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Published: 2010-04-28 08:33:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 1309; Favourites: 26; Downloads: 23
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Chris Arrant(of Newsarama fame) and I collaborated on the latest enstallment of Project Rooftop's new column "Retrofix".It's where a writer and an artist team up to redesign and re-imagine public domain heroes and villains from the past. Our entry: 1940s Centaur comics character, Zardi the Eternal Man![link]
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Hey there!
Great work! I've added this to the faves ofour group: #The-Overgrounders
We're currently beginning work on a large scale golden age revivial project. You should check it out. Everyone there will love this. Zardi is a character with a lot of potential, and you reimagining of his design is spot on. Great work
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Thanks(sorry for the late reply)! I'll definitly check you guys out.
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No prblem, keep up the good work
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this certainly looks like something i'd want to read.
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I always have a soft spot for the throwback stuff. Centaur Comics had some really messed up characters in their day.
Or, you know, maybe the characters just seem weird because of how obscure they are. Spider-Man is about as common as mascots get these days, but he must've seen pretty damned odd when he first came out.
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Right. The creativity was just so abundant. It was a time when anything went as far as character creation, nobody was trying to sustain a brand or whatever so they could juxtapose all kinds of ideas. There was no set idea of what "Superhero" was. I love the thought of that! I dig messed up or unconventional characters. I might revamp a few more of these guys and incorporate them into a few of my stories like OneNation.
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I do really enjoy some Golden Age comics for that reason. There weren't any rules or conventions in that period because the medium was so new. There was a lot of exploration and innovation.
Of course, ninety percent of that stuff was crap. At the same time, however, every once in a while I run into something that was unbelievably crazy in the most wonderful definition of the word. It would also be the kind of thing that could've only come from that period as well.
I think the salad days of any artistic medium is comparable to this. Jelly Roll Morton wouldn't have made sense at any time other than the one he was in. The same goes for Monet, Stravinsky, Ernst, and Grandwizard Theodore.
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