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Warren's Pub Table: REMAKE/REMODEL: Irma Vep vs Captain Justice

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    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 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.

    This week: something old, something new, as it were:

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    Irma Vep.

    ...the most striking protagonist of LES VAMPIRES, a 10-part movie serial about a team of burglars. She was "their most enigmatic member by far... a woman as ruthless and deadly as she is beautiful"... Irma Vep is broadly considered to be cinema's first femme fatale. She's a moral vacuum, she seduces people to her will in order to control her environment and she steals shit while wearing a black catsuit...




    Captain Justice.

    ...Captain Justice is the "Sea Rover," a "modern pirate," an "adventurer of the highest order" whose home base, a technological wonder (it had two-way television in it), was a mile-high fortress, Titanic Tower, floating somewhere in the Atlantic. He used an invisible airship to take him and his friends, Midge the red-headed boy assistant (think Sexton Blake's Tinker and Nelson Lee's Nipper) and Professor Flaznagel, around the world, from hidden cities to the depths of the Sahara, and to fight evil and wrong-doers wherever he found them...






    "Vs" can mean anything you like, of course.

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    Your task, as ever, is to re-invent that into something a 21st Century audience could enjoy.

    I look forward to seeing what you come up with, but bear in mind this is an ART thread. No pen-portraits. This is ART ONLY. Posting just a bunch of text, or a scribble and a vast number of words, will get the thread closed and your account banned.

    You have one week. Go.

    -- W
  2.  (5523.2)
    Wow... my timing here was spot on. I was just thinking, "I wonder if there is a new Remake up, yet," and lo and behold, here it is! Today will be a good day...

    No real thoughts, yet, except to say that immediately after reading what it was, I literally laughed out loud. It WAS a chuckle, more than a laugh, but was certainly audible, nonetheless...
  3.  (5523.3)
    Interesting. Both characters are from before I joined the site so it's nice to get a chance to play with them.

    *rushes off to brainstorm*
  4.  (5523.4)
    "Vs" can mean anything you like, of course.


    Oh shit Zdarsky won't miss this one...
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      CommentAuthorPaul Sizer
    • CommentTimeApr 5th 2009
     (5523.5)
    "Vs" can mean anything you like, of course.


    Oh God, did I just hear someone cue up some bad 80's funk porn music?
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      CommentAuthorAdam
    • CommentTimeApr 5th 2009
     (5523.6)
    Eeeeeeeew, Sizer! Particularly bad timing coming straight off Andre's mention of Zdarsky's wonderfully hideous Irma Vep offering.
  7.  (5523.7)
    All of my thoughts include machinery. Especially the ones that occured to me after reading '"Vs" can mean anything you like, of course.'

    I'll be dropping some terrible imagining off sometime on tuesday, since i'm no longer being payed to do fuck all and must return to work tomorrow.

    And by the way, thank you for reading my mind and allowing me a crack at Cap'n Justice, Mister Ellis. Of all the R/R's i've seen, he's the one I wanted a go at. The inclusion of a catsuit-wearing klepto bitch is a bonus.
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      CommentAuthorchris g
    • CommentTimeApr 5th 2009
     (5523.8)
    fucking SWEET! I didn't get to post my Cap'n Justice before, but I kept the design. Woot! fun
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    Captain Justice and a scout team in Irma Vep's hideout. My shading skills are quite clearly shit.
  10.  (5523.10)
    I'm liking it, actually, the atmosphere of the thing. And your shading is far from shit. Consider this - I omit any type of shading from anything I do, because I simply can't. You, however, can. And I love the fact that there's a rug in her cavey hideout. Brilliant work.

    Especially on Monseuir Justice. I hate moustaches on anyone, even if they're fictional, but in this case it just seems right.
  11.  (5523.11)
    He's Captain fucking Justice. He needs a goddamn moustache.

    And thanks!
  12.  (5523.12)
    Cap'n Justice requires no 'tache to fight crime! If anything, it'd just slow him down.
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      CommentAuthoragentarsenic
    • CommentTimeApr 5th 2009 edited
     (5523.13)
    So who's drawing them naked and buggering one another?

    Captain Justice's wang should have an eye patch.
  14.  (5523.14)
    That'd be me, see comment above involving machinery.
    • CommentAuthorOxbrow
    • CommentTimeApr 5th 2009
     (5523.15)
    Nice indeed.

    Irma Vep Versus Captain Justice, By Oxbrow, Take 1

    A fair fight...

    Irma Vep Versus Captain Justice, By Oxbrow, Take 2

    And this rather less so. Although I'd still put money on Ms. Vep...
  16.  (5523.16)
    @Oxbrow -

    You've restored my faith in humanity - "Heave to" is essential in any matter involving the word "Captain".
    • CommentAuthorOxbrow
    • CommentTimeApr 5th 2009
     (5523.17)
    :) My work here is done.
  18.  (5523.18)
    And, er, very quick, low-res sketch:

    I should explore that further in my next takes.
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      CommentAuthormister hex
    • CommentTimeApr 5th 2009
     (5523.19)
    Now you're just recycling ideas. Although I'm waiting for Zdarsky to chime in on this one ...
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      CommentAuthorstsparky
    • CommentTimeApr 6th 2009
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    The thing I hated about "team-up" comics was the phony fight setup between the heroes. Here's a first take ...
    Yes I know it's a weird ass fumetti thing ...

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