Note: For our good pal Nate Bellegarde‘s birthday, we picked Metamorpho as today’s Fan-Art Friday subject. A very happy birthday to you, Nate! – Dean Trippe

Nate Bellegarde

Note: Read on for the arts! – D.T.

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Note: While most of the P:R team was pretty lukewarm on the new Wonder Woman redesign by superstar artist and DC co-publisher Jim Lee, Rooftop Regular Jemma Salume differed significantly from our general consensus. She digs it. Big time. I will note, however, she apparently found herself incapable from applying small, unconscious improvements to the design: Longer jacket, altered top, smaller gauntlets, etc. DC artists, take note. Everybody else, enjoy some New WW fanart! – Dean Trippe

Jemma Salume

HEY it’s Friday already. So…how about some Aquamans? Let me be real with you guys, I totally got caught up in my Barack Obama Looking at Awesome Things posts (full gallery here) that went super crazy viral, so I forgot to round up fan-arts this week. Next week, it’s so on. Btw, the Black Canary entries have been great, and are ramping up! Keep ‘em coming! But as a substitute for a proper Fan-Art Friday, here’s a couple of sweet Aquaman pics from some P:R Regulars.

Aquaman by Ming Doyle

Aquaman by Mike Maihack (created for DrawerGeeks)

Fan-Art Saturday is what happens when I forget what day it is. Fan-Art Friday is a weekly feature at P:R, where artists pay tribute to fantastic official superhero redesigns with illustrations of their own. – D.T.

Suitably enough for our accidental Saturday post, this week we’re looking at Batman Beyond, as depicted by an all-star collection of P:R Pals (TM). I remember the first time I saw Batman Beyond in a comics magazine, months before the series debut. It seemed like such a radical departure from the gray and black urban camouflage Dark Knight I knew, with the now fully masked face, bright red wings, and the skinnier build of  young new alter-ego, Terry McGinnis.

As a hardcore fan of Batman: The Animated Series (especially the redesigns from the “Gotham Knights” era), I wasn’t sure I could enjoy a “Future Batman” series, even though the combination of those two words has near-unbeatable awesomeness. (Note: “Robot Batman” beats it with one pointy-gauntleted metal arm its behind back.) The costume itself is brilliant in its minimalism, new abilities (flight, cloaking, etc.), clickwheel-like belt buckle control system, and the Dracula-esque red and black color scheme. In fact, my attempt at a Dick Grayson Batman redesign, (for Batman 2.0, here) was intended as a half-step towards the power and simplicity of this design.

Anyway, enough from me. Scroll on, comics fans!

Batman Beyond by Evan Shaner

Batman Beyond by Evan Bryce

Batman Beyond by Dustin Nguyen, who btw, is doing covers on the new Batman Beyond series!

Batman Beyond and Terry McGinnis by Cory Walker

Batman Beyond, Terry, Ace, & Bruce by Jemma Salume

Batman Beyond by Dan Hipp

And Nate Bellegarde obviously sent this Return of the Joker sketch in just to mock me for getting the day wrong. See you next time!

Fan-Art Friday is a new weekly feature at P:R, where artists pay tribute to fantastic official superhero redesigns with illustrations of their own. To kick things off right, here’s some fan-arts of Frank Quitely’s Robin redesign, as drawn by Rooftop Regulars(TM), Joel Carroll and Jemma Salume! Quitely’s Robin is an excellent example of how to redesign superhero costumes. It’s character-specific (a 10-year-old kid trained by assassins would choose clashing survival-gear), and retains the visual identity of previous incarnations (red tunic, “R” emblem, utility belt, yellow cape all in place, and while the scaly overpants are nowhere in sight, the color green still manages to return to the Robin suit against all odds). This is an exceptional redesign deserving of exceptional fan-art. So here it is. – Dean Trippe

Frank Quitely’s Robin, by Joel Carroll

Frank Quitely’s Robin, by Jemma Salume