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scans_dailyFrom a CBR article and preview on the new Ray title
Meet Lucien Gates.... lifeguard, genuinely nice guy, and hero.
From the CBR interview with Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin grey
Gray: Lucien is vastly different in every way except the similarity of light-based powers; he's a lifeguard from San Diego, carefree, easy going, adopted by new age pseudo hippie parents and in love with a girl who works for a talent agency.
Palmiotti: We set out to create a character that the audience can simply relate to in a lot of different ways, someone likable that, when given these abilities, chooses a course of action I think a lot of us would.
Along those lines, who is Lucien Gates? What can you tell us about the character?
Gray: We started thinking about Lucien as represented by light, and with that came the need to do something optimistic and bright, the kind of superhero who is modern and yet still retains some of the old school action hero comics. There's no soul-crushing drive behind his actions, which is why we made him a lifeguard -- to show he had heroic tendencies before gaining superpowers. Much of the series is grounded in Lucien's life outside the costume and how it often serves as an escape. Its like bungee jumping; people do that for the rush and the excitement. Sometimes, they do it to escape their personal lives.
I'm liking what I hear of this, but I've always been a sucker for the "ordinary guy is granted powers whether he likes it or not and makes the best of it" school of origins.
A striking splash page to start with;
And simply because it's Tuesday and I want some eye candy, a scene showcasing Lucien in his OTHER working clothes...
The origin actually makes me think of both Dr Light II (The Kimiyo Hoshi version I hasten to assure you) and the Will Payton Starman from the 1980's. Those are good credentials IMHO.
And asmaster_nate mentions below. Jamal Igle has a DA page, which has the original pencils, for those (like me) who like such things.
Meet Lucien Gates.... lifeguard, genuinely nice guy, and hero.
From the CBR interview with Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin grey
Gray: Lucien is vastly different in every way except the similarity of light-based powers; he's a lifeguard from San Diego, carefree, easy going, adopted by new age pseudo hippie parents and in love with a girl who works for a talent agency.
Palmiotti: We set out to create a character that the audience can simply relate to in a lot of different ways, someone likable that, when given these abilities, chooses a course of action I think a lot of us would.
Along those lines, who is Lucien Gates? What can you tell us about the character?
Gray: We started thinking about Lucien as represented by light, and with that came the need to do something optimistic and bright, the kind of superhero who is modern and yet still retains some of the old school action hero comics. There's no soul-crushing drive behind his actions, which is why we made him a lifeguard -- to show he had heroic tendencies before gaining superpowers. Much of the series is grounded in Lucien's life outside the costume and how it often serves as an escape. Its like bungee jumping; people do that for the rush and the excitement. Sometimes, they do it to escape their personal lives.
I'm liking what I hear of this, but I've always been a sucker for the "ordinary guy is granted powers whether he likes it or not and makes the best of it" school of origins.
A striking splash page to start with;
And simply because it's Tuesday and I want some eye candy, a scene showcasing Lucien in his OTHER working clothes...
The origin actually makes me think of both Dr Light II (The Kimiyo Hoshi version I hasten to assure you) and the Will Payton Starman from the 1980's. Those are good credentials IMHO.
And as
master_nate mentions below. Jamal Igle has a DA page, which has the original pencils, for those (like me) who like such things.
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Date: 2011-11-25 09:56 am (UTC)For all the good those brought (and I'm a huuuge fan of Ryan Choi and Jaime) those were actually revamps of previous characters, like Ted Kord was to Dan Garret (and Dan Garret at Charlton Comics was to Dan Garrett at Fox Comics).
I was spekaing of Marvel and DC risking putting out all-new brand new original ideas/characters in the market, not rebranded previous characters/new team book members (new X-men/Teen Titans..)
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Date: 2011-11-25 11:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-25 01:15 pm (UTC)Plus Jaime (modern age) was to alien-tech what Dan (golden age) was to magic and mysterymen and Ted (Silver Age) to gadget-crime fighting heroes... Another take, different sure. But still another incarnation of Blue Beetle.
I meant like Booster Gold was an all-new IP/character/creation.
Or 'Mazing Man!
You know :P
(and the original Blue Beetle did follow in the footsteps of both Ted and Dan, using their resources/revamping old villains and all)
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Date: 2011-11-25 02:10 pm (UTC)Up to a point yes, but to suggest that Jaime isn't a new character when he has nothing in common but a codename with Ted, seems like setting the barrier a bit too high for "new character".
The fact they have different ages, levels of experience, powers, family backgrounds, general world outlook and even ethnicity IMHO makes the distance between them too great to be viewed against each other.
By that token would you say that Hal Jordan and Alan Scott are similar?
Could any mutants count, since there are so many of them (Making their origins so much alike), such as, say Daken or X-23?