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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.

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    "Don-Vin, also known as Hyper the Phenomenal, is ray gun wielding spaceman. He has a girlfriend named Winifred and is enemies with a woman named Dolores. He does not posses any known superpowers."



    I MUST HATE YOU, EH?

    (Points may be awarded OR DEDUCTED for additional use of "Disco The Boy Detetctive.")

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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
    • CommentAuthorOxbrow
    • CommentTimeJul 5th 2009 edited
     (6307.2)
    ... I can't feel my legs.

    Ahem. Looks like this will be a challenge.
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      CommentAuthorGinja
    • CommentTimeJul 5th 2009
     (6307.3)
    This is going to be fun to watch.
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      CommentAuthorRooth
    • CommentTimeJul 5th 2009
     (6307.4)
    Nice and brief, I like.
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      CommentAuthorTanuki
    • CommentTimeJul 5th 2009
     (6307.5)
    Anybody else getting a Liea/ Anthony Kiedis-goes-art=deco with this?
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      CommentAuthorAdam
    • CommentTimeJul 5th 2009
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    Has Dolores actually done anything to earn his enmity? Or is she just some random woman he shakes his fist at every morning as she passes him on the bus? "CURSE you and your ability to afford public transport, she-hag!"
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      CommentAuthorjohnjones
    • CommentTimeJul 5th 2009
     (6307.7)
    Is it just me or does Hyper look a little smooth-faced and pretty for a man? Maybe Hyper is actually a pre-op space transsexual. With ray-guns.
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    Why is there a tiny "Hyper" in the bottom-right-ish space of the cover? Like, what other words can we put on here? Ah, how about just putting "Hyper" here on the bottom? Good...

    Old comics are fucking weird.
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    I am giddy with excitement.
    This may be the most open Remake/Remodel ever. In the history of ever. Ever.
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      CommentAuthorlordmitz
    • CommentTimeJul 6th 2009
     (6307.10)
    is it me or is hyper drunk in that picture?
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      CommentAuthorlordmitz
    • CommentTimeJul 6th 2009
     (6307.12)
    hyper the phenomenal is far to flamboyant a name for a regular, gender-static hero:

    you can almost hear the ABBA soundtrack now
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  14.  (6307.14)
    @Lordmitz

    Now that is a superhero that we can rely on!
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    I love the way "Thrills" is half-heartedly tacked on below "ROMANCE, ACTION" on top of the old cover. Also, "He has a girlfriend named Winifred and is enemies with a woman named Dolores." Hyper's super power is a dysfunctional marriage.

    I like thinking, from that cover, that Hyper could easily have been tapped instead of Miracleman for Moore's traumatizing 80s reinvention.
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    • CommentTimeJul 6th 2009
     (6307.17)
    Oh, well, fuck it.

    <img src="http://peggynature.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/simmons-nude-in-salad.jpg" alt="" />
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      CommentAuthorPupato
    • CommentTimeJul 6th 2009 edited
     (6307.18)
    Miller & sleepless. hahaha! hehe! hi!..
    • CommentAuthorOxbrow
    • CommentTimeJul 6th 2009
     (6307.19)
    Resisting the great temptation to take the piss, I went deco Rocketeer on him.

    Hyper The Phenomenal by Oxbrow

    I think this is the first time my pic has shown a better grasp of anatomy than the original...
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      CommentAuthorPupato
    • CommentTimeJul 6th 2009
     (6307.20)
    jajajajaja!!!!

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