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I made these model sheet character designs of Superman (Clark Kent), Supergirl (Linda Lee), Power Girl (Karen Starr) and Steel (John Irons).

Artist John Byrne defended Superman's costume, "As originally designed by Joe Shuster, Superman's costume looked like exactly what it was -- something we might expect from the imagination of an artist with minimal training, who was greatly influenced by the likes of FLASH GORDON. In other words, pretty much something we might have expected Superman himself to design. As the years went by, this "origin" still mostly worked. The costume was simple and, in its own way, elegant. Something we might expect from the mind of a Kansas [or Ohio] farm boy. The trunks catch flak because so many idiots insist on referring to them as "underwear on the outside". This makes them an easy target and a quick and easy way for elitist reviewers and ennui-engorged fanboys to demonstrate their colossal disdain for those infantile superheroes. (Be thankful no one has thought to call them "adult diapers" -- yet.) As I've said before, it is the low esteem in which comics are generally held that makes this possible. If I was in a conversation with a football fan and referred to the players' headgear as their "caps" I would be swiftly corrected (and in some quarters beaten up!). But descriptive terms are used with wild abandon when talking superheroes -- Spandex, underwear, socks -- and, just to make matters worse, those self-loathing fanboys are quick to embrace them. Especially sad have been those (thankfully rare) occasions when I have been at a party, and someone has made an incorrect reference to some superhero. When I correct them, the reaction is often mockery -- because, you know, no one ELSE would correct somebody if they got the terms of THEIR profession wrong, sigh I was in the mood to watch the original THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL this evening, and was reminded that even the robot, GORT, wears "trunks". Trunks and tights were a staple of science-fiction thru the Thirties, Forties and beyond. Check out Flash Gordon: Many, many, MANY more people see the movies than ever read the comics."
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I made these model sheet character designs of Superman (Clark Kent), Supergirl (Linda Lee), Power Girl (Karen Starr) and Steel (John Irons).

Artist John Byrne defended Superman's costume, "As originally designed by Joe Shuster, Superman's costume looked like exactly what it was -- something we might expect from the imagination of an artist with minimal training, who was greatly influenced by the likes of FLASH GORDON. In other words, pretty much something we might have expected Superman himself to design. As the years went by, this "origin" still mostly worked. The costume was simple and, in its own way, elegant. Something we might expect from the mind of a Kansas [or Ohio] farm boy. The trunks catch flak because so many idiots insist on referring to them as "underwear on the outside". This makes them an easy target and a quick and easy way for elitist reviewers and ennui-engorged fanboys to demonstrate their colossal disdain for those infantile superheroes. (Be thankful no one has thought to call them "adult diapers" -- yet.) As I've said before, it is the low esteem in which comics are generally held that makes this possible. If I was in a conversation with a football fan and referred to the players' headgear as their "caps" I would be swiftly corrected (and in some quarters beaten up!). But descriptive terms are used with wild abandon when talking superheroes -- Spandex, underwear, socks -- and, just to make matters worse, those self-loathing fanboys are quick to embrace them. Especially sad have been those (thankfully rare) occasions when I have been at a party, and someone has made an incorrect reference to some superhero. When I correct them, the reaction is often mockery -- because, you know, no one ELSE would correct somebody if they got the terms of THEIR profession wrong, sigh I was in the mood to watch the original THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL this evening, and was reminded that even the robot, GORT, wears "trunks". Trunks and tights were a staple of science-fiction thru the Thirties, Forties and beyond. Check out Flash Gordon: Many, many, MANY more people see the movies than ever read the comics."
www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/pr…