It may sound silly but I repainted Sentry to clean him up and then make him look all wet and dirty (and allude to night maneuvers but it is tricky painting inferences). He has that Aquaman on skid row thing happening but he still has to look real strong and pretty determined. If he's gonna bother gettin' off the floor he'd better have a darn good reason... the sculpt does as he's flying with dukes up!
OK. So I'm all happy with my Sentry and then I get an opportunity to pick up the New Avengers #2 Sentry trade. Uh... the secret history... oh... Ohhhh.
Well, in a nutshell, the depressed 'I am a walking mega-bomb, what am I going to do next' thing is out and an uber group of Marvel hero-types stage an intervention, a sort of hero-eye for the straight meta-guy. White Queen heads the makeover. The whole image needs a clean up and Emma's got the stuff to do the job! After a quick wipe up and mental slap around... ba-boom!
The power of
ten thousand
exploding suns!
So the previous Sentry, the Breakout Sentry, the dysfunctional tank Sentry, well, he was just a 'phase' that now seems too-quickly over. The bearded (Boom-Boom-Booom) butt-kicking stressed-out super-dude is no more and the =g-l-a-r-e= All-New " SENTRY Guardian of Good " is the look of things to come.
What a transformation we have! A hero my mum would be proud to have over for a cuppa. A 21st century hero in line with this age... bright, hopeful, powerful and with supportive peers. He has the glowing "look" and he has that clean-cut old-school poster boy charisma and he even (like C.Marvel & C.Kent - more Kent as he is married, happily so it seems) has BIG hero oozing out from his very pores. 'Cept this Big S is blond in contrast to the the dark haired DC types (ah, the twist) and his now-cooler-than-it-ever-was-to-be-a-wonder-geek buddy is Reed Richards (rather than, say, Bruce Wayne) and he has Tony Stark (AND Reed, the Bolt, Doc Strange, Prof-X and Namor) watching over him (Namor is staring...). So he is the conservative SUPERhero with the potential to be anything... and not all of it good.
I like Bob. I think we can expect interesting things in his character development... unless the big-boys have an agenda.
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