No Capes!

July 18, 2006 11:00 AM

Project Rooftop! Rogue streamlined by Nuno Plati of Portugal. The Spectre re-imagined by Dean Trippe (creator of "Butterfly). Black Widow redrawn by Stuart Immonen (artist for Warren Ellis's Nextwave). Tracing its origin back to January's "Batgirl Meme," Project Rooftop is an excellent exercise in meta-fashion. Edna Mode would be so proud. Project Runway? What's that?
posted by grabbingsand (16 comments total)

I'd buy issues of Alpha Flight with that look--very cool (haven't read it in years though).

And isn't Blue Beetle dead now? I thought he got his brains blown our or something.

/former comics nerd
posted by bardic at 11:12 AM on July 18, 2006

Blue Beatle is now a latino teenager. viva la pc revolucion!
posted by keswick at 11:14 AM on July 18, 2006 [1 favorite]

er, Blue Beetle.
posted by keswick at 11:15 AM on July 18, 2006

Sorry, dude. Your jobs been outsourced to a Mexican, non-union equivalent.
posted by Gamblor at 11:37 AM on July 18, 2006

these are great.
posted by jimmy at 11:46 AM on July 18, 2006

You'd think that with super strength and invulnerability Ms. Marvel wouldn't need a giant chastity belt.
posted by Gamblor at 11:49 AM on July 18, 2006

I like this. And I like the new Blue Beetle, but I've never read the old one, as I don't read many superhero comics. I'm interested to see where it goes.

I thought Ms. Marvel looked an awful lot like Nicole Kidman. Not that that is a bad thing.
posted by JeremyT at 11:57 AM on July 18, 2006

I actually really miss the late-80s Rogue look (black bodystocking with various green accessories). Their ideas for Black Widow and Iron Man are ass-tastic, though...
posted by scaryblackdeath at 12:21 PM on July 18, 2006

And I like the new Blue Beetle, but I've never read the old one, as I don't read many superhero comics.

Getting to know Ditko's Ted Kord is well worth your time.
posted by grabbingsand at 12:24 PM on July 18, 2006

Funny, I just stumbled across Boris Vallejo's versions of various superheroes.
posted by GhostintheMachine at 12:39 PM on July 18, 2006

Wow, these are really neat. Thanks, grabbingsand!

I love the Fire and Ice on there in particular, and the hi-tech version of the Ted Kord Beetle - it's a shame we never really got to see Ted go all-out with the crazy gadgets before DC cut him down in his (okay, slightly past his) prime.

As much as Stuart Immonen is completely and utterly my art-hero (and he is!), it's a bit of a shame his Black Widow is just Elsa Bloodstone in a different outfit. And without her shovel.
posted by terpsichoria at 12:44 PM on July 18, 2006

I don't get the Black Widow one: isn't that his exact rendering of Elsa Bloodstone?
posted by yerfatma at 12:44 PM on July 18, 2006

Holy cats! Joel Carroll actually made the Falcon look like a real superhero!
posted by Faint of Butt at 1:46 PM on July 18, 2006

Rogue looks great--so many superhero costumes really aren't practical at all--spandex chafes and binds--and doesn't breathe, and the capes must always get tangled, no? : >
posted by amberglow at 2:34 PM on July 18, 2006

Has that show been on tv yet? the Who wants to be a Superhero?
posted by amberglow at 2:35 PM on July 18, 2006

Nuno Plati's stuff is neat. Thanks.
posted by melt away at 7:44 PM on July 18, 2006