Thus goes this thread on Freakangels/Whitechapel:
"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.
Honestly? This one's just a funny name. You can freestyle away. The character appeared in 1940, and the essential information is:
"The Sorceress of Zoom was the ruler of the magical cloud city of Zoom. The city could appear and disappear at her whim and her subjects were magic creatures created by her to use as an army to invade Earth."
Your task, as ever, is to re-invent that into something a 21st Century audience could enjoy."
I saw it as a band name. Had fun messing about trying to make it look like an actual band poster.
"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.
Honestly? This one's just a funny name. You can freestyle away. The character appeared in 1940, and the essential information is:
"The Sorceress of Zoom was the ruler of the magical cloud city of Zoom. The city could appear and disappear at her whim and her subjects were magic creatures created by her to use as an army to invade Earth."
Your task, as ever, is to re-invent that into something a 21st Century audience could enjoy."
I saw it as a band name. Had fun messing about trying to make it look like an actual band poster.
Category All / Human
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That gets the mind to thinking...what if 'big name' directors actually directed commercials...
Anywho, Zoom, huh...true, not much outside of rockets went fast back in the 40s, so 'zoom' was a bit out there, I guess it'd be like calling a Super Hero/Villain 'Dark Matter' now.
Now 'bout the art, giving a sorceress of almighty 'power' a gangsta pose just fits perfectly, and I do love that blue background.
Anywho, Zoom, huh...true, not much outside of rockets went fast back in the 40s, so 'zoom' was a bit out there, I guess it'd be like calling a Super Hero/Villain 'Dark Matter' now.
Now 'bout the art, giving a sorceress of almighty 'power' a gangsta pose just fits perfectly, and I do love that blue background.
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