(Source: venisso, via fuckyeahdementia)
A great article on some redesigns of classic characters. I particularly like his notes on the X-Men. I’ve always thought the X-Men being a team, but sporting different costumes, was pretty dumb. Ok we need to know who’s who, so we’ll give them different costumes. But good character design means you should be able tor recognize the characters even without their clothes, which is something the 90s X-Men didn’t seem to grasp.
In the world of superhero comics, artists and writers are (more often than not) dealt the task of handling characters that they had no hand in creating, characters that have often existed for decades. Being able to put a fresh spin on concepts that have been around for so long is no easy task, and…
Shoots legit, none of this two-hand rapid-finger crap. If you don’t know what I mean, you don’t know shit about arcades.
If you’re going to enrol your kid in Karate, you should learn it too. The day will come where he will challenge you.
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