New Red Robin costume origin? (and believe it or not, a random Sailor Moon image)

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Now, I've pondered this before, and something about Red Robin's new costume was familiar, but I couldn't place it...




Now at first I thought Marvel's Falcon, and then I thought about Seeker of the Spaceknights, but it was neither of those, THEN, being the compulsive Robin-phile that I am, I remembered THIS, a Robin redesign that George Perez did ten years ago when someone asked him how he'd redesign Robin's outfit, and I think he felt this was the last one he was going to do for a while....



Look familiar? Yes, I thought it might...

My usual ten minute paint.net job with it, led me to this rough and ready colourisation (And I cheerfully admit that I SUCK at shading and off humble apologies to Mr Perez for this chromatic hack job...)



What do you think? Pure coincidence, or maybe slightly inspired by this? (Admittedly the colours I've used are chosen to match the new Red Robin outfit, rather than what Mr Perez might have been imagining, which would I hope have included SOME green which I still think should be a requirement for a Robin outfit)

Oh, and simply because I've always loved this image and never really thought about posting it before and don't think I'll have any ACTUAL suitable post for it, a little Sailor Moon art which was an insert in Manga 14.


 

Comments

[marco]

I kind of hope that picture returns in the reprints.
Or better yet, they can make that as a larger poster available with the manga.

[marco]

Also (totes sorry for spamming the post), wasn't there a cover or preview for one of the TT comics with the spider-chick seemingly crushing (going bondage mode, at least) on Tim and Cassie?
Also leads me to wonder about his wings. (How does he ensure they don't get crushed all the time?)

And I would say inspiration. (Or maybe one of those things where someone sees a pic but forgets and later when they draw something, it comes out somewhat similar. Unintentional inspiration!)

[zenbro]

Intrigued by Cassie's star field outfit, lol'ing at Connor's duct tape job.

[big_daddy_d]

That is a nice looking costume. And as I said before I actually like Tim's new look and think the wings is a fitting addition.

[mullon]

Why the Hell does he have wings? Robin doesn't fly? Why does he need to fly?

[whitesycamore]

I've never seen anything really wrong with the Red Robin redesign, except that it doesn't really fit Tim's character. Looks like the kind of thing that'd be worn by someone more flamboyant and metahuman, to me.

Also, I dislike him co-opting red, which is Jason (and Kate's) colour. Red has a flashy, special, ooh-look-at-me quality to it.* If everyone is just going to jump on the red bandwagon that CHEAPENS IT.

*Except at night-time I guess, when red actually appears much dimmer than blue, but wth we don't read comics in the dark so my point still stands.

[arbre_rieur]

Aren't the underarm wings pretty much the only element in common?

[sethgray]

Speaking of good king George redesigning outfits, why was he never put in charge of designing Wonder Woman's?

[leikomgwtfbbq]

I had that Sailor Moon picture tacked up on my wall from sixth grade to the day I moved out of my mom's house. It's one of my favorites; zomg pretty watercolory-ness!

[celestialchild]

If Perez's costume was the inspiration, then I'm relieved at the modifications they made.