- please draw Wonder Man in the costume shown in this link:

LINK1

- please have the pose similar to the following:

LINK2

Looks great, JB.

Do you have a favorite costume design for Wonder Man?

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Anything but this one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lean and mean!  Great commission!

Ok, wow.  This far exceeds the quality of the reference in Link 2 (no disrepect to that artist).  In the original, it looks like Iron Man snapped a large crayon over his head.  In this piece, the steel beam looks completely agonized and shredded.

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I've had a few debates over the years about just how dynamic an action shot should be for a character who is demonstrating super strength. In the AVENGERS issues where Count Nefaria became essentially the SIlver Age Superman, Shooter, as writer, wanted lots of shots of the Count straining and sweating and bulging his muscles, but I argued against that. If he's SUPERMAN, after all, there are not many things that would tax him to that degree.

Something else is at work when we compare this shot to the IRON MAN cover. Simon, here, is, of course, using his own brute strength to tear the beam in half, so naturally there would be some indication of this in the pose. Iron Man, on the other hand, is using the mechanism of his suit, so there would be no need to strain.

(Coincidentally, I was in downtown New Canaan yesterday, and outside the fire station there is a newly erected monument to Sept 11, composed of one of the twisted girders from the World Trade Center mounted on a stone slab. Looking at it, I was reminded of how "solid steel", when subjected to enough force, bends and tears like paper.)

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I'm a big fan of the Gil Kane school of costume design, where costume elements follow the anatomy lines of the body. That's my biggest beef with this Wonder Man suit -- too much of it seems to go AGAINST the lines of the body.

This was early days for George tho. Many of his later designs are quite brilliant.

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Anything but this one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Really...?

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Really.

JB: 'This was early days for George tho. Many of his later designs are quite brilliant'

Oh I agree, the vast majority of George's costume designs are so elegantly beautiful. Like Flavio said, this one actually looks better in B&W.