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REmake/REmodel: The Shadow Competition Results

Published Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:00:55 -0500

The Bleeding Cool competition. Redesign The Shadow,win an Alex Ross sketch cover of The Shadow #1 and a Jae Lee sketch cover of #1. Here are some of the entires we received… and the winning two at the end!

Robert Rath – It was a tough challenge to come up with a way to redesign The Shadow that didn't suddenly turn him into an existing character. Put a mask on him? Suddenly he's the Golden Age Sandman. Goggles? Dr. MidNite. And on and on….I thought it would be fun to make him more Steampunk inspired, so that's the direction I took.

Kenny Matlock

Jacob Haynes

Timothy Lim

Chris Campbell – The design for this was tough to get it straightened out at first but I wanted to try to stay original and true to The Shadow and his Legacy, so I kept his traditional scarf and his cape, But I went with a cloak instead of a hat to try to make him look even more mysterious. as for the things on his sides I figured I'd add gun holsters to his belt. as well as Gauntlets and armor instead of the overcoat… I tried my best on this piece, I'm still trying to my best to improve on my art.

Matt Price – His redesigned mind power is, The Shabro has the ability to "Blind the brains of bad brothers, with visions of big booty bitches!"

Karl Brown – In the interests of full disclosure, most of the figures are traced from some fairly easily identifiable Disney stills – Guess which one was hand drawn?

Dene Conway

Raymond Roel – My idea for the redesign is simple. When the host (Cranston) is asleep the "shadow" emerges from him. The Shadow now in physical form can become virtually anything or anyone easily disappearing into smoke or darkness. The Shadow is unstoppable unless The host is woken or killed. [I read DP7 too – Rich]

Dave Withers

Sean Andress

Evan M Dent

Matt Kane

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Basically its clothing that projects what is behind you. Basically making you invisible.

Now my idea is that the Shadow's outfit is made of this technology. His name is derived from a Shadow is about the only thing you can see when it is active.

If you can imagine the pic it would be a faint outline of a person plus the trademark hat and scarf, the only real visible piece is his eyes, except for the shadow that can clearly be seen on the ground.

Jason Smith

Jay Sellers

1) The Chav Shadow – baseball cap and Burberry scarf with two bling guns

2) The Brit Shadow – bowler hat, red umbrella and a walking stick ( with a silver handle in the shape of a nose)

3) The Future Shadow – robot with on-going snigger every time a joint moves ( hahahaha), key processor unit in the nose and two laser guns

Alan Henderson

RUNNER UP: – winner of the Jae Lee sketch cover.

Phoebe Peterson

WINNER: – winner of the Alex Ross sketch cover.

Kent Heidelman – The concept of my character is that he's albino and his shadow is all white and it comes alive and attacks! Except it's not alive at all. It's all just hypnotic, because he's a master of hypnosis (like the original shadow). People just imagine it and hurt themselves! I wanted half and half of old and new. So I flipped color scheme on head and instead of shadow being the only thing seen by criminals… to the focus of his attacks against them. His classic shadow ring is now his main weapon for hypnotic attacks (continuing old and new theme). As well as an extra brooch (because brooches are awesome on men, haha). He also has a hidden sword in his umbrella for when hypnosis fails (always does sometime right?). Along with far east mystical training he has eastern sword style training. I also kept the classic red bandana as a swell necker-chif.

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