SubscribeNote: This entry marks the completion of the Project: Rooftop Invitational! Check out the completed image below! – Dean Trippe
Here’s the full roster of the amazing artists who contributed to the jam:
Hawkgirl by Evan Bryce
Green Lantern by Mike Maihack
Martian Manhunter by Paul Milligan
The Atom by Jon Morris
The Flash by Joel Carroll
Black Canary by Joe Quinones
Superman by Ross Campbell
Batman by Ming Doyle
Wonder Woman by Paul Maybury
Aquaman by Maris Wicks
Zatanna by Jemma Salume
Thanks so much to all of the redesigners who joined us for our first invitational, and to Jon Morris for drawing the initial layout sketch that everyone worked from. I handled the compositing of all the figures and drew the JLA Watchtower background shown above to complete the image, which is now available as a free desktop wallpaper to you, the P:R Reader, here!
mike
/ October 7, 2010holy crap, jon! that’s AWESOME!!!
Adam Bescos
/ October 7, 2010That. Is. ThemostawesomethingIeversaw.
David Bednarski
/ October 7, 2010By far my favorite of the invitational JLA-ers! Spectacular!
Jorge Daniel
/ October 7, 2010It’s AMAZING!
I love this Atom version. It’s really original!
Very Cool!
And the final art, with all of them is Fantastic.
Great job!!!
mordicai
/ October 7, 2010The lightsaber is a nice touch– I feel like I want the Atom to look like a science hero combined with a DnD character.
dnwilliams
/ October 7, 2010GLORIOUS.
I love that you left the Atom ’til last, I could have sworn the thing was finished with The Flash! Excellent final entry, a substantial deviation from the regular version and 100% awesome. Kirby Krackle lightsaber? That’s nerdgasm inducing stuff right there.
jeremy
/ October 7, 2010Very cool. Especially the lightsaber. Plus he doesn’t have to worry about accidentally hurling it at his tv. Want to see this guy wrasslin’ a gargantuan scorpion or something.
I’ve doodled a few of these over the past few weeks and they’re all pretty fun to draw.
I think it’d be cool, in a future invitational, to let the same artists do a corresponding villain for their hero. Or just do all of Batman’s Rogue’s Gallery.
Jemma
/ October 7, 2010Hahaha, this design is great! I want to see this Atom’s crazy adventures with Platelet. Well done, Jon! :D
tbolt
/ October 7, 2010OK, this one Jonn and Flash are my faves, great job to all.
Calamity Jon
/ October 7, 2010Thanks guys! I appreciate all the kind words.
If you want to read some of my thinking for this design, I posted the full review over at my blog: http://calamityjonsave.us/?p=314
Bob Prodor
/ October 7, 2010Wildly original and different.
Daniel Heard
/ October 7, 2010Seeing it all together is a real celebration of all the creative work that makes Project: Rooftop Special. Its quite a lovely achievement.
Jeffery Sargent
/ October 7, 2010I like. It ties together the history of the Atom nicely – short, stocky, and burly like the Al Pratt version and the lightsabre evokes the “Savage Sword of the Atom” era. I like the air mask since I always wondered how he was able to breathe when he was at subatomic size.
It’s interesting how the more radical redesigns subdued the pallete (I’m particularly taken by the Superman redesign) except Zatanna (if you exclude that awful period when she had the bug on her head) where they’ve given her a color scheme other than black and white.
Hoylus
/ October 8, 2010This Atom design made me smile. Love that the breathing mask has an “A” shape to it. And the microscope tattoo is very funny.
Love the ‘lazersword’ too.
Now, I’m sure this was a nightmare to pull together, but I’m sure we’ve all got ideas for the next invitational!!!
Like the idea of Injustice Gang or Batman villains – But maybe a switch to marvel would be better?
X-men? Avengers?
Maybe for a shorter series, the fantastic 4?
It’s been a great ride though – loved seeing it unfurl.
maxime
/ October 8, 2010the result is awesome !!!
i would definitely love to join the next invitationnal (expecially if it has some x-men flavor to it)
congratulations again!
tbolt
/ October 8, 2010can’t stop looking at this one, love it. Its like a Jack Kirby design turned up to 11.
Kevin Huxford
/ October 8, 2010Great final design, which is no surprise, given how everyone “brought it” through the whole thing. Immediately made the finished full team my desktop background.
Lan Pitts
/ October 13, 2010It’s all sorts of alright. Good job, ladies and gents.
Jim
/ October 14, 2010I really like how simplistic Superman’s Logo is on his chest.