Connotations

[odditycollector]

I've wanted to redo this cover since reading this extremely well done Racebending Revenge story, in which Golden Age Superman is reimagined as a black man.

I originally tried to draw it myself as homage, but, well. That didn't end prettily. Photoshop still seems like cheating for such a small percentage change, but so it goes.



I'm not entirely happy with it - while playing around with Superman's forehead, I managed to remove some of the "angry" of the original and didn't notice until after polishing. But I think this still would be read very differently today, never mind 1938.

Slightly closer look, which also has a slightly different colouring/moire pattern:

Comments

[fightingarrival]

Connotations indeed.

(Their scared little faces!)

[seeking-avalon.blogspot.com]

...

Connotations definitely noted. And yet... it's another one of those 'Be Still My Heart, The Beats of Joy!'

[odditycollector]

:) Have you read the story? I think you would really like it.

[odditycollector]

Let them be scared! It isn't their story.

(I wouldn't like to see the period newspaper captions, though, all the same.)

[tartary-lamb.livejournal.com]

That is very, very cool. ♥

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)