Does Superman have a cape?

[Honey123]

Rhino: Brilliant!

Hey, here's a challenge for you (should you choose to accept)...

I will eventually be getting an AV, but I want something fitting.

I've been thinking something quite "regal". As in: "Her Royal Twatness", but then I saw this thread and thought "SuperTwat" might be quite cool.

Whaddya think?

Could you draw a pic of me (Katie-Lou) as either "The Princess Twat" or "SuperTwat"?

Feel free to tell me to bugger off.

TWAT-Lou

Now you have me picturing a twat with a cape on

 

[Twatlou]

Now you have me picturing a twat with a cape on

PMSL!!!

 

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first draft

PMSL

That is fantastic!

 

[Twatlou]

first draft

Brilliant!

What an amazing twat!!!

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Does Superman have a cape?

Seriously, both Superman and Batman wear "tights" or a full body suit inder their shorts because they were created in a time when it was "immodest" for even a man to go bare-legged in public except on the beach.

Oddly enough, the only "Super-Hero" to go bare-legged was Wonder Woman and her original short-skirted costume was considered scandalous at the time she was created.

Only Prince Nemor -- often more super-villian than super-hero -- was bare-legged and bare-chested in the golden age of Super-Hero comics and he obviously had to be clad in swimwear because of his nature (a merman) and could be scandalous because he was intially a villian.

Robin (the Boy Wonder) was originally bare-legged, a fact that bothered me to no end when I was seriously into comic books and knew the hazard of skinned knees. That's probably one of the factors that conributed to the homosexual feel of the Batman-Robin relationship, because a lot of superheros had boy sidekicks -- Aquaman and Aqualad, Captain America and Bucky, The Green Arrow and Speedy, etc. -- but the homo label only really stuck to Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson. Comic book writers though that their boy readers would associate themselves with the sidekicks, so almost everyone had one.

BTW, Prince Namor, the Submariner, was bare-chested, but he conveniently had no nipples. Nor did the Hulk when he popped out of his shirt.

Superman's cape was made from his baby blanket, as was the rest of his outfit. Apparently, only cloth made on Krypton could stand up to the punishment of speeding bullets, faster-than-light-flight, drilling into the center of earth, and so on. As I recall, Ma Kent made it for him, but I might be wrong. They never explained how she was able to get a needle through that impermeable cloth or even cut it, just like they never explained the physics of how Superman could pick up an office building by one corner without changing the mass of his body so that he didn't topple over.

Captain Marvel --Supe's first competition -- also wore a cape, but his was different. It was shorter and went around his neck on a golden cord and was often worn off-the-shoulder for a rakish look. Superman's creators sued the Captain for copyright infringement and the legal battle dragged on for years. In the end, the Captain lost and disappeared. I think Supe's company (DC comics) finally bought the rights to him and brought him back for a while, but Captain Marvel didn't age very well, what with his secret word (SHAZAM!) and his secret identity as a crippled, depression-era newsboy.

Captain Marvel also suffered from paricularly beady eyes, and monodentition: his teeth appeared as one broad band of white. It's a condition that also afflicts Barney the Dinosaur.

---dr.M.

 

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[Twatlou]

well to do it PROPERLY i will need photo reference!
nude turn arounds as well as some costume changes.

hey! it's worth a TRY!

I might be a Twat, but I'm not falling for it.

 

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[Twatlou]

ok fine, but I will take liberties.

Promises, promises.

Have a look at Tatelou's AV. Won't that be enough?

 

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[Twatlou]

related.
from my thread.Cats&bats

Ooooh! SEXY! I *REALLY* like that!!!

Could you do something similar for me? With the Top Twat in it?

 

[Twatlou]

THAT's how you got whatcha got.

Thought so. LOL!

 

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On Twatlou's behalf, I'm here to say: Fabulous stuff, Rhino! Draw away.

 

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[Guest]

I could

Ok, yeah, I know you could.

But, do you wanna?

 

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[Guest]

sure.
as i said I'll take liberties.

gotta figure who SuperTwats' nemesis will be.

Thanks, hon!

Hmmm... dunno about that. I know: A spider killer!

 

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[Joe Wordsworth]

It's a cape. Colors were because of limited number of useable colors and red and blue looked pretty good. Clothes not made out of the blanket found in the ship--that was just cloth. The symbol was taken from it, though. Superman's whole outfit is designed to be fairly tight on purpose due to invulnerability. A few millimeters out from his body is an aura that protects him, the tights fit within the aura--that's why they don't burn when he's set on fire. Shared invulnerability.

Kryptonians were just as frail as human beings. But our sun (Sol) and their sun (Rao) have diferent radiation properties. Ours happen to fuel the organic battery that is Superman. And he can lift a corner of a building due to a limited tactile telekineses, technically.

 

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the ORKIN MAN!

LOL! Good one!

(I hadn't heard of the Orkin Man, but I Googled, and it's perfect. )