Whitechapel - REMAKE/REMODEL: Spacehawk

REMAKE/REMODEL: Spacehawk

warrenellis — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:56:52 -0800

There was, way back in the mists of... 2007... a recurrent meme among several comics art blogs. Reclaiming characters from their owners, I guess it could be broadly described as... people were reimagining abused characters (chiefly Supergirl) as artistic call-and-response in various places, chiefly LiveJournal. In the aftermath of that, I did a similar thing on old messageboard The Engine, called REMAKE/REMODEL. They were embraced as technical exercises, bits of fun, ways to get the brain moving. I think most people's favourite was the dear late Mike Wieringo's wondrous retro-aristo Buck Rogers...

I thought it might be an interesting thing to bring back here. So, once a week, I'll call a character, and you art types here can post images of your reinterpretation of that character.

Photography and digital art is also fine, before anyone asks.

The point is REinterpretation: remake/remodel.

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This week,it's grim pulp vengeance -- in space. Basil Wolverton's SPACEHAWK:

"Spacehawk had no other name. He also had no fixed base of operations, other than his space ship, and no sidekicks, assistants, official contacts, love interests or other supporting characters. He had but one mission in life — to protect the innocent throughout the Solar System, and mete out the occasional gruesome fate to vanquished evildoers. Comics historian Mike Benton called him "A grim gunslinger — the dark side of Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon.""

"Spacehawk was a grim, relentless avenger of the innocent, prowling the star-lanes and outer reaches, and the stark meticulous art served only to highlight the singular appearance of the alien monstrosities and landscapes crafted by Wolverton. Many kids had nightmares after reading Spacehawk, and many parents wrote complaining letters because of it…"

"Aliens lived on strange worlds in dwellings that resembled nothing as much as a cross between medieval castles and Earthly observatories. The landscapes were dotted with flora that often resembled earthworms in muffs, yet the basic building blocks of alien technology were the rivet and the steel panel."

"Inside the spaceships, Wolverton liked panels showing the Spacehawk staring out one of his large windows, looking at a spectacular outer space panorama. He also regularly showed the Spacehawk gripping the large, upright levers and control sticks of machinery."

I have no shots of the spaceship. So, you know, feel free to fuck around with that.

Your task is, therefore, to update Spacehawk for 2008 (2009?) and render the character into something you'd be interested in reading today. Grimness seems important. Grimness taken to comical levels would seem to be an obvious choice for some of you. Chip has probably already zeroed in on Spacehawk gripping the large, upright levers and control sticks.

Obviously, there's a degree of tech fetishism to be had here, too -- guns, spacesuits, a spaceship he lives in (which is probably also appropriately grim).

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I look forward to seeing what you come up with, but bear in mind this is an ART thread, and pen-portraits and other texts will be deleted. (And if you don't know what a pen-portrait is, go back to your school and insist that they provide you with a proper education.)

-- W

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moali — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:11:06 -0800

I had to miss the last two due to timing and whatnot, but I'll definitely have a think on this one..

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Mark Seifert — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:15:43 -0800

Excellent. Really looking forward to this. Wolverton is a favorite.

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lordmitz — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:36:18 -0800

christ look it! it's like if jim woodring did pulp scifi. i'll get back to this.

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braak — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:40:27 -0800

@Mark Seifert: Is that...is that a giant asteroid space-ship piloted by an evil Chinaman?

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ScottS — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:01:36 -0800

I really, really, really wish we'd have had a chance to see Mike Wieringo's take on this one.

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Mark Seifert — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:03:36 -0800

braak - Wolverton became well known for his weird characterizations in later years. Though not a spacehawk story, Brain Bats of Venus is a good example of his science fiction craziness.

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Leandro Damasceno — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:08:34 -0800

I'm obviously thinking about Dead Space and videogames more then his classic look, but that's how I think a character like this would appeal the modern audience. I have still another, totally different from this one, take on Spacehawk that I might upload if I have the time.

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Paul Sizer — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:28:39 -0800

I really, really, really wish we'd have had a chance to see Mike Wieringo's take on this one.

Amen, @ScottS, that would be awesome. I can almost envision him posting his entry and the rest of us skulking away in artistic awe.
Regardless, I'll take a stab at this later in the week...

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orwellseyes — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:04:39 -0800

Uranians? Electroscopes?

Oh...yes...can't WAIT to see what you fine people do with this one.

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Jay Kay — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:47:44 -0800

@ Leandro Damasceno

Awesome--Dead Space also came to mind when I saw this.

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cruciferous_rex — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:47:47 -0800

His ship, the giant gold space-dildo!

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Rootfireember — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:51:17 -0800

In Futurespace, Spacesuits are for OTHER PEOPLE!

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JoshHechinger — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:08:35 -0800

A skinhead in space, hating every minute of it.

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Leandro Damasceno — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:49:43 -0800

@ DarkKnightJRK: Thanks a lot!

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johnjones — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:03:13 -0800

I might try my hand at this. At first I was going to do it as Space-Batman, but that doesn't quite fit. Space-Punisher fits better. After returning from the Vietnam Spacewar, Frank Castle's spacefamily was gunned down by rival spacemobsters during their spacepicnic in the spacepark. Now he punishes the spaceguilty as Spacehawk.

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cyanidegelcaps — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:17:34 -0800

I actually really like the idea of a repugnant neo-nazi style skinhead, crashing about outer space, putting the boot to aliens. The character being an absolute ass, but a hero for the wrong reason.

I'm fully aware that being Skin doesn't have to do with racism directly, but it's what comes to mind when you have some dude running around the galaxy aimlessly killing other species of intelligent life. Reminds me of Fear Agent.

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Jay Kay — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:24:33 -0800

@Leandro Damasceno: You're welcome.

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SeanGrimm — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:00:04 -0800

Yeah, so, blamo. I don't know what those shoulder-bits are...lamps? laser blasters? solar charging panels? I just thought they looked neat.

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cruciferous_rex — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:04:38 -0800

Currently I can't picture Spacehawk as anything but a faceless "super soldier" who goes around helping the galaxy whether they want it or NOT!

Also, I picture a hyper-future where intergallactic travel is mostly portals and not physical vehicles. I blame the drugs.

I'll probably post something a bit more over the top, but I have a Dr.'s appointment to see about my frozen face soon.

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Axel Medellin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:12:32 -0800

Space life-support suit with space travel capabilities. Oh, yes.

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kahavi — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:25:55 -0800

@Axel: WOW. Seriously, wow.

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TF — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:29:22 -0800

@ Axel Medellin: Holy Shit!

@ Leandro Damasceno: There's a quality to yours I really like-

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virtuasamurai — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:52:48 -0800

@Axel: Awesome

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Nygaard — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:13:58 -0800

@Axel: Let me top that up with some awesome deep fried in hydrogenated envy.

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contiveros — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:29:38 -0800

The character is pretty much perfect. Just a few things to make him look a little more hawkish.

Beware the goatse monster of PTS 1029-3

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cyanidegelcaps — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:46:15 -0800

Oh man, Axel's is pretty 5th Element in a very good way.

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Sobreiro — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:46:28 -0800

Haha, Axel already upped the ante this early in the week? Me vengaré!

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ScottS — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:54:40 -0800

@axel
the only thing missing is a smashed up puddle of an alien under one of those giant robo-feet.
Very cool even without it though :)

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kperkins — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:20:05 -0800

@Axel Holy shit! I give up! That is totally awesome.

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Oddcult — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:22:54 -0800

Respect to the goatsemonster. And if Axel isn't already a pro artist, he soon will be.

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contiveros — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:24:24 -0800

No shit, Axel has some really nice designs there.

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Kosmopolit — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:32:29 -0800

Fantastic work Axel.

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Leandro Damasceno — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:11:21 -0800

@Spec: Thanks, man!

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kyle-latino — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:27:42 -0800

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cyanidegelcaps — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:28:56 -0800

Apologies for the bad image quality. I'm on break from school and forgot the scanner.

A little closer:

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virtuasamurai — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:05:19 -0800

@Kyle-Latino: very stylish

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Paul Sizer — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:46:29 -0800

Placeholder doodle, Spacehawk makes it to 50, domestic bliss, blah blah blah. More soon...

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yorko — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:18:49 -0800

@AxelMedellin chingon!

i didn't see too much trouble with the original concept, so, pretty much I just did Spacehawk in a more contemporary style.
sorry for the roughness of the colors, I wish I had more time.

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stsparky — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:45:22 -0800

Trying for a tired "Dick Tracy" sort of spacehand.

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StefanJ — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:05:28 -0800

Great and a great variety. Yorko's entry has a dour grittiness I really dig.

There's an interesting genre-vibe between Spacehawk and Fletcher Hank's surreal, execrable "Stardust the Super Wizard." The latter looks like a crude knockoff of Wolverton's work.

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Jay Kay — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:42:10 -0800

@Axel Medellin: Space suit/shuttle? Genius combination. Though it does make me wonder how he pees. :|

@contiveros: Great style--I could see this animated. I also dig the "hawkish" features you gave his face (I had a similar idea, which is probably why I like it), and, yes, I do fear the Goatese Monster. FEAR.

@kyle-latino: Awesome. Great mix of classic space-suit with contemporary badass pose/demenor.

@ Paul Sizer: HA! Awesome reinterpetation. Spacehawk: Al Bundy of the Cosmos.

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E0157H7 — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:13:36 -0800

I've got two things worked out so far.

First, the gun.

It fires great dramatic bolts of blue plasma that melt steel into pudding and turn exit wounds into pink mist. More on this later.

Second, the combat helmet.

He deploys it when the bullets start flying. It pops out of a small unit at his shoulders and wraps around his head. I'll probably tweak it to look less like Iron Man's helmet and more like a steel-and-actuator gimp mask.

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frequentcontributor — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:00:56 -0800

Wow. There are so many great ones already that I've already forgotten most of the ones I wanted to comment on. They all seem to have already gotten their props, though, so I don't feel so bad. As for the comment on page one (from johnjones?) about the Space Vietnam War, would the Viet Cong use wormholes instead of underground tunnels (...or underground tunnels dug by giant space worms...)?

What's funny is, I used to have an old (early-90's) Dark Horse reprint (like the second image provided by Warren) issue of Spacehawk! I don't remember much about it, and wouldn't have ever thought about it again if not for this thread. I used to be really into Wolverton and other underground cartoonists in junior high, and I'll be getting around to doing a take on this soon.

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collindeplancy — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:32:02 -0800

There are great contributions here in this topic. So, my very "primitive" way to see the character.

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Alienist — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:03:02 -0800

I'm really enjoying everyone's work! I'm going to be a late entry this week as I am learning and can only tell what I want to improve once I've done a few test runs...

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frequentcontributor — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:17:25 -0800

...I am learning and can only tell what I want to improve once I've done a few test runs...

That sounds like something an evil A.I. (although I suppose "evil" is a term relative to the humans being deystroyed by said construct...) would say while computing ways to kill us all. Like, "I've learned that these humans' bodies are weak. I shall replace them with metal and do a new test run!"

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frequentcontributor — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:20:19 -0800

Also, I like colindeplancy's goofy ass hawk, but if you look closer on the page to the left of the drawing, you can see a faint sketch of what appears to be (I think his name is) Screwball from the Mystery Men comics... "Gondoliers!"

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frequentcontributor — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:38:22 -0800

Here he is:

For some reason I thought I remembered his eyes being triangle, but whatever... it still looks like him.

And sorry for getting off topic, but colindeplancey started it with his secret drawings... And I didn't draw that (those) pictures of Screwball; as far as I know, they are by Bob Burden.

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frequentcontributor — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:39:57 -0800

Okay, I swear to god that this is the last post I will make about Screwball, and I promise to make up for it by doing a really great SpaceHawk drawing, but here is a clearer view of the "ghost" drawing that I was talking about....

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Paul Sizer — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:47:07 -0800

All righty, my contribution this week is going to be later, but I have been doing a little sketching/concept work in preparation.
I wanna go dark with this one, but I decided to do some logo work, seeing as all great heroes have great logo presence. Plus, if they have a real "designed" look, it makes it all the more cool when they fall and deteriorate, right?
Plus, I make my living as a graphic designer, so I better be able to crap this stuff out in my sleep, right?

Got my BPM/Detroit Techno/Green Brain comics signing on Wednesday, so I'll be back on Thursday, but checking in on other posts as I'm able. Good work so far!

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Andre — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:30:47 -0800

@ Paul: I'm a graphic Artist as well!, Great Logo

I thought about Warrens suggestions and thought the grim and grittiness was the way to go. Especially when he mentioned him as a loner and punishing the evil of the cosmos. I imagined in the future Humanity and other various Species operate throughout the universe like the world, with territories and governments. I imagined the Spacehawk as a Black-ops type operative sent out to do the secret assignments that were in the best interests of humanity.The dirtiest jobs the universe has to offer. Like a ghost he's rarely seen and has become a myth passed around the commlinks, a lone figure of justice who seems to enjoy his job a little too much.

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Terry Taylor — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:15:37 -0800

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Sobreiro — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:58:28 -0800

Amazing work, Terry! Love the colors

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Tuck — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:59:24 -0800

@Axel: Very cool concept. Color it!

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Tuck — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:01:41 -0800

@Yorko: That's nice! I think the colors are great.

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Ryan C — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:32:21 -0800

@Paul - trademark that and let me buy the patch.

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SeanGrimm — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:28:42 -0800

Here's my second go at it, with color no less!

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Tim Hamilton — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:38:27 -0800

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frequentcontributor — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:04:43 -0800

Terry Taylor's reminds me of Freddie Mercury, which is not to say that I don't like it.

Tim Hamilton: Freaking' hilarious!

And Paul Sizer: Are you kidding me? Come on... You always bring your A game and we are all better for it. Keep up the amazing work.

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paradigm_se7en — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:53:44 -0800

it seemed like spacehawk is a very camp version of Splinter Cell....In Spaaaace! Hence the trifocals. Was aiming for a retro-grim, different from the original.

Tried experimenting with different versions of a dome helmet, sort of a deep-sea-diver rig as a hazard suit type deal. Helmet's supposed to open up, 'unfold' I guess would be the word.

Couldn't resist throwing in a monocle in the sans-helmet view. Also, er, I can't draw hands very well. And maybe arms too. Oops.

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trigger25 — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:16:58 -0800

if i've learned anything from modern science fiction it's that if you want to go grim, you've got to have crying. when my spacehawk is not killing alien riffraff, he stares at the stars, reflecting on the loneliness of his quest and pining for old lovers. grim ain't pretty.

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Pandja — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:00:09 -0800

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COMTE — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:41:10 -0800

The original description got me thinking this guy was very much in the same vein as John Wayne, and Ronald Reagan, very stoic and mas macho. And thinking about Reagan naturally led to my thinking about SDI, and that led to speculating about what Reagan would had done had we been faced with an extra-terrestrial threat. Throw in a bit of what that poor bastard Krikalyov must have felt being abandoned on Mir while his country disintegrated beneath him, and - well, I've probably said too much already:

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chris g — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:17:52 -0800

can't resist a "that all you got?" pose ^_^

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lx — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:41:29 -0800

This is blood for blood and by the gallon. In Space.

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SJD — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:22:51 -0800

Roo: Loved it. Especially the Weapon.

There were plenty of others I liked as well.

lX: I love the mood in yours. I want to read the rest of the issue immediately.

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thomas.fox — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:17:30 -0800

@trigger25: I love it. It might be even more GRIM than you were going for.

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Verissimus — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:05:54 -0800

@Comte, I love that! Lost in Space hehe

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MartinWhitmore — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:06:08 -0800

Nice entries, everyone! I'm really enjoying these. Paul Sizer, that's a fantastic logo-can't wait to see what else you come up with! Axel Medellin- I love the design on that suit. Fantastic job! I tried to have a little fun with mine, and go for some extra grit. Whatever those little blue bastards did, you can be sure they're sorry for it now.

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stsparky — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:15:28 -0800

still thinking there something missing ...

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Sobreiro — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:19:44 -0800

Here's my contribution to the thread. I kept his color scheme but made him more of a sleazebag...

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Santapau — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:20:40 -0800

@chris g: that's an interesting technique for smoke / fumes. Looks very nice.

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trigger25 — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:20:52 -0800

@Sobreiro -- I was waiting for your contribution because this seemed right up your alley. wow!

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Edwin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:55:37 -0800

Here's SpaceHawk just after battle, doing some frontline patching-up. Being alone and always running from battle to battle, he basically just grabs and grafts anything usefull in places where he just lost some tissue.

Also, in the back, his trusty space ship, "The Fucking Dart"

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mister hex — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:28:12 -0800

@ lx - Awesome!

@ Sobriero - Double Awesome!

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kmcleod — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:19:14 -0800

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Terry Taylor — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:19:49 -0800

Sobriero wins! I would be all over a comic about that guy.

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Ariana — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:27:26 -0800

I can't stop laughing that Felipe's (excellent) SPACEHAWK can't use a coaster, but he's carefully aiming for the ashtray. But it's the expression on Martin's gritty-toon that's winning me over.

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Alberto — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:27:39 -0800

BANG! BANG!

EDIT: I increased the size a bit.

@AlexMedellin's: Wow, man. I raise my hat. @Tim Hamilton: MUA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA! @Sobreiro: Amazing work, just like all your previous sketches.

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chris g — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:54:46 -0800

@santapau - thanks, i was using one of these. my favorite tool for using white paint. I just squeeze it on my finger tip and dab it on there...also smear ^_^
great for stars/white kirby dots

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Sobreiro — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:01:00 -0800

Thanks, everyone!

@Alberto - that's a cool design, good idea associating the hawk theme with a native american. Reminds me of BraveStarr in a way...

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mister hex — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:14:51 -0800

I can totally see Sobriero's guy using that logo on his ship. "Call Spacehawk. No Alien Too Disgusting To Be Destroyed. KLondike-5-7956. No Fat Chicks."

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DisContent — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:48:40 -0800

Already too many superb contributions this week to single out favourites.

I felt a war haunted, hangdog face, in the Lee Marvin mould seemed appropriate. I don't believe for a minute that this really is former marine corporal Hawk, more likely it's just the name of the guy he killed to inherit the suit. If only because it avoids unfavourable comparisons with Paul Sizer's excellent logo design, this grizzled Hawk incarnation isn't the type to have wasted too much time fretting about his brand image. After 4000 light years without a smoke, he just wants to kill the bad guy so he can light up off the smouldering corpse. The mirrored helmet visor forces adversaries to witness their own death throes, a grim,last minute addition I exported wholesale from Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom".

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mister hex — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:47:44 -0800

@ DisContent - Lee Marvin is always appropriate.

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virtuasamurai — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:49:20 -0800

Spacehawk returning from a day of fresh killing.

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BP — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:15:48 -0800

An artist I am not.

But I couldn't resist.

He has no legs you see? A crippled bounty hunter with his knobs and levers...

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Berserker — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:19:21 -0800

I thought I'd go a step farther...

He's been taken apart and put back together in so many battles with nothing but aliens around that now he's little more than machine - more engine than man. So much so that he's his own spaceship now, searing between the stars on wings of plasma as long as Mercury's orbit.

and ( which maybe I should put the ink to? )

Honestly, I should try again with him ripping up some horrible blob of sentient space jism or something.

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jeremiah — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:36:36 -0800

this weeks remake/remodel is awesome, i think everyone is really bringing it this week!

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stsparky — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:12:24 -0800

Lee Marvin the phony space marine reeks charm ...

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D.Miranda — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:04:31 -0800

[a bigger version]
Is the gunblade concept the intellectual property of Square Enix?
@ Kyle Latino: your Spacehawk is alive, I really love your lines.

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Conojito — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:09:52 -0800

So much good stuff in this week's thread, but I shall not be intimidated. Inspiration struck at work, so this was done with the materials to hand - biro and A5 lined pad.

He's alone. The supply lines have dried up. Everything he has is worn out and patched up, one repair away from broken. He chose not to believe that the war was over. So he fights on.
For the last of the Spacehawks, there can be no surrender.

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SJD — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:19:03 -0800

Miranda: HOLY SHIT! That's ridiculously cool.

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MrSmite — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:47:30 -0800

These are looking great. I just hope I have time this week to add my own.

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Greasemonkey — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:53:27 -0800

Because everyone cool should have his own line of clothing

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rainbowblight — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:37:13 -0800

OH YES! I knew from the description that this would be a good one!!!
@ Sobreiro, I love your sleazebag! I really dig your coloring style.
@ Terry Taylor, awesome style, I feel like I'm watching a freeze frame from a really killer cartoon!
@Trigger25 Grim gone good!! Just the right amount of retrokitsch too!
@lx nice inkwork!
@Alberto holy details! I love the dynamic pose and SO MANY MONSTERS TO FIGHT! Cool weapon design as well :)
@Virtua Samurai and Miranda mindblowing pencil work, fucking shit!

and Discontent your work is truly epic! I like the idea of him having stolen the outfit! slick!

Rock on,
Rainbow Blight
p.s. I'll try and see if I can make time to do an entry, cutting it close to the wire...

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evan_e_hill — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:43:28 -0800

space hawk, sick of death, renounces violence.

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radian — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:20:09 -0800

@Miranda: Gunblades really existed. This pic has old-school games workshop levels of GRIMMMM.

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SeanGrimm — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:02:02 -0800

@miranda Gah! You're too good. So many details, how long do these take you?

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kyle-latino — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:11:40 -0800

@Miranda:

I like your design too. Looks like something out of a Warhammer 40k codex. Can't wait to see your sketch for next week.

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Sonny — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:42:07 -0800

Seriously, this board is one of the coolest on the net because of shit like this. GREAT stuff everyone. Love it.

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Verissimus — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:44:37 -0800

He says he hates aliens, but his drinking buddies look at him funny because of his suspiciously pointy ears...

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Andre — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:46:49 -0800

HEy I wa sjust wondering what anyone thought of my offering on page 3. I'd love to hear some feedback.

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razrangel — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:33:45 -0800

@Arjan Dirkse heh You're very close to a space John "Indian Killer" Wayne

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PaulGrahamRaven — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:48:19 -0800

Sonny: Seriously, this board is one of the coolest on the net because of shit like this.

What he said.

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Alberto — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:06:23 -0800

@RainbowBlight - Thousand Thanks. I'm glad you liked It.
@Sobreiro - At first I wanted my Spacehawk to look like the characters in the Silverhawks (another 80's cartoon) but I finally skipped the idea.
@Miranda - Epic!

Still three days left. Keep them coming!

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mojojoseph — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:27:02 -0800

My attempt. I liked the idea of how he was a darker side to Buck Rogers etc. I got a kinda lone gunslinger kinda vibe from that. I also wanted to slightly incorporate the old costume in the torn thrown over material.

Yes, I know it's badly propertioned and sucks ass, but I'm a writer not an artist lol

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Oddcult — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:14:24 -0800

What?

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virtuasamurai — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:22:11 -0800

@Miranda: My new wallpaper
@Paul Sizer: When are you gonna drop your science on us?
@Rainbowblight: Thank you.

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Pandja — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:34:37 -0800

@ Andre: I think the colors are relatively true to the original in their saturation, and I like the gore. He seems a little gleefull, haha. I like his haircut and general design especially. ^_^ My feeback isn't worth much but nobody else was responding, heh.

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Cat Vincent — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:48:23 -0800

@Oddcult:
either I was at the convention where that... work... was first shown, or there's a really weird tendency for similar-looking bad fan art about obscure characters in dodgy 80's TV shows. But it couldn't possibly be the latter, could it?

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frequentcontributor — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:48:15 -0800

Sorry so late this week; internet was down... Anyway, my SpaceHawk is similar to the themes of Man-Thing or The Shadow, in that each episode, he views an unfolding alien drama, and then at the end, vaporizes the planet that he is watching. He doesn't care about "good" or "evil", but simply watches, then vaporizes, and then floats to another planet to do the same again.

My pencils:

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virtuasamurai — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:05:52 -0800

@Andre: The armor design over the proto-uniform is solid and utilitarian. It's cool-looking and not going to be a pain in the ass to draw over and over, I like how you incorporated the 'Grim' Reaper motif. Also, obscene comical violence is always great, especially when its being committed by Ben Kingsley.

@frequentcollaborator: Yes!

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Santapau — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:14:32 -0800

This situation can only end in two ways:
1) Good Spacehawk does a classic Tarzan finishing move
2) Hentai

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frequentcontributor — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:18:09 -0800

I forgot to mention that, yes, my drawing is basically the lincoln memorial in a space suit.

And why can't we have hentai and THEN a "finishing move?"

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Exploder — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:46:36 -0800

I'm pretty sure performing anything seen in hentai in a reality outside of that hentai is considered a finishing move.

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Dapper Dan — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:50:40 -0800

click to enlarge

I imagined a human UH-60 helicopter, and tried to retain as much of the original characters design as possible.
I have a ship and gun design sketched too. I'll get them posted up here . . . someday soon.

Daniel Heard

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Dapper Dan — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:10:09 -0800

I just had a chance to check out the thread.
Amazing work from everybody, especially from Axel Medellin, Kyle Latino, Felipe Sobriero, Jorge Munoz and Miranda.
Miranda's is fucking berserk.

Daniel Heard

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stsparky — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:03:39 -0800

I've this odd idea for Saturday which I hope I can carry off - the above face was inspired by Mitchum but I'm just not as good at this as I want to be ...

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Meatgun — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:43:19 -0800

Everyone is putting up some great work. Axel, IX and discontent 's are the ones that stood out the most to me, all for various reasons but these threads just get better and better.

@ Dapper Dan I really like your characters, just something very solid and well done about them.

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Paul Sizer — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:26:02 -0800

FINALLY! Science has been dropped...
Sorry for the delay, I was busy in Detroit signing books at Green Brain Comics, but had two really long drives between Detroit and Kalamazoo to brainstorm, so here's my entry:

"As his spaceship more and more becomes his home and eventually his world, SpaceHawk begins to detach himself from the original concepts of enlightened cosmic justice (along with his humanity) he once sought. Convinced that the small, perfect world of his ship represents the way to achieve intergalactic harmony, the elimination of all not like himself becomes his one goal. And the universe becomes darker than before..."

Special thanks to Dave Glide, who helped me focus in on the "Space Don Quixote" angle that led to this version. And nothing like going back to the masters of evil propaganda design for inspiration on how to brand mass genocide.

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frequentcontributor — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:46:18 -0800

Well, great minds think alike, obviously, since your Spacehawk is exactly like mine... Just kidding, but your drawing and concept ARE eerily similar to mine: Receding hairline with bits of gray, ominous glowing red lights, never leaving the ship, destroying everything...

I do like how you've spun the Spacehawk logo to make it look like the hawk is diving down towards something to grab/kill it. It gives it more of an immediacy and intensity. Nice, as usual.

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Paul Sizer — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:04:54 -0800

Yeah, I noticed that we both came up with similar takes. You got a better "empty look" in the eyes than I did. Nice drawing! I dig the subdued palette.

And yes, I discovered that while the logo had the hawk flying up, it looks noble, but aiming the hawk down makes it look like it's swooping down to "kill the stars". Which is where things eventually went, eh?

My faves so far: Terry Taylor (god, it DOES look like Freddie Mercury), trigger25 (cute AND grim), lx (like a scratchy faxed photo from space), Dapper Dan (like a helicopter indeed) and you, frequentcontributor (sick and lonely image).

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MrSmite — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:44:50 -0800

I didn't have time to do the one I wanted to, so I just put this one together tonight.

And there are so many good pieces cropping up in the thread. Trigger25's is still probably my favorite. As someone said before, quite grim.

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frequentcontributor — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:49:01 -0800

"Be good or SpaceHawk will get you..." Ha! That is freaking hilarious!!! Funny AND an interesting design; I especially like the hawk's head forming the helmet... It reminds of old Power Rangers masks from when I was a kid.

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VogonPoet30 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:04:11 -0800

You mess with our colonies, and Spacehawk will make sure you regret it...

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tim12s — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:52:05 -0800

Daaaaang.

I'd better scan mine in ASAP!!

hur hur hur hur....

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Brad McLoughlin — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:26:32 -0800

Folks, this is the best yet!

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Andre — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:17:49 -0800

Thanks for the comments, I just wanted to know it wasn't terrible as no one commented.
There are some amazing designs here. You guys are all doing such a superb job. Excellent work!

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yorko — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:15:06 -0800

I did another one, now channeling a bit of Kevin O'Neill,

sorry for the photo, too big for my scanner.

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Verissimus — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:54:04 -0800

Wow great stuff.

I like the psycho planet killers by Paulsizer and frequentcontributor and Alex Medellin's outrageous space ship/suit very much.

Also Michael Furious's robohawk, very cool.

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virtuasamurai — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:24:13 -0800

Everything on page 7 is amazing stuff

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Paul Sizer — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:33:59 -0800

All right, I know I do "serious and dark" for shit, so here's a re-version of the 1940's version of the SPACEHAWK comic, just before it's cancellation in 1945.

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Spenceball — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:42:05 -0800

@ Evan_e_Hill

Sorry dude. Looks like no one's going for the reformed/zen/peaceful Spacehawk. Did you get inspiration from "The Fountain"?

Sallright man, I digg it.

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StefanJ — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:46:54 -0800

Mr. Size, that's SCARY!

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ScottS — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:49:31 -0800

@yorko

I like that a lot!

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Sobreiro — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:01:59 -0800

This thread is so cool... I hope Warren will reconsider what he said about this being the last Remake/Remodel thread of the year and throw us another challenge next monday!

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Paul Sizer — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:10:51 -0800

Hmmm, how can I get thrown off this board and incur the wrath of Warren? Wait, I know...

Happy Christmas, Warren, hope you like crappily Photoshopped artwork! (Made even more pathetic that I hacked/modded my own stuff!)

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leepus — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:26:11 -0800

All of these have made me want to dig out my sketchpad again, but, now that paulsizer has posted this, I think the threads can be retired forever. I'm just glad it didn't happen with irma vep

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frequentcontributor — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:02:08 -0800

Paul, I dig your 40's cover recreation. It doesn't look old, per se, but it DOES look like a real comic that I would pay 3.99 for at the store, so nice work. Too bad that SH is a commie... And Oh Christ, Warren as Alien-Killer is priceless.

Yorko: I like your new one a lot; especially the coloring. Marker?

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Paul Sizer — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:26:33 -0800

@leepus: C'mon, man, don't throw it all away just because I made one horrible, horrible mistake! Man up and get ready when these threads resurrect themselves in 2009! We need your sketches as well!

@frequentcontributor: Commie, Nazi, in space it's all the same...

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leepus — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:41:50 -0800

@paulsizer i wasn't throwing it away, I was declaring you teh winner. now, where did i put my pencils?

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10ma — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:47:33 -0800

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evan_e_hill — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:01:56 -0800

thanks spencer, somewhat, mainly for the ship... i imagine people of the future will look back on us the same way i look back on 1100s europe, barbaric and in the dark... ive been reading a book on buddhism too and was wondering how to make a peaceful character interesting.

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Blackfish — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:27:22 -0800

@ Axel Medellin: I love the battle gear it looks rad

@Paul Sizer: SpaceHawk....SUPER Hero...SHIT Dad...HAHAHA

@lx: smoking in space always sends that 'don't fuck with me' message

@Sobreiro: This is my favorite...total space sleeze bag...I kinda imagine Han Solo looking like this in his later years!

@Discontent: Awesome killing aliens in the day...murder she wrote at nite!

@Miranda: Just...kool

Everyone's was super but those are the ones that just grabbed me...I'm going to have to give the next round a shot this is just too awesome to resist

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melbradley — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:20:47 -0800

I lurk here a lot and I'm glad the remake/remodel thread is back.

My take on Spacehawk is a battle scarred armor and a honkin' huge gun, sword, etc. Is it too much?

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D.Miranda — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:00:20 -0800

Many, many thanks for the enthusiastic comments; more and more people are coming in with great art and ideas every week, this is becoming quite stimulating.
Thank you, Radian, for the gunblade cue.
Sean Grimm: about two disorganized days.
My final vote's on Santapau for this week.

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johnmuth — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:06:48 -0800

@ Paul Sizer:

I'm wondering if the Hawk icon, might work as a replacement for the E in "SpacE Hawk...maybe with the hawk flying to the right, and the star as the space between the two words....

Great stuff, all around.

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Amanda P — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:36:00 -0800

Phew! Just made it I think...
Colouring ain't great - spent too much time having fun with the star field!
So... I was thinking, ye olde 'grim' translates to modern day 'emo' :-)

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ekitson — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:44:30 -0800

did one up real quick, awesome concepts guys =)

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Paul Sizer — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:50:59 -0800

@Johnmuth
I'll have to try that when I have a spare second. Good eye! See? Design is NEVER done...
Thanks!

@AmandaP
Nice job on the almost "yaoi" sad boy love version of Spacehawk.
"Will I ever find love amongst all this chaos? The memory of my love's caress grows colder with each laser blast..."

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Jay Kay — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:38:14 -0800

Here's my idea:

Basically: Punisher 3000 who is a combination of carbon and silicon life form to become the ultimate space explorer and criminal, alien executioner.

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stsparky — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:47:45 -0800

The idea is that the current Spacehawk is a copy of a copy. And only dire crap makes him team up with his brethren. I may work this more.

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moali — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:33:43 -0800

abit late

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Greasemonkey — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:08:07 -0800

@moali that's some beautiful work. Kudos.

Nice job, everyone else. This has been the standout art thread this year.

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kperkins — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:48:20 -0800

@PaulSizer.
Thanks, I almost spit coffee all over my laptop. Arse Eels it is.

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Greasemonkey — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:13:45 -0800

[edited to tweak graphics]

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Jay Kay — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:08:04 -0800

@Greasemonkey:

...I'll buy one for every day of the week.

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Paul Sizer — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:08:31 -0800

@kperkins
Almost ruined a computer? My work is done here... :)

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MaC — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:24:42 -0800

@Paul Sizer

Really awesome work, you really nailed the "empty look" in your third rendition. Bravo.

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frequentcontributor — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:15:01 -0800

I'd buy an Arse Eels Surf Wear shirt...

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Greasemonkey — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:29:38 -0800

If there's anyone here who is a t-shirt printer, and who would like to collaborate on producing a batch of Arse Eels Surfwear t-shirts for the Whitechapel members, I'm in.

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yorko — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:15:58 -0800

@frequentcontributor

Watercolor and markers.

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HOT_RIGHTEOUS_DEATH — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:36:27 -0800

I'm a little late to the party but here is my entry.

Man...gotta learn how to ink...

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tim12s — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:17:36 -0800

Well, finally got it scanned and coloured. Only been sitting in my notebook since Wednesday...

And yes, similar retro logo work to @Paulsizer...

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JMichaels — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:47:07 -0800

The man known only as SpaceHawk has spent decades protecting the earth, fighting a self proclaimed war on alien invaders.

His struggle has left him a dark, bitter man. At home in the dead cold of space, looking down like a shadowy guardian angel on the people of earth.

It has been a long and lonely road, saving mankind.

If only he had read the instruction manual on his universal translator.

I'm not much on the story ideas, but basically I thought it would be funny if Spacehawk's translator was set wrong and all of the aliens he murdered the shit out of over the years were actually peaceful and trying to bring peace and friendship to mankind. I would make him a dark, brooding misguided Punisher/Batman of space. A hard drinking, hard smoking, shoot first and shoot those who ask questions later type.

Not sure how much series longevity that would have but like I said, I'm not a story guy. And I'm just attempting to be an art guy.

J.

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sebfowler — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 02:59:06 -0800

@JMicaels: And succeeding! Nice one.
Very very late, but I have good excuses. Flew out for a friend's wedding, then moved house the night I got back. New house tried to kill us with hay fever for 2 days til we scrubbed and bleached it clean.
Spacehawk: Wings in his hair, like Paulie from the Sopranos. Hawk-like nose. Talon hands and feet, which help with the alien killing. Why is he standing on a giant brain? I have no idea.

I really wanted to make him more like a Space Falconer, but the filth was not in me. Perhaps next time.
Might colour him later for fun. Apologies for the hugeness of the image.

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Amanda P — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:05:22 -0800

Dang, but there's some fine artwork in this thread!
@PaulSizer, thanks for the nice comment. Think I'm going to have to quote you in my gallery :-)
@Greasemonkey, count me in for one of those tshirts too ;-)

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Kosmopolit — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:16:57 -0800

Is there something wrong with me that I feel a little thrill when I see that the sticky from one of thee has been removed, meaning the next one's on the way?

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Greasemonkey — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:35:55 -0800

@Amanda - I'll be happy to knock up a full sized graphic of this if someone else fronts for the shirts and printing.

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Jon Wake — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:05:38 -0800

I used spacehawk to learn how to texture in Zbrush. Observe.

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Finagle — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:35:41 -0800

"Spacehawk....what happened to your eyes?"

"Where we are going...we won't need eyes to see!"

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Oxbrow — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:47:51 -0800

My art is very much of the "give it to a proper artist as a vague thumbnail and let them make it look not-awful" level, but what the hey, big dead-eyed bastards in space armour and combat boots are always appealing even if he did come out looking like Tahmoh Penikett in Battlestar Galactica.

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Rick Damn Lacy — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:18:36 -0800

This is photographed right out of my sketchbook, so the quality isn't spectacular. And I dont keep my scanner at home.

Anyway, I went for a grittier, Dirty Harryesque Spacehawk. Punks.

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Cat Vincent — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:39:23 -0800

So, should we start a seperate thread/poll for who wants Arse Eels T-shirts or what?

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Sobreiro — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:12:23 -0800

Very cool design, Rick

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Berserker — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:31:21 -0800

These threads are pure crack - I just can't not hit them over and over.

Amazing fun, this.

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Oxbrow — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:54:44 -0800

Also, I should add that these Spacehawks are awesome.

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frequentcontributor — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:28:14 -0800

JMichaels: Amazing. I really dig the European look and the mistranslation bent is funny as hell. I picture from his perspective a bunch of cuddly looking aliens offering him flowers, but their dialogue would read: "Die SpaceBitch!!!"

Rick Damn Lacy: Just cool.

Also, if Warren isn't giving us any new remake cannon fodder later today, are we going to have to come up with a character by ourselves? I guess we'll see what Warren does...

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oldhat — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:36:01 -0800

Brilliant work everyone. Just...brilliant.

@frequentcontributor: I'm not sure, but once again I'd love to put my vote in for Little Nemo. Beautiful turn of the century comic strips and I'm sure the redo of any of the other characters would be a great challenge to people out there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Nemo

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frequentcontributor — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:15:43 -0800

Well, I'm a huge Winsor Mccay fan, and the Little Nemo strips certainly are an artist's playground, however, Nemo himself is a bit of a blank slate (perhaps a good thing, but not much to work with beyond "sleeping kid..."), and I have been Googling around trying to find someone that isn't blatantly obvious. No offense, but most people have heard of Little Nemo (or the Shadow, or Doc Savage, etc.), and he was featured in a (bit of a Remake/Remodel) animated film from the 90's, so our collective consciousnesses might have been tainted...

For instance, I found a guy named Satan Hall! Unfortunately, he's just a detective (with inexplicably pointed ears, and a Namor-style haircut to match, for some reason...) who kills criminals. Soooo.....boring. I want to try to find something that isn't in space, since we just did that, and perhaps a woman (but one without any Catwoman-esque tendancies), to change it up. Someone who didn't start out as Caucasian would be a plus, too.

I'm certainly open to suggestions, and consider Nemo to be a valid backup.

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frequentcontributor — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:59:44 -0800

Yes, well, I could look up old pulp characters all night, but I've found 2 that I like; let me know what you think (if Warren doesn't give us a new challenge, himself...)

1) Captain Satan: "...began life in 1938. Caray Adair, a criminal trying to reform, leads a band of gangsters (Doc, Happy, Frenchie, Soapy, Big Bill, and Gentlemen Dan) in a war against crime. He robs from the crime lords and redistributes the wealth to the poor and needy. In his guise as Captain Satan he pretends to be superhuman, and he uses the devil symbol on his chest in much the same way that the Spider did, to frighten criminals. He also leaves behind projects a devil symbol (by taping a cut-out devil figure onto a flashlight lens) to scare crooks."

I know it sounds a bit like Domino Lady, but the NAMES on his band of gangsters makes it all worth it for me. That and the devil is cool... Here's his pic:

Thoughts?

2) The Campfire Girls: "...created by Julianne DeVries and appeared in the four book "Banner Campfire Girls Series," which ran from 1933 to 1935 and began with The Campfire Girls Flying Around The Globe. The Girls (haven't been able to find their names yet, sorry) fly around the world in a technologically-advanced airplane (provenance unknown to me, alas), fought crime (as "federal investigators," no less), and even met the President."

Now, the tiny pic below and the sparse description COULD serve as a hindrance, but I like to think that these characters could be taken in ANY direction... And if you only half look at the book cover below, it looks as though the girl in the right rear of the frame is holding a severed head (whether she is or not: up to you!)...

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Sobreiro — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:29:11 -0800

< off-topic >

What the hell?! Frequentcontributor, I would have never discovered this by my own, but that cover you posted was ripped by whomever designed Marc Maron's NOT SOLD OUT cd cover:

< /off-topic >

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frequentcontributor — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:44:56 -0800

You're welcome.

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Rick Damn Lacy — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 07:48:13 -0800

@frequentcontributor I've got that very same Captain Satan poster on my studio wall! That would definitely be another great REMAKE/REMODEL thread.

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tyim — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:47:11 -0800

didn't have much time so a loose sketch.

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Kosmopolit — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:59:35 -0800

How about Nick Carter:

Nick Carter is a fictional character who first appeared in a dime novel entitled The Old Detective's Pupil; or, The Mysterious Crime of Madison Square on September 18, 1886. This novel was written by John R. Coryell from a story by Ormond G. Smith, the son of one of the founders of Street & Smith.

In 1915, Nick Carter Weekly became Street & Smith's Detective Story Magazine. Novels featuring Carter continued to appear through the 1950s, by which time there was also a popular radio show, Nick Carter, Master Detective, which aired on Mutual from 1943 to 1955

Following the success of the James Bond series, the character was updated for a long-running series of novels featuring the adventures of secret agent Nick Carter, aka the Killmaster. The first book, Run Spy Run, appeared in 1964 and more than 260 Nick Carter-Killmaster adventures were published up until 1990.

link

Carter was a prototype for Doc Savage - raised to be a master detective and Olympic-level athlete so he can get revenge on the criminals who killed his parents.

When the pulps took over, he was transformed from a detective to a two-fisted global adventurer; later he became a James Bond style spy nd later still a Bolanesque vigilante.

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jeremiah — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:45:09 -0800

has anyone actually read any of those old little nemo comics???? the pics in that wiki article look fucking cool!!!!

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frequentcontributor — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:03:25 -0800

Yeah, Nemo is a trip and a half. That, and Winsor Mccay sort of "invented" animation...

And in memoriam: Captain Satan, we hardly knew ye. Taken before your time, we bid you a fond farewell.