#elseworlds superman

[superman-the-secret-third-thing]

Atticus Kent- The Union Superman

In Earth-1863, as chronicled in the Elseworlds: Superman Vol.1, Superman landed in 1840 pre-Civil War and was adopted in by a couple of kindly Kansas farmers, who commonly took in escaped slaves, hiding them from Southern bounty hunters. When the Civil War began, Atticus Kent enlisted as a Union Soldier and started kicking the Confederates' collective asses.

Superman: A Nation Divided (1999) written by Roger Stern with art by Eduardo Barreto and Chris Chuckry

[loiterer87]

So @agent-macleod wrote up a little AU (I suppose it’s technically an Elseworlds?) idea for a hippy Superman set in the 1960′s. I thought it was a pretty cool idea and decided to draw up what I thought this Supes’d look like!

Presented here in both eye-bleeding psychedelic and sane-plain white for giving your eyes a rest. Anyway, let’s waffle on design!

Had a couple of google image pages up with both 60′s Hippy fashion and traditional Kryptonian fashion up and decided to pinch bits from both. The way I figured he designed his outfit was combining his Kryptonian heritage with the trends of his adopted home. To sort of represent both. I experimented at the design stage with tie-dye possibilities but it wasn’t clicking. I also swapped the cape out for a long flow-y sleeveless coat-thing. And got rid of his sleeves on the top as well. Stuck some tassles on for no real reason. And gave him some necklaces and a peace-symbol medallion and a headband. To hold back that hippy longhair he has. Really pleased with how this one came out.

Oh, and the writing on his lower cape-pants thing say “PEACE” and “LOVE” in the Kryptonian Alphabet.