Y'know, those redesigns are pretty interesting. Not sure how I'd feel with them as a main continuity sort of thing, but I admire the attempt at something new but similar.
Sh*t, I knew I recognized the art style from somewhere. It's the guy from Dresdan Codak. One of the weirdest but best-drawn webcomics on the internet. Livewire is basically right out of his comic. I was staring at it going "That reminds me of Kimiko" (one of his protagonists...er, well, she's complicated. But anyway). But I didn't put it together until I clicked the link.
Is that little black woman to the far right supposed to be Parasite? If so, that's one hell of a revamp.
The rest aren't too bad, though. WW is my favorite (DC should use that look, imo), followed by Supes--his costume looks like an amalgamation of his regular suit, and Mon El's... Topped of with a Golden Age "S".
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He's also redone the entire Batman Family as shown here (with a completely different take on the characters, which he describes in the link below). He kept the two (JL and Batman family) separate because he felt his Batman redesign would not fit in the JL universe.
He gives them all such specific roles that, while I wouldn't want to see the normal Batman take this route, I'd definitely be interested in seeing an Elseworld style story being done.
Agreed in full about the Superman costume. Best of the bunch imo.
Good stuff. I like the Robin redesign. His costume actually looks like something someone would wear. Comic book Robin always seemed comically impractical to me.
The guy is something of an amateur futurist. Very into transhumanism. His comic used to be more coherent and pandered to sci-fi dorks, but has sort of jumped off the deep end more recently with a technological future and its esoteric and philosophical implications. Odd stuff, but always well-drawn.
Giganta's redesign out of all of them is by far my favorite, with Wonder Woman coming in a close second - my only gripe with Diana's makeover is that I feel making her into a marble statue removes a lot of her human connection that makes her an incredibly important character and landmark in comics.
I love the greco-roman focus of the outfit though, and I love the redesign to weaponry and powers allowing for a greater and more natural emphasis on the mythological aspect of her character.
Also a fan of Gorilla Grodd, Metallo, Huntress, Cyborg, Flash's scientist-emphasis, and Martian Manhunter's costume.
Dislike Oracle.
All in all, super cool stuff. Gotta give this more thought.
Also, this is just me musing now that those redesigns are kicking some thoughts around in my brain:
So Batman's whole classic rogues gallery explores the different ways that people mentally crack and a lot of his villains exemplify certain mental disorders: Two-Face was the ultimate split personality villain, Catwoman was a kleptomaniac, Joker was the quintessential comic-book psychopath, Firefly a pyromaniac, etc, etc.
Batman himself is portrayed often as mentally cracked, with little separating him from his rogues.
If I wanted to redesign Oracle, instead of having her become physically disabled, I would have Joker inflict such deep, irrevocable mental trauma to her psyche that the stress leaves her with incurable, severe agoraphobia, and have her overcome these limitations by fighting cirme via the airwaves as she already does.
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Mar 14th, 2012 12:03 AM
. I didn't really care about the battle, just wanted to get some thoughts flowing like this.
