First thought: this project is pretty cool! Looking at the comparison pages, it's amazing to see just how...pale and model-like everyone is, period. I was really tired when I found this comment, and my first reaction was no! Everyone is still pretty! Didn't you see the issue starring Nura! But then I remembered that "pale" and "model-like" were synonyms and I was sad again.
The changes to colors and faces are so natural the originals suddenly look weird. Thanks! That is excellent validation.
Second thought: FFFFFT ATOM GIRL I DON'T EVEN IT'S LIKE AWESOME PUNCHED ME IN THE BRAIN NEED SERIES NOW NOW Somebody was getting kinky hair! I had to talk myself up to it, but I think it was a *success*!
Third: Did I mention how great the fact is that everyone's different, but not really a definable 'slot' ethnicity? Some characters have more Asian features, or more African ones (which makes way more sense, seeing as how Earth is a unified government and travel is presumably quite cheap ethnic divisions should be much more blurred than Threeboot is). Some of that was totally on purpose! And some of it is that giving someone an unmistakable slot ethnicity is *hard* if commandment one of your project is to be be wary of exaggerating ethnic stereotypes... comic book faces are quite simple, and people look pretty different, and while these characters were originally unmistakably white, a lot of it is colouring and context. Man, some day I will have to ramble about *handwaves* this stuff. And also the body language!
(3.5: Cos was seriously rocking a Bruce Campbell chin in some panels. Can't say I'm sorry to see it gone.) I had designated Cos as a truce zone with Barry Kitson's chins... but sometimes I was WEAK and I could not HELP myself.
Four: SUPERGIRL I I CAN'T EVEN You...you are amazing. *slow clap* Honestly, Kara was the most brain-twisty change for me as well. I grew up a comics reading blond(ish) girl. I have been invested in the character for a very long time.
But, stealing from Pratchett, there are no rules except the ones in my head. Supergirl can be whoever I want her to be, or all the work I did here means nothing.
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Re: really, this reaction works best chronologically
Date: 2009-11-13 01:08 pm (UTC)I was really tired when I found this comment, and my first reaction was no! Everyone is still pretty! Didn't you see the issue starring Nura! But then I remembered that "pale" and "model-like" were synonyms and I was sad again.
The changes to colors and faces are so natural the originals suddenly look weird.
Thanks! That is excellent validation.
Second thought: FFFFFT
ATOM GIRL
I DON'T EVEN
IT'S LIKE AWESOME PUNCHED ME IN THE BRAIN
NEED SERIES NOW
NOW
Somebody was getting kinky hair! I had to talk myself up to it, but I think it was a *success*!
Third: Did I mention how great the fact is that everyone's different, but not really a definable 'slot' ethnicity? Some characters have more Asian features, or more African ones (which makes way more sense, seeing as how Earth is a unified government and travel is presumably quite cheap ethnic divisions should be much more blurred than Threeboot is).
Some of that was totally on purpose! And some of it is that giving someone an unmistakable slot ethnicity is *hard* if commandment one of your project is to be be wary of exaggerating ethnic stereotypes... comic book faces are quite simple, and people look pretty different, and while these characters were originally unmistakably white, a lot of it is colouring and context. Man, some day I will have to ramble about *handwaves* this stuff. And also the body language!
(3.5: Cos was seriously rocking a Bruce Campbell chin in some panels. Can't say I'm sorry to see it gone.)
I had designated Cos as a truce zone with Barry Kitson's chins... but sometimes I was WEAK and I could not HELP myself.
Four: SUPERGIRL
I
I CAN'T EVEN
You...you are amazing. *slow clap*
Honestly, Kara was the most brain-twisty change for me as well. I grew up a comics reading blond(ish) girl. I have been invested in the character for a very long time.
But, stealing from Pratchett, there are no rules except the ones in my head. Supergirl can be whoever I want her to be, or all the work I did here means nothing.