Si Spurrier, new master at Whitechapel, says:Warren’s REMAKE/REMODEL meme is one of my favourite things. I plan to keep it running – a fresh one every Monday. Artists need a place to show off, Whitechapel should always be It. A handful of entries will be showcased on http://www.Bleedingcool.com at the end of each challenge.



INSTRUCTIONS: THE RED BEE

“The Red Bee's secret identity is Rick Raleigh, assistant district attorney in Superior City, Oregon. His superhero modus operandi is to put on a red and yellow costume and, with his trained bees and "stinger gun," fight Nazis and gangsters.”
I like that he lives in Oregon. I like that Nazis and gangsters are considered interchangeable. I like that he has a “stinger gun” – presumably he doesn’t die every time he uses it a lá his chosen namesake – and above all I like that his Super Power is the enslavement and reckless endangerment of innocent Apoideans.

“His favorite bee is named Michael and lives inside his belt buckle for use in special circumstances; the feature's writer was presumably unaware that male bees do not sting at all.”
Ahhhh, Wikipedia snark. The best snark of all. The full entry is HERE.



Me: Working aroung this idea took a while. I didn't want to go for the comical side of the character, and started to think of Jean-Paul Gauthier, with his mariniere, the striped-top, because I had visited his exposition at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.Google a bit Jean-Paul Gauthier and Bee, and the only interesting match I found was the glasses, which I more or less kept. The key idea went with an old toy, a transformers, to be precise, Waspinator, here:

After this, it 's full go on superhero reframe: Put a jetpack, and the handles as the third set of member, and we're all set.

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