Reinterpretations of Public Domain Characters

Thread of reinterpretations of Open Source and Public Domain Characters(will update as more drawings are drawn)

The Dark Ronin:


Definative Guy:


Ace McCoy and his indestructible partner, Bella Benlee:

Flash Lightning:

X, the Phantom Fed:

Raven:

Whiz Wilson and his Futuroscope:

Marvo the Magician and his spider-monkey, Tina:

I know she's not technically a superhero, but I figured that since the original character was in the same collection of comics that it'd be okay to post this one, so here's Hap Hazard:

Also not a superhero, mainly just a regular cowboy, but I felt this was something I could also put in here
Anyway, here's Buck Steele and his two animal lovers, Blackie and Raistie:

Still not a superhero, but I turned the original kid into a parody character; here's Billie the Kid:

Here's Hap Hazard, but they're an adult now:


Personally don't understand why they aged the original character, but I'm using that as an excuse to feature a cute and wholesome relationship

Okay, so this was apparantly a character known as The Doll Man
I don't really know why they were called that, but I changed their design so they'd be more doll-like, I suppose

There was a guy called Rance Keane, so I decided to reinterpret him as a black woman, alongside the two partners he had, so now they're Raicie Keane, "Chaps" Shaw, and Pee Wee Lie:

A character was once named Nippie, now they're a girl and named Nipple. I bet you can't guess what their quirk is

This is Mickey Finn

Here's Captain Bruce Blackburn and Lieutenant Jackson
There's a gimmick here

It's weird, I had something entirely different in mind for this interpretation of Samar, but I think my brain wanted this for some reason
I don't get it, but it it can make them all stand out from eachother, then I'm alright with

I guess Spin Shaw's just a head now.

You know, it's interesting, I think I actually like these characters for how sweet they are
And if I wanna make a story with them, I think I wanna highlight that aspect

Here's Zero the Ghost Detective, but they're an actual ghost detective now

The character was a male clown, but I was kinda getting tired of the lack of female clown representation, so here's them as a female
I'm also pretty sure they're the main character of a gag comic

It's interesting, when I went on to wonder who the Ace of Space could be, I realized I could just make them a character I reinterpreted previously: Bella Benlee
Then I just age her up to be an adult, give her a fiance, and we're all set for a storyline set in a future

The original was a father-son, this is a mother-daughter

Surprisingly a lot of buff men or men in general in these comics, there's a LOT
At least one of them has a pirate accent, might do well to use that as reference for the dialogue of Marie
Also usual genderswap and such distinct changes

Original character was pretty much a boring everyman, so here he is now as a good-natured boy who wants to hang out with people and be good at stuff despite being quite rusty at football and pretty much anything else he tries to do.......at least when he has his shoes on
The moment they come off, he's pretty much a wiz at anything he does and is pretty overpowered
Honestly, the reason he even has them on in the first place is cause he thought they looked cool

I'm gonna be honest, I really love the concept behind Poison Ivy: The Mighty Mite, it's basically a baby being more mature and adult than the parents themselves and basically just doing the things adults would do with a very mature mindset and quite a lotta strength to boot
I think I just kinda remixed it a bit though, with a very simple drawing of a non-binary or genderfluid baby that just kinda evolved into a plant-resemblance of the namesake alongside adding an actual mite cause I wasn't sure what either of those had to do with the original character