#you may notice how…. um… similar the finalized bee armor may seem

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Is there a world in which we can see the old beesuma and new beesuma panel side by side?

There sure is!

I think these are all of the beesumas I’ve posted, so here are all of the updated drawings I did! It mostly bothered me how inconsistently I had drawn the armor, and as time has gone on I’ve had… ideas… about some things I want the Bee Armor to imply and such, so consolidating the design and making it consistent across the times he’s come up seemed like the best thing to do, since every beesuma appearance has seemed to carry a bit of weight, y’know?

Since it’s the most detailed, the drawing from Children of the Machine was my biggest concern to update and fix! And actually, I was originally just going to redraw the armor and call it done, but when I sat down to look at it again, I wasn't super happy with the general vibe of it I think, and the more I made adjustments to his face the more I realized I just wanted to redraw the whole thing. The posture and expression and everything just didn’t feel right for him—Realistically, s7 Xisuma is still Xisuma, and I don’t think he’d be so animated-looking even when talking project he’d be super excited about. I’ve also drawn his face a lot more over the years (in private mostly dnfbcfhgbbdghn), and so I really think the new drawing is a much better representation of him overall :D <3

The other two (from the Big Shot and Bee Shtick Comic posts, respectively) are much smaller changes. By the time I did the bee shtick comic, I had mostly kinda figured out what I wanted the bee armor to look like, so not much to fix there, and the Big Shot Xisuma is just a bust, so easy fixing there too! The hex-shaped shoulder pad I had originally put on him ended up being moved to his helmet, so yeah :D