Mar 9 2013
Warren Ellis says:So here’s the deal: Revamp THAT for the 21st Century. You have one week. Heh. Haha. Hahahahahaha. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAcoughAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Me: Spectreman is the very first superhero I got to meet, perhaps with Gredinzer. I’m an old fan.
Jun 6 2012
Si Spurrier says: THE SUB-MARINER We’re going to do something a bit different here. Rather than taking an idea or golden-age character and reinventing them as a Modern! Day! Super! Hero!, we’re going to take an ages-old superhero, throw away 90% of the background, and get Conceptual. This is important, pay attention: You will not(…)
Jun 6 2012
Si Spurrier, new master at Whitechapel, says:THE RULES: INSTRUCTIONS: JUDGE DREDD All righty then. Doesn’t come much better than this. We’ve had our clowns, we’ve had our jungle-protecting sorcerers, we’ve had our gun-wielding primates. I think we can all agree it’s about time we sunk our teeth into some good old fashioned head-breaking uberviolent zero-tolerance(…)
Jun 6 2012
Si Spurrier says: SAVE US, 80’s CARTOONS, YOU’RE OUR ONLY HOPE It has been noted that today’s world has taken a peculiar lurch toward 80sdom. Uberconservatism in politics, racism in the news, trouble in the Falklands, riots on the streets, assaults upon the welfare state, godawful haircuts, an overzealous deployment of secondary colours in fashion,(…)
Mar 12 2012
Mar 11 2012
Ok, this one happens to be my favorite character: Batman, created in 1939. The appeal, to me, was that he’s…only human in a world of superhumans, but is called, by Superman, no less, “the most dangerous human of all”. During all these years, he has been declined in a gargantuan number of versions. Below, you’ll find a few of mine,(…)
Mar 11 2012
The following gallery is to show the variations between the classic character and the remake-remodel thread. The gloomy colours add really to what is essential in a superhero. In the classic literature- Latin, Greek and European Renaissance, a hero was defined by his weakness to what overwelmed him:(…)
Mar 11 2012
Warren Ellis says: “From 1941, when the drugs were apparently very good: Mr. E appealed for guidance and assistance to a statue of a ancient tribal god named King Kolah which he housed in a subterranean temple beneath his home. Kolah presented Mr. E with visions that led him to criminals. The idol also gave Mr. E(…)
Mar 11 2012
Warren Ellis says: “from 1939, probably the 100th Mandrake knock-off in comics. I use this one because I found his list of villains utterly surreal, worthy of Steve Aylett at times: John Cardy also known as Kardak the Mystic traveled the world fighting crime using his magic powers. He fought villains such as the Mocha(…)
Mar 11 2012
Warren Ellis says: “From Jess Nevins, another very short one that should be fun. It’s not immediately clear, so let me state up front: Gerry Carlyle is a woman. Carlyle, Gerry. Gerry Carlyle was created by Arthur K. Barnes and appeared in a series of stories in Thrilling Wonder Stories from 1937-1946, several of which(…)
Mar 11 2012
Warren Ellis says: “Now, this is the Nedor comics character from 1940, not the famous pulp sf character. There are one or two pictures of this guy online, but I choose not to show them to you. Instead, revel in the description: Scientist Andrew Bryant was experimenting with gamma and infrared rays and discovered that,(…)
Mar 11 2012
Warren Ellis says: “Briefest character description ever, from a wiki squib on this public domain comics character from 1941: Sharon Kane is the sworn enemy of all criminals. Her specially designed bracelets eject spider webbing. Her boyfriend is a detective named Mike O’Bell. And, a relative rarity for R/R these days, an image: On the(…)
Mar 9 2012
The following piece is to show the evolution from B&W to digital colours. The Black and White art was made on a 8 1/2 X 11 card, with only a 0.005 micron. The colors on photoshop (step 2) was used just to give mood and shades: Blues and Greys tints give a sad, dark and(…)
Mar 9 2012
Ok, this one is really insane: From Contact Comics in 1944: Warren Ellis says: “Colonel Moore Williams knows the enemy is easily terrified by the strange and unknown, so he becomes the superhero known as the Flamingo! He has no powers and is only armed with his intellect, his physical strength, his service revolver, and(…)
Mar 9 2012
Si Spurrier says: It’s not all euphemistic smut-adventurers and bee-fancying spandexers on Whitechapel, oh no. You’ll recall I launched my stewardship here with a chance to reinvent the Egyptian War-Goddess Sekhmet – as a pissheaded psychopath, naturally – and verily It Was Good. So. Let’s try some more of that sort of thing. ”Jenny Greenteeth(…)
Mar 9 2012
A long time ago, Warren Ellis posted a remake/remodel thread on a Ghost Exterminator: The theme said: “The Ghost Exterminator was created by Gelett Burgess and appeared in Cosmopolitan and possibly a few other magazines from 1904 through 1906. The Exterminator is Hoku Tamanochi, a Japanese San Franciscan who uses an ancient Japanese formula and(…)