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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: 2011-11-22 09:54 pm (UTC)Also, I can't explain why,but I don't like the coloring on this. It's just do bland.
I like the pencils though. The artist has uncolored samples on his deviantart site. It looks better in black and white to me.
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Date: 2011-11-22 11:37 pm (UTC)The problem is there's a lot of open space, so the colorist can make or break the image.
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Date: 2011-11-23 03:05 am (UTC)Think I'll wait a while on this.
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Date: 2011-11-23 02:20 am (UTC)also.... i can't stop staring at his ass and crotch....
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Date: 2011-11-23 06:16 pm (UTC)I mean, could this guy be *any* more of a blandly sarcastic cardboard-y douche?
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Date: 2011-11-23 09:22 pm (UTC)Of course we have no idea how Ray's stuff is going to pan out. It could end up being like how Natu who hates Sinestro but keeps having him brought up while the people who made her who she is are totally ignored.
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Date: 2011-11-23 09:41 pm (UTC)I like to watch soap operas with my mom, have since I was little, and it gets ridiculous--not in a fun way, either. Character freak out all the time about who their birth parents are, and if there's a question of whether a baby belongs to Boyfriend A or Boyfriend B, it doesn't matter that the girl was screwing two guys--it only matters which one had the luckiest sperm.
The other day I told my mother I think they should just randomize babies at the hospital so no one knows who their birth parents are.
And then there's the whole, lady-who-bought-sperm-from-a-sperm-bank who sued for child support from the sperm donor, or the whole concept of "open sperm donation."
tl;dr I think people who care about genetics when it comes to personal relationships are dumb.
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Date: 2011-11-23 10:56 pm (UTC)Blood does not say who you are. Blood doesn't say who you'll be. It's just blood.
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Date: 2011-11-24 09:51 am (UTC)And no, not talking about one of these "team-books" characters which will only live on the pages of these books. So, no, new X-men and Teen Titans don't count here. Just all new original characters.
There were lots of them in the mid-80s to early 90s..then nothing? Just look at DC's New 52 lineup!
I mean character who can support their own title. Not new Bat-family members, Legacy heroes revamps..
At DC I can think of 'Mazin' Man and Keith Giffen characters mostly, like Ambush Bug and Lobo in the 80s, Heckler and Vext in the 90s... Oh and Garbage Man and Tanga more recently!
At Marvel I can only think of...Mmmh... No idea... (Deadpool, X-23 or Red Hulk for example are just new ideas spin off previous titles)
The Runaways maybe? :P
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Date: 2011-11-24 01:49 pm (UTC)Well, Booster Gold and Ambush Bug both made it into cartoons and the game DCU Online...so I consider them both the last recently created characters that had success.
(Poor Heckler...sigh...)
The Vertigo/DC characters of the 80s like Swamp Thing, Animal Man, Sandman, etc. where only revamps of ol' DC Characters.
(though the current Vertigo "creator owned characters only" did produce a lot of new and original content...but that's besides the point, I was talking strictly Marvel and DC)
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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 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?
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Date: 2011-11-24 08:43 pm (UTC)DC had a guy named Wild Dog in the late 80s.
Triumph was in the 90's. He mostly appeared in team books but he had a mini or a short-lived regular series.
Aztek. But Morrison apparently created him with his death planned and after he killed him in JLA he's never become a legacy.
Magog. DC blew it with that one. Sure I know the original was a parody of grim & gritty but I liked his previous identity as Lance in Justice Society. Then he becomes Magog and is clearly influenced by Gog. So they kill Gog but then leave him eactly as he was while influenced by Gog instead of reverting him or splitting the difference.
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Date: 2011-11-24 02:03 pm (UTC)DC's doing GREAT job with the whole "there have only been superheroes for five years" thing aren't they?
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