Comments on: The Flash by Bannister

By: Project Rooftop

Project Rooftop — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:34:31 +0000

[...] Bart’s fandom continued to increase, and he eventually became a founding member of the late 90’s superteen team, Young Justice, and the 2003 relaunch of the Teen Titans, in which Bart took on the Kid Flash codename and costume elements. Most recently, Bart graduated to bearing The Flash mantle before being killed by his enemies and succeeded by the previous “fastest man alive,” Wally West. (P:R previously ran an excellent redesign of Bart’s Flash costume by Bannister. Link) [...]

By: luiz

luiz — Wed, 02 May 2007 04:27:54 +0000

comment from 2/15/07 had it right on! This suit really looks more like billy numerous (teen titans cartoon villain) then flash.. its a really nice concept though, and looks very attractive, but personally, i dont like it for the Flash.

By: Paul Morado

Paul Morado — Wed, 02 May 2007 03:39:28 +0000

Love his costume so much I made one and run races in it.

By: TOmmyRude

TOmmyRude — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 03:55:15 +0000

Why the hell is Billy Numerous here and why are they calling him the Flash?

By: JohnnyZito

JohnnyZito — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:10:06 +0000

The visor and the shoes are great. I even really like this shade of red.

But its missing the ear wings and the lightning bolt on the chest.

By: Ripsey

Ripsey — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:14:38 +0000

Overall I think the design would fit well with Impulse or Kid Flash were he in an “Ultimate” universe. I like the real-world textures and the fact that he’s got shoes with actual soles (can you imagine having to run at incredible speeds in spandex socks?)…

However the Flash iconography is a bit lost in this redesign; it would have been nice to see a bit more of a treatment on the classic Flash lightning bolt – the current approach seems to want to hide it more than redesign it.

By: Ripsey

Ripsey — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:10:44 +0000

>>Close your tags peeps!

By: Stig

Stig — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 09:43:59 +0000

It’s an interesting design and awesome illustration, but it looks too much like latex fetish wear for me.

There’s a little too much superfluous padding too. This is strictly nerd-tech, but the Flashes all have some kind of low grade forcefield that protects them from collision and such already. With that in mind, giving the flash knee pads is kind of like giving Superman a helmet (though in all honesty I don’t expect anyone to know that, like I said, strictly nerd-tech).

The Flash is one character who gets away with a simple costume because sleekness and lack of resistance is an asset to him.

By: Warren Wucinich

Warren Wucinich — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:27:48 +0000

This is an excellent illustration. The only problem I have is that the lightning bolt on his forehead looks kinda like a big letter “Z”.

By: Ragmana

Ragmana — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:32:00 +0000

I actually like the design. Basing a costume for the Flash on speed skating uniforms strikes me as obvious, not contrived, and the wing tips on the shoes are enough throwback to satisfy me. The yellow isn’t missing from the costume design, it just isn’t literally sewn into the costume. I envision the yellow lighting shown on the right of this drawing as part of the overall design: when Flash is at speed, the trailing outline of the character is drawn in in yellow at the keyframes of the action in that movement–changes of direction, physical contact w/ objects and people, etc. It seems to me an effective way to convey Flash accelerating and decelerating quickly rather than simply moving quickly, or rather moving quickly and with precision instead of just quickly in a blur.

The ribcage is–I don’t know. Not terribly practical, but well suited to depict the form and position of the character’s body.

All in all, this design strikes me as what a highly athletic Flash would choose, well in line with current speed-athlete aesthetics. Might not be what a comic reader would choose, however, and so might not suit use in a comic. If this is the kind of thing Trippe has on the “back-burner” I would want to see the rest!

(Of course, I’m obviously not as serious about the character as most here, so grain of salt.)