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I didn't even think about Blizzard's costume being an Ice homage, I just thought it looked cool anyway - that makes it even more awesome!

I really like the looks of these characters in general actually!

While "in-continuity" you might decide different, the red & black were just taken from Chuck's latter postboot look. After that, I played about a bit, since a black neck/shoulder area didn't work for me, and ultimately decided he might invoke a patriotic symbol! (E-Lad actually went the other way - I started out with a Swiss flag in a similar way and lost it as it looked too busy by the end since I wanted the "zipped" stripes to imply changing, although I cut those down from five to four for similar reasons).

Funnily enough, I wasn't actually thinking of pirates! I just wanted something that would react well with wind powers - which couldn't be a belt sash, since Sofia has that! - and ended up with the tailed jacket with "Firestorm" sleeves from there.

Ta. Never been quite sure about his left shoulder.

[Incidentally, there's a reason he has a red & white belt rather than black.]

It wasn't random - iB's origin for Blizzard explicitly tied him in with Ice. With that, it seemed logical (the costume was originally even more Ice-like, actually, but iB asked me to lose the chestplate I'd given him to homage her tank-top!).

Ta!

Reboot really does a fantastic job with costume designs. I usually get to see a preview of all the micros for my characters and can't wait to reply with tons of praise.

I love the color scheme for Ferro. It just made him 'pop' for me in a way that his costumes never did in the comics!

And Element Lad's costume is really terrific! It feels so fresh and yet instantly classic.

A few more of Cobalt's characters - Monius Elysius, Tatiana Mallor (Umbra), Veilmist, Dawnstar and Devious Emius:

I love Umbra! Good homage to all of her barely there outfits while leaving her actually clothed, which is nice for a change

Plus I think it would look wicked seeing her standing against a darkfield with just the exposed bits of her skin visible...

Mild cock-up I just noticed - I uploaded an old version of Mon-El in error (the leather parts were meant to be black, with white studs on the belt, to create a mild postboot homage)! Here's how it should have looked:


[I've also fixed it on the previous page]

Ta!

And yeah, I'm trying to avoid bikinis and the like entirely with the female costumes (of those wearing actual "costumes", there's a leotard for Kinetix and a skirt for Amazon , and that's about it).

They're all great, but I'm particularly intrigued by Veilmist's costume. Very nice touch!

Playing around with some background students for the Academy there fordehellavit. All six are based on characters who appeared in Legion comics (albeit mostly with costumes translated to civvies), but who never got names or explicit powers.



[I'll be surprised and amused if anyone could pinpoint the panel(s) they all appeared in ]

I think the redhead, the pink-haired girl and the fish-headed one all appeared in the Legion 25?

The last one with the red eyes appeared in Legionnaires 43, not sure if on the cover or pages 2-3.

Not sure about the first two, though.

Actually, only the two I mentioned in passing here are from Legion #25 - although I know why you think the girl in maroon/blue is from the latter, since there was a girl cadet with a similar hair colour there. The other four actually all hail from Legionnaires #43, with slightly toned-down designs (especially in the case of the skinny guy, who had big metal shoulderpads!).

[That said, the "redhead" (I was thinking more light brown, personally) didn't actually get a visible hair colour in the issue - a fair chunk of her was bleached out by a foreground effect!]

That stretchy dude looks wicked! Also, Quinkan and the fish-head guy, yay!

Haven't posted anything 21CL-related for a while, I just realised. I'm still writing-blocked ( ), so here's some more micros



Danielle F & Spirit I've posted before, and are included for comparison to their brother & mother, respectively. The trenchcoated guy is King Faraday. And the guy at the end... I've told Cobalt this before, but I wasn't a fan of him introducing Batman into 21CL. Hence making it as unBatman-like as I could while keeping to his description and the general idea of a bat...

That certainly looks like a different Batman, different enough for it to not be the "real" Batman. I like!

Nice that Spirit is taller than her mom (love the code name by the way - Spirit evokes both her powers and her personality).

Spirit's clothing is amazingly detailed for a micro. I love the way it's 'lighted' with the silvery-gray bits fading into the darker grayish-black.

Nice detail.

Also liking the texturing of the cloth on both Spirit and Danielle (the pants especially).

Yeah, Reboot is pretty masterful at doing micros. The Mon-El at the top of this thread is mind-blowingly detailed with the armor. It's so perfect!

Oh yeah, I love Roman-style armor, so that's a definite thumbs-up from me.

Although the face looks kind of like this guy , to me, which creates weird dissonance in my mind, since he usually plays bad guys.

The Countess is actually pretty tall amongst the micros, but I'd already made Spirit one of the tallest (if not *the* tallest) female Legionnaires (I was thinking of early Moder, before Andromeda came along and he shrunk Apparition down quite a lot, I think).

I can't take credit for the codename though. That dates back to the thread's tag-team days. *Goes to check* Fat Cramer probably gets the credit, since Vee was big on the one who did the intro getting to do the codename

Ta. Although I tidied her up a bit recently, she's actually one of my older micros. I had a pretty clear idea what I was aiming for with her - a black woolen undersuit with one or two drapy/gauzy Alan Davis-style layers on top so that, on the one hand, she would shimmer in the daylight in a very feminine, slightly ghostly way. And on the other, set against her black-lined cape in the dark, it would break up her outline, so that if she was coming at you phased in a darkened room, you would just see her face, gloves, boots and (outer) cape coming at you semi-transparent like a ghost with no body. Probably smiling, given her personality.

I'd thought see the old board out with something 21CL. So here's every character who's had a micro I (that I could find) that I've made for 21CL



Click to embiggenate!

They look so awesome together like that! It gives me shivers (in a 100% good way!)

Did a basic head study of Comet Queen the other day just 'cause, using this template:

Comet Queen looks ace! I love her kirby dot hair!

Some playing around there with a sketch I commissioned relatively recently (one of a few I'll end up posting over the next while). Not done yet - I want to colour it properly, then I'll probably post it in Holo-Vids, but here's an outright SF&O-styled bio for Nori.

Two thumbs up! Maybe we should do a full SF&O for 21CL...

Maybe when I manage to really split myself into 7 identical beings in real life

Some more micros. Firstly, Maziah the White Which and her late protector Blok, both before and after his regeneration (following his brief "destruction" by Vykros):



And some more students in descending order of height. The first one would draw Nightcrawler's attention if he ever looked at this thread



[Three of them should be placeable. I would be falling-off-my-chair shocked if anyone successfully gave the source for the other! And, no, that isn't Storm.]

Is that the mysterious white-haired, dark-skinned Legionnaire from the Avalon annual?

Quetzal on the left, Retro on the right, and I'm actually blanking on the guy with green skin and the cone-shaped head.