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fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

Travel Foreman designs for Justice League United. Love his take on Metamorpho.

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Alhazred
Feb 16, 2011




Say Nothing posted:

This is probably her best look.





Her best look is a small skirt with seemingly no underwear?
Also, impressive Brazilian wax job she haves.

Teenage Fansub
Jan 28, 2006

fatherboxx posted:

Travel Foreman designs for Justice League United. Love his take on Metamorpho.



He said on his blog that this was from an abandoned arc. He is apparently still coming on to the book in June without Jeff Lemire, but hopefully this work'll be adopted.
I loving love Animal Man's space suit designs.

Selachian
Oct 9, 2012

fatherboxx posted:

Travel Foreman designs for Justice League United. Love his take on Metamorpho.



What the hell is up with Hawkgirl's legs?

DJ Fuckboy Supreme
Feb 10, 2011

And when you stare long into the abyss, you become aggressively, terminally chill

Bad fashion season in Thanagar

Also I thought that was supposed to be Aquaman, but the sort-of-A-design looks similar to Buddy's last costume.

McSpanky
Jan 16, 2005






Alhazred posted:

Her best look is a small skirt with seemingly no underwear?
Also, impressive Brazilian wax job she haves.

That didn't seem to stop anybody from loving Carol's black-and-gold Ms. Marvel costume? It's a pretty standard swimsuit cut.

Old Kentucky Shark
May 25, 2012

If you think you're gonna get sympathy from the shark, well then, you won't.


Alhazred posted:

Her best look is a small skirt with seemingly no underwear?
With Raven? Yeah, basically. There's a version of that outfit where she wears tights, but without the fall of loincloth to break the costume's lines up and the color contrast with her legs, it just looks super generic. And all her other non-cartoon outfits have been terrible.

Chinaman7000
Nov 28, 2003

fatherboxx posted:

Travel Foreman designs for Justice League United. Love his take on Metamorpho.


drat I like all of those. Creepy Metamorpho is awesome.

Solenna
Jun 5, 2003

I'd say it was your manifest destiny not to.

McSpanky posted:

That didn't seem to stop anybody from loving Carol's black-and-gold Ms. Marvel costume? It's a pretty standard swimsuit cut.
It was standard swimsuit cut in the 80s maybe, and the 80s were terrible at fashion.


Unless Raven literally glues or double sided tapes that thing to herself she is going to get a wedgie in the front as soon as she tries to do anything strenuous. It's not that it's a swimsuit cut, it's that the cut is so high on the hips and so narrow in the front. If it was a lower and broader cut it would still be comic book silly, but I wouldn't be wondering if she uses her demonic magic to keep her costume covering all her bits. Of course that particular picture was Ed Benes and he went for porniest versions possible for a long time.

Stupid_Sexy_Flander
Mar 14, 2007

Is a man not entitled to the haw of his maw?
Grimey Drawer

Chinaman7000 posted:

drat I like all of those. Creepy Metamorpho is awesome.

I kinda expect that to be asked in the new FF movie since Ben is sans pants anyway.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Alhazred posted:

Her best look is a small skirt with seemingly no underwear?
Also, impressive Brazilian wax job she haves.

She's worn a lot worse.

Dacap
Jul 8, 2008

I've been involved in a number of cults, both as a leader and a follower.

You have more fun as a follower. But you make more money as a leader.



The new 52 Teen Titans are poo poo costumes across the board.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

I love Superguy just cringing at that outfit.

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

Dacap posted:

The new 52 Teen Titans are poo poo costumes across the board.

They really are. I'm not a fan of the vast majority of New 52 looks but holy poo poo did the Titans draw the short straw there.

Angry Walrus
Aug 31, 2013

Quinn it
to
Win it.
I actually really like the nu52 Raven costume, just not as a costume for her. Tweak the torso a bit but the cowl looks super legit.

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


It looks like a Todd McFarlane design to me.

Teenage Fansub
Jan 28, 2006

I really liked the Titans fill-in artist, Scott Hepburn a couple issues ago, so I went back to look if Raven was better under him, and there's her feather diaper...

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
Raven: "I CAN'T SEE A loving THING!"

Leper Residue
Sep 28, 2003

To where no dog has gone before.
Every time I see that Raven costume I think of Berserk.

And while Berserk is cool and all, not really a good thing considering.

Superstring
Jul 22, 2007

I thought I was going insane for a second.

It's like, on one team you have Raven standing next to a guy named Robin, and it's not like he's pasted a bunch of feathers over his face and body or anything.

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

Superstring posted:

It's like, on one team you have Raven standing next to a guy named Robin, and it's not like he's pasted a bunch of feathers over his face and body or anything.

He actually had a feathery cape for a brief time in New 52



What an ugly mess

DigitalRaven
Oct 9, 2012




fatherboxx posted:

He actually had a feathery cape for a brief time in New 52



What an ugly mess

What I'm seeing is that the New 52 costume designers really want to be Rob Liefeld. Pouches! Straps! Random gems!

Teenage Fansub
Jan 28, 2006

Well, Brett Booth isn't a world away.

Philippe
Aug 9, 2013

(she/her)
Don't forget: Giant thighs! Non-existent feet!

DigitalRaven
Oct 9, 2012




LoonShia posted:

Don't forget: Giant thighs! Non-existent feet!

Mid-air crouches!

TwoPair
Mar 28, 2010

Pandamn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta
Grimey Drawer

fatherboxx posted:

He actually had a feathery cape for a brief time in New 52



What an ugly mess

For a brief time? Naw, he's still rockin' that poo poo. The red cape lookin' thing behind him in Teenage Fansub's picture? Those are the wings. They work kinda like Batman's cape in the Arkham games which is to say "They're gliders when they need to be".

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.
What is with the Literal Referred Animal Features approach. Batman never literally looked like a giant bat, unless he'd been injected with plot-serum. It was always abstracted and symbolic, and any attributed features were in the mind of the superstitious and cowardly observer. What does it say about designer perception of viewer intelligence that we're in the costume design equivalent of tell don't show?

Angry Walrus
Aug 31, 2013

Quinn it
to
Win it.
It says animals look fuckin' cool

Red Bones
Aug 9, 2012

"I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

Discendo Vox posted:

What is with the Literal Referred Animal Features approach. Batman never literally looked like a giant bat, unless he'd been injected with plot-serum. It was always abstracted and symbolic, and any attributed features were in the mind of the superstitious and cowardly observer. What does it say about designer perception of viewer intelligence that we're in the costume design equivalent of tell don't show?

Batman's costume isn't trying to say the same thing as Raven's costume though. Raven looks like that because she's about weird demon magic, which is why it's got a weird organic materials look to it. Batman's costume is man-made and designed with a scary bat motif because he's about applying science and technology to dressing like a creepy bat man and scaring criminals, which is why it looks like it is made out of regular fabrics and not out of bat leather or something. It doesn't say anything about how smart the designers think the readers are.

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


Eh. I really can't get into this new look. My favorite Raven costume was the simple elegance of the torn jean shorts and Nirvana t-shirt.

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

Red Bones posted:

Raven looks like that because she's about weird demon magic, which is why it's got a weird organic materials look to it. .

See I still don't get that from her New 52 costume. She looks like an idiot wearing a bad riff on Femto from Berserk, which himself looks like a bad riff on Michael Keaton's Batman costume (and very probably was given that Femto first appeared in 1991).



While her old Perez-style looks don't suggest demon magic as much these days, I bet they sure as hell did back in the 80s when D&D and Heavy Metal were still considered to be genuinely Satanic and not just vaguely adolescent, and they still suggested an Occult/Goth vibe well into the 00s.

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

Femto is explicitly based on Phantom of the Paradise

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

Yeah there's no 89 Batman in that black outfit with sculpted muscle and a cowl/cape designed shortly after Tim Burton's Batman became the biggest blockbuster in the world.

mind the walrus fucked around with this message at 13:54 on Feb 24, 2015

Red Bones
Aug 9, 2012

"I think he's a bad enough person to stay ghost through his sheer love of child-killing."

mind the walrus posted:

See I still don't get that from her New 52 costume. She looks like an idiot wearing a bad riff on Femto from Berserk, which himself looks like a bad riff on Michael Keaton's Batman costume (and very probably was given that Femto first appeared in 1991).

I'm not saying that it works, I'm just saying that's presumably the idea behind her costume using more organic looking materials instead of just some robes, or a spandex costume cut to look a little bit like a raven.

Anora
Feb 16, 2014

I fuckin suck!🪠
It's not a bad costume, but it looks like it'd be better on a melee fighter, especially with those huge claws. Raven's old cloak really came across as "mage" while this one looks more like "brawler."

Honestly, if that was Hawk's costume, it'd be amazing.

DJ Fuckboy Supreme
Feb 10, 2011

And when you stare long into the abyss, you become aggressively, terminally chill

Actually Femto's costume is completely original and it really is a terrible offense to Kentaro Miura that anyone would give the slightest credit to inferior Western influences

Emo Szyslak
Feb 25, 2006

I think we can all agree though the phantom of the paradise looks dope as gently caress

Mr. Maltose
Feb 16, 2011

The Guffless Girlverine
We can all agree Phantom of the Paradise IS dope as gently caress.

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

That was ever in dispute?!

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Vincent
Nov 25, 2005



mind the walrus posted:

That was ever in dispute?!

If you're a square, sure.

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