Friday, 4 February 2011

Re-Paneled

I am, perhaps, and quite proudly, one of the world's biggest fans of Spider-Man. I have been since forever. I still buy The Amazing Spider-Man and have been doing so since around 1989, sticking through it during good times, bad times and even John Byrne times (and I seem to remember rather enjoying The Clone Saga at the time as well).
So I decided to honour my favourite superhero with one of those Re-Paneled things that seem to be all the rage these days. I made a failed attempt at the cover to the first Amazing Spider-Man annual (First appearance of The Sinister Six, a collection of Spider-Man's most badass of enemies) so scrapped that and moved onto a panel from The Amazing Spider-Man #3, featuring the first appearance of Doctor Octopus. It's more of a faithful adaptation rather than a reinterpretation really. I stand by the fact that Spider-Man's costume is probably the greatest superhero costume ever designed, a joy to draw, but also a pain in the ass, trying to get all those web patterns around his costume in a way that doesn't make him look completely flat. Always preferred the early squinty-eyed mask over the later bug-eyed one introduced in the late 80's as well. And why does no one draw those web wings under his arms any more??
Click here for the Re-Paneled website and here for the Covered website.




1 comments:

  1. Nice one. And I agree with you, web wings rock!

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