Project Rooftop recently held an Iron Man redesign contest. I had submitted my ‘Mk I’ TRDL redesign to them last year unsolicited, and they emailed and asked if I wanted to include it in this contest, so of course I agreed. Given the AWESOME entries they received, I’m amazed I was mentioned at all, but anyway, got an Honorable Mention.
I’ll take it!

The comments were generally in the realm of ‘not Iron Man colored enough’ or ‘ballsy, but not Iron Man recognizable enough’ which i totally get, since it was a MK I redesign, not a modern rework of the red and gold… but I appreciated the comments, all, and surprisingly, my highest scores were from Adi Granov and Matt Fraction. Sweet!

Anyway, take a look at all the winning entries here:
http://www.tencentticker.com/projectroo … e-winners/

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The Cabal are a notorious supergang with several documented exchanges with posthuman opponents internationally.

Concept, Design: Thom Chiaramonte and Joao Marques
Illustration: Joao Marques

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The Cabal

Base of Operations: The Pacific
Affiliation: n/a

Leader: Draconia
Members: Winter Queen
Vertigore
Lenin’s Hammer
Morningstar
Bellicaust

The Cabal were the first posthuman criminal group to form independent of any government or corporate Confrontation Team scheme, comprising of posthuman aggressors from various private or underworld biolabs, which were rapidly attempting to recreate the posthuman development of supernormal combatants that the world had witnessed over a number of years. Based initially on personal and professional contact in the criminal underworld, the Cabal organized in order to take on high-stakes, large-scale criminal operations, under the employ of well-paying clients or in the interest of personal gain. They commandeered a former South Korean deep sea freighter, retrofitted with state of the art cloaking and long-range surveillance technology, as their base of operations, and eluded capture for years to come. As their existence gradually became known in the international media, they became the symbol of the posthuman criminal threat, being far more lethal, and gruesome in appearance, that most of the post-Confrontation Teams had been. Their ties to demon-worshipping death cults, black lab military Doomsday experiments and bloody underworld combat clubs would seed the international intelligence community with grave concerns over their potential to cause an escalation in posthuman conflict in the era of greatest chaos.

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Crew Mururoa is a posthuman crime syndicate, born from the manipulative efforts of the Posthuman Planning Directorate’s attempts to fabricate the concept of the Confrontation Team for propaganda purposes.

Concept, Design: Thom Chiaramonte
Illustration: Thom Chiaramonte

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Crew Mururoa

Base of Operations: Beijing
Affiliation: Chinese Underworld

Leader: Nebulum
Members: Airstrike
Tectonica
Outré
Molokh
Ionisette

Crew Mururoa came into existence purely as a result of the machinations of the American Posthuman Policy Directorate, which had fabricated the existence of a terrorist cell of the same name, as a cover story for the destruction of the first Posthuman Development Initiative research facility in Canso, Newfoundland. In reality, the facility that had created the Liberty Group and many other posthuman properties, had been destroyed from within by a despondent posthuman project graduate. The incident was declared a terrorist attack, and this story was fed to the Liberty Group, who had not yet discovered that their own handlers lied to them as well as using them to lie to others.

Airstrke, the posthuman who had caused the desctruction of the facility, was seriously unstable, and declared the leader of a terrorist cell called Crew Mururoa, which was, in fact, a story prepared by the PPD in advance, for just such an occasion, and well before the existence of Confrontation Teams. Fleeing pursuit by the Liberty Group and others, Airstrike eventually gathered enough allies to actually embrace the identity the American Government had ascribed to them. The United States, in trying to cover up the failure of their own posthuman development program, inadvertently caused the creation of one of the deadliest posthuman criminal mercenary groups in history.

Crew Mururoa would go on to engage in high-risk scores, covert military infiltration operations, public political assassinations and more. They might never have been thwarted at all, had … Read on for more awesome…

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This seems like a hell of a tool.

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This is a piece done for the R3 Jam, the subject being Jason Todd, wearing the mantle of ‘Red Robin’ in DC’s Countdown to Final Crisis.

The selection of this character for the weekly jam sparked lots of commentary: about the dated look of Alex Ross’ costume design (for Kingdom Come), about the fact that DC brought Jason Todd back from the dead, about the phone-in contest to determine if Robin would die, back in the day, about the writers’ inability to script this character IN character with any consistency, and so on.

Personally, i’m not very wedded to much in the DC Universe, so I didn’t care much that they reincarnated Todd, and what role he’s played in DC’s unraveling continuity. But I always felt that the attempts to darken, or ‘mature’ a Robin costume weren’t very successful. Despite the retro tunic and such in this design that reminds me more of the Dr. Mid-Nite costume, which doesn’t work well to me in the context of running around with, or after, Batman, I did like the earless cowl and the colors of the suit. The fact that the new Robin costume has done away with the bare legs, added black and red as the main motif colors, pleases me as well. Anyway!

I tried to draw him a little lanky, and with his posture, less heroic and more shifty.

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The Bad Seeds were an early Confrontation Team (fabricated combatants to give posthuman national teams someone to pummel on live TV) gone rogue, and deadly.

Art and Origin: Thom Chiaramonte

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The Bad Seeds

Base of Operations: New Orleans
Affiliation: Former Confrontation Team, later rogue criminal organization

Leaders: Scorpia and Sabot
Members: Basilisk
4Vector
Pugilista
PROXIM

The Bad Seeds were one of the early Confrontation Teams developed by the Yorke Group, a shell corporation operated to shield the Posthuman Development Initiative, as ordered by the PPD under new political leadership. The President’s Posthuman Policy Directorate had determined that growing public resentment in the Third World towards the actions of the Liberty Group, in defiance of national sovereignty, would eventually overcome the positive public relations value of the American sponsored posthuman heroes, weakening their ability to promote nationalist propaganda and exercise American policy wherever needed. The concept of the Confrontation Team was originally conceived by the JEJ Group, a private posthuman development collective under contract to the American Government and several private corporations. The Confrontation Team concept consisted of producing posthuman-based conflict, with which to showcase the posthuman hero franchises and rally public support against the new supernormal enemy that threatened to target innocent taxpayers and impoverished Third World workers alike. These posthuman terrorists were actors, much in the same way the posthuman national heroes and corporate symbols had been, often developed alongside one another in the same programs. Their objectives were to create the sense of impending peril in the normal human population, and to give the posthuman heroes someone to fight, to conquer, from which to save the people who might have otherwise grown to suspect the posthuman franchise premise might be a fabrication itself. Like the posthuman heroes across the globe, the Confrontation Teams consisted of highly-trained operatives … Read on for more awesome…

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Project Hermes is the second attempt at a government-funded posthuman defense team in the United States, which eventually declared independence from Federal control and operated as a private emergency response enterprise.

Art and Origin: Thom Chiaramonte

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Project Hermes

Base of Operations: Seattle
National Affiliation: United States, later international

Leaders: Echelon and Balboa
Members: Bengal
Corona
Fria
Pristine
Halo
Rampart Red

Project Hermes were developed as part of the Freedom Project, a second attempt by the American Government to engineer a national posthuman defense team, but operated with some transparency and greater community interaction, as a means to distance the team from their scandalized East Coast collaboratives, the Liberty Group. Unlike the former team, Project Hermes was never deployed as agents of American policy, but rather integrated into the civilian emergency responders culture on the West Coast. Early to arrive at the scenes of disaster or natural crisis, willing to pursue posthuman criminals both fabricated and genuine, Project Hermes soon enjoyed the respect of the public, nowhere more so than their home city of Seattle. They also ventured into Canada, assisting with relief efforts for their northern neighbors.

Though Halo would later leave the group to join the environmental activist organization Gaia, and though they would be involved in truly dangerous posthuman conflict that would result in the loss of innocent lives, Project Hermes skirted most public scandals. When the origins of the Freedom project and it’s relationship with the JEJ Group, which had been, as was leaked to the press, involved in the development of not only recognized, decorated national heroes domestically and abroad, but also some of the posthumans known as criminal combatants, Project Hermes announced their independence from government influence and control, becoming America’s first truly independent posthuman defense team.
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