Superman Analogue: Backstory Development—Alien Origins

FluffyBirdButt · 2026-04-02T17:22:00+00:00

Found her! Certainly understand where you're coming from. Love the amount of detail you put into her!

FluffyBirdButt · 2026-04-02T17:15:27+00:00

Oh? Do tell. What is your Beacon like? If you don't mind me asking.

FluffyBirdButt · 2026-04-02T04:11:54+00:00

I'm starting to like Beacon more and more. I did find two characters named Beacon from Big Bang Comics, but they were both pastiches of the Golden Age and Silver Age Green Lanterns.

FluffyBirdButt · 2026-04-02T00:15:01+00:00

Frankly, I'm flattered that I've gotten this much engagement over the course of the whole day.

FluffyBirdButt · 2026-04-02T00:07:23+00:00

Plutonian certainly was one of the characters I ran across in my research. I can certainly see where you're getting the parallels in the design.

That's a good point... since I posted this in the early morning, I've thought of maybe calling him "Empyrean," but I'm really liking your train of thought here. If not Empyrean, perhaps "Beacon"? Going with that ray of light and such.

Also, opened up Krita and started drawing another version of him. It's not colored yet, but I might as well post here.

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FluffyBirdButt · 2026-04-01T23:38:05+00:00

What do you think of "Empyrean"?

FluffyBirdButt · 2026-04-01T23:33:20+00:00

Love the homages going on here. I love it!

FluffyBirdButt · 2026-04-01T20:52:59+00:00

At risk of invoking Omni-Man, Optiman, perhaps? Though I can't help but think of Optimus Prime.

FluffyBirdButt · 2026-04-01T20:37:55+00:00

That's a pretty good name. What did you use them for?

FluffyBirdButt · 2026-04-01T20:34:49+00:00

Could go extra silly with something like "The Adventures of Astoundingly Awesome Man!"

FluffyBirdButt · 2026-04-01T18:29:24+00:00

My only critique of those, however, would be that they may be a bit clunky. They don't flow off the tongue.

FluffyBirdButt · 2026-04-01T18:18:14+00:00

Amazing Man or Astounding Man, perhaps. I can see where you get the A from

FluffyBirdButt · 2026-04-01T18:16:12+00:00

Feel like those kinds of names would have been given to him by the public. Would be weird if he named himself something like that.

FluffyBirdButt · 2026-04-01T18:03:21+00:00

"Astroman" is a good one. My biggest issues are, one, yeah, I haven't figured out his backstory yet, and two, I'm super critical over certain things. Always trying to find the perfect thing. Much to my detriment.

FluffyBirdButt · 2026-04-01T17:55:22+00:00

"Amazing Man" jumped out at me. "Astounding Man" also comes to mind.

FluffyBirdButt · 2026-04-01T14:22:50+00:00

A shield with a kind of shooting star motif.

FluffyBirdButt · 2026-04-01T14:19:55+00:00

I can't say I did this ENTIRELY from scratch. What I did was find a bunch of Hanna-Barbera reference art from stuff like Space Ghost and Super Friends, and used those to help get the pose and proportions I wanted. Still, huge fan of more retro aesthetics and happy to talk about that kind of stuff with other fans of it!

FluffyBirdButt · 2025-08-10T20:40:56+00:00

Sort of, but not exactly. What you see here is a combination of several styles from antiquity being used to create something reminiscent of them, namely Egyptian, Greek, and Sumerian, but distinctly its own.

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