Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Dat J. August Richards Thread

[Randy Savage]

Non-stop until we hit 300!

Non-Stop like Liam Neeson on a plane with some bad guys on his plane and he just happens to be Air Marshall Ra'as Al Ghul

 

[Human Torch]

Get ready for March

 

[Dark Raven]

JAR needs a red jumpsuit at least. None of this black jumper and slacks.

 

[Human Torch]

Marvel doesn't seem too afraid to inject some color into their hero costumes,so I'm guessing he'll have some red in there.


Of course,now that I think of it,Falcon's costume is going to be pretty generic looking in TWS.

 

[Dark Raven]

Marvel doesn't seem too afraid to inject some color into their hero costumes,so I'm guessing he'll have some red in there.


Of course,now that I think of it,Falcon's costume is going to be pretty generic looking in TWS.

Yeah, where's this colour they're not afraid to inject into Falcon? He ought to be in red and white, and should have been in A:AOU where it would be a prime opportunity to give him a more classic costume.

 

[Gr0oT]

They do update costumes from movie to movie so if he is included in AoU he'd most likely have an updated look.

Wish they'd asked Richards about the progression of the Deathlok look in his last interview. So far his look just doesn't cut it.
One of the main things about being Deathlok is the Frankenstein's monster dilemma, right now he's just a burnt guy with a metal leg, sure being horribly burnt isn't something to envy but it isn't fair to liken that to being a monster.
Sure they have the being forced to kill angle but as a cyborg he's completely plain and he doesn't seem cursed to be trapped as Deathlok in the way Collins was. All Collins had was his brain, the rest was a cyborg construct.
Peterson just has to have the backscatter x-ray device disabled and he regains his humanity.

 

[Xeno]

Yeah, where's this colour they're not afraid to inject into Falcon? He ought to be in red and white, and should have been in A:AOU where it would be a prime opportunity to give him a more classic costume.

Falcon should be wearing red and white instead of camouflage because the bright colors would make him much less conspicuous to snipers.

 

[Dark Raven]

Well all the MCU should dress in black then.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

He works for s.h.i.e.l.d, a spy organization. His costume makes sense given the context.

 

[Human Torch]

Falcon should be wearing red and white instead of camouflage because the bright colors would make him much less conspicuous to snipers.

Because a dark black costume flying high in the bright blue sky amid fluffy white clouds will camouflage him beautifully!

 

[Dark Raven]

Because a dark black costume flying high in the bright blue sky amid fluffy white clouds will camouflage him beautifully!

Someone might be clay pigeon shooting and accidentally hit him.

 

[Gr0oT]

I've just taken out all my Deathlok stuff, the trade and 34 issues of his run and I'm all the more depressed with how they've approached the character... For all the condescension concerning the character McDuffie and Wright did a wonderful job with such an obscure character and he shouldn't have been cheaply forced into the show to appease the lamentations that the show needed supers. And if you haven't read the limited series and the run you don't have much to say until you do.

 

[Endeavor]

Gr0ot he wasn't added to appease criticism, Mike was planned to become Deathlok from the beginning. That's why he said in the pilot, 'it's an origin story'.

 

[Artistsean]

The evolution of his character on the show:

Still waiting for him to look more like this:

The Winter Soldier almost looks exactly like he does in the comics.
So maybe we could get something closer in the show.

 

[John Reese]

|Gr0ot he wasn't added to appease criticism, Mike was planned to become Deathlok from the beginning. That's why he said in the pilot, 'it's an origin story'"

I think the writers intended Mike's character to turn into something or someone but I don't think they had a specific character in mind from the start. Some of the interviews made it seem like they weren't sure.

 

[Artistsean]

I am going to bet, not really, but that they were sure and knew he would be Deathlok from the very beginning. little seeds were planted here and there. Roxxon, AIM, Cyberteck, The camera in the eyes that reports what you must do, even the design of his Centipede thing on his arm.
Before I go into my next paragraph I want to say I love where they have taken things and the character Mike. I love Deathlok, always have. It just got me thinking, maybe way to much about the story.
But I was thinking. So they were trying to duplicate the Super Soldier Serum, but only built super strong roid rage bomb humans. Then they made it better but they had to keep moving their facility and recharging their super soldiers which was too expensive.
Now they have Mike, he is a super soldier. But because of the explosion they had to rebuild him sort of. And made him one of their assassins against his will. But at what point would they abandon needing him? His leg was gone so they spent time and money on a new leg. What if his he lost his other leg? Would they pay and make that one too? What if he lost half his face? Or his arms? If he lost his Centipede arm thing would they just leave him because he isn't a super soldier any more?
And just to read even more too much into things, at what point would he just be a human with robot parts and no longer a super soldier?
And at what point do you think they would say to themselves that using throw away assassins against their will that they had to recharge was cheaper?

 

[Artistsean]

In Agents of SHIELD a character is shown to be turned into Deathlok, he wakes up with one of those cameras in his eye giving him instructions or it will explode and kill him. Then he is given a robot leg and has super strength. This is a sketch I did of what he could end up looking like on the show. Its not finished yet because I want to darken it in with pencil and color it. I don't see them making him wear bright red and yellow, so I have a different color pallet. Here he has his robot leg, cybernetic reinforced skull and another robot eye, since part of his face was burned and his eye was damaged. Iron Man styled tech for his gloves and the rest is regular human gear. I tried to draw him sad also because I thought he would be, fully aware of what he is doing (killing people) against his will or he will be killed and maybe his family too. So This is what I thought Deathlok could look like in Agents of SHIELD. (I posted this description and drawing all over the Internet so I kept the description vague in case of spoilers).

With and without the goggles. I like the goggles. They give me the now feeling. heh.

Spoiler

 

[Gr0oT]

Beautiful sketch you've got a tonne of talent but I hate the drop down goggle concept plus have it less busy with the weapons and pouches.
Come on, Nebula has half her face covered with a cybernetic prosthetic and she has access to much higher end tech so I don't see why Peterson couldn't have something like in the comics.

 

[metaphysician]

Beautiful sketch you've got a tonne of talent but I hate the drop down goggle concept plus have it less busy with the weapons and pouches.
Come on, Nebula has half her face covered with a cybernetic prosthetic and she has access to much higher end tech so I don't see why Peterson couldn't have something like in the comics.

Nebula is in a 150M+ budget movie. Deathlok is on a TV show. Think it through.

 

[Gr0oT]

Dude a cyborg faceplate has been achievable for decades, it's just practical effects and obviously what Deathlok would have is a downgraded version being as human tech shouldn't be on par with alien tech.

 

[Six]

Honestly, I don't think giving him a faceplate is too much to ask for. Pretty simple practical effect actually. Prosthetics are easy. My dad went to school for special effects makeup and could make me look like Deathlok with homemade materials, so I'm pretty sure Marvel have a much bigger budget than me

 

[Artistsean]

I didn't give him half a robot face because I didn't see why the terrorists would pay for that. They gave him a robot leg because he lost one. His body is mostly burned and he only has one eye because one was damaged in the explosion, but also they took out one and made it robotic. So I gave him the classic design of Deathlok's faceplate from the old comics, they also gave him another robot eye because they need him able to see clear to kill. But I didn't see why they would make him more robotic. He does have Tony Stark styled tech for his gloves though. Honestly I could see the show saying he has one robot eye and a robot leg and that is why he is Deathlok. So I designed what I thought he could look like.
Plus he isn't completely undead like the comics, he is a super soldier with a robot leg and a robot camera eye. I did think the faceplate thing could explained by saying they needed him to have a new eye on the other side too because he couldn't see. I also was taking into account that it is a TV show.

 

[Gr0oT]

I didn't give him half a robot face because I didn't see why the terrorists would pay for that. They gave him a robot leg because he lost one. His body is mostly burned and he only has one eye because one was damaged in the explosion, but also they took out one and made it robotic. So I gave him the classic design of Deathlok's faceplate from the old comics, they also gave him another robot eye because they need him able to see clear to kill. But I didn't see why they would make him more robotic. He does have Tony Stark styled tech for his gloves though. Honestly I could see the show saying he has one robot eye and a robot leg and that is why he is Deathlok. So I designed what I thought he could look like.
Plus he isn't completely undead like the comics, he is a super soldier with a robot leg and a robot camera eye. I did think the faceplate thing could explained by saying they needed him to have a new eye on the other side too because he couldn't see. I also was taking into account that it is a TV show.

We'll they blew it in the first place by making his post-bombing injuries so minor. They could have easily justified a full-on Deathlok transformation without the hopeful backpedalling that is theorized in that he'll slowly turn more and more into Deathlok.
The show saying "Hey he's got a robot leg and hidden tech under his eye, therefore he is Deathlok" is such crap that I wish they'd never made the stupid show in the first place or at least waited until they had a better idea of what they wanted to do instead of figuring it out as they went along and having the goddamned gumption to embrace their comic book roots instead of embarrassingly beating around it.
So far as keeping in mind the budget I think a few extra prosthetics on Peterson wouldn't break the bank.
He wasn't in undead in the comics, he just was a lot more like Robocop in that only a few organic parts of him remained within the machine, in the case of Michael Collins he actually had John Kelly's lungs and stomach and his own brain but that's just details.
Anyways you're a fantastic artist and I can't blame you for trying to work within the lame limitations the show seems to have set for itself.

 

[metaphysician]

Dude a cyborg faceplate has been achievable for decades, it's just practical effects and obviously what Deathlok would have is a downgraded version being as human tech shouldn't be on par with alien tech.

You didn't say "a cheap TV grade cybernetic makeup job" when making your initial comparison. You said "Nebula in the GotG movie". If your not thinking anything even approaching that quality of work ( which it wouldn't be, not nearly ), then you shouldn't use Nebula as proof of anything.

 

[Artistsean]

Cybertek Technologies
Project: DEATHLOK
Project no: 201W16
Model no: BL23R
Version: V 5.01
Build: 061330

Still not done...
Went with the X-Force color pallet because I thought they would more likely use that rather than his bright red and yellow costume. So I used this. Still going to work on the colors and add more levels of color to make it better.