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and 
, but also the "Four Horsemen" along with 
. This completes visual designs for the first four major characters featured in the WCL story, which means I might as well put more effort into the comic now!
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I'm also interested to note your comment that you're not a big reader of comics - neither am I, as it happens. I have a couple of dozen graphic novels, not any big or famous ones either, and almost all the loose comics I own belong to an old Avatar series called .. Faust. I guess that name ( and the concepts associated with it - dark wizard sells his soul to the devil ) always appealed to me. The artist, Tim Vigil, is also one of the few comic artists I truly admire, but enough of that - it's great fun seeing how totally polished and pro your stuff is looking these days. It takes some serious skillset to sign up to a group named High End Skills...one day I may hope to join you there!
Hmm, dark wizard sells his soul to the devil...that's kind of fitting of my Faust character in some ways, actually...
I'm glad you see my work as looking more polished, because I'm really trying to make it all more balanced and better (not just the women!). It's hard tearing my mindset away from "more favorites = better" which has been driving a single-minded, instant-gratification approach to my work in the past. Though many have noted that it's weird someone who doesn't really buy or care for comics wants to make them...but that's not all I want to make and I hesitate to even say comics are the main thing I want to create.
I'm also aiming for more balance and focusing on quality, as much as I can, and I do enjoy seeing other artists progress and reach those higher levels. I certainly know how much I've improved in the last few years, just by being on here and studying stuff by guys like you.
I will have a look through that group, maybe the title was a bit off-putting.
I don't know much about the foundation of the name Faust, but that's the name that came to me when I was designing the character. I'm extremely fond of it.
I don't want you to think I'm upset about your feedback. You're definitely giving me some things to think about. Names are important. You've got me seriously considering getting rid of the callsigns altogether because the genericness (if that's a word) of some of them has been bothering me lately. It's not like the characters have secret identities (most of them don't, anyway) so maybe I don't need them...
My thoughts on Faust was purely my thinking of "Who would name their kid Faust?"
It could be the black energy needs a lighter afterglow? Lavendar maybe? Might make for a better glow effect?
And callsigns are usually generic, it's just that Vampire sounded just a little to generic. Does that make sense?
Ruin, Scythe those sound good. And it's just my opinion on Vampire sounding a little bland. Beast isn't a bad one, it's just that it's also a well known X-Man name, so something to consider before going with it.
The dark glow's whole point is that it's meant to be dark.
As for the call signs, as I said, they're emphasized far more on these cards than they are in the story. The characters actually rarely refer to each other by the call sign names; they're merely for designation during the announcements and what not. It's almost more like the suits are separate from the characters, kind of like a Gundam character's mobile suit has a name and then the rider has his own name. It's not "Reynaldo Hart is Vampire", it's more like "Reynaldo Hart is equipped with the Vampire WEAPON." Although during the competition scenes, the announcer does often say "Reynaldo Hart also known as Vampire". It's...complicated. I'll have to post a chapter of the story to make it clearer.
And yeah, I considered the Beast character, of course. I'm no stranger to Marvel comics characters, and I thought that through already years ago when I first made the guy up. I decided that it was just going to have to be that way. There simply isn't a better word that suits the character and I'm not about to rewrite him so he's not that animalistic type--the story is way too far along for that.
Not being a big comic reader, I just came up with simple handles that suited the characters, but others were connected to mainstream comic characters as well. There was a speedster WEAPON named Impulse that I ended up changing to the much less impressive Dash, and there was Graviton that I changed to a more fitting, but less descriptive Dominus. But Beast has always been that problem name. I always figured some would make a ruckus about it--I just decided that I wouldn't worry about it because I gave up on trying to come up with a replacement name years ago--suitable replacements are either lame or also connected to mainstream characters. Just going to be more than one Beast character out there until I can think of something better, and hopefully the fact that Renard isn't one of the most prominent characters in the story will keep his call sign from being too big a deal. If I get sued or something (highly unlikely), I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. Meanwhile, I'm going forward with my project.