#meta comic design

[beastswithoutburdencomic]

Beasts Without Burden Update!

[Image ID: A black and white comic panel. It is a close up of Angel, a Puerto Rican man lying on his stomach on the floor, from the shoulders up. His eyes are wide and his hands are balled up into fists as he looks over his shoulder at where Whit, another human, and Wilbur, a snake-like nephilim with arms who glows faintly mauve, are fighting. In the background, Whit continues to struggle with Wilbur, trying to keep his footing on Wilbur’s slippery tail and a hand on Wilbur’s head as Wilbur grabs Whit’s leg.

There is a ladder leaning against the counter. End ID]

Whit goes out of bounds.

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[starflungwaddledee]

alas, it seems the christmas mystery shall remain unsolved 🎁 happy holidays!

[pnfc]

i haint watched the dang chibisode and idk if ill actually watch it with sound on sdfjk but i have a hurt feeling about them casually imbuing perry with speech for a one off gag because the idea that he needs to talk to communicate is fake. we had 4 seasons of wacky magic hijinks cartoon where perry never needed verbal speech to communicate. they couldve done this gag at any point in the show but they didn't, and the fact that they didn't felt significant. perry's muteness is such a core part of his character, to me, to the way i conceive of him/write him. i don't wanna overreact to a goofy little side cartoon (even tho i'm doing it anyway) but it's still the characters, and it still upsets me! ok that's it i've said my piece

[sucharandomwolf]

This is HEAVILY inspired by @das-a-kirby-blog because I came across their post and thought it was cute. (If you’d like me to, I can take this down 🫶🏽 I just really loved the idea but don’t want to come off as stealing it)

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The main thing I loved about it was how Meta Knight is actually a soft squishy boy and it got me thinking, how would that idea work with my design? I didn’t exactly make my Meta Knight a pretty boy or a young looking guy so because my MK is a short king, I wanted to incorporate that into this idea.

QUICK EDIT: DeDeDe is designed by @//_danktrash on Instagram. They just gave me permission to use it however I want but I feel bad that some ppl think I designed him 😭 I love the design sm but it is NOT my design. Meta knight is my design tho 👍🏽

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I’ve also fallen deeper into the Metadede rabbit hole 🧍🏽

[jesncin]

Not sure if you've been asked this before (I checked the archive, but didn't see it), so sorry if this is a repeat.

I was just wondering if you had a favorite version of Kryptonian traditional wear (between the different Superman media)?

Seeing different takes on Kryptonian fashion is fun, I personally love stas version.

I have not been asked this yet, so no worries!

Ooh I love the STAS version too! I tend to enjoy the designs that lean towards long flowy robes. I do wish the colors didn't lean so heavily towards red with gray armor platting though? It reads more as villain colors from the lack of cool colors. I would prefer either a subtle echo of Superman's primary colors or if you want the Kryptonian parents to have more individuality, a nod to their original colors instead!

Which is what the Smashes the Klan version does! I love the bright colors of these. Even if it's a little classic camp core, they do look actually related to Superman and the red and yellow connects them together as a color accent. I think sometimes folks go too far into making them look sci fi that Supes sticks out in a way where his outfit doesn't match Krypton's look at all. Which narratively is fine if you're going for the origin where Superman purposefully dresses as a circus strongman (which SSTK does)- but if the suit it gifted from the Kryptonians? Then it should look some sort of similar surely (cough MAWS cough).

MY ALL TIME FAVORITE THOUGH (or at least stuck out immediately to me) is the design of Jor-El from the Battle of the Supersons movie! Something about this look just spoke to me. It's a clear echo of STAS' shape language with the long flowing robe and the buckle across his chest, but with green and yellow colors (it's tinted by the hologram look but you can tell those are the colors)! It looks sci fi but still related to Superman's iconic look while being distinct. Not fashion related but I love me a bearded Jor-El heheh.

I think it's critical to get the look of Kryptonian fashion in comparison to Superman's look right. Because you get a narrative out of that! How connected is Clark to his Kryptonian heritage? What level of self-acceptance is he in to embrace the more alien aspects of his wear? Was the suit gifted by the Kryptonians or approximated by Ma Kent? Does the S symbol look alien, or did Clark choose the more "S" looking shape to be recognizable? You get a different diasporic Superman with these little character design choices.

[artbyblastweave]

Geiger by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank is compelling to me because it's the first time I've ever seen someone put two-and-two together by having a superhero whose stock powers-from-radiation-exposure origin story wasn't a lab accident or experimental detonation gone awry, but a world-ending nuclear war- resulting in a guy who'd be on the Justice League in a better timeline instead puttering about a fallout/mad-max style wasteland doing folk-hero shit.

[kermit-coded]

take two on my ric with scars concept. (first explored here). i wanted to try it out in my rendered style (i still like the old style for quick drawings). i added a few scars in addition to the electrical burn and explosion scars. on his temple i put a scar from when he got shot by freedom force and on his chest i added claw marks from sabretooth.

further design notes: i brought back his earring from the 80s and i gave him curls bc he should have them. i also gave his hair an auburn tint bc in x force 1991 his hair was typically a dark red.

[vioyume]

Got inspired by @macchitea 's Rain Land au (Who designed the Meta Knight and Kirby slugcats) and decided to design Susie as an iterator for fun.

I would imagine she is made to research further advancements in their technology and more study focused than the other iterators. Think of her as a very tone down Glados, though like her she wouldn't mind a few sacrifices.

Feel free to interpenetrate whatever is happening in the comic, it was made all in good fun.

Again the Meta and Kirby slugcats and rain-land au were made by macchitea! :)

[sweetandglovelyart]

Knightfall in Dream Land - Page 3

Meta Knight starts telling the kids the story of how he arrived on Popstar.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Not a question, but I love your blog so much. Makes me so happy :) I'm very excited to see the Yi City trio in your style.

We're getting close to the Yi-City arc! In the meantime, have some behind-the-scenes sketches of me trying to figure out their designs!

[chibifox2002]

So anyways, here's a goofy episode plot thing I basically made in one sitting.

Connie is a saint.

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(my hands feel like they're on fire)

[ageofzero]

a crack in the wall

The thing that struck me immediately, like the first time I saw the scene, was the Director saying “...and now, we have a monster in our kingdom.”

framed like that, holding the sword she stole so she could frame Ballister.

My literal first thought was “yeah, I’m looking at one right fucking now”. Two seconds later she’s using that sword to get rid of a threat to her order, so like yeah.

It’s not subtle cinema language at all, it’s basically shouting it at me, but I liked it anyway. She’s a threat and the movie is no longer remotely hiding it.

[starflungwaddledee]

from: @starflungwaddledee to: @post-it-notes7

message from santa: "happy holidays post-it-notes! 🎄🥳 i know you very politely only wished for a few modest things- characters high fiving, or struggling in christmas attire- but i hope you'll still enjoy this given that i kinda went the opposite direction entirely! i'm an enormous fan of your work and most times you post anything i wind up browsing your art tag from tip-to-tail in enraptured delight. as such, i thought it was only fair i give back something a little more significant in gratitude for all the joy your work has given me. i knew i wanted to do a comic, so i was thrilled you already had a whole storyverse for me to work from!! this scene seemed the most obvious choice (chapter 8 of "wishful thinking" on ao3) given that i enjoy a dramatic fight scene 😂 i tried to stick as beat-by-beat to the writing as i could and worked in as many details as possible; i hope it'll be fun to see it envisioned this way! merry christmas! ~starflung 🎀🔔 "

[its-ezraaa]

Reworked character sheets for my Dungeons and Dragons AU! The Kings Row boys are playing "Swords and Serpents" with Seiji as the long-suffering Dungeon Master. Who do you want to see next?

[ladypepperofdavenshire]

Finally got around to redrawing an old pic of Meta and Contego! Full version will be up on my Patreon this Saturday for the biweekly art dump, along with some more Nielson family doodles and other character intros 👀

[quanblovk]

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