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The GI Joe/Cobra Concept Art & Filecard Project
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08-25-2009, 02:16 AM
zuludelta
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Originally Posted by
Master Thespian
Fenster and Tarkin! I'm digging Thrasher about as much as I possibly could be. The BMX stuff is a nice compromise that really works.
Glad you like it. I was a little ambivalent about how it looked on him at first but I've come to accept it.
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Originally Posted by
Master Thespian
Venom is a great update, although because of their names and functions, it would seem that he and Mindbender are holding jobs that the other one should have.
Dr. Venom sounds like he should be closer affiliated with Cobra proper, and since he was around first and appears to be older than Mindbender, it makes more sense to have him be the Cobra Consolidated special projects guy.
Dr. Mindbender would be a better fit at MARS, IMO, and his name particularly suits the neuroscience field as well. In addition, it was he and Destro who put Serpentor together and although you thankfully dropped that aspect of the character, it's a neat little association to have.
Good points. My reasoning for giving them their respective positions stems more from character prominence more than anything else. Mindbender is the more well-known of the two, so he's got the more "front and center" occupation (as for the name more befitting a neuroscience expert, well, I've got him with a PhD in Human Factors Psychology, which I think is a fairly appropriate field for a guy with that moniker). It really works either way, I guess I just don't perceive any real benefits to switching them up now that I've already made the filecards.
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Originally Posted by
Loose Cannon
Nice I can see Dr. Venom now, "Tantooine is much too remote. We'll deal with your rebel friends later."
Ha!
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Troynos
Nice updates. Thrasher looks great. Tarken makes a great Dr. Venom.
Thanks!
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Lifeline 71
Love how you worked in the homage to issue 15 with his qualification as a fixed wing pilot.
Yeah, that was an obscure little nugget of comic book knowledge I threw in there. I was wondering if anybody would make the connection.
Here are a couple more Cobras:
Tomax & Xamot
Design notes:
I've sort of expanded on Tomax and Xamot's backgrounds a bit. I've given them "real names" in their filecards (Thomas Xavier Buiessu for Tomax and Xavier Thomas Buiessu for Xamot). Those real names are loosely based on their purported real names as revealed in the DDP comics ("Tomax Rogue" and Xamot Rogue"). I don't know about you guys, but giving the surname "Rogue" is just a tad too cheese-tastic for my liking (what, was "Scoundrel" already taken?). Anyway, I tried looking for a Corsican translation of "rogue" but I couldn't find one, but thankfully there exist a couple of decent French-Corsican online dictionaries so I simply looked for the Corsican equivalent of the French word
voyou
(which roughly means "rogue") and came up with
buiessu
.
Another thing I noticed from the various official filecards produced over the years is that they're born in Corsica (a French territory) but they served in the French Foreign Legion. That sort of doesn't add up... since they're from Corsica, they're French citizens, and as such, are precluded from enlisting in the Foreign Legion. But as it turns out, lots of French citizens actually enlist in the French Foreign Legion using false identities (many of them pretend to be French-speaking Canadians, Algerians, or Moroccans). The Foreign Legion has actually accepted the reality of this rampant practice, and there are provisions that allow for a French citizen under an assumed non-French identity to "come out," so to speak, and use his real identity and citizenship after one year of unblemished service. I like to imagine that's what the twins did, signing up under fake Canadian identities as Tomax Rogue and Xamot Rogue.
To read their full filecards, click on the Filecard Project link in my signature. Thanks for looking!
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