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Published: 2007-02-18 04:20:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 4520; Favourites: 54; Downloads: 2234
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Line art by , colors by me.I've had mixed feelings about Hanna-Barbara's "Thundarr the Barbarian", a crazy contrived mishmash of the candy-coated nightmares of George Lucas and Robert E. Howard. All the same, I do have some fond childhood memories of it, and even noticing nods to it in "Samurai Jack" pilot movie made me smile...
A lot of pictures you can google will color the sunsword blue. Some others even have it at green, but in my personal recollection, it was yellow. Sunsword (not a lightsaber), after all. Yellow. Particularly, noted, because the Luke Skywalker action figure I had as a child had a yellow lightsaber--(not a blue one, as was evident in the movie.), so for a while, I could imagine my Luke Skywalker figure as a Thundarr action figure. Just another one of those crazy things you pick up from childhood....
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The sun sword had blue blade with a yellow field around it.
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This looks like a Thundarr who might make Conan think twice!
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The only thing I don't like is that I am always worried about seeing him hit a draft...
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That's why he's a barbarian...he hasn't mastered pants, yet.
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A splendid re-imagining of one of my childhood favorites! Good Job!
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Not as powerful as this one... [link]
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Nice work with the highlights from the Sunsqord--works really well to give this a nice, atmospheric feel. (Very dramatic!)
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I need to do more mood-specific coloring projects....more practice for me...thanks for recognizing, though--I'm glad that was observed.
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Not at all, you deserved a better comment than that even, but midterms sap the mind.
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thank you for approving!
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Ariel! Ookla! RIDE!
Great job on this one! Yes, the Sunsword was yellow, and I agree the show was a big stew of sci-fi and fantasy elements. But, it was a fun show, in the old, Saturday matinΓ©e serial vein.
I always liked Ariel . . . though I wish she'd been made a redhead, like Galeta on "Galtar and the Golden Lance".
Maintain and Check Six!
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Yes, Thundarr's sword WAS yellow. (i watched it on boomerang yesterday actually).....yeah, it IS a mishmash...right down to the "chewbacca-like" dude who followed him and the soceress chick around.
great job here steve, its really cool, i love how you do the highlights in your work.
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That's Ookla, and apparently he's a Mok!
He had a funky horse, too. In the "Samurai Jack" pilot, Jack rode a horse that resembled Ookla's horse...
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ooh yeah, that's right *i reel slightly from memory jarred* ......i wonder if there's any difference between memory jarred and memory canned.....i suppose the latter would have a slightly more tinny flavor.....
oh that's just a bad joke....shame on me
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Great job with the coloring, love the sword.
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I just stubled across this. It's cool, I remember Thundar. Ah, childhood nostalgia. And you did an excellent job on the coloring.
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