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Revenge of the 90s Pt.1

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I stumbled across an old sketchbook from my high school days, where it had a bunch of characters in it that was designed when I was 15 years old. So to give a date to these, we're talking 1990-1994. It's also several years before I got my first computer in 1999. I thought it'd be kinda fun to redraw them, since I've gotten a lot better in the last twenty years. (At least I'd like to think so.) So I picked three of them who seemed the most interesting to draw, since the others were either kinda bland, or I remember nothing about them. These three were major enough recurring characters that I remembered what they were roughly about... And bear in mind I was a high school kid, so it's not like their stories were exactly deep, y'know.

The first guy, the all black dude in green is 'Nightstalker', with no relation to Kolchak. I remember he was my "light hearted" character who was like some dark science avenger, which sounds way cooler than it really was. The girl in the middle is 'Firebat'... Yeeeeeah, I know. Did I mention I was fifteen year old boy? Typical fireflinger, ala the Human Torch or Firestar. Sadly, I look at it now and I start thinking I drew inappropriate fanart of Flame Princess. *sigh*

And the last one is Forever Man, who was an immortal dude, who had a fancy sword called the 'Nosferatu Impaler' which could-

Goddammit, stop laughing, you fuckers! I was fifteen! I thought I was being cool... *sobs*

Anyway, yeah... To no surprise, none of these characters even survived in any modern incarnation of any characters these days. The closest is that their real identities had a couple of similar last names to more recent guys, but beyond that... Not much. The next part has a few characters from the 95-99 years, which we then get into characters that not only survived, but become more important and are still around today.
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Twinsnake-Coatl's avatar

Gonna go ahead and say it, Forever Man was inspired by Highlander, wasn't he?

 

Rather prophetic fanart of Flame Princess at that. Or a re-color of DC's Fire. Yeah, the problem with fire-powered characters is that there can't be much variation on their appearance or power.