Comrade Hero

Spasibo! Thanks very muchly!

CS posted the 'idealized' comic book physique standards earlier in the post. Ironik was using his technical skills to show that Comrade Hero wasn't a short squat individual when you used the heads count measurement.

Let me wrap my head around this...

Thanks for that Ironik - nice comparing the 'real' world actors who portrayed Superman and the comic book depictions.

Comrade Hero Needs Your Support!


Vote for Comrade Hero in the Create a Superhero Character for the Stan Lee Foundation competition over at Talenthouse.

How do I do this?

There's a simple two step process.

1. Show Your Support

Visit the Comrade Hero Superhero Profile and click on the blue banner on the right marked "Support James". This will add you to the list of people who support Comrade Hero. Please note that the blue banner is tied to Facebook to keep supporters updated, and remind them to vote. So if you don't have Facebook, then bookmark the Comrade Hero entry page, leave a nice comment of support, and come back in February to vote!

2. Vote in February

Those who have connected through the "Support James" banner will be sent an automated reminder in early February by Talenthouse to confirm vote for Comrade Hero in the Create a Superhero for the Stan Lee Foundation contest. For those without Facebook voting starts on February 8, 2011. So keep Comrade Hero bookmarked.

That's all there is to it!

Thank you for your consideration and support.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Urah!

James aka Comrade Hero


"Talenthouse will facilitate introductions for the winning designer with the film and television studios and social gaming industries. The selected design will be made into either an action figure or sculpture of which The Stan Lee Foundation will make a limited number to give away to specific donors of the Foundation.

The winner will also be presented with an award by Stan Lee at Comic-Con San Diego 2011 and will spend a day with Todd McFarlane at his art studio production facility, Todd McFarlane Entertainment, Inc in Tempe, AZ. Travel and accommodation to San Diego and Tempe, plus tickets to Comic-Con will be provided for the winner.

The top 100 highest voted submissions will receive a Prismacolor Premier Illustration Markers Set.

The 20 highest voted submissions will also receive an official movie poster from one of the Marvel movies signed by Stan Lee."

Here's another total package. Comrade Hero by Felipe Watanabe, colored by Sean Ellery. Another surprise coloring. Sean has been raiding my pieces lately as they come in for coloring.

Thanks. Only 24 hours in so far, and I'm encouraged. Win or lose, raising profile awareness and exposure will be the main benefit. Any prize or reward will be a bonus

It's the total package - we know you love it.

There are balls involved? Egads! That's something I hadn't counted on

I'm afraid I have to absolve form wanton forms of violence, no matter how justified.

Wouldn't that be something. Win a contest, travel to the US, assault a prominent artist, and then get unceremoniously thrown out of the US.

Thanks Airhead.

If you visit Comrade Hero there's a blue button marked "Support James" (aka me). If you click this button you will be sent a reminder closer to February 8, 2011 about voting on this Creative Invite.

I got bugged a lot about entering this, so I thought what the heck. At least it's a good way to get attention and promote my Project.

Comrade Hero Needs Your Support!


Vote for Comrade Hero in the Create a Superhero Character for the Stan Lee Foundation competition over at Talenthouse.

How do I do this?

There's a simple two step process.

1. Show Your Support

Visit the Comrade Hero Superhero Profile and click on the blue banner on the right marked "Support James". This will add you to the list of people who support Comrade Hero. Please note that the blue banner is tied to Facebook to keep supporters updated, and remind them to vote. So if you don't have Facebook, then bookmark the Comrade Hero entry page, leave a nice comment of support, and come back in February to vote!

2. Vote in February

Those who have connected through the "Support James" banner will be sent an automated reminder in early February by Talenthouse to confirm vote for Comrade Hero in the Create a Superhero for the Stan Lee Foundation contest. For those without Facebook voting starts on February 8, 2011. So keep Comrade Hero bookmarked.

That's all there is to it!

Thank you for your consideration and support.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Urah!

James aka Comrade Hero


"Talenthouse will facilitate introductions for the winning designer with the film and television studios and social gaming industries. The selected design will be made into either an action figure or sculpture of which The Stan Lee Foundation will make a limited number to give away to specific donors of the Foundation.

The winner will also be presented with an award by Stan Lee at Comic-Con San Diego 2011 and will spend a day with Todd McFarlane at his art studio production facility, Todd McFarlane Entertainment, Inc in Tempe, AZ. Travel and accommodation to San Diego and Tempe, plus tickets to Comic-Con will be provided for the winner.

The top 100 highest voted submissions will receive a Prismacolor Premier Illustration Markers Set.

The 20 highest voted submissions will also receive an official movie poster from one of the Marvel movies signed by Stan Lee."

Bikini Girls With Machine Guns... there's a song there.


Furiously scribbles down more notes...

That's doubly true, although you're not supposed to know where the submarine base is.

*takes notes* must add more lines of exposition...

That's the beauty of sharing work with others - because I've invested so much time in this, I don't necessarily see any oversights, errors, or omissions. Other eyes can can spot what I can't.


Ah... right.

Page 2. Comrade Hero strike the earth with the force of a small meteorite, hence the massive crater. That metal building/ship is the coning tower of a submarine breaking the ice. Why is the crater mostly empty. Snow and ice don't burn - but it does steam. For such a small body - the huge impact crater is created by a human body. That little device in the soldier's hands is a wibbly-wobbly bit of tech that is cleverly disguised as a defibrillator.

Red Hero 2011

Thanks. That whole re-entry sequence and first few pages are directly inspired by the opening television introduction to 'The Six Million Dollar Man.'

One of the classic television introductions in history.

The captions come from notes I took whilst reading about the realities of fatal injuries and death in space vs. the Hollywood movie portrayals. I had originally written a piece that had Comrade Hero floating helplessly in orbit musing about his impending death - Origins I.

TV Tropes is Ebil - waste too much on there

Every so often Comic Books cop the same flak that Fashion Magazines do - the portrayal of idealized physiques and looks that most men and women (and it's the idealized stereotyping of women that cops the most flak in Comic Books) that Joe and Jane Average can't generally aspire too.

Of course the majority of Comic Book Superheroes are drawn to be idealized versions of human beings - this is escapist entertainment after all.

And it's nothing new - humans have been 'exaggerating' the physical appearance of themselves in artform all the way back to our primitive ancestors scratching away on cave walls.

If you look at the images and statues of fertility goddesses worshipped in ancient times the depictions are often of large women with Ruben-esque proportions rather than the athletic Greco-Roman portrayals of physical perfection.

The way I'm going is that very few people in my 'world creation' will fit the classic Comic Book Superhero standard. Ironically enough, the ones who will fit the mold are considered to be the Ideal Heroes by the public - young, fit, handsome, and whose public appearances and press releases are handled through an agent - basically everything that Comrade Hero is not.