More fantastic entries have arrived for the
Superhero of the Month &
Girls Read Comics Wonder Woman redesign contest, all from first-time
SHotM contributors!
"I wanted to make her look like an Amazon warrior. The armor is golden because Amazons worshipped the sun -- their color
is golden. Still. I wanted her to keep her old vibe, so I kept her old red and blue. The tiara gives her the princess look, and I kept the old one because I think it's beautiful. The silver belt is ties in with her bracelets and 'pops up' with the armor."
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| EmmJ |
"17th Century Colonial American style. I figured the skirts would be a bit restrictive, so she's in drag - with cravat, waistcoat, breeches and cane (to make it more feminine, I gave her puffy sleeves)."
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| Lemurtree |
"I wanted a simple, modern, practical look that toned down the overtly American iconography of the costume. As a nod to her warrior roots, she wears urban camouflage shorts rather than star-spangled knickers. I couldn't find a way to put stars on her costume that I liked - I even considered tattoos on her limbs. In the end I left the stars off entirely. I've slimmed the tiara down to become more of a headband. Her bracelets become metal gauntlets -- part of her fingerless leather gloves. So she doesn't trip, she has practical flat-soled boots rather than high-heels - sturdy enough for administering the odd kicking."
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| Laronnica Brogen |
"I wanted to update her costume to the new millennium, but also give homage to the colors she always used.
She now has indestructible fighting gloves, instead of just bracelets, to show her being a hands-on heroine,
along with her lasso of truth, and her headband,now with a Insignia 'W'".
What do you all think? Let us know in the comments below!
Be sure to
check out all of the Wonder Woman entries received so far! Remember that all Wonder Woman redesigns are due
Wednesday, August 24 by 6:00 PM MDT! Details on the contest can be found
here!
My vote is for Xerina
ReplyDeleteI think her design fits perfectly with the idea of what an Amazon warrior has to be- the color and the armor complete all amazingly
Asdjasfnjanf Thank youuuuu!
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This really is a nice batch of redesigns. Xerina's is the most superheroic, and something I'd love to see adapted into comics, honestly. It looks like the direction the Jim Lee redesign (not the new DCnU one; the one before that) could (and should) have gone in if the '90's redesign had been, you know, modernized.
ReplyDeleteEmmJ's is fantastic and something I'd love to see in an Elseworld's tale. It's brilliant.
And I love Lemurtree's Lara Croft/Diana hybrid. It's really an interesting take on the character. I understand the direction they wanted to take the revamped, pre-DCnU Wonder Woman, and as far as that attitude, as I understand it, was supposed to go, this far better exemplifies it.
There's something very appealing about Wonder Woman in stylish drag, especially in a time period where women's clothes are so confining and work to restrict their social roles. You could totally see that Wonder Woman striding up to some poor housewife scrubbing in drudgery and telling her "that's not what your life needs to be like, sister."
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