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Please be a doll, and critique my Cannonball from X-Men redesign

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Jack Denfeld

09:14 / 02.06.04

I wanted to get away from all the military gear and straps and holster and shoulder pads and stuff, and keep a classic X-Men uniform design. I've also given him cool sunglasses. And I've given him an actual cannonball for a hand. Let me know what you think.

Lord Morgue

09:36 / 02.06.04

Beats Liefeld.

Could you draw Squirrel Girl?

Eloi Tsabaoth

11:22 / 02.06.04

Having no ears will make him considerably more aerodynamic. You get 7/10 and a smiley face sticker.

Matthew Fluxington

11:29 / 02.06.04

That's a lot better than the new Alan Davis design. I am being 100% sincere about this, too. I love the "cannonball for a hand" thing.

Jack Denfeld

12:38 / 02.06.04

Thanks everyone. I figured he could fly and then smash the bad guys with his cannonball hand.

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

13:06 / 02.06.04

You're Napoleon Dynamite, aren't you.

I scared people at work, I laughed so hard.

Quimper

13:25 / 02.06.04

This rocks like nothing else.

Spyder Todd 2008

15:31 / 02.06.04

I still think Cannonball should change his name to Jet-Ass...

Haus of Mystery

16:05 / 02.06.04

Maybe a bit more cross-hatching might improve the 'realism' of the drawing.

■

16:05 / 02.06.04

Hey, he's got an X on his chest. You should call him something kewl like "The X-Man!"

Spyder Todd 2008

17:20 / 02.06.04

I always liked X-Man... A mutant shaman who exists to protect his universe and specesis from both exterior and interior threats...

Quimper

18:20 / 02.06.04

If you look closely, you see that the cannonball hand was an afterthought. It's clearly covering up Sam's previously normal, admittedly boring flesh hand. Just shows that art doesn't come all at once in one big epiphany. It's a process.

8===>Q: alyn

19:11 / 02.06.04

Anyone who thinks Liefeld was bad is driving blind. Liefeld was a visionary--ahead of his time. In the future, everyone will draw like an 8 year old Frank Miller.

I think it's okay if he just wears a cannonball on his hand--this "secondary mutation" thing is kind of lame.

Mike Robot, you should make Cannonball racist.

MJ-12

19:16 / 02.06.04

He's from the south, so that's obviously a given.

8===>Q: alyn

19:23 / 02.06.04

Exactly. And it makes him more human, you know? Because, like, why should all the superheroes be all perfect all the time? Don't they have flaws and personality defects, too?

■

20:33 / 02.06.04

NO! MAN! You should give him a sidekick, and, like, kill him OFF!
He, could, like, be, DeadDXbOY-BAll!

Quimper

20:39 / 02.06.04

"Because, like, why should all the superheroes be all perfect all the time? Don't they have flaws and personality defects, too?

Dude! Someone should tell Stan Lee that!

I just did a drawing of Husk as a giant cob of corn. I don't know if I should post it or not though.

8===>Q: alyn

20:40 / 02.06.04

Dude. Xavier assigns him the sidekick, because it's like this totally troubled kid from the same state as Sam (Kennahorgia or something? I forget), but the problem is that this kid is totally black and Sam has a lot of trouble relating to him. And then he gets killed and Sam feels bad about it. Pathos, man, pathos!

Actually this sounds like too a plausible Chuck Austen storyline and I'm sorry I brought it up because it's making me sad.

Mike Robot, will you make a new costume for me? I am a mutant cat and also a robot.

I mean a telepath.

Surrrrrrrrrrrre you do.

I'm wise to your wily robot ways, F.R.O.T.T.E.R.

Tamayyurt

22:10 / 02.06.04

HAH, man, this is the funny shit I've seen all week.

The Natural Way

22:26 / 02.06.04

This is fantastic stuff, guy. Classic. I do feel he needs more guns, though (perhaps a gun for a head would be good?). Add more guns. I think some of them should be firing cannonball grenades (perhaps the gun-head?).

Some of the grenades should be exploding.

I tell you, between this awesome new design and DavidXBrunt, Barbelith's looking real good.

XBRUNT!!

Alex's Grandma

23:35 / 02.06.04

Mike, this is money, man, this is so... fucking... money.

■

00:09 / 03.06.04

That's it! In order to pursue his mutant lifestyle he could have like loads of money.
or whatever.
Or maybe he keeps bees. Yeah. He's covered in bees.

ONLY NICE THINGS

05:51 / 03.06.04

Dude, a cannon instead of a head. He puts the cannonball intohis head cannon, fires it (blindly, unfortunately), and then makes it come back by... I don't know. Mentesis or something. Yeah!

And he's a billionaire industrialist. LIke Bruce Wayne. But with a cannon for a head.

Does the X count as one big cross-hatch?

illmatic

10:09 / 03.06.04

Can I just say I really like the way Cannonball is waving? Great expressive gesture. I saw that and thought, this is one of the good guys, y'know? This makes his problems being able to relate across racial barriers all the more tragic. Social commentary, dude. Who said comics are for kids?

Quimper

12:51 / 03.06.04

Nimrod is THE quintessential X-Villian for one reason and one reason only....

No other has three fingers on one hand and four on the other! FEAR HIM!

osymandus

12:58 / 03.06.04

I saw the Nimrod picture and physically shat myself , god that is fear itself.

As for cannonball, i mean what more can the english language give to summerise this personification of art.

Oh and make him a self impregnating hermaprodite for real pathos (is he still immortal ?)

Catjerome

13:13 / 03.06.04

The costume needs thigh pouches. Those are classy.

8===>Q: alyn

13:47 / 03.06.04

(counts fingers)

gridley

14:45 / 03.06.04

"Don't make me use my extra finger, Jean Grey!"

"Uhhh... ok."

"I mean it! You sooooo do not want me using my extra finger on you!"

"Fair enough."

"I call it Lucky #7..."

Spaniel

16:28 / 03.06.04

Did you submit your designs to Epic?

Mr Tricks

18:02 / 03.06.04

if cannon ball shoots his cannonball hand from his cannon head then he should be able to regrow a new one. it's sort of like a healing factor but with a cannon ball hand.

and as for NIMROD... shouldn't that extra finger be for pulling?

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