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      CommentAuthorwarrenellis
    • CommentTimeJan 17th 2010 edited
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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.

    NEW RULE: no more than TWO submissions by any one person in any one REMAKE/REMODEL.

    The point is REinterpretation: remake/remodel.

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    From 1947:

    Atoma was a historian from the year 2446, a time of peace. She befriends Dusty Rhodes, an ordinary 20th century kid who becomes a time traveler when he is thrown 500 years into the future. Atoma knew of his arrival from reading his memoirs and was waiting for him. They teamed up to stop a robot riot, putting it to a halt with Dusty's slingshot. While Atoma has no super-powers, she does wear EDF (electronic directional flight) control nylon-xenton wings which allow her to fly.




    I think the Dusty shit is less interesting than a crime-fighting historian powered by SCIENCE in the year 2246...

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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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    Waow. Beyond weird.
    • CommentAuthorSteadyUP
    • CommentTimeJan 17th 2010 edited
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    She's got an auxiliary atomic fuel tank in her vagina?
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    That's it, keep the place classy...
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    I may give this one a go, if only to entertain the thought of combustible ovaries for a little longer.
    • CommentAuthorScottS
    • CommentTimeJan 17th 2010
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    Surely I'm not the only that reads this, sees "Dusty Rhodes", and immediately starts thinking about the American Dream, right?
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      CommentAuthorRooth
    • CommentTimeJan 17th 2010
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    I'm with ya there @ScottS - The American Dream, the polka-dotted common man, the Austin TX 'son of a plumber' and all that... Yeah, I've got to erase from my mind that image of Dusty Rhodes (and the horrible red bulbous thing that would emerge on his belly during lengthy matches) or this one is doomed...
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    If ever there were a goldmine for pen-portraits, Dusty Rhodes' memoirs certainly seem like the perfect candidate.

    Also, I like that she has guns coming out of her armpits, but it seems like everyone would be looking up her skirt all the time. "Hey, fly up there really quick... That's it..."
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    Oh, and PS, in "a time of peace" there are "robot riots"? Human peace, sure, but what about the plight of the slave-robots?
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      CommentAuthorglukkake
    • CommentTimeJan 17th 2010
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    The idea that flying and skirts go well together never struck me as a good one.

    I expect either pants or perversion out of the lot of you.
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    This should be interesting... while I don't have the wrestling overexposure some of you do, I keep getting a different image in my mind (keeping my mouth shut at the moment, in case I decide to go that route).

    Hopefully, I'll make enough of a dent on my freelance shit in the next day or so that I can crank this one out by Wednesday or Thursday, rather than pushing it in post-deadline.

    @glukkake - What about perverse pants? And is that a rule?
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    I went the "pants" route. They're not very perverse from the front--but you should see the back!

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    @oogliemooglie - Nicely done, that's a solid start for the thread!
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    I figured the lair of a historian/superhero from the year 2446 will be a chaotic dump of information.
    Atoma in her lair
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    @Samita - I really like that.
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    Thank you :)
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    There is no fuel tank and no skirt. Sorry everybody.
    atoma
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      CommentAuthorMrSmite
    • CommentTimeJan 19th 2010
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    Ethically challenged time-traveling historical-revisionist? What?

    Remake/Remodel seems so much easier when I have nasty colds. But Letterer, I am not.
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    Already a good mixture of entries!

    I've got my sketches done and inked, colour tonight and scan!

    I did think of using Dusty, but he ended up being to generic and dull!

    (I also thought of the American Dream!)
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    Atoma

    @ oogliemooglie; That logo is killer. Excellent work there. For me, I like to consider this what an actual 22nd century person may see. It isn’t Bullet Time. We have simply upgraded to the point that we all have super senses. I really like the colors you’re using. Bright like a historian may take from historic knights and such. The lamppost was an excellent add.

    @ Samita Chatterjee; That’s the conceptual work that you really don’t get to see too much. What an awesome piece! You may very well have seen the future with that. You took the data cloud idea to the next level.

    @ Shetland; I want to read this story. You have a nice bit of technoware going on and I dig that expression.

    @ MrSmite; I love this: the story, Space Shinto, and the unicorn! Atoma’s gear is superb… smashing work.

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