The Widow

Here is the leader of The Web, the terrorist group I posted last week, The Widow. I tried a lot of different color schemes for her greens, reds, purples, ect... but a friend suggested trying her in just black, grey and white and I think it works pretty well. Critiques are welcomed.

The Widow is an immortal who was born in Atlantis when it was still a continent in the Atlantic ocean. She began as a common girl who caught the eye of one of the royal family and within months was married to the king himself. She started an uprising when she assumed control over Atlantis after killing her husband. She destroyed Atlantis and herself when she activated a doomsday device. But she didn't die, she was resurrected. Again and again she was reborn and each time she would try to assume control over what she thought was hers. Ahhotep I- founder of the eighteenth dynasty in Egypt, Fu Hao military general and high priestess of the Shang Dynasty, Sarmatian queen Amage during the 4th century B.C., Julia Domna empress and wife of Roman Emperor Lucius Septimius Severus and Morgan Le Fey half-sister of King Arthur are just a few of the names she has had through the millennia.

Now just as in Atlantis she was reborn as a peasant girl who caught the eye of the warlord in China named The Dragon Lord. After some years as one of his many wives she was able to kill him (as well as his other wives) and take control of his empire as The Widow.

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The World Wide Web

Originally the Circle of the Dragon created by The Dragon Lord in the early 1920's, the group had been recently taken over and changed by his 137th wife, now called The Widow, when she killed him. Now called The Web, it boasts some of the most technologically advanced systems and soldiers the world has ever seen. The groups only goal is world domination through fear and intimidation and they have made it clear they will not stop until their goals are met. The Widow herself has not been seen in public but her soldiers and operatives are shown below.

The first of the Widow's soldiers is her best and most feared warrior, Wolf Spider. Her second in command, he is always by her side and is only sent out on the missions of the most importance. He commands the Huntsmen the main infantry of the terrorist group.

The Huntsmen are the infantry of The Web. Armed with Kinetic Blasters and the most sophisticated body armor and gear, they are a force feared throughout the world.

The general of the air infantry is Dragonfly. Once a respected pilot who was crippled during a crash, he was brought to The Widow and genetically altered, and given a suit so he can fly at speeds exceeding mach 3. With his ability to generate heat blasts that can melt steel like butter he is by far the most feared flyer in the skies.

The Fireflies are the air-force of The Web. Armed with Heat Blasters and housed in a suit capable of high altitude maneuvers and super sonic speeds, the Fireflies can handle most fighter jets in the air.

Last is The Widow's spy/assassin, Spiderwasp.

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER (Iron Man upgrade update)

Well, thanks to Dean Trippe one of the judges of Project: Rooftop, I found out that they never got my entry to their Iron Man upgrade contest. He was kind enough to contact me and tell me that he would like to show my entry anyway as a follow up article. What could I say but HELL YEAH!! (of course this was after I stopped jumping up and down for joy like a little school girl) So please check out the site

http://www.tencentticker.com/projectrooftop/

and Dean Trippe's site

http://deantrippe.com/

Thanks again Dean for helping me out, it means a lot.

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Atlantis rising

Just some sketches of my villains from Atlantis cause as everybody knows... you gotta have Atlantian villains or nobody will take you seriously. Im trying to go in a different direction than just some humanoids with blue skin or looking like Abe Sapien from Hellboy. The idea is that Atlantians are a very diverse race with some looking like jellyfish, reptiles, and fish. And when they are not in their city they move about in exoskeleton suits designed for their particular class sect. Still in the eraly stages so...

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More villains than you can shake a stick at

Last week a posted a sketch of a character of mine called Dragokin, here is the finished product.

He belongs to a group of superhumans who work for the highest bidder, Force Inc. Bodyguards, thieves, sabotage, ect... Force Inc. is the group you trust to get the job done!

Dragokin son of a Celestial Dragon gone bad.

Watts the living lightning bolt.

Headcase the madman with vast mental powers.

Shellshock, a mercenary with an armored suite capable of creating earthquakes.

And Sludge, second generation baddie with a specialty for industrial sabotage.

Its a big group so I'm still working on some of them. Thanks for lookin'

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Feel a STORM coming?

So I wasn't completely happy with my STORM agents before. The head gear was too "Nighthawk", so I wanted to go with the hooded look I had for them a ways back. Top are the officers, middle is infantry, and the bottom is heavy artillery. More baddies on the way...

Iron Man: Invincible Upgrade Contest

Well its a official, project rooftop has made its choices for the winners of Iron Man: Invincible Upgrade! The idea is how you would draw Iron Man if you were given the job, not to totally redesign but give it your ow flare. Unfortunately my design wasn't one of the ones chosen so I thought I would post it here for all to see.

to visit project:rooftop to see the finalist just follow this link

http://www.tencentticker.com/projectrooftop/

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Things to come...

Just a quick sketch of a character I'm designing called Dragokin. I should have the colors of it and others up this weekend. Till then

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Beware! Ragnarok is coming!!!

Ragnarok is a terrorist group bent on bringing the world to the brink of destruction by any means possible. Conquest, war, famine... CHAOS!! Its the name of the game. Here are some of the members.

Centuries ago gods and giants fought over the fate of the world. In the end Earth survived unscathed but the gods and their world was lost. Only a chosen few survived to tell the tale... one did not handle it well. His name was Baldur god of light and beauty. You see it was his death the beckoned the start of the war and when it was over he was reincarnated and left to deal with his home and family being destroyed and him unable to fight alongside them. This guilt twisted the god of light until he came to think that Earth was not worth the price paid by his people. Over the centuries he has found and killed other survivors and added their strength to his own waiting until the time he can bring this world down in burning chaos. And then came Hitler, using the Nazi movement as a spring board Baldur going by the name of simply The Baron created the secret sect that was in charge of experiments both occult and scientific. He was responsible for many horrors and was convinced he would finally make our world pay like his did. BUT THEN THE NAZI'S LOST. He disappeared to for a time and realized he could do more harm by using the system man created against itself. Business was the new battlefield and Baldur would rule it. Now using his fortune he has once agin started to plague the world with chaos. He will be vindicated and this world will pay.

Blut is the result of genetic manipulation by the German's who were trying to create super soldiers by splicing the human DNA with that of vampires that the Nazi's had captured. Out of the 300 volunteers only one survived the process. Taking the name Blut she would become the top assassin for Germany and close partner to the ghost knight Eisen who she would come to call her older "brother". When the war ended she was presumed dead during an air raid. What had actually happened is unclear but she was found by Baldur living on the streets in a small town in Lithuania. Once he helped her regain her memory she pledged her undying devotion to him and his dreams of chaos.

Eisen is actually a result of the Nazi's experiments with the occult. They tried to create an army of undead soldiers that could fight endlessly for the cause, but what they got was a disembodied spirit who inhabits a indestructible suit of armor and only craves one thing.... WAR!! When the war ended Eisen was trapped until he was released by his "sister" Blut to serve Ragnarok.

No Nazi group would be complete without a mad scientist and so here he is! At first a toy maker with his father in a small village in Germany, his life would be changed forever when Berlin would start its bid to take over the world. His skill with mechanics helped create many destructive machines for the Nazi's. When the war ended he went underground escaping to South America. As he got older his body parts were replaced with mechanical ones until finally he was encased in his own exoskeleton body. Now more machine than man he works for Ragnarok as their resident scientist and machinesmith, ThinkTank!

These guys are called The Storm they are the soldiers of Ragnarok. Its said they are made from the bodies of dead soldiers who have died during the many wars around the world, dug up and reanimated to serve their new masters. Or that they were genetically created from the genetic material from the sons of Thor the thunder god, Magni and Modi, who Baldur killed so many centuries ago. Whatever their real origin is, the one thing all can agree upon is, their lethal and precise attacks makes them one of the most feared soldiers on the planet.

As always thanks for lookin'.

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Another look for Alpha

An updated look for Alpha the All-American. Hopefully this will be her final look, course you never know. As always thanks for lookin'

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Is that a new suit?

Here is the golem that I introduced last week in his new threads as Geb Graystone Paranormal Investigator. He acts as the figure head and muscle for the detective agency started by his creator, novice witch Maxine. Input is, as always, welcomed. Thanks

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Corporate assassinations for the highest bidder

These are some random picks of an idea a friend of mine has rolling around in his head. The main character is a corporate assassin (for real) he works for corporations as an assassin. The idea is that using these guys is normal procedure and so his job title is Everyday Ninja. Everything is still pretty raw in the development stage but one thing is certain one of his enemies is a band of ... you ready? Raver kids!! Oh, the drama, the suspense.... the horror! Raver kids... be afraid dammit. (we thinks its funny) So here are some doodles of the main character and his villains. As always thanks for lookin'

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Maxine and her Golem

The last members of my superhero group Maxine detective of the occult and her Golem. Maxine is a wizard in training who used her powers during an other-dimensional invasion to awaken the original golem created to protect the Jews from their Egyptian masters centuries ago. The golem at first will be dependent on Maxine for direction but with time will become his own being independent of her control. The look he will adopt is going to be posted soon. Thanks for lookin'

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More DC revisions

I'm on this DC Comics kick lately... so I decided to try out redesigning a character that just doesn't seem to find his right place in the Batman mythos, Nightwing. The original Robin has had his ups and downs and has sometimes proven that he isn't Batman-lite but more often than not he is written as this brooding character and I just have a problem with that. First and foremost unlike any of the other sidekicks of his generation he was not a miniature version of his mentor (like Kid-Flash or Wonder Girl) he was his own person. Happy and comfortable with who he was and what he was. So when Teen Titans turned him into Nightwing I loved it. But then something happened... HE LOST HIS WAY. He became this guy who didn't do quick jokes and instead tried to be the man, in his youth, he didn't want to be.... Batman! So I think if he was to be the next Batman he would do it with a little more flair like when George Perez first drew him as Nightwing. MIne is a little more streamlined than George's but not so minimalist like his current costume. I also gave him back his wings, he was after all a high flying grayson back in the circus so I wanted him to be able to fly as high as he wanted. The belt and gauntlets have his little gadgets and hold his main weapons the Escrima Sticks. Now it is said he has a stun gun in one of his gauntlets in his current costume but I wanted that to be added to the sticks, so he can take on supers with a little bit of an edge. The goggles are for night-vision and heads up display. Hope you guys like.

Next up is the original Wonder Girl herself Donna Troy. Although I love her George Perez design (until she became Troia) I wanted to try one the said "toga"... more Amazon. I gave her back her ponytail, kinda retro crap that I love. I wanted her bracelets to be more like gauntlets so that they could give her hits a little more power for her hands. And of course her nose and skin were changed a little to more reflect her Greek heritage. I didn't want her to be a slimmer version of Wonder Woman or use that black star outfit they keep putting her in, but I wanted to stay close to her original look and her first look as Wonder Girl during the Perez/Wolfman Teen Titans.

Again thanks again for looking and I hope you enjoyed my drawings and at least tolerated my ramblings. Laters

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JSA!!

One of my favorite books when I was a kid was The All-Star Squadron. It was set in WW2 and featured many JSA characters like the Golden Age Green Lantern, Hawkman, Hourman and many others. So it is because of that book (and the amazing art of Jerry Ordway) that when DC comics brought many of these characters back in the new JSA some years back that I found a whole new reason to enjoy comics again. Taking a break from my own stuff here are some of my own interpretations for some of those of the JSA.

First up is Hawkman, to me the baddest mutherhumper in the DC universe. Forget Batman, forget Bronze Tiger (who?) the meanest and best fighter should be Hawkman. With over two thousand years of combat experience under his belt; he should be able to out-think, out-maneuver, and just plain house all comers. And since he also has some of that alien tech he shouldn't just be coming at you with some old mace from the 12 century.... say it with me...SPACE MACE!!!! I loved Chris Batista's run on Hawkman cause he really showed how Hawkman could look with some space weapons, this is my attempt to emulate Batista's look for the winged hero. You can bet I am going to do more of him and I am going to be putting a lot of gear on this man. This is just for starters.

Next up is Power Girl. Now I Have always like her over Supergirl for one reason (and it has nothing to do with the big hole in her costume to show her... well, you know) she was a strong woman. Supergirl was always coming off as just Superman cutsey cousin, but Power Girl was her own woman who could handle anybody without her cousin's help. She stood side by side with the golden age heroes and looked like she belonged there. I'm gonna do some new designs for her costume cause I really want to get away from the window chest design... But here it is anyway. Im not one of the Alex Ross followers that makes her out to be this muscle bound and frankly way to old looking woman with that oh so seventies cow lick haircut. I went with a younger look with more of a no need to muss with it in the morning haircut and just an athletic build. And with the younger look a gave her kinda Captain Marvel (another of my favorites) boots and matching gloves.

Here is my favorite couple of the JSA Hourman and Liberty Belle. I lover Liberty Belle in the All-Star Squad books 'cause... because Dammit!! She led the team and she was a badass .Now Im not sure when she got her sonic powers cause I never saw her use them all that much but I just loved her look and now that Jesse Quick has taken the mantle up with not only her mom's strength but her dad's speed she is just fantastic. Now Hourman is somebody who has a lame power true... super strength and durability for just an hour a day, but I just loved the original and I love his son who has taken up the costume. Personally they haven't done all that much with his powers lately but I would like to see them add more to his future sight, or hell just give him more to work with like being able to see into the past or jump in time, he deserves something!! There will be more of these two.

And this is what I would do visually to Stars & Stripes. Stars being the current Stargirl wielder of the cosmic rod once held by Starman. Now Stripes is her Step-brother instead of her dad and with a whole new look for the armor. The original Stripes was always portrayed as this huge guy and when he put on the armor when he went patrolling with his daughter it has like this 14 foot tall manga robot. The new Stripes is now sleek and slim to match his young son who wants to join the family bizz of super heroing. As for Stargirl I wanted her to be more cosmic and less little girl. She's been in the game a while now and has grown up to be a real hero and with the cosmic converter belt and staff she becomes infused with cosmic energy, allowing her to be an actual mini-star.
Hope you enjoy the update. Thanks for looking.

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