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Chizel-Man — The Blood Syndicate
Published: 2008-03-23 14:06:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 2588; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 2
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Milestone comics was and still is my favorite comic book company back in the early 90's. Here are some animated style concepts that I made a few years ago of some of their characters. This is my favorite group/gang of all comics.I hope yall like'em!
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Much as I like this (and I really do) you made Mask look like a lady and I think that's a pretty unfair thing to do to a transman.
I really like the way you've done Fade and Brick, both really call back to the original look in the comics. I like the adjustments you made to Wise Son, enough of the iconic elements there for him to keep the same feel while definately putting him in costume. I love Kwai's pose, Boogeyman's expression and the way you've stacked the team so that Brick looms in the background. (Even though I remember a good few battles satrting with 'get behind Brick!') It's a good job, really. And I love that it's up here.
I just really don't think Mask should look like that.
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Thank you, I'm very happy you like the image. The Blood Syndicate was(is)one of my favorite comics growing up. Mask is a tricky subject. They never gave her motivations as to why she chose to shape shift into a male. As far as I know anyway. I like the character, I just thought I would draw her as a female because I had never done so before.
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I found Blood Syndicate and hell Milestone much later- they were publishing when I was a kid but there's no way in hell they could have been legally imported. Static was my first Milestone book, then Hardware. To be honest I picked up Blood Syndicate for completeness sake and didn't expect to love it as much as I did. But damn it's awesome. I really wish DC was doing something half as good with these characters-
The language Mask uses is pretty damn explicit if you're aware of well the type of language transgender people use to describe their experience. He says repeatedly that 'I'm a man' he talks about being 'in the wrong body' and I think actually uses those words. Since that is pretty much word for word what transgender people say (to the point it's like a cliche) I didn't really think there could be any other motive. The only other thing I can think of is avoiding sexism (since it seems pretty clear Mask prefers being treated as a man) but that seems unlikely since becoming male seems to occur to Mask waaay before changing his skin colour does, or even features. There are probably times when changing between genders might have helped the gang (something Mystique does all the time) but Mask never does, he's always male except for a panel or two when his head's been messed with.
We probably came at the story from really different places so if you still don't see it then fair enough, but I'm not sure I can see Mask as anything else.
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Where's Holocaust...he was in the original line-up, wasn't he?
Okay, so he turned on them later on...but he was in the original team.
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Haha, when I did this, so long ago, I was going to do a milestone villain piece like this. It never happened though. I do plan on revisiting the Milestone Universe sometime soon. Holocaust will be one of the first characters I render.
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yeah, that's one of the many things I love about those books. Thanks for the fav
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DAMN...Ur Blood SynDicate artwork is f**king awesome man. The colors and designs are very impressive as well as ur other MileStone art. I'm new to Deviantart and i was looking for blood syndicate art on here then I saw ur BS TAS which i seen a few years ago . Now as a member, I just realized that you're the same artist who illustrated the DMZ flying pic and the Static Shock DCU pics ive seen on google. Im also a big fan of Blood Syndicate and has decided to upload all the MileStone/BloodSyndicate artwork I've done on the years. [link]
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Wow man! I'm very glad to see some more Syndicate fans out their. Very happy you like my work too. I've actually decided to do more Milestone art, the Snydicate in particular. I just haven't been able to dedicate enough time to the project.
I'm very happy you could check out my stuff. Man, if you like that old Blood Syndicate art I think your going to love the new stuff I have planned.
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Cool piece, Milestone and especially Blood Syndicate was one of my favorite comics. I really dig the jacket on Wise Son, it's a really strong design element that gives him more a heroic look instead of just being a dude in jeans and a shirt.
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Haha, I'm glad you like man.
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I love this. The colours are so vivid and amazing, and yer composition is amazing!
Bravo!
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Wow! 
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Why thank you! On all accounts.
You have a nice gallery by the way.
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mua ha ha ... thank you very kindly :3
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thanks man! Its pretty old but I still like the way it came out.
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your welcome, old or not, it's a great image.. I love all the characters..
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Thanks man. They're all from an old comic I used to love(still do). Called the Blood Syndicate. created by Milestone comics.
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I remember them! nice work..
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You're killin' me, bruh! There's still a big hole in my chest that was left when Milestone went silently into the night...it needs to be resurrected... SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET piece, by the way...
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Haha! yeah man, Dwayne needs to find a way to bring'em back. I think that they would do alot better now.
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They sure would. In the short time they'd existed, they made quite a splash, and even to this day, despite being out of business, or print for about 10 years, have achieved an almost legendary status!
Dwayne's on ComicSpace.com, by the way...
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cool. I visit his forum sometimes. He's a cool dude.
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Seems that way. I kinda think that Milestone may have grown larger than he'd imagined, at the time, and he just may have been overwhelmed...
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oh yeah, you know who you're missing right? starts with a T, ends with a 9?
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Yeah man. I planned on making him but something came up and I never got a chance to. But plan on seeing alot of the milestone characters in the near future. not in that style though.
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Cheah! man I was sad when Milestone left the scene.
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