Warren Ellis is a harsh taskmaster. He works you harder in order to entertain his whiskey drenched soul. Warren Ellis is the fire that tempers you into a double-edged blade of art genius.

For example, take his Remake/Remodel series.

There was, way back in the mists of… 2007… a recurrent meme among several comics art blogs. Reclaiming characters from their owners, I guess it could be broadly described as… people were reimagining abused characters (chiefly Supergirl) as artistic call-and-response various places, chiefly LiveJournal. In the aftermath of that, I did a similar thing on old messageboard The Engine, called REMAKE/REMODEL. They were embraced as technical exercises, bits of fun, ways to get the brain moving.

After years on this track, the steam began to run out. Now Remake/Remodel has been re-imagined. New rules grace the Whitechapel threads weekly. A few weeks ago, this happened:

You are an artist/designer. You have to put together the cover for the first issue of a weekly science-fiction anthology comic called 2000AD.

You don’t know much about what’s in it. You’ve been given the following pieces of information to include on the cover somehow:

“featuring the new DAN DARE”

“M.A.C.H. 1 – his incredible hyperpower will amaze you!”

“SPACE-AGE DINOSAURS! Read ‘FLESH’ ”

“STOP PRESS! GREAT BRITAIN INVADED!”

The images that followed both astounded and amazed.

Art by Berserker

That was @MichaelFurious‘ interpretation. We’ve posted a handful of others below the cut. For all the images in their full sized glory visit the now closed thread on Whitechapel: CHINESE WHISPERS UCHRONAL COVER REMODEL: 2000AD Prog 1

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