In Timeslip, a hot artist of today is taken back to 1962 to get handed an assignment by Stan Lee. So what happens when 1995's poster sensation Vince Evans gets handed this assignement?
Well, as long as we're revamping characters, I would have tied the Red Skull to the filthy commies. He's the right color for it. But the new backstory keeps him a Nazi (somehow, a more universal evil, forever deserving of Cap's boot up its ass) and makes it a lot more personal.
Well, you know, I don't think you can beat Jack Kirby's design for me, green unitard and all, so leather fetishist Red Skull doesn't quite do it for me. Or maybe I just have a hard time picturing just how the shield could have caused that kind of damage. Any doctors in the house?
In Timeslip, a hot artist of today is taken back to 1962 to get handed an assignment by Stan Lee. So what happens when Scott McDaniel gets handed the assignment to stop all assignments?
Well, I like the tagline. Taking Galactus to its most basic premise of Devourer of Worlds will turn into...A GIANT FLYING INTESTINE!!!
Still better than the movie version.
In Timeslip, a hot artist of today is taken back to 1962 to get handed an assignment by Stan Lee. So what happens when John K. Snyder III gets handed this assignment?
Funny to me: Looking for a single piece of work he'd done for Marvel, they had to mention the Onslaught promo poster. Wow. Timeslip just doubled the number of pages he's done for the company. Anyway, his idea for Nick Fury is closer to Suicide Squad than it is to Onslaught:
So screw SHIELD, let's make Nick covert ops and friendless instead. Furthermore, let's make him Jonah Hex's only slightly prettier descendant. You know what sells it? Those taglines. "A loner with a license to kill" isn't very original, but I really like "there are no heroes without scars".Imagine a comic where we jump around in time and see missions in every post-WWII conflict. That Cuba 1962 job alone would be worth the admission price.How do YOU think Nick Fury should work?
In Timeslip, a hot artist of today is taken back to 1962 to get handed an assignment by Stan Lee. So what happens when John Paul Leon gets handed this assignment?
Yes, Doctor Doom! So I guess he's already doing the Fantastic Four. Fair enough. So whta have you come up with Johnner?
Ok, interesting. Along with Guy Davis' Iron Man, it looks like there's a lot more steampunk in this Marvel Universe (as opposed to Kirby-Tech, see it all depends on who's the architect at the universe's beginnings). I'm not sure it's better than the actual design, though it's perhaps a little more realistic.What I do like is this alternate Latveria which seems to have kept its Ottoman Empire roots. I so hate it when these fictional mini-states are full of 19th-century Bavarian peasants, don't you? I'd love to see this Doom put a sword to Mister Fantastic as well.But I'll let you be the final judges.***The Outsiders Demolition Derby returns tomorrow, sorry about that.***
In Timeslip, a hot artist of today is taken back to 1962 to get handed an assignment by Stan Lee. So what happens when Tim Sale, who's quite used to drawing the past (year 1 stories for Batman, Superman, Spider-Man and Daredevil) and the future for that matter (Heroes) is taken back to replace Bill Everett by his new friend Hiro?He gets handed this assignment:
And he comes up with...
At this point in the experiment, artists aren't asked to work on the concept per se, so it's really just a costume change, but this Daredevil probably trades more on fear than fists. Hell's Kitchen really does become a sort of hell, and I wonder how much pitchforking the comics code would really have allowed (send Hiro to stop Wertham from writing Seduction of the Innocent immediately!).What do you think of this interpretation? Cool Batmanizing of the character? Spawn of Spawn? Better than the yellow costume, but not as good as the red? leave your comments at the pentacle.
After Marvel Age and before the Previews insert, there was Marvel Vision - Marvel's trade magazine. Flashier than Marvel Age, some might call it gaudy, but it had actual behind the scenes content and my store gave it out for free. My favorite feature and the reason I kept them (though I don't have them all), was Timeslip.
Timeslip was a two-page experiment in which today's hottest artists reimagined Marvel characters as if Stan Lee had just created them and handed out the assignment. In #4 (my first), Guy Davis got an assignment (click to enlarge):
And here's the completed work:
I, for one, like it a lot. I don't know how steampunk Iron Man could have interacted with the rest of the Marvel Universe, but it's a great retro look. Davis would certainly manage to make Iron Man both funny to look at, and slightly creepy.
The real question is: Is this rendition better than the Iron Man of the time? (April 96) Let's look, shall we?
Anyone remember teenage Iron Man, brought in from an alternate timeline to help fight the real Tony Stark who had just gone traitor? This Marvel Vision also advertised a big change for this character thanks to the repatriation of Jim Lee and Rob Liefeld... Heroes Reborn!
So which is best? Davis' stove pipe Iron Man, or Lee's organ pipe Iron Man? You make the call!
Well, as long as we're revamping characters, I would have tied the Red Skull to the filthy commies. He's the right color for it. But the new backstory keeps him a Nazi (somehow, a more universal evil, forever deserving of Cap's boot up its ass) and makes it a lot more personal.
Well, you know, I don't think you can beat Jack Kirby's design for me, green unitard and all, so leather fetishist Red Skull doesn't quite do it for me. Or maybe I just have a hard time picturing just how the shield could have caused that kind of damage. Any doctors in the house?
