Big in Japan
I was digging through the storage room here at the underwater headquarters and ran across these character sheets I did almost 10 years ago. So I slapped on a new coat of digital paint and put em up for your amusement. Similar to Grant Morrisons ideas for
Super Young Team, I imagined that the DC universe had a band of Japanese superheroes inspired by their original Western counterparts. Its basically a mix of DC, old school anime and kaiju. This got a tiny bit of interest around the offices (this was a year prior to the Marvel Mangaverse) but it never went anywhere because they already had Chris Moellers giant robot Justice League book in the works. Here, Batman is a wealthy but orphaned college student, the Joker is an insane
visual kei rock star, and Superman is a giant robot controlled by the radio wristwatch of a young boy (the roles of Clark Kent and Lois Lane are filled in by the robots nerdy creator and the boys widowed mom). Theyre really shameless pastiches, but kinda funny too. Id like to draw some more finished versions of these at some point, just as a goof.
