Kageshinzo
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It's more like he can't draw feet.
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1990s Superhero Redesigns
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It's more like he can't draw feet.
Chuckie
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Thor
Is that chain so he doesn't lose Mjolnir? It seems a bit short haha.
The ending the the Knightfall saga was all kinds of cool.
When Bruce comes back to regain his mantle and finds Azreal has become this violent, mechanised, madman.
Then Bruce defeats him using wits and intelligence, without ever throwing a punch.
To me it signifies the end of the 90s and the start of the modern age.
When Bruce comes back to regain his mantle and finds Azreal has become this violent, mechanised, madman.
Then Bruce defeats him using wits and intelligence, without ever throwing a punch.
To me it signifies the end of the 90s and the start of the modern age.
Depended on who drew it, sometimes it was a few feet. Others it seem like miles.
Penance had a decent design tho
knightfall ended in 1994, right when the clone saga started, before age of apocalypse began, and during the return of superman. i do like the interpretation of it being at least some sort of rejection of 90s comics in a way, but the worst was yet to come.
I suppose the dates don't really add up.
But I still interpret it as a rejection of the violent and bleak stories of the period, like you said.
SonicMegaDrive
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The 90's were 'special'.
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
Eeep... I, uh, I really liked Age of Apocalypse. *hides*
who's the idiot drawing this? from "excuuuse me" iron man to "broken neck" hulk to dull-faced thor and cap, it's surely a masterpiece
I fucking love the Ben Reilly Spider-Man outfit.
Spidey 2099 is fantastic as well.
Now this...this was the worst..
The 4 must have stood for how many hearts she had just to supply enough blood to those thighs
Serpentine
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Steve McNiven.
i never made it past the first volume. i had no idea what the hell was going on.
the x-men cartoon made it seem pretty cool, at least.
Why do the Thing and Human Torch need guns?
the best part is that mr. fantastic is stretching his arm around that huge oversized gun and it's supposed to be badass instead of goofy as all hell.
ah, you're probably right. didn't see the 'nukebusters!' in the back.
Steve McNiven. He's usually pretty good, but the layout of this image is terrible though. A lot of times with these posters they get a different artist to draw each character, and it just ends up a total mess. I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt, and pretend he was going for that look intentionally.
Why do the Thing and Human Torch need guns?
I'm pretty sure this is a joke cover
Why do the Thing and Human Torch need guns?
And why do all the guns look like hover car mufflers?
Screaming Meat
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Fair enough, chap! Personally, I love it when they play around with comic mythos like that. The Gen X AoA series in particular was genuinely horrific! Shame on you, Colossus.
Not sure what the general consensus is, but I wouldn't have said AoA was super indictive of 90s comics.
Liefeld was a plague upon comics, the likes of which mankind had never seen before. I will give him credit for Deadpool, though.
...where do I even begin with this?
Now this...this was the worst..
...where do I even begin with this?
Somebody cracking the Avenger's varsity jacket?
The Wasp
I rather like this design.
It is. Walt Simonson wasn't the biggest fan of the industry at that time. His was probably the best run of FF since Stan and Jack (yup, better than Byrne). Doombots retcon is still the greatest in the history of comics.
Speaking of which, his Doctor Doom redesign was awesome.
90-ies MJ Parker was also....interesting....for me as a teenage boy.
That was Mangy Spiderman years.
megashock5
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I'm really surprised at the love for the Scarlett Spider costume, I absolutely hate it. But really, I only like the original suit and the black Secret Wars suit - everything else is blasphemy.
I also have a strong dislike for any Spider-man that isn't Peter Parker.
Oh, and Peter and MJ are still married in my little world. Screw you, Joe.
I also have a strong dislike for any Spider-man that isn't Peter Parker.
Oh, and Peter and MJ are still married in my little world. Screw you, Joe.
The Bookerman
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Somebody went to the Rob Liefeld school of drawing. WHERE ARE THE FEET?
AbsolutBro
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who the crap is in the bottom left? only one I can't recognize.Yea Modern super hero costume redesigns are totally better:
edit: wait, that can't be sunspot on the far right either...
Because....Hulk smash not Hulk spam nades
Zen_Arcade
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Why would you say this and then use Liefeld and a guy who co created Wildstorm as examples? Its like you're trying to prove 90s art sucks.Yea Modern super hero costume redesigns are totally better:
AbsolutBro
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Sarcasm?
GrandHarrier
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Skitter. She was a new character iirc, but they ended up writing her out fairly early on.
Far right is a redesign of Solstice.
Hot Coldman
Banned
It always baffles me how fucking lame Iron Man looked before the movies.
Zen_Arcade
Banned
No. Was that the joke? I dont know who did the bottom picture so I dont know if its a running theme or something.
He also has him holding at a 45 degree angle to his arm, he just cannot draw.
Justice_dp
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Extremis armor wants to say hi
But yes, besides the Heros Reborn and Return suits most of the pre-2000 suits of IM are often dated
And now onwards to the best of the 90ties:
Great and very memorable mask, nice color and very unique shapes all around the suit.
bengraven
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Keep it simple. That's why, despite being a Marvel fan, I acknowledge that DC has better costume redesigns for the most part. Keeping it simple.
That said, I always kind of liked the Scarlet Witch from the Avengers book in the OP. Wasn't that Deodato I think? I loved his art, though this pic is a pretty bad one.
That said, I always kind of liked the Scarlet Witch from the Avengers book in the OP. Wasn't that Deodato I think? I loved his art, though this pic is a pretty bad one.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
The big thing that always bothers me about most drawings of Iron Man I see is that they always seemed to treat the armor like this skin-tight flexible thing that still allowed full flexure and contortion of limbs (before Extremis and the whole nanomachine thing)
I mean yeah, I get it, making him look stiffer would have taken more time to plan and illustrate, but it always bugged me
I mean yeah, I get it, making him look stiffer would have taken more time to plan and illustrate, but it always bugged me
sixteen-bit
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so extreme.
I took it to mean that the same 90s artists are still designing all the costumes at DC, and the marvel ones are just as terrible. Costume design has regressed back to the worst shit from the 90s. New 52 costumes are trash even when Jim Lee draws them.
Also guys, Hulk from that era wasn't constantly running around with guns. He's using a gas greneade launcher to incapacitate an army of human soldiers in that picture (although on the cover of the issue he's firing some sort of stupid Liefeld blaster, for whatever reason). The image was popular, so Marvel used it on a bunch of trading cards and stuff. Hulk still mainly fucked shit up with his bare hands. He wore this ill-fitting jumpsuit thing, because as an amalgamation of the two previous Hulks and Banner's intellect, he probably felt like kind of a dickhead running around in shredded stretch pants all the time.
(sigh, shredded jumpsuit is all I could find).
It's basically because the design evolved in a simpler time when comics where for kids who didn't really question such things (even though they probably did). It was easier to draw, looked more like the other superheroes, and it became iconic. Over the years they've tried to explain it in a bunch of ways though.
Here's a link to the most detailed explanations of each that you will likely ever find:
http://ironmanarmory.com/Armors.html
Edit: Here's the extreme 90s armored Daredevil that comic nerds hate so much, just because I've always kinda liked it.
After years of crime fighting Daredevil gets beaten up one time, and decides he needs to start wearing armor.
I actually started reading the comics when Ben Reilly was The Spider-Man (I was about 6 or 7 back then) so I always thought he was a lot cooler than Peter. I was sooo devastated when he died
BattleMonkey
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Armored daredevil was awesome
Hoya Destroyer
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Now this...this was the worst..
You may not like it, but I bet there are many guys who do. Myself included.
Less is more, with these kinds of things
Screaming Meat
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Agreed. That is a sweet costume.
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