*SPOILERS* Who is this? *SPOILERS*

I know what you mean, but I had a moment of assuming you came out of a cloning tank.

Actually, my mom highlights her hair blue and that's exactly what it looks like. Not that style, mind you, but that blue black mix. So I guess I didn't twig to it looking like an old comicbook immediately.

Of course, when my hair was blue (and green and red and yellow and orange and purple), it was quite vivid, but that's because I didn't do the highlight dying method. Which isn't that uncommon, in fact it's the most common version of fancy colour dyeing I see, because it's a lot less work and much cheaper.

Have you never converted clothes?

I want one too.

Can we talk about navel rings, too? Maybe a mini-mini-cape rig for belly button dangly chains?

(Okay, that last part was mostly a joke, but a simple piercing option would be really cool.)

Heh heh heh...whaddya expect from a n00b? lol He'll probably show up next wearing spandex similar to Statesman! lol

Huh... Hair higlights as opposed to dying the hair? Yeah, I can roll with that. I suppose I either misread or misunderstood what David meant with his explanation. I just think it comes off as less rebellious than one might think from reading about it, because to me, it just looks like black hair, even from up close. I mean, I get that it's not, but the highlight is so subtle it gets lost in what is an otherwise very busy, in-your-face costume.

I should hope not, but I'm clearly biassed. Never was a fan of unnecessary costumes and pretentious names. The guy's done pretty well for himself using his real name and his common clothes. I can see him getting some nicer ones, but I just don't see the logic behind a villain costume. His powers aren't costume-derived.

And the last time a canon villain renamed herself, she chose the name "Sorceress Serene." I'd rather people used their real names, in light of that

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

If his plan works out, he'll use the name Rularuu.

Isn't he already named Doctor Doom?

That's Recluse

Yeah, it's this that's my only problem with the outfit. The black on top contrasts too much with the white on bottom. If David didn't want the black to be the dominant color, then the TOP should be white to match the bottom with the little strap and buckle details being black.

How many of those cruddy team books did Image let Liefeld churn out?

It is a rather Liefeld design isn't it?

Chest!

Midriff!

Random metal **** on her face!

Edit: All she needs is about twenty pouches and a gun bigger than her body and she's got the whole costume pack.

Nothing says "means business" like deliberately exposed vulnerabilities on your battle gear.

In a News of the Weird story today, popular young superhero Penelope Yin was killed
in Kings Row today from a severe gunshot wound to the abdomen. Yin - who had only
recently joined the ranks of Longbow - was reportedly rounding up some of the loose
Clockwork plaguing the area, when a known gang member confronted and fired the
fatal shot.

The shooter - a known member of the Skulls gang, going by the moniker "DarkHollow Ichigo",
was apprehended during an altercation with his girlfriend.

A representative from Longbow spoke briefly about the tragedy, and assured this reporter
that Longbow would undergo a comprehensive review about their uniform customization
policy.

Well, that explains why there's feet. They're still Liefeld character designs, so Silvestri still loses points for associating himself with such rubbish.

To be fair, the guy seems to have gone into Liefield mode, just check the guy with guns bigger than his fists, and fist bigger than his head, or the woman in the front with her huge legs.

Admittedly he can draw feet so thats a point in his favour in comparassion to Liefield.

Agreed!

Even most cloning tanks use an artificial placenta with an umbilical cord. Even non-placental tanks use the umbilical. While there may be secondary feeds/tubes/lines the umbilical cord is already designed as the ideal interface for transferring nutrients and waste products to and from an in vitro clone.

Uh, not that i'd know anything about such matters. So this is just, um, pure speculation. <.<

Moving on...
i actually like the general design of Yin's outfit. i'm not totally on board with some of the details, but overall i like it.

actually they aren't Liefeld designs...those are Silvestri designs
Liefeld did Youngblood

Whether this is Leifeld's own work or not, it's a Leifeldian design. To be honest, I never really minded Leifeld's work, the one complaint I can agree with most people on is that all of his designs are visually so busy that in a group shot, it's hard to tell where one character ends and another begins. Rather than characters having their own colour schemes or sharing one overall colour scheme, they are all an unpredictable mix of multiple colours and shapes that, rather than give them identity, just makes them all look the same, because none of them have truly iconic looks.

I wouldn't go as far as to compare Penny Yin's costume to something like Youngbloods, but it is busy in a similar way. My beef with it really is the overwhelming complexity of colour on that outfit. I could see her costume work if it were complex in terms of surface texturing, but simpler in terms of overall colour patterns, or maybe complex in colour patterns but simpler in base design.

But think about this for a moment - take her costume and colour it all white. All of it. OK, you can't, but try to imagine it being all white. Wouldn't that still have plenty of detail to be an interesting costume even that way? AND, more importantly, would it not be far more memorable?

Detailing is not the problem. But smaller details need to work together to create larger shapes that the eye can easily trace a simple picture over that's easier to remember. Most people - myself among them - are not that good at remembering complex patterns, and a costume is much more memorable if it boils down to a small collection of more basic concepts.

*edit*
Nevertheless, for your reference, Youngblood:

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

As some of you may know, my first job in the comic industry was working for Marc Silvestri's Top Cow Productions (on the CoH comics and others). I spent over a year as Marc's apprentice, working directly with him in the studio, and it's one of my very fondest memories. The man's a legend and one of the greatest talents ever seen by the comics industry. He's fundamentally reinvented his art style several times over the years (a great source of inspiration to me), but the underlying quality always remains a constant: he's always been an expert draftsman with a natural flair for style, and no one puts as much raw energy into their pages as Marc.

So yes, I'll gladly accept any and all comparisons.

If you haven't checked out Marc's work since the 90s, look up the New X-Men volume he did with Grant Morrison. Mind-blowing, envelope-pushing, beautiful stuff.

Was that the future time-jump? I liked those issues.