02-13T16:07:04-08:00

But one piece of advice: be mindful of Catholicism and be careful not to submit anything that might offend, even unintentionally.

If that's the standard, no one's going to be able to submit anything. Hell, the title of this thread would potentially piss off a bunch of people art unseen. I mean, I get your point and people shouldn't go out of their way to piss off Catholics. But at the end of the day, R/R (and, really, all art) is about free expression and people being pissed off has to be a price we're willing to pay or there won't be any free expression.

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2013-02-13T16:15:43-08:00

I am sure nobody would intentionally piss off Catholics here, and certainly not with urethral attack maggots around. It's the unintentional pissing off I'm worried about. So I'm having to think really hard about mine.

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2013-02-13T16:22:32-08:00

But one piece of advice: be mindful of Catholicism and be careful not to submit anything that might offend, even unintentionally."

Wow. You wrote that? Really? I think Si might have already done that here :

has taken the advice of the hip young brand-management firm it hired and grudgingly accepted that the extant College of Cardinals is a shower of corrupt withered gargoyles with dubious moral records and an unhelpful insistence upon secrecy. And smells faintly of pee.Even more luckily, the Vatican’s world-renowned Science Division has just successfully invented the means to travel between dimensions. ‘Huzzah!’ quoth the Cardinals. ‘Let us outsource to a new pope – an exciting pope, a strong pope, a pope to unite the world beneath the soothing guilt-infecting mantle of the Cult of the God-On-A-Stick and his Dear Old Mum – from across the myriad of realities!’

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2013-02-13T18:02:37-08:00

"Wow" just about sums it up for me, too. I've seen everything from hilarious to nauseating to profound on WC (occasionally all at the same time) but I think that was about the most surprising thing I've ever read here.

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2013-02-13T18:10:27-08:00

Cross-Posting from Ryan S Thompson in Around the Net, no maggots were initially deployed: Not intentional

But on the subject of religion in art, I think artists are perfectly within their right to piss off religions, the backlash may be the point. But artists should never have to worry about the unintended effects of their art when producing it. It isn't Thalidomide. Religion's tendency toward outrage is hair-trigger at best. Short of submitting pieces to some sort of bowdlerizing religious sensitivity board it would be impossible to avoid unintentional offense. Offense shouldn't come into it. In this R&R satire is part of the goal. Anybody that takes the papacy seriously would take some sort of offense.

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2013-02-13T18:26:16-08:00

Isn't there a character called Superpope? A cartoon character with the Vatican's blessing I think.

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2013-02-13T18:40:41-08:00

I think you are thinking about Battle Pope. A Robert Kirkman/Tony Moore comic.

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2013-02-13T19:53:34-08:00

Or perhaps El Incaraibe Homopater?

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2013-02-13T21:04:45-08:00

Nope, there's definitely a character of some sort called Superpope. Here's one Superpope link www.phatmass.com/superpope

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2013-02-14T14:46:34-08:00

Clearly there are many papal based "heroes".

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2013-02-14T15:08:08-08:00

This is all a bit silly if you ask me,

I shall see what i can do...

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2013-02-14T17:22:22-08:00

Not only is he a dope...
The Pope Smokes Dope

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2013-02-14T20:25:10-08:00

@Beamish: Definitely some inspiration there.

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2013-02-15T16:32:34-08:00

Dibs on Robo-Pope.

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2013-02-15T16:39:34-08:00

@ Fred G: Can't wait to see Robo-Pope!

I am not Catholic, but I do love stories and legends about saints and the Catholic Church. There's definitely a wealth of inspiration there.

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2013-02-15T17:11:55-08:00

Curse my metal body, I was too slow, Fred G!

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2013-02-15T17:32:28-08:00

Here's more Super-Pope.

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2013-02-16T02:39:04-08:00

Enough reference material. I demand drawartmakings.

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2013-02-16T02:39:38-08:00

Alien pope arriving by meteor in the Urals??

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2013-02-16T11:26:32-08:00

@Nelzbub: over to you.

I'm starting to get mine together and hopefully it will be up pretty soon.

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2013-02-16T12:32:08-08:00

My tablet is broken. *sob*

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2013-02-16T12:44:03-08:00

I woke up today with a good idea. Derby bout tonight should get it solid in my brain, then drawing like Hell on Sunday.

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2013-02-17T06:28:11-08:00

always liked the futurama space pope

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2013-02-17T10:59:28-08:00

It's A Miracle!
After drawing nothing for the last year(!!!) the Pope (or something loosely akin) has resurrected the dead...ish.

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2013-02-17T12:07:08-08:00

@-3-: I really like yours!

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2013-02-17T13:50:43-08:00

What a start!

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2013-02-17T18:01:28-08:00

I couldn't decide what kind of Pope to go for, so I finally made that the idea...

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2013-02-17T19:25:12-08:00

@Oxbrow: That's so funny! Strangely, it could sum up Benedict XVI. If I remember right, they elected him as a kind of 'fill-in' pope who was not expected to last long because of his age. A stop-gap in the Papal succession, really.

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2013-02-18T01:51:13-08:00

Great start, folks. MORE.

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2013-02-18T08:33:33-08:00

I've really missed this thread - Excellenta!

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2013-02-18T22:33:26-08:00

The being known as Squid Pope came from a higher dimension to feed on the emotions of human beings. It used its telepathic powers to become pope and using religion created a world of bliss and pain to feed on.

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2013-02-18T23:39:42-08:00

-3- : I noticed ours are similar (tentacle monsters from higher dimensions) . But I really dig the trippy neon coloring yours has.
Oxbrow : Creative idea. Reminds me of the William Hughes Mearns poem.

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2013-02-19T06:37:12-08:00

(wrong thread)

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2013-02-20T09:32:24-08:00

Once I'd had this idea, well, I really couldn't resist. Pope Warren I. In my defence, he did kind of ask for it.

(larger image here)

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2013-02-20T09:59:13-08:00

Glad I checked into Whitechapel to find this thread up an running... I missed it.

Here's my offering... an immortal angel in amber, complete with engraving

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2013-02-20T12:12:06-08:00

That is beautiful! Gotta love Pope Ellis, too. The grinder symbol on the hat is a nice touch.

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2013-02-20T13:58:32-08:00

"The grinder symbol on the hat is a nice touch."

Wait... Warren's on Grindr?

Oh, different spelling. Never mind.

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2013-02-20T18:50:56-08:00

Nice one, DBED.

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2013-02-20T20:19:16-08:00

The moment I read the challenge I thought of the Pope Joan legend.

By the way, what happened to that IMG code thing that we used to use to post entries? I didn't see it anywhere on my comment and had to post this as a direct link.

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2013-02-21T23:55:49-08:00

My humble homage to one of the greatest Popes I know of, in this timeline or any.

Pope Paul Pope I, AKA The Pulphope Pope; reign 2025 - 2075; born 1970, THB Timeline; replaced official Biblical Canon with official Comics Canon, only Pope to complete several highly acclaimed graphic novels during his reign.

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2013-02-22T05:54:42-08:00

I would like to state for the record that this is not a serious attempt at this remake/remodel, merely a very stupid idea that occurred to me and wouldn't let me rest until I produced it. I apologise in advance.

There, done. Please carry on with the real art.

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2013-02-22T13:05:38-08:00

@Purple Wyrm: never mind it's not a serious R&R entry - it's too funny!

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2013-02-23T05:36:01-08:00

Mr. Warning Si, if I have two ideas, can I post one on the artists' thread?

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2013-02-23T10:00:20-08:00

@kmcleod, that is how people usually do it. @DBed, you rock. And @-3-, it's good to see you back.

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2013-02-23T10:12:11-08:00

Brundlepope.

Elected John Paul Benedict I in March 2013 as the lone survivor of the College of Cardinals' ill-fated Transdimensional Gateway Experiment, retired for health reasons the same year and officially died in 2014, although rumors persist that he did not really die but pupate, and that he lies sleeping in his papal cocoon in a vault beneath St. Peter's to emerge one day and usher in a new age of glory and wonder.

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2013-02-23T10:14:58-08:00

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2013-02-23T10:30:31-08:00

^This.

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2013-02-23T14:11:52-08:00

@Herr Hussein--good to hear, but but don't want to risk being banned unless I hear from the HWSi.

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2013-02-23T17:27:45-08:00

I see we're going to have a lot of BEM Popes doing inter-dimensional travel.

@kmcleod: Well, get one of your ideas going, anyway, if you're not doing it already. Deadline is Wednesday. Funny - the Pope's own deadline will be the day after. Thursday February 28th, he officially stands down.

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2013-02-25T01:49:11-08:00

@KMcleod: yes. One here, one on the art-thread. The one here is the one with a shot at the Bleedingcool spot.

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2013-02-25T02:36:29-08:00

One that I did in 2011 - Robo Pope!

Heathens! I come from The Future. Bow before me – this is religion 2.0!

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2013-02-25T10:00:51-08:00

dnewling & curb - my thanks to you both. I was kind of surprised to be the start.

Herr Hussein - thanks, it's good to be kind of alive.

Oxbrow - love the (dare i say it?) concept!

imaginarypeople - No worries - there's no conflict. They're both tentacled but, if you look at the eyes of my guy, you'll see that he's sad and trapped to be in the position, not the menace seen in the Squid Pope's eyes. (Well, hopefully you'll see it. That's what i tried to convey)

Sadly, too tired to continue and comment on other excellent results at this time. But - there IS an art thread these days? Didn't see it when i stopped in last weekend. But, now that i know, i'll head over and post what i've been workiing on since the 'ressurection'.

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2013-02-25T11:38:46-08:00

I wondered when Robo Pope would turn up.

@-3-: Not quite sure what you're thanking me for, but you're welcome anyway.

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2013-02-25T13:25:56-08:00

@curb Thanks, I figured I needed to substitute the crucifix for something more appropriate :)

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2013-02-26T11:55:08-08:00

This challenge dovetails nicely with a story told in one of my comics ...

In an alternate universe in which the Blessed Virgin had an abortion, the fetus resurrected and called disciples anyway. One of them realized that the Messiah's omnipluripotent embryonic stem cells would grant people eternal life, and nailed Him to a board to harvest them. Pope Judas I has been transfigured by two millennia of celebrating this Eucharist, and now resembles the Fetus Christ.

No offense to Catholics. ;)

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2013-02-26T19:28:56-08:00

I'm glad there's a robopope in here. After bitching and moaning about no R&R for a while, one shows up and I have no time to fit it in. Now I have to go draw a "buff, ripped Leprechaun lifting guiness pints like weights"... Some days I hate my clients, but I have learned to just lay there and turn my head when they try to kiss me.

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2013-02-26T19:29:50-08:00

P.s. great entries by all..

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2013-02-26T23:43:46-08:00

Jason, is that ... is that an umbilical cord holding the coathanger round his neck? I've said it before and I'll say it again - sacrelicious!

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2013-02-27T00:38:19-08:00

I wonder what else will turn up before the deadline?

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2013-02-27T04:00:56-08:00

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2013-02-27T04:16:12-08:00

Yes, that is the Divine Umbilical, from which hangs a replica of the Holy Abortifacient.

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2013-02-27T08:10:54-08:00

TRANSGENDERED POPE BRIGRID
to whom taught all things exist at once
From THE PLANET OF DOORS

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2013-02-27T14:38:50-08:00

Pope John Paul George Ringo III; 2590-2612; Pool of Liver; genetically mutated multi-headed papal entity; once claimed to be more popular than Jesus; variants 1 & 2 killed by own hand over arguments over who got to wore the hat, God Rest Their Rubber Soul

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2013-02-27T16:23:24-08:00

@Kosmograd - That is the greatest thing since @Herr Hussein's Brundlepope. Bravo!
@jackcrowder - beautiful work.

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2013-02-27T20:14:38-08:00

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2013-02-27T20:49:14-08:00

Pope Tyto the Seventh; 2013-2037; rider of the Horse-Tree, teacher of humility through the Night Scream and leader of the charitable doe-mouthed maids; he left a world with more forests and less churches.

Edit: there's a bigger version here.

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2013-02-27T21:23:11-08:00

Brilliant work, you lovely bastards.

I sure hope this is the dawn of a new era of RE/REs.

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2013-02-27T22:48:25-08:00

@ Nick Donald: Pope Eye...I love it!

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2013-02-28T01:11:40-08:00

Fabulous work, folks. This thread now closed. I'll get some favourites up on Bleedingcool soon. New challenge very soon.