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Welcome to the first of the All-New Graphic Violence Presents: Create a Super Hero/Villain contest!
The Theme for the first contest is: I
the Nineties In honor of one of the most eXtreme era of comics, we're going to create heroes in the tradition of Nightwatch, The Blood Pack, and pretty much anything that came out of the early days of Image. Names that make reference to blood, punching things, badass animals like wolves and bears, or extreme sports are encouraged!
Here are THE RULES:
And here are some GUIDELINES:
Your entry should contain the following:
You aren't required to include all of these categories, and you may add more, but these should work as basic guidelines.
The deadline for entries is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, May 13th before 11:59 PM Central time.
BONUS FOR THOSE WHO SUCK AT ART
Here's a link to HeroMachine, where you can do simplified hero designs. After you've created your character, simply hit the Print Screen button on your keyboard, paste it into your image editing program of choice, and save it as a PNG file to avoid the ugly compression that comes with low-quality JPEGs.
The Theme for the first contest is: I
the Nineties In honor of one of the most eXtreme era of comics, we're going to create heroes in the tradition of Nightwatch, The Blood Pack, and pretty much anything that came out of the early days of Image. Names that make reference to blood, punching things, badass animals like wolves and bears, or extreme sports are encouraged!Here are THE RULES:
- Follow basic rules of the forums. That means no porn, no use of things like the N-bomb, etc. Check the rules thread for basic ideas.
- All entries must be able to fit in the character limit of a single post. That's more than enough space.
- Link to images over 200k. Make thumbnails if you have to.
- You can make two entries. If you do, one must be a hero, and one must be a villain. We'll have separate polls for each.
And here are some GUIDELINES:
Your entry should contain the following:
- The name of your character.
- A drawing and/or description of the appearance of your character.
- An origin story and/or biography of your character.
- Powers and abilities, etc.
You aren't required to include all of these categories, and you may add more, but these should work as basic guidelines.
The deadline for entries is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, May 13th before 11:59 PM Central time.
BONUS FOR THOSE WHO SUCK AT ART
Here's a link to HeroMachine, where you can do simplified hero designs. After you've created your character, simply hit the Print Screen button on your keyboard, paste it into your image editing program of choice, and save it as a PNG file to avoid the ugly compression that comes with low-quality JPEGs.
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History/Background: Things were never supposed to proceed this way. It's important to understand that. When the teenage Keifer and Jared Armstrong, along with five of their closest friends, formed the graffiti gang known as the Seven Sinners, they never imagined it would expand as it did. Growing in size, power, and influence over the years, what was once the Seven Sinners became the Seven-Hundred Deadly Sinners, the most powerful crime syndicate in Center City.
Keifer, better known as Wrath, led the gang's muscle. His little brother Jared, sequestered away from the more nefarious aspects of the gang, and nicknamed Envy, controlled the gang's legitimate fronts. And their cohorts Avarice, Sloth, Pride, Lust, and Gluttony controlled the rest. Seven bosses. Seven-hundred loyal underlings. It was all running like clockwork, a finely oiled machine built from equal parts murder, robbery, extortion, drugs, prostitution, and pornography.
And when Keifer adopted the identity of Com-Bat, the murderous vigilante that only struck against the Seven-Hundred's enemies, business improved tenfold. Confiding only in his brother Jared, Keifer conducted his extracurricular activities under a strict air of secrecy, never daring to reveal it to another soul. After months of work, Keifer had nearly succeeded in crippling the opposing gangs, systematically working his way through the upper echelons of their leadership with pinpoint precision. Com-Bat was soon to go into retirement, never to be seen again, and in the absence of constant gang warfare, Keifer and his brother would finally be allowed a modicum of peace. It was a nice dream.
Right up until Keifer and Jared were brought down in a hail of gunfire, the victims of a Sinner-orchestrated drive-by shooting. Keifer limped away. His brother didn't.
Occasionally, Keifer wonders if the Sinners know how badly they erred in attacking him, in killing his brother. He wonders if they question why Com-Bat knows all their routines, and how he always seems to strike where it will be most damaging. Sometimes, he allows himself a smile. Will they have to rename themselves the Six-Hundred Deadly Sinners? The Five-Hundred?
Of course, for all Keifer's wondering and knowing, he doesn't know the most important thing; the name of the man who tried to kill him. Jared, had he not accidentally been killed in the same shooting he orchestrated, might find some humor in the situation. Having spent so long relegated to the sidelines, he'd come to covet Keifer's power and influence, finally deciding to seize what he wanted by force. But then, what else could one expect from the man called Envy?
And what else could one expect from Wrath, but to spend every night killing men who never did him harm, all in the name of the brother that tried to murder him?
Powers and Abilities: Keifer is a skilled marksman and hand-to-hand fighter. As Com-Bat, he utilizes a variety of armament, as well as protective armor over his head, chest, and forearms.
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I should think of something.
And yes Douglas, you should.
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Wait, is there a difference between "Liefeld homage" and "Liefeld parody"?
I mean, they're ultimately the same, right?
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Nah he needs a pair of obscenely large liefieldian guns slung over his shoulders.
Wait, wait, I think you're thinking too narrowly about this. Why can't he have both?
BLOODSKULL
"Revenge is best served bloody."
Background: Logan McCade was part of an elite black-ops military unit code-named DEATH FORCE. In 1992, they were on a mission in South America to take down the head of the evil mercenary group known as the HELL REAPERS. As their chopper approached the landing zone, it was hit by an RPG and crashed in the jungle. Logan was the only survivor, and he was taken to the Hell Reapers base. It was there that he found out his comrade, Diego Diaz, had in fact betrayed Death Force to the Hell Reapers.
Logan was imprisoned and tortured for three years, enduring only because of his burning desire for revenge against Diego Diaz. One night, Logan finally broke free and overpowered the guards. He raided the armoury and began shooting his way out of the base. Just as he made it out of the compound, a guard launched an RPG that exploded beside Logan and threw him over a cliff. They thought he was dead. They were wrong.
Logan survived on sheer rage and willpower, but was left with horrible scars all over his body. He made it back to North America and contacted Bryce Williamson, former intelligence officer of Death Force. The unit had been disbanded after the incident and the government denied Death Force's very existence. Logan and Bryce decided to take matters into their own hands.
Logan ceased to be Logan McCade. Donning a mask dyed with his own blood to hide his scarred face and several extra layers of kevlar, he became BLOODSKULL, a vengeful warrior fueled by hate who will stop at nothing to bring his own brand of brutal justice to traitorous criminals like Diaz and the Hell Reapers. With Bryce Williamson, AKA Tekno feeding him intel from hacked government satellites he is an unstoppable one-man army.
Diego Diaz was the first to meet a gruesome end at the hands of BLOODSKULL, but he certainly wasn't the last.
Powers and Abilities: BLOODSKULL is extremely highly trained with all firearms due to his special forces background. He is also a brutal hand-to-hand combatant, with peak human strength and a massive build to throw behind it. He is a master of stealth, military tactics and knife combat. Because of the nerve damage he suffered due to the RPG blast, he does not feel pain.
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Forget it...
It's cool though, I forgive you.
A loose fitting leather jacket would really tie it together, and give it that perfect 90's touch. Maybe it can have the Com-bat logo on the back of it.
This is a post filled with win. I think you just distilled everything about Wildstorm and Image comics circa 1993 into one character.
But thanks for being a forgiving Geebs.
Also? Loving Reznik's Bloodskull. I think HeroMachine is especially nice for this contest because it, almost by default, makes ridiculous-looking characters.
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Dick Murdock: Dinosaur Hunter
History/Background: Dick Murdock ran the most notorious mercenary group in the world, the Irredeemables. Known for his incredible technological knowledge, his sharp tactical mind, and his expertise with any weapon, he easily kept control of his group and led them through many victorious missions.
When his top lieutenant is kidnapped, Dick enlists the help of Gustav, fellow mercenary and rival, to track him down. They find that the lieutenant's kidnappers are time-travelers, and they've brought him to the Cretaceous period for safekeeping until their demands could be met. Dick and Gustav acquire their own time-traveling device and the Irredeemables head out to save their missing compatriot.
Dick soon finds that this was all a set-up. Gustav payed off the lieutenant and the rest of his squad to betray him, kill him, and leave the remains in the past. Right before Gustav fires the killing shot, the group is attacked by a pack of raptors. Many of the Irredeemables die, and Dick loses his right arm, but Gustav gets away by using his own time machine, but not before destroying Dick's.
Left alone, betrayed, bleeding and almost armless, Dick vows vengeance on the man who betrayed him. Using only his one remaining arm and his feet, Dick constructs a robotic arm out of the wreckage of the damaged time machine and through an extraordinarily painful process, surgically attaches it to his damaged shoulder. He also repairs it's time circuits as best he could, but they are too damaged to be completely restored. He is then able to travel back and forth between his time and the Cretaceous period at will, but no time before, after, or inbetween.
When he returns to his own time, he finds his exploits in the past have turned his present into a hellish nightmarescape, with muscle-bound dinosaurmen ruling the landscape and oppressing the lesser-evolved mammals. Finding that Gustav has allied himself with the dinosaurmen, he joins up with the mammalian resistance.
And so begins the amazing time-spanning adventures of Dick Murdock: Dinosaur Hunter.
Powers and Abilities: Dick Murdock's cybernetic arm not only grants him the ability to travel back and forth through certain periods of time, but also grants him super strength. In addition, he has a naturally keen mind, he's in peak physical condition, and he is accurate and deadly with just about any weapon. Later upgrades to his arm allow for hidden weapons, increased allowance into the time-stream, and eventually futuretech such as on-board drying mechanisms and instant-pizza cookers.
GENGHIS KONG
In the far flung future, mankind had begun to slowly devolve into creatures not unlike that of apes. The landscape of the world was turned into a primal battlegrounds with tribes and factions fighting for supremacy. Each tribe was defined by their legacy, their heritage, their right to survive. Genghis Kong was the last of his tribe. Rumor has it, his lineage extended all the way back to that of Genghis Kahn himself. By utilizing an Time-ape brand time travel device, Genghis Kong would arrive in Michigan circa 2010. Every day would prove to be the ultimate struggle as he desperately would try to find his ancestors, those that came from Kahn. Unfortunately in his struggle he came under attack from Zoo establishment in a desperate attempt to cage him. Kahn would not accept bondage from what must be ancestry of a rival tribe.
To this day, Kahn searches for his blood line. If he had only landed in Asia.
Powers and Abilities He has the strength of ten gorillas, and the arsenal of all of the future war torn earth. He can climb and fight like no one's business. He also has guns big enough that he doesn't need to aim. Especially his mighty rifle the Banana Splitter. Its a gun with over forty laser sights, a shotgun attachment. a flamethrower attachment, a grenade launcher attachment, and a small nuke. It only has one trigger.
He also has a small semi-automatic wrist watch, which guarantees it is always time to die. He also has a plethora of patches, all containing Genghis Kong's vital rations, or his "nummies."
EDIT- This is not a revenge post on Dick Murdock. I swear.
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RhetoriKILL
What, you don’t know who RhetoriKILL is? What are you, stupid?
Origin:
Holden Rossdale!!! doesn’t play by society’s rules, because why would anyone want to? The son of a half-Irish, half-Palestinian Jewish father and a Native American, Chinese Moroccan Methodist mother, both of whom were extremely murdered by the military industrial complex simply because they helped a black man cross the street, Holden was always the stand-out in school but he never wanted to conform to society’s standards. If he’s the star pitcher, why can’t he throw a football instead of a baseball? Why does he have to get an “A” when an “F” is further down the alphabet, making it much more desirable? Who says you can’t make a bass the lead guitar in Holden’s band Crucible Be Damned? Rules are for suckers and conformists.
Then one day after not donating food to help orphans in his hometown of Crosshatch, Washington (which is where Grunge really originated from, if you all weren’t sheeple listening to what Dan Quayle says), Holden came across a bum who told him to “chill out and make ze world a better place for the kinder” Why should he chill out if he didn’t want to, knowing millions of children die every day from starvation? Knowing that accent was German, Holden totally beat that bum to death, because Holden just knew he was a nazi war criminal.
But Holden didn’t realize the bum was actually an alien priest from another galaxy sent to Earth to help make the world a better place. So with the alien’s dying breath he grabbed Holden’s arm and gave him the powers of the Demonination Church, which you would think would be an evil church but it was totally made to help people, you idiot. Now Holden travels the global to make the world a better place as RhetoriKILL, because who’s going to stop him? I mean, did you not even think that through?
Powers:
As with all members of the galactic Demonination Church, RhetoriKILL has the powers of flight and to shoot energy blasts from his hands. But this drains the sugars in his body, so Holden has to Do the Dew 5-6 times a day or drink lots of Fruitopia, whatever is organically grown and not part of the evil Mom & Pop middle class empire that oppresses minorities.
RhetoriKILL: helping old ladies cross the street (two, three, four…)…..NOT!!!
Huh, you know, i don't read much DC... as in at all. But the more i see of Booster Gold, the more i wanna read stuff with him in it!
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I hav a friend who's DC mad, pretty sure he has all of the 52 goodness. Might hunt down the showcase issues... With all this blackest night/brightest day stuff i've be sorely tempted to start reading a lot of DC, just to lazy to learn a whole other universe.
But yeah, 52's pretty great, and if you can read it, you should.
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I actually really liked parts of Extreme Justice. The early issues were unreadable, but by the end it was on par with the typical 90's fare of the day.
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Dr Nemo Blackblood will have to settle for Heromachine...
I need to do this.
Doctor Nemo Blackblood is no mere super scientist, he is an ultra-scientist. He's the smartest guy around, a world class fencer, an olympic level marksman, a gold medal tir-athlete. He has doctorates in physics, genetics, and biology, he speaks five languages, etc. He was part of the science combine that cured AIDS or some other major disease in his reality.
He's an also a titanic douchebag and a jerk. Basically, combine Doc Savage's intellect and resources, House's misanthropy, the people skills of that temporary VP Idris Elba played on the office, and add muscles.
I picture him constantly improving himself and going on adventures, possibly to other dimensions and realties, but I can't think of a motivation. He looks down on everyone he meets...
I was toying with the idea of him being horribly scarred and wearing a mask constantly, but I can't have him wearing a mask and showing his smug ultra-jerk expression with heromachine. I'm also thinking he is a post human and he has had limb transplants and stuff, but I didn't get too far into his design.
I was mostly just working on his expression in this:
I'll work on it a little more tonight.
That thing might be the most stereotypical nineties comic of all time. It's basically Keith Giffen doing a parody of Lobo, who was already a parody of other eXtreme heroes of the time. The art's just amazingly convoluted and crazy, and each issue has the protagonist fighting two to three villains. The second issue opens with the hero bisected, running around on his hands with his spinal cord hanging out, and scraping along the ground. I've got to scan some of it later.
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Wasn't one of the villains he fought a dude in a gimp suit with ridiculously long nose hairs or am I getting confused with some other weird ass indie property