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odditycollector) wrote2010-08-20 02:03 am
odditycollector) wrote2010-08-20 02:03 am
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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:
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:
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Connotations definitely noted. And yet... it's another one of those 'Be Still My Heart, The Beats of Joy!'
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