Over at the always awesome Project Rooftop site (where artists submit their ideas for superhero re-designs) the winners of the latest Batman competition are up. Below are my faves (the first one being the Grand Prize Winner). You can check out the rest of the runners up and honourable mentions at Project Rooftop.
Some good news for artists out there. The excellent web-site, Project Rooftop is putting out the challenge of re-designing the Dark Knight’s threads. Project Rooftop is a fan fave site that challenges artists to come up with alternate designs for some of comics most popular characters. So far they’ve covered Superman, Iron Man, Supergirl and more. It’s always a fun site to visit. All the details you need to know are below.
You’re going to need every tool in your utility belt for this one! Project: Rooftop is flipping on the signal. That’s right, old chum, in honor of the recent (apparent!) demise of the Dark Knight in Batman R.I.P. and Final Crisis, and the likely torch-passing to follow, we’re announcing a very specific new contest: redesign the Batman uniform to suit his most likely successor, Dick Grayson AKA Robin AKA Nightwing.
Think about it, Nightwing was raised to be Batman 2.0, so any uniform he dons as the Caped Crusader should demonstrate that. And sure, Nightwing might not be the next Batman, and Bruce Wayne’s heroic death probably won’t last forever…but let’s enjoy the design opportunity anyway!
Rogues Gallery of Round Rock, TX has provided the following (awesome) prizes:
Grand Prize – The Batman Black & White Statue by Matt Wagner, a retailer exclusive DC Direct Batman action figure, Batman: The Black Glove HC, and Detective Comics #844 signed by artist Dustin Nguyen.
First Prize – Detective Comics #847 signed by Dustin Nguyen, a DC Direct Batman action figure, and Batman: Gotham Dark Knight animated deluxe 2-disc DVD or Blu-Ray (winner’s choice).
Second Prize – Detective Comics #849 signed by Dustin Nguyen and the new Eaglemoss Batman Metal Figurine.
Along with our usual P:R Staff roundtable reviews, Bat-artists J.H. Williams III (Batman) and Dustin Nguyen (Detective Comics), and comics blogger Tim Callahan (When Worlds Collide at CBR ) will be joining in to guest judge the finalists!
Send in your Batman redesigns to projectrooftop@gmail.com, with the subject line: “Batman 2.0.” Please include your full name, age, website, and mailing address. International winners may be responsible for shipment. All the usual P:R Guidelines apply.
All entries must be received by February 4th, 2009!
The first film I saw? Superman: The Movie. My first (and only) tattoo? Superman’s symbol. The pattern on the pyjamas I’m wearing right now? One guess. Yeah, I love Supes, and so do a bunch of other people all over the world. So here’s a tide of recent news all about the original and the best.
First up, is a great collection of new Superman costumes from fans across the globe. None of these will appear in the comics, but it’s just a bunch of artists re-designing Superman’s classic look as part of a competition on the always fun to look at Project Rooftop site. Comics writer Mark Waid and the staff at PR offer their comments for the numerous finalists. Each one is unique and unexpected. I can’t pick just one. While you’re there you can also check out past costume upgrades for other characters such as Robin, Wonder Woman, Iron Man and more. You could lose yourself at Project Rooftop and either become very jealous or very inspired.
Secondly, the savvy readers of the tremendous film mag, Empire have voted Big Blue the No. 1 superhero of all time. They have compiled a well-researched list of the 50 greatest comic book characters, but if you don’t want to read that many, counting down from no. 5. we have Spider-Man, Wolverine, John Constantine (from Hellblazer and the Keanu Reeves film, Constantine), Batman and Kal-El himself. The list is a good guide to a cavalcade of various characters with great art, background and handy facts about each one. A nice way to familiarise yourself with some perhaps unfamiliar heroes, or anti-heroes.
Finally, you can see actual game play from November’s Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe fighting game right here. With interesting character choices and some great visuals, Midway looks like they may have a winner on their hands.
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