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In which artist Russell Dauterman joins us to discuss super-powered costume design!
X-PLAINED:
- Why it’s important to get a professional to design your superhero costume
- Why Miles doesn’t trust the government
- Russell’s history at Marvel
- Designing for the Hellfire Gala
- Mutant fashion
- The word “fashionize”
- Iconic looks
- Modernizing superhero costumes
- Powers vs. personality
- Punk goddess Storm
- Designing for drawability
- Magic hair
- Russell’s influences
- Definitive Rogue costumes
- X-Men ‘97
- Best X-team costumes
- Jay’s holy grail cosplay
- Magic hair, cosplayed
- Costume retrospectives
- Where to find Russell online
- Evil twin trends of the 1990s
- Fuck You Pink
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Hey, people! Do you plan to make an special episode about X-Men ’97?
We do indeed! We’ll try not to keep folks waiting too long.
Cannot wait. Talk about nailing the landing! ‘E for Extinction, part 3’ did SO much heavy lifting, especially that last 5 minutes of the episode. I sat there yelling ‘What!?! You did that? Oh, you’re doing THAT? HOLY SHIT THEY’RE GOING _THERE_!!”
It was kind of embarassing, but my wife knew who I was when she married me. LOL.
Every X-Men toy commercial https://youtu.be/3EVCy4_D3qU?si=7YQmb0t-arZ4PYgq
I am SO behind on podcasts! 🙂
I enjoyed this discussion as costuming is always an interesting discussion.
What I did like about the OG 5 training outfits was that they were loose fitting, which was really against the norm, they sagged, they bunched, the bloused (and that’s about the extent of my knowledge of clothesmaking terms and I probably used those badly.
My go to from the X-lines though, are the New Mutants outfits. Simple design, striking yet not garish colour scheme and not so outlandish that you probably couldn’t use Sam’s suggested cover story that, if anyone asked, they were ski-suits. They were rather tight though, I might have liked a little more body diversity in the team, but that’s another story. (Plus, why did they never have masks was always a question though, the OG5 ones did after all)
They were also UNIFORMS, rather than costumes, and I like that in a training team. (See also the 90’s Legion of Super-Heroes where they all started in the same design outfits, but quickly adopted individual outfits, but all sharing the basic underlying template, it added to group cohesiveness.
The Gen X ones were cool, but all that leather looked uncomfortably sweaty (not ideal for adolescents who tend to be a bit… perspiration intensive, as I vaguely recall) and I might still be prejudiced against the team after their attempts to wear “kilts” that one time…. Yes, I can be small and petty at times.
In terms of individual costumes, I like simplicity, so I love Neal Adams Havok design, weird headpiece and all, and as the inverse I have never warmed to Gambit’s original… well, let’s be kind and call it “ensemble”. 🙂