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Superman belongs to DC, blah blah blah.

Still more Superman redesign crap I been doing while I've been waiting for something to motivate me into doing what I consider ACTUAL artwork from me.

First I had some fun with Kara here, combining both the Silver Age "Superman's Cousin" and the Post-Crisis "Shapeshifter From Another Dimension Who Fuses With An Earth Teen" with a dash of Ultraman - that's Ultraman as in the henshin, not the Evil Version of Superman from an Alternate Universe. Why Ultraman, you ask? Well, the idea here is that Kara, in this case, is actually a young and somewhat overeager celestial being of sorts whose task is to supervise and occasionally aid the development of any given interstellar culture - and she was charged with seeing Krypton through its infancy as a civilization. Basically the whole "Chariots of the Gods" bit, until she essentially interfered in something she wasn't supposed to interfere in - namely an attempted military coup by the first true Zod of Krypton's early dynastic period, who was subsequently thwarted and cast into what was then known on Krypton as "The Realm Of The Phantoms" (in keeping with the whole 'futurized amalgam of Ancient Egypt/Medieval England/etc.' line of thought I'd been on previously) by the first true El. She's punished for her cosmic subversion by centuries in isolation, and when she's released only then does she learn that Krypton blew up some time prior. Once she learns Zod has escaped from Jimmy Olsen has slangily re-dubbed 'the Phantom zone' and intends to wreak his vengeance on the last living El - Superman - she heads for Earth, arrives just in time to witness an act of self-sacrifice by a young Asian-American police artist and Superman junkie named Linda Li, and bonds herself to Linda to save her life...not too much unlike what happened to a certain Science Officer Hayata when he went goose-chasing Bemler into the trees, hence the Ultraman-influenced look of Supergirl here.

And on that note, the Gigeresque fellow on the bottom right is, of course, the aforementioned "First" Zod (again owing back to the idea that Dru-Zod, at least the way I'd portray him, would actually be a good guy in the 'main' universe and that his remaining counterpart would be evil). Obviously a couple hundred thousand years in the Phantom Zone have had some...interesting side-effects on the boy, warping and mutating him into something with powers and abilities not only far beyond those of mortal men, but a damn sight more than what even Superman would have (saying that he would have Richard Lester-level abilities in comparison to Superman's 'old standards' would not be entirely inappropriate). And yes, that's basically meant to be a Gigerized version of his classic Silver Age uniform.

Description
Superman belongs to DC, blah blah blah.

Still more Superman redesign crap I been doing while I've been waiting for something to motivate me into doing what I consider ACTUAL artwork from me.

First I had some fun with Kara here, combining both the Silver Age "Superman's Cousin" and the Post-Crisis "Shapeshifter From Another Dimension Who Fuses With An Earth Teen" with a dash of Ultraman - that's Ultraman as in the henshin, not the Evil Version of Superman from an Alternate Universe. Why Ultraman, you ask? Well, the idea here is that Kara, in this case, is actually a young and somewhat overeager celestial being of sorts whose task is to supervise and occasionally aid the development of any given interstellar culture - and she was charged with seeing Krypton through its infancy as a civilization. Basically the whole "Chariots of the Gods" bit, until she essentially interfered in something she wasn't supposed to interfere in - namely an attempted military coup by the first true Zod of Krypton's early dynastic period, who was subsequently thwarted and cast into what was then known on Krypton as "The Realm Of The Phantoms" (in keeping with the whole 'futurized amalgam of Ancient Egypt/Medieval England/etc.' line of thought I'd been on previously) by the first true El. She's punished for her cosmic subversion by centuries in isolation, and when she's released only then does she learn that Krypton blew up some time prior. Once she learns Zod has escaped from Jimmy Olsen has slangily re-dubbed 'the Phantom zone' and intends to wreak his vengeance on the last living El - Superman - she heads for Earth, arrives just in time to witness an act of self-sacrifice by a young Asian-American police artist and Superman junkie named Linda Li, and bonds herself to Linda to save her life...not too much unlike what happened to a certain Science Officer Hayata when he went goose-chasing Bemler into the trees, hence the Ultraman-influenced look of Supergirl here.

And on that note, the Gigeresque fellow on the bottom right is, of course, the aforementioned "First" Zod (again owing back to the idea that Dru-Zod, at least the way I'd portray him, would actually be a good guy in the 'main' universe and that his remaining counterpart would be evil). Obviously a couple hundred thousand years in the Phantom Zone have had some...interesting side-effects on the boy, warping and mutating him into something with powers and abilities not only far beyond those of mortal men, but a damn sight more than what even Superman would have (saying that he would have Richard Lester-level abilities in comparison to Superman's 'old standards' would not be entirely inappropriate). And yes, that's basically meant to be a Gigerized version of his classic Silver Age uniform.