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Fights, Flights, & Tights 3 Contest Announcement!October 20

Break out your sewing machines, folks, it’s that time again! Project: Rooftop, the site dedicated to presenting the finest in innovative crime-fighting fashion, is announcing its third annual costume contest: Fights, Flights, & Tights 3!

Entering the contest couldn’t be easier, all you have to do is wow us with an original costume that redesigns a classic superhero or villain. Take some photos and send them to projectrooftop@gmail.com along with your name, age, and website by November 4th, 2008. (Plenty of time to nab shots at your Halloween parties!) The best entries will be featured on our site, and the Grand Prize Winner will receive an original sketch of their design by our own Dean Trippe!

Featured above is last year’s First Runner Up, Ming Doyle! All the past winners and top entries can be seen here and here!

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Vampirella ReVamp Honorable Mentions!October 6

Editor’s Note: We received over a hundred entries for our recent Vampirella ReVamp contest, sponsored by Harris Comics! The following (awesome) entries merited Honorable Mentions, and we’d like to present them here. Enjoy! - Dean Trippe

Note: More Honorable Mentions after the jump! - D.T.

Vampirella ReVamp Winners!September 26

Editor’s Note: The following entries are the winners and finalists from the Vampirella ReVamp contest, with prizes provided by Harris Comics. We received more than 100 entries! Our special guests this week are writer and Herstorian, Trina Robbins, creator of the original costume design of Vampirella; artist Joe Jusko, creator some of the most memorable art in Vampirella’s history, most notably his distinctive cover art and work in the fully painted book, Blood Lust; and Dan Brereton, cartoonist & creator of The Nocturnals, who is working on a 2008 Vampirella Quarterly Halloween Special. - Dean Trippe

GRAND PRIZE WINNER!

Ralph Niese
Composite Score: 93

Dean: Okay, I realize this is kinda of a departure for the character, but there really is nothing more fun in this contest than race-car driving Vampirella and her night-creature alter ego (

El Aguila by Ryan EstradaSeptember 17

Character: El Aguila
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Artist: Ryan Estrada
Reviewers: Dean Trippe

If you’re not familiar with El Aguila, then you are pretty much everyone reading this sentence. Alejandro Montoya is a background mutant character from the Marvel U., a supporting character introduced in Power Man and Iron Fist’s team-up title at the end of the 70s, sharing many of the problematic stereotypical fallacies of the title and time. Clearly modeled as a Zorro analogue (with added mutant electicity powers!), El Aguila’s costume had a swashbuckler-meets-superhero vibe, with a blue blouse and red tights.

Ryan’s design here is a huge leap forward from the complicated and unoriginal costume worn by the character originally. This simplified red and black color scheme plays up the eagle symbol and introduces a strong matador influence, which feels more original than the earlier Zorro-reliant vibe. El Aguila is currently listed as a de-powered mutant (Post M-Day, check your Official Handbooks), so I could see this sort of rebranding of identity working well for the character, whose heroic impulses would not be deterred by a la

Update on ReVampSeptember 12

What a tremendous response! Project: Rooftop has received over 100 entries into ReVamp, the Vampirella Redesign Contest. The P:R staff and guest judges Dan Brereton, Trina Robbins and Joe Jusko are busy reviewing and remarking on each entry. Look for the results starting next week!

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