Here's the Snowbird everybody knows and loves:
And here's Snowbeast, rough-and-tumble Canuck drinking buddy and all-around flamboyant dresser:
See what I did with the tiara? I turned it into hair! I initially had Snowbeast's chin and upper lip totally hairless, but then he really looked like Lion-O. I changed the oval jewel/cameo/lozenge/thingie into a rocky crystal. No wonder he's grimacing! You try maintaining a sunny disposition with a freaking New Age crystal embedded in your skull. Also, he just realized he's standing in a puddle of Kool-Aid and now his socks are all squishy. Back to the crystal... I moved it further down on his head, Adam Warlock-style. It's butcher that way. No, I can't explain why. Just trust me on this, okay? Sheesh! I pushed the sky blue of the original costume towards a grayer, storm-cloud blue, and I roughed up the feathery, scalloped edges of the cape, gloves, and boots into Marvel-esque Byrne Tatters. But then I screwed that up with an ill-advised inking job. D'oh! And I did a Timber Wolf thing with the chest. Not bad... eh? (See what I just did there?)
Previous Gender Reassignment Challenges:
Next week: another Gender Reassignment Challenge, this time with Dazzler! (Her first two costumes!)
9 comments:
Very well done. Cleverly adapted, and strong design. Stronger, I'd warrant, than the original--which really is rather generic; it's too bad her and Shaman's looks were already established, considering the neat stuff Byrne did with Northwestern tribal motifs for various gods and demons during the run of Alpha Flight)
Very nice. Granted that Snowbird has already dealt with gender reassignment issues when she was the host body for Walter "call me Wanda" Langoski. But this look pretty good.
I didn't realize that the cape was only tattered around the edges. To me it looked like it was made of some kind of animal skin, like bear or badger or were-moose.
That thing with the hair is exceptionally cool. Good stuff, BB.
Very nice. Inspired solution to the Tiara Crisis.
Fantastic! That hair and the cape will look dynamic in action and the costume is simple but bold.
There was a wacky and slightly disturbing* Star Trek gender reversal short story in one of the early Bantam Star Trek: The New Voyages anthologies in which the entire crew of the Enterprise (except Spock) reversed gender. Your gender reversal designs remind me of that story, only much more kickass.
*Only because it was a vehicle for another Sondra Marshak/Myrna Culbreth introspection-fest.
Ewww. Bully, don't remind me of the "Procrustean Petard"--it was bad enough I tried to read one of Marshak & Culbreath's overwrought "Phoenix" series after that.
Not that I don't think there's no value in exploration and playing with gender roles. It's just that the authors seem to have an odd predilection for domination and humiliation that informs their writing for suspicious reasons (not unlike Chris Clarmont, come to think of it...).
Nice change up. Still it would be nice to see a version of an Inuit goddess that didn't look like a white chick...
I think this is hands-down my favourite of your gender reassignments. Jolly good show, old chap.
Ooh, double negative doesn't mean what I meant to say. Fneh.
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