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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.

    NOTE: NO MORE PHOTO-MANIPULATION "art". I'll just delete them. People have been drenching recent threads with several pieces at a time that they've knocked out in photoshop in 2 minutes with no thought at all. I consider this to be taking the piss now.

    The point is REinterpretation: remake/remodel.

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    BY REQUEST:

    Glycon was a snake god, according to the satirist Lucian, who provides the only literary reference to the deity. Lucian claimed Glycon was created in the mid-second century by the Greek prophet Alexander of Abonutichus. Lucian was ill-disposed toward the cult, calling Alexander the "oracle-monger" and accusing the whole enterprise of being a hoax—Glycon himself was supposedly a hand puppet.


    More about Glycon.

    Glycon is, of course, the preferred deity of Alan Moore.



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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
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      CommentAuthorSobreiro
    • CommentTimeOct 15th 2009
     (7026.2)
    YES.
    • CommentAuthorOddcult
    • CommentTimeOct 15th 2009
     (7026.3)
    Ta.
  4.  (7026.4)
    Just plain brilliant.
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      CommentAuthorPaul Sizer
    • CommentTimeOct 15th 2009
     (7026.5)
    Snake Gods Ahoy!
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      CommentAuthorRooth
    • CommentTimeOct 15th 2009
     (7026.6)
    Yusss!
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      CommentAuthorJess
    • CommentTimeOct 15th 2009 edited
     (7026.7)
    Here's my "mixed media" contribution.


    http://i34.tinypic.com/acvslk.jpg

    Sorry for the crappy picture -- I was having difficulty taking a picture while one hand was in a sock.
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      CommentAuthorsseloske
    • CommentTimeOct 15th 2009
     (7026.8)
    Oh, this is going to be good.
    • CommentAuthorKen Miller
    • CommentTimeOct 15th 2009
     (7026.9)
    The photo of that Glycon statuette (click on the link Warren provided) suggests the snake god sported a fine, flowing hairdo.
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      CommentAuthortedcroland
    • CommentTimeOct 15th 2009
     (7026.10)
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      CommentAuthorJess
    • CommentTimeOct 15th 2009
     (7026.11)
    @tedcroland -- Tee hee. Is the worshipper supposed to be Alan Moore?
  12.  (7026.12)
    glycon
    Skull/uppderjaw/'hair'.
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      CommentAuthorGinja
    • CommentTimeOct 15th 2009
     (7026.13)
    Jess - I like it. You need to do more sock puppet R/Rs; not just ones where the deity is technically a sock puppet.
    • CommentAuthorOddcult
    • CommentTimeOct 15th 2009
     (7026.14)
    Has anyone actually got a snake and a wig?

    No reason for asking. Nevermind...
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      CommentAuthorJess
    • CommentTimeOct 15th 2009 edited
     (7026.15)
    @Ginja -- I will take you up on that challenge.

    Also, I made four Glycons, but would need two more people to take the appropriate picture. Snow has totally thwarted my evil plans today.

    GLYCONS!

    ETA: Roo, he's awesome. Ink him! Ink him!
  16.  (7026.16)
    @Jess -those Glycons are adorable.
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      CommentAuthortedcroland
    • CommentTimeOct 15th 2009
     (7026.17)
    @Jess yep! I felt that it was not impossible for that to happen, providing giant argyle socks were more common.
  18.  (7026.18)
    Jess' sock-puppet Glycon is hilarious, but I find it odd that the collective assumption is that of a sock-puppet, at all. The Wikipedia description seems to indicate that either a snake crawled into a puppet's head, or that Alexander put a humanoid puppet-head onto a snake. I was thinking more like a Punch and Judy-thing... (or some of the royalty people from Mr. Rogers...)
  19.  (7026.19)
    The critics were misunderstood or simply mistranslated. There was sock puppetry and a hand and snakes involved, but not in the way you all thought.

    So here's my interpretation of it all:

    Yeah, that bum's screwed.
  20.  (7026.20)
    Also, I love that the very first contribution was an actual snake sock puppet. And Rootfireembers: That's awesomeness in the making.

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