Someone beat me to creating a Comic Vine Wiki for Prof. Hugo, using a cropped version of the dummy Who's Who page I made for the character here in 2008 as featured art. However, the full text for the character was "Criminal Scientist," which I figured I could expand upon. The originator had already linked Hugo to all his canonical comic appearances, but I did get to add his "imaginary story" from Super Friends #24 (April, 2010). Editing the page inspired me to go back to my own profile and credit Bill Finger and Sheldon Moldoff for (probably) creating the character. Finally, I added Joe Certa art originally employed on the Vile Menagerie Collage to spruce up Hugo's gallery. Shelly Moldoff may have co-created Hugo, but I vastly prefer Certa's gangly Peter Pumpkinhead to the weird, squat prototype. I wish I knew how to swap out the default image...
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Professor Arnold Hugo @ Comic Vine
Someone beat me to creating a Comic Vine Wiki for Prof. Hugo, using a cropped version of the dummy Who's Who page I made for the character here in 2008 as featured art. However, the full text for the character was "Criminal Scientist," which I figured I could expand upon. The originator had already linked Hugo to all his canonical comic appearances, but I did get to add his "imaginary story" from Super Friends #24 (April, 2010). Editing the page inspired me to go back to my own profile and credit Bill Finger and Sheldon Moldoff for (probably) creating the character. Finally, I added Joe Certa art originally employed on the Vile Menagerie Collage to spruce up Hugo's gallery. Shelly Moldoff may have co-created Hugo, but I vastly prefer Certa's gangly Peter Pumpkinhead to the weird, squat prototype. I wish I knew how to swap out the default image...
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I also prefer Certa's Hugo, but I like that Moldoff's character looks like he belongs in one of John Tenniel's Alice in Wonderland illustrations.
Yeah, I took a crack at a few things a few months ago and I couldn't figure out how to swap the default image either; there might be some sort of ranking threshold to certain changes.
Tom, you made it through the filter! Yay! Anyway, Hugo on the cover is weird/creepy, especially with the awesome throne, which is why I suggested Kev O'Neill as a cover-cover artist a while back. He's more goonie-lookin' inside though.
MC, as much as I'd like to swap Certa in on Hugo, my real motivation to toy with default images is that some nutbar has made an OYL Coneheadhunter cover the Martian Manhunter's profile picture. Beyond being three incarnations out of date, that's one of the all-time worst J'Onn J'Onzz images. I literally do not recognize that as the Martian Manhunter when I see it. I register one of the Others in my mind, and have to remind myself otherwise.
That is actually why I was trying a while back. FUGGIN' DUMB.
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