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Post by beccabear67 on Sept 10, 2020 17:16:51 GMT -5
Best worst Hulk ever!!!   |
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Post by tarkintino on Sept 10, 2020 17:41:35 GMT -5
Worst translation of the visuals of a character from one medium to another, without dispute. Tim Burton can burn in hell forever.  ONLY movie I have ever walked out of. Agreed. Burton's obsession with misfit / weird characterizations led to the worst adaptations of characters of any DC movie. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2020 18:58:23 GMT -5
Apocalypse in X-Men: Apocalypse looked like a villain from VR Troopers. I’ve seen cosplay Apocalypse that is far superior.
And I wish Cobra Commander in 2009’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra had looked more like the comic/cartoon version.
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Post by berkley on Sept 10, 2020 22:15:58 GMT -5
The Forgotten One in that buffalo headgear. I looked this one up because I didn't want it said that we forgot The Forgotten One! Maybe it was marked down on discount from the Zodiac gang's yard sale?  The thing with this one is, I can kind of see what they were going for - but how on earth could they have messed up the execution so badly? And besides, the idea is wrongheaded to start with since the Eternals were all about the advanced high-tech and mostly sported streamlined, futuristic looks. It's true the Forgotten One was an exception to this in his first appearance, in which he looked very much like Kirby's version of an ancient Greek hero:
But later on he was given that "space-armour" by the Celestials, which was the costume they would have stayed with if they'd had any sense - as Keith Pollard did when he drew the character in Thor:
That was a great design and would have fit well with the Avengers.
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Post by chadwilliam on Sept 11, 2020 1:54:46 GMT -5
I wonder if the British idea of what a Superman should look like lead to the tweaking that went on here.  I have a book on Batman memorabilia with a primary focus on stuff released during the 60's and it was mentioned that the reference material sent over to, say, Japan was often in black and white hence stuff like a purple and green Batman showing up on merchandise over there, but there's a weirdness which goes beyond that. ie.  |
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Post by jason on Sept 11, 2020 14:24:51 GMT -5
Well, if we're doing media depictions then check out what the 1978 Fantastic Four cartoon did to Magneto:
Even ignoring how ridiculous this is, that's an awful design on Magneto. See also Spider-Woman's take on Dormamuu
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2020 14:58:02 GMT -5
Gosh, that episode! I had the VHS of this.
And what a pathetic ending. Reed tricking Magneto with a wooden gun works well. But then he tells Magneto about the wooden gun. And Magneto is led away by cops. At that point, Magneto should have said, “Oh, it was a wooden gun, was it?!” And then unleashed his magnetic powers on cops who were, of course, carrying equipment that would have contained metal.
If I remember rightly, Magneto was a common hood in this episode, tricking the FF into robbing a bank.
Where was the script editor?
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Post by Duragizer on Sept 11, 2020 20:17:53 GMT -5
I know the COIE didn't extend to the Marvel Multiverse, but I sure hope the Anti-Monitor still found a way to annihilate that Earth. Yeesh.
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Post by tarkintino on Sept 12, 2020 6:47:04 GMT -5
Well, if we're doing media depictions then check out what the 1978 Fantastic Four cartoon did to Magneto: Even ignoring how ridiculous this is, that's an awful design on Magneto. See also Spider-Woman's take on Dormamuu Look what this same DePatie-Freling Enterprises production did to the Fantastic Four themselves; the Thing looked like a pile of you-know-what and sounded like he was eternally constipated. Then, there was H.E.R.B.I.E the robot....oh, the nightmares. |
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Post by beccabear67 on Sept 14, 2020 11:47:45 GMT -5
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Post by EdoBosnar on Sept 14, 2020 12:19:59 GMT -5
Well, I kind of like the last two; although I have to ask: who's the rather, erm, corpulent fellow in the yellow onesie standing next to Old Man Logan?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2020 17:55:32 GMT -5
I can't bring myself to look. . so if this has been shared already, sorry (again)  |
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Post by beccabear67 on Sept 14, 2020 20:21:17 GMT -5
I can't bring myself to look. . so if this has been shared already, sorry (again) Aisde from the criminal abuse of hair product there... where the heck are his bone (augh) claws coming from? Just soooooo wrong. Where'd his well regarded body fur go as well! I mean, this version is supposed to be more an animal and yet you'd probably have to go back to Hulk #181 and Herb Trimpe to see him this smooth. Here's how he looked the very first time I saw the guy...  |
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Post by chadwilliam on Sept 18, 2020 22:59:23 GMT -5
Not a character, but a comic we're all familiar with (and by "all" I don't mean just comic fans) not looking the way it should. The ashcan used to license the title and trademark the logo for 'Action Comics' back in 1938. The first Action Comics #1. Just an ashcan, I know, but it looks like the accepted Action Comics #1's evil, older sibling who was kept chained in an attic, fed nothing but fish heads, and never, ever, spoken of. |
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Post by berkley on Sept 19, 2020 23:03:33 GMT -5
The news of the upcoming Eternals mniseries from Gillen and Ribic has me thinking about those characters lately and how they've been portrayed over the years. I don't think there have been many drastic visual changes apart from the above-mentioned Forgotten One, but still, most of the modifications haven't been improvements, in my view. The best of them are more or less watered-down versions of Kirby's, the worst, mis-guided efforts to "jazz up" the designs.
Sadly, I think the reason isn't hard to find: it's simply that the Eternals concept hasn't to this point resonated very deeply with any artists (or writers for that matter); it hasn't inspired anyone to produce their best work. Maybe one day it'll find some creators that do appreciate it in the way I'm thinking of but the history of previous attempts doesn't bode well.
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