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The classic Alan Scott Green Lantern look is awesome (colorblind swashbuckler!), but the 90s reIMAGEing as Sentinel was, meh, typical of its day.
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link
one month passes...
Two questions lurking below the surface here: 1) what counts as a redesign? and 2) what counts as sticking? The answer to 1 seems to be major shifts in color scheme and bulk - Azbat and black Spidey are redeisgns, the Invisible Woman losing her midriff isn't. 2 needs to be pinned down, though. Spider-Man was in the alien outfit from 1984 on and off to 1988 - not exactly an eternity, but certainly long enough that it stuck in people's minds as a
costume and not just a costume
change.
Wolverine is a really weird case in that I think both the yellow-and-blue and the brown-and-tan are sort of acceptable definitive costumes without much hoopla surrounding the changes, and then meanwhile the Morrison/movie approach never felt unnatural either. Maybe he's a character that people don't associate with his costume? The claws and the hair are all you need to convincingly broadcast "Wolverine"?
― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Monday, 10 July 2006 02:56 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, I think Wolverine works in civilian clothes so much too that it doesn't really matter. Like, seeing him in a leather jacket, it's still Wolverine, not "Logan".
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 10 July 2006 10:17 (seventeen years ago) link
ten years pass...
I wonder how much of this has to do, also, with what a character is wearing at a moment when their book gets a bunch of new readers. Thinking here of the X-Men circa the cartoon show, the action figures, and the speculator boom - all those Jim Lee (and maybe Portacio?) costumes seemed to me, coming on board at that time, as just what those characters' costumes were, and it was a long time before you could have convinced me that most readers would have read, say, Storm's white drapey thing as a dubious recent change and not just "Storm's costume." Also, of course, when characters have had more costume redesigns over their history, it decreases the sense that they even have a definitive look. Storm might actually be a good example.
An interesting take on this was Prime, as written by Gerard Jones and Len Strazewski and drawn by Norm Breyfogle, where the character's costume changes are part of an evidently planned two-year mega-plot, and symbolize how the adolescent boy who is secretly behind the Prime bodies (it's a Shazam-type premise) is trying out different identities for himself: generic hero, a "rebel" persona that becomes quickly and appropriately cringe-worthy, etc. Tbh they could have done much more with this, but it's a cool idea.
― mega pegasus for reindeer (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 31 December 2016 04:32 (seven years ago) link