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@Vampyrist said:
Madjack, you have earned a redesign of one of your characters. Post the character or a concept here and I will do it in my own flair.Taking a little break from Noir […]
Well, that’s an offer I can’t refuse. Hope I can persuade you to take a litte break from your little break from Noir…
Here’s a character I made up some time ago which I’m no longer satisfied with:
ARCANEDaren Breaden is a privat eye / sorcerer with a partially demonic heritage working on cases related to the supernatural and otherwise weird – a psychic detective with a liability to the occult if you like. When using magic he takes on some demonic features (like his horns and the tail) and his powers include the ability to perceive ghosts and other supernatural entities.
I imagine him like a combination of Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, Doctor Strange and Daimon Hellstrom – but not as a ripoff of John Constantine! Maybe hard to explain what I’m going for, but I want him definitely “darker” and “grimier” than in my picture – in other words: more of that film noir style you’re so great at …
Uh – that one I know! That’s from “Der dritte Mann” … emm … I mean “The Third Man” (had to google to be sure of the original english title) …
Another contribution to the cover contest:
As a young man Dorian Hargrave flirted with a pretty young girl in a bar, unaware that she secretly slipped roofies in his beer.
When he awoke, he found himself tied to a table in a dark room full of satanic symbols and objects, and saw beside him his kidnapper who held a strange dagger clasped with both hands over his chest while reciting verses in a language unknown to him.
Before he could really understand what was happening, the air in the room was filled with an acrid stench of sulfur and a repulsive ugly demonic figure manifested itself out of nowhere who called on the girl to sacrifice Dorian in his name to obtain infinite magical power.
But just at the moment when the tip of the knife touched his chest over the heart, a bright light flared up at the contact point and threw his assailant with a massive shockwave on the wall behind her. In the following chaos Dorian managed to free himself and to snatch the knife from the girl, who looked now no longer very young and beautiful, which he then immediately pushed in the chest of the half materialized demon.
Here, another flash of light appeared and the demon was torn into a thousand pieces with a last cry. At the same time the witch who had kidnapped him, aged faster and faster before his eyes until she crumbled to dust.
A few days after these incidents Dorian Hargrove discovered that he suddenly possessed the ability of psychic perception, which allows him to feel any kind of paranormal activity and see spirits.
Since those events Dorian studies the mystical powers, collects magical artifacts and books of all kinds and uses his supernatural powers to track down witches, demons, spirits and other magical creatures and to “kill” them.
He seems to be completely immune to any form of magic, and to be able to throw it back at those who tried to attack him with magic. He is also able of to “bless” any object that he touches in unsolved ways and turn it into a weapon against the supernatural.
He is obviously a nemesis of the “Psychotwins” Alisa and Alexey Rasputin and has made ​​it his mission to destroy these at any price.
FATMAN & LITTLE BOY
Roscoe and Flint Cornell are brothers with extraordinary dangerous powers.Roscoe aka “Fatman” is capable to eat and digest absolutely any matter and convert the energy obtained in this way in a very short time into pure body mass, making him not only bigger and bulkier, but also virtually immobile and/or unstoppable once in motion. In his “fat mode” he can also produce and secrete a very deadly poison gas.
Flynt alias “Little Boy” on the other hand can shrink down to microscopic size at will. In this process his body mass gets compressed exponentially to the shrinking. The smaller he is, the more compacted his mass is and accordingly increased his strength and resilience will be – this way he can get virtually invincible. On the smallest almost subatomic size a punch from him has the power of a small nuclear bomb, but he can only stay so small for a very short time since he is in danger to explode otherwise.
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And here’s a “hm-only” version of the last cover especially for the Character Design Contest ♯27- Cover Version:
Thanks DiCicatriz, but I have to admit that I was just too lazy to create another alien after all the work on the mech – so I used one of my first (simpler) creations with hm3…
My humble contribution to the Character Design Contest ♯27- Cover Version:
I made the same cover in photoshop yesterday and posted it in the covers-forum, but I made also a “hm-only” version at the same time especially for this contest. This is it…Thank you for your very kind words folks!
Hang on a sec – I’m gonna turn as red as a beet for a moment …
Okay, done!@ Alexander: Permission granted! I’m already excited to see what comes out of it …
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.BATTLESHIP BOLON YOKTE’ K’U
The Bolon Yokte K’uh is the flagship of the Harvester armada and extends to a length of 0.7 miles and 0.2 yards in wide wich corresponds to a size of about 4 aircraft carrier. Its weapons systems are strong enough to turn an entire small town to ashes with a single shot and it was responsible for the destruction of half of New York.Towards the end of the resistance struggle against the Harvesters the rebel group “Defiants” managed to board the ship and crash it in the Central Park – an action that heralded the end of the “Days of Annihilation” and eventually led to the flight of the invaders from Earth.
The crashed spaceship was later rebuilt into a fortress called “The Citadel” by the U.S. government which serves, among other things, as headquarters for various organizations such as S.H.A.D.O.W. (Strategic Homeland Agency for Defense Operations Worldwide), D.O.G.M.A. (Department for Observation of Global Meta Activities) and T.O.U.C.H.S.T.O.N.E. (Tactical Operations Unit for Crises in Homeland Security, Threat Oberservation and Network Espionage)…
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.BTW: I thought to myself: “Why use pulp-o-mizer if you yourself are a studied media designer?” and created all new comic covers. The result?! Well, just look for yourself – I posted them in a separate topic: “Mad Jack’s Zeitgeist Comics“
@Weilyn said:
Well, I found the name with some googling […] Never heard of the movie…Ditto here. And the broad grin of your character mislead me to believe it was Emanuel Goldenberg. Wasn’t even close…
Actor is imho simple: Edward G. Robinson.
And for the character – it’s on the tip of my tongue, but I don#t get it out… *argh*
Edit: “Little Caesar” would a bit too obvious, I guess?
Inspired by Delirious Al’s “Split”:
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.THE ELHTHU
At a tiny ten inches tall, the Elthu are a highly intelligent and intellectuall alien race – more than 90 percent of their body mass consists of cerebral tissue making it in fact a single large brain. They are masters in the construction of any imaginable technology and highly regarded throughout the whole civilized universe for their inventions and designs.When they are in a unfamiliar environment they prefer to act in giant cybernetic robot bodies, due to their small size.
These bodies have holographic projected heads which are always sympathized with the particular life form, with which they interact at the moment to mitigate a potential culture shock in encounters with less advanced civilizations..
.Yalwon of the Elhthu (with robot body in “off-mode”):
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Off-Mode Zoom:
Sir! Yes, Sir!.
.Shalh Zhagh of the Thalhibi
A hermaphrodite and partly insectoid species from the planet Chotol.The Thalhibi have special organs that make up four-fifths of their body, and give them the ability to produce electricity. These organs are made of muscle-like cells, called electrocytes, lined up so a current of ions can flow through them and stacked so each one adds to a potential difference. To generate low voltage and high voltage discharges they send a signal from the brain through the nervous system to the electrocytes which opens the ion channels, allowing sodium to flow through, reversing the polarity momentarily.
Similar to a battery, in which stacked plates each produce an electrical potential difference, they generate an electric current by causing a sudden difference in electric potential. These thousands of stacked electroplaques are capable of producing a shock at up to 1,500 volts and 8 ampere of current (1,200 watts).
It would be extremely likely for such a shock to be deadly for an adult human, when the duration of a discharge is long enough, but even a brief contact could at least cause a heart fibrillation – so you better don’t piss of a Thalbibi.
The electricity produced can also be converted by mental control into other forms of energy and used in different ways. Thus the organs can, for example, transmit a signal of about 10 V in amplitude between 25 Hz and several hundred Hertz in frequency which in turn can be used for electrolocation to locate objects around them which allows them to “see” where they cannot depend on vision: like in caves and at night.
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Congrats on your coming out! I think in hindsight it often proves to be less bad than expected. Hope it’s that way for you too. But please do me a favour and give a shit about the mainstream! If anyone gives you trouble just think of two Gloria Gaynor Songs (I am what I am! I will survive!) and quote my father with his reaction to my coming out: “So what?”
FYI: I’m the complete opposite to you. I’m pansexual – even if I say to other people I was bisexual to spare me long explanations. To each his own but to me the most, I guess.
Sir! Yes, Sir!
