remaking comic book characters

ADMU has recently added two classes devoted to theories behind comic books and comic book production. One of the first exercises that its students are required to do is to pick a comic book character and remake them in any way of their choosing. If you think about it, this is a pretty essential activity for anyone who wants to get into the comic industry: writers and illustrators alike are always required to re-imagine popular superheroes and their adversaries. DC and Marvel do it often, and Vertigo has more than a few characters that have gone through similar transformations.

During my first class, I decided to remake Minako Aino, better known as Sailor V from the Sailor V comic of Naoko Takeuchi. My partner and I changed the setting Sailor V was in, and remade her as a special agent of the Queen with superpowers out to solve the Jack the Ripper case. For my most recent comic class, I did a revamp of Psylocke from the Marvel universe as the “Queen” of Japan’s yakuza world.

If you guys were asked to do something like that, who would you choose and why? Also, how would you remake them?

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August 5, 2007 Written by: Kae | Filed Under Latest, Miscellany 

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One Response to “remaking comic book characters”

  1. Garro on August 7th, 2007 9:47 am

    I’d change Dream (of the Endless) into a blonde girl with a light white summer dress and a flower in her hair –Daydream! lol

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