Quester's Quiver

Art is any vehicle of expression that provokes a response.

And isn't painting (drawing, sculpting, singing) a series of repetitive movements as well?

I love these little suckers. This is as valid an artform to me as any other!

A good point! I agree! Apologies, Rob!

Its cool. Maybe I should post some of the stuff I did without templates???
I made a series called Remnants...kinda an X-men fanfic idea that never went anywhere but I still have the micros. Ill search my computer and when I find them Ill post them.

P.S dont worry Im not too offended as I have other artistic skills. I can draw only problem is a series lack of scannerage.

I'm aware I had frankensteined a lot of micros especially as I got low on micro mojo near the end of the project. If you see something by you or someone else it probably is and cred to you but right now I don't now who did stuff so please don't be offended.

Now in terms of micros these days the word Urban is thrown around a lot when in actuality the creators (no offense guys) just mean remakes of the costumes (not that there bad redesigns). So I thought well....lets make some really Urban micros. So without further ado:
The year is 1943 and the Allies are no closer to winning the war. It became apparent that to guarantee success things had to change, and so the United Stated government gathered together all of the scientists of its great nation and those of its Allied partners and began a project to create a super weapon that would win the war in their favour. We know the result of which was the A-bomb. However long before this weapon was finalized, there was another group of scientists simply called the Society. With the offer to complete there life's work with full government funding in the hopes that their inventions could be used in the war effort, this team of scientists worked day and night but finally they realized what would happen if they continued. Not content to let their creations fall into the hands of war mongering generals and blood thirsty troops they stole a super soldier serum that was also being created at the same time and with their own equipment they ran. Ran right into the front line. Now each of them armed with an physical enhancing 'super soldier' drug and various weaponry they became the secret soldiers of the second world war. They became legends. They became myths. They became the Society.

Sentinel When the first hit the beaches of Normandy it wasn't long before they met the British secret weapon. A man who had found a green ring a crashed kind of aircraft. Know wielding this ring with terrible force he became the Sentinel, Britain's silent force over seas. When the Society met him he decided that their fight was in fact his fight and so he decided to join them and the Society voted him to be their leader. And so Allan Scott became part of the Society.

Flash Since a young age Jay Garrick had been theorizing about the nature of speed. He always had understood time as an external force much like time. He later discovered that this was in fact possible. However he still wondered if speed was an external force then why could certain objects travel at certain speeds. Why was it an athlete could train to be faster if he wasn't in control of his own speed. His quest for answers made him shunned by the scientific community but he continued and through a series of tests he realized that the answers, these limitations of speed were hardwired into the human brain and through training people could start to unravel this code and gain speed. He theorized that if someone could crack the code and then travel fast enough he could enter into the hypothetical 'Speedzone' as he called it. And after years more research he cracked the code. Travelling in a rocket car that the U.S government provided for him he hit speeds that, along with the memorized codes, caused him to enter the speed zone. When he awoke from his coma he said he had passed through the speed zone and had learnt every imaginable code for the very atmoic structure of the material in the speed zone. Effectively the structure of speed. To save confusion he named this cellure structure the 'speed force' and with full knowledge of its make up he created speed force cells which slowly took on the shapes of small lightning bolts. He then attached these to his helmet and boots and found that they let him reach any speed he desired. He was the fastest man alive. he was the first of many. He was the Flash.

Hawkman Little is known about Carter Hall, save that in the Nevada Desert he found fragments of a metal he dubbed the 'Nth' mental. From this he created a set of wings that along with a rocket powered harness let his fly. The puzzling thing is no more Nth metal apparently existed anywhere on earth.

Midnight Blind from birth, Chuck McNider became obsessed with the concept of sight and followed a career in optometry. However he still felt rage at his disability and under the advice of a friend he took up martial arts to vent his anger. When he began his final project he was called up to be part of the society. He designed the very first pair of night vision goggles. However this led him to ask if why he was able to allow people to see in the black of night why couldn't he create something to let himself see through his own perpetual darkness. He did. And with his goggles and martial arts he became the ninja like operative Midnight and aided the Society throughout Europe.

Sandman He is the Sandman. Armed with grenades and guns designed to release nerve agents and sleeping gases he is otherwise an enigma. He is the Sandman.

The Wildcat and the Canary
The story of Theodore Grant is a familiar one although one seldom told. He grew up in Gotham City in the appropriately named Suicide Slums. Although the area was rife with crime and death he had a loving family and promise of a career in his fathers footsteps however he squandered all of this potential existence when he heard news of a radical movement across the country of free people forming their own society of freedom and liberty and self worth. And so with a pocketful of promises he travelled across America and in the end found nothing more than a collection of people like himself living among abandoned train tracks. Lonely, homeless and quietly running scared he leaved in the places known only to the poor and found a good friend in the much younger run away, Jay Garrick. Ted became an aggressive fighter and at night cries could be heard of those who dare threaten him, or worse, threaten little Jay who was now his surrogate brother. Jay was the brains and Ted the brawns and maybe that’s the way it should have stayed. But one day Ted’s impressive fighting prowess caught the attention of a sports agent and from there on Ted literally fought his way to the top. He became the greatest boxer the world ever knew and ever will knew. He was deadly and any opponent who he didn’t knock out with the first punch was left in a bloodied heap pleading for mercy. He was savage, he was wild. But he was still lonely. At nights he could be caught coming home from the whores on fifth avenue having sought a night of escape from his lonesome life. It was night like this he would see drugs being dealt to kids and street gangs fighting and it was at the night he would don and old Halloween mask and fight this injustice as a person known only as the Wildcat. Officially the Wildcat didn’t exist and Ted Grant was a mere fighter who promoted family values and denounced gratuitous violence and hated drugs. Unofficially: they were the same person and everyone knew it but no one wanted to say anything. Ted Grant was a hero in and out of the ring. And yet still alone.
It wasn’t until the depression hit hard that things spun out of control. Allegations rising up against Ted about his night time activities caused his sponsors to drop him and he was banned from boxing. It was in the slums of Central Park in New York were he met a person just like him. A former star of Broadway, a cabaret singer, a showgirl and all round pin up with the most beautiful voice any man had ever heard. Dinah Lance and Ted Grant had both been crippled by the Depression and they were perfect for each other. For once in his life Ted didn’t feel alone and all was right with the world. Two people couldn’t have been happier. Then a few years later war came. Ted told his love that he was going to fight again but not for money this time. This time he would fight for truth, justice and the American Way. And so Ted Grant became a soldier. As he trained Dinah learnt to become a pilot and when Ted was dropped off in France he was shocked to find the pilot was Dinah who ran to be with him. With no way of getting home she vowed to fight to and revealed her secret to him. He voice apparently could shatter even solid steel. The two however were ostracised by his regiment and so they ran from the group and began the fight themselves. Together always. When on the beaches of Normandy Ted was reunited with little Jay Garrick he knew it was a sign and so the Society gained to new members. The rest, as they say, is history……

Urban Sentinel, Urban Flash, Urban Hawkman, Urban Midnight, Urban Sandman, Urban Wildcat, Urban Canary
cred to (Alex's??) old ocelot micro and some ZBB site stuff i think thats all

The war in Iraq once again proved to be a political hot potato with no clear solution. Once again the secret government facility behind the Society known only as, Checkmate, created a new secret group of soldiers. This time it would be fool proof.
They are called the League and work secretly throughout Iraq.

Sentinel When Checkmate managed to catch the Society they attempted to make them sacrifice their stolen technology and return it. In a ruse to distract the troops and allow the Society to escape, Allan Scott handed over his ring well aware that the powers of the ring were now infused into his body. Allan then fired at the distracted guards and ran off with the rest of the Society. Years later Checkmate finally managed to find a voice recording to activate the ring. They gave it to one of their best troops. A captain named john Stewart. He now leads the League as the new Sentinel.

Hawkman Claiming to be the son of the original with modified equipment, he is now the high-flying, gun-totting scout...Hawkman.

Steel With a near indestructible suit of armour made from strange wreckage found in Smallville, Kansas which enables him to fly John Henry Irons wields this and a large hammer made of the same metal with terrible power.

Atom
Biologist, Technician, Physicists and Chemist; Ray Palmer is possibly the worlds greatest scientific mind with full combat training. He is also his own favorite experiment and is now capable of shrinking himself down to an atomic level. With his ability to shrink and travel through communications line he is the perfect espionage agent. He is the Atom.

Firestorm Having just turned ninteen, young Ronnie Raymond found himself fighting in the deserts of Iraq with the U.S army. It was difficult and matters were only made worse when he found he could somehow ignite his own body and turn into a flaming Nuclear Man. When the League came across him they initially dragged him along fto stop him being a hazard but soon he became an invaluable asset to the team.

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Secret man behind the scenes. This final member of the League is an occasional ally called upon for particularly complex missions and offers intel from an unknown location. Due to his amazing intellect and researching capabilities he is known to the team only as the Detective.

cred to Chagoth and ZBB's

Trained under the greatest fighter and detective the world may have ever known, Dick Grayson needed to escape the shadow of such a dark and haunted figure. He left for New York and along the way met other like himself. Proteges, apprentices...sidekicks. Together they formed a team named the Titans. Their first mission involved an investigation into a lab owned by Cadmus, a directory of LexCorp. Inside they found others like themselves being used in horrific trials and experiments. The five new meta humans joined their team. They are the Titans.

Nightwing Dick Grayson, formerly Robin the Boy Wonder, now the leader of the Titans.
Arsenal Former student of Green Arrow, Roy Harper is no longer Speedy but now the deadly archer Arsenal.
Kid Flash Adopted son and nephew of Barry Allen, Wally West accidentally digested chemicals that Barry was using to create his costume. The speed-force was directly integrated into his body and he became faster even than Barry however not as capable of using his abilities.
Wonder Girl Having all the abilities of her elder sister, Donna Troy went into the world of men after Thermyscia fell into disarray after its Queen left. She disguised herself as a whore to see what the world was really like. It wasn't until the Titans met her that she realized that not all men were corrupt, Neanderthals. She instead remained in the world of men.
Starfire An alien princess whose natural photosynthesis was exploited to turn her into a flame wielding weapon by Cadmus Labs; Princess Koriand'r has formed a fixation with her rescuer and personal hero, Nightwing.
Raven A girl wielding shadow manipulation and empathy was driven to madness during experimentation and now her fractuered mind has trouble controlling her powers. She also believed she is effectively the daughter of the Devil.
Changeling A bestial metamorph named Garfield Logan who's skin and hair was turned green during the trials. Surprisingly he has maintained his happy go lucky attitude and is very much the team's comic relief.
Cyborg The son of the scientist in charge of the project, Vic Stone was the first expiriment after an explosion destroyed most of his body his father rebuilt him with nanite technology. Not only are his metal components nearly indestructible but also:
∙ His left arm transformed into a energy projection weapon.
∙ His left eye had both zoom and infra red functions.
∙ He can run at fast constant speeds without tiring for some time.
∙ He can release jets of flame from his feet
Tempest Apparently an Atlantean mage who came to search for King Orin but was kidnapped by Cadmus. He had not yet been experimented on when the Titans released him. He has all the abilities of Orin and all other Atlanteans...apparently.

cred to FearEmbodied i think

Ashes. Thats all that remained. The Eradicator had been Eradicated. Zod would not be so easy. As Kal-El prepared to take to the skies and hunt down his father's nemesis The League attacked him. He was in appearance a rejuvenated Eradicator and so the attack began. Then Justice arrived. They battled for two days and when the dust settled the teams lay scattered in the dirt unable to move. Fortunately he was holding back.
He flew...minutes later they followed.
Zod waited. Clash of the Titans never had been a truer phrase.

"Im coming for you, Zod."
"And Im waiting little, Kryptonian."
Two voices whispered across a city so silently and far that only they heard each other.
From the top of his steel tower, a skyscraper he had erected in his own honour he watched. He watched from his Fortress of Grandeur as a small insignificant insect flew towards his tower at Mach8. For the first time in a long time he felt a tingle as adreniline coursed through is alien veins and whats more he felt a mild twinge of fear.
"Oh, this will be fun."
Kal-El powered through the roaring zephyrs above Metropolis thinking through the ace in his deck. His hidden card. His secret. Before desroying The Eradicator he learnt, purely by accident, a simple fact that would allow him to defeat Zod. Kryptonians can harm Kryptonians. Not kill or maim but unlike conventional weapons a Kryptonian can harm another, and although they will instantanously heal this didnt mean that Kal-El wouldn't revel in literally ripping Zod limb from limb. And then it happend. kal-El shattered through the window right wear Zod stood and almost in slow motion the two grappled through the air and sped out of the other side of building breaking the sound barrier. When they landed they were in the silence of the Nevada desert. Kal-El reached into Zod's chest and pulled out his still beating heart. Zod fell to his knees and screamed.
"Kneel Before Kal..." The mocking sentence was never finished as Zod rose up and used his heat vision to burn away Kal's eyes. He then ripped off both of Kal's arms. It was a whole second before they were both fully healed. Over the horison Kal saw the League and Justice appear. Manhunter began to communicate with them but Kal quickly screamed in his own mind for them to turn around or the Kryptonian radiation give off by their punches would kill them all. He urged them to find a small device for him instead at his parents farm in Kansas. Turning back to reforming Zod he added quietly:
"Now we wont be distrubed." The blows continued.

How long does a clash of the titans last? How long can gods go head to head? In this case it was a fortnight. Destroying one another and regrow limbs for a near indestructible race is not the quickest method to dispatch an opponent. All the time they fought the heroes of the world became tired of the selfish, personal conflict of these two aliens who were destroying large parts of their country as they fought. And so the League and Justice united. Splitting from the government the League's members merged with those of the battle ready street brawlers and the Justice League was formed. And they found away to end this. As the newly reformed Society cleared up the mess the Justice League formed their own plan. From the wreckage of the BRAINiac construct they found the device that had freed Zod and then they set out to find Zod....and Kal-El.
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By the time Justice and the League arrived a tide of anger had washed across the United States. After months average people had freed themselves of fear and were now consumed by anger. No longer would they hide in their homes for fear that they would tangle up in the battle of the two alien warmachines. So they took to streets. At that day on December 25th Times Square was full of people. At exactly 13:15 the two kryptonians crashed into the Coka Cola sign. People took up arms. Grabbing whatever they could find they aimed straight for the two monsters. Kal-El tried in vain to make them run. Shouted at them to leave. But they saw him as no different to Zod. He tried to save as many as he could but Zod's heat vision took care of most of them. They the battle really began. Now the rage was full on. Zod could barely stand the blows. And so the newly formed Justice League appeared armed with a small diamond shaped crytal. They aimed it at the two Kryptonians and willed it to work. Only Kal-El knew the start code. He held Zod by the throat and whispered to him
"Say hello to the Phantom Zone for me" He then plunged his fist through Zod's skull and uttered the word "Lara."
And a beam of light came out of the diamond held by John Stewart and consumed the frame of Zod. And with that he was returned to a place full of pain and torment. A place where his body would never heal from Kal-El's final wound. But not before kal-El ripped the cloak from Zod's back. A cloak that belonged to his father Jor-El. He placed it ceremoniously over his own shoulders.
And so the first reign of Zod ended.

It was a mere number of months after however that a strange, colossal rock erupted from the Earth's core in the middle of the Atlantice. It then however vertically above the Earth and moved slowly until it came to rest above the White House. For months it was the pinnacle of all conversion and news coverage. Only when a crack team of scientists along with a group of civililians who had one the chance of a lifetime, tried to break into it did anything really happen. Lightning erupted from the rock and killed all the scientists and civilians save one. A small boy named Will. Will Batson. He was suddenly chnaged into something else. He turned and flew upwards and resting on the summit of the enormous rock and exclaimed "This, mortals, is the eigth wonder of the world. Gaze up and see...I am The Marvel."

My Urban CSA, I decided to make it actually a crime syndicate with collections of criminal organisations rather than just a bunch of bad guys...gotta have a name that fits right. Anyway here they are, the first incarnation of LoD and the first incarnation of the sinister team who came after them and all but irradicated them.


The Legion of Day
During World War II the Axis powers rose up and attempted to fight hard against the combined tryanny of the Allied Powers but still it was not enough. And so several superpowered individuals bought it upon themselves to battle the evils of the Allied forces. The became the Legion of Day. In the end the Axis lost the war and the Legion of Day continued fighting but in the shadows. A light among darkness that was before the orginal CSA formed. Then it all came to an end.
Heres the original team roster:
Alexander Luthor-
The founder of the Legion. A man of vast intellect who uses his vast intelligence and gadgets to combat the malevolent Ultraman. He is the brave, noble and adventurous leader of the Legion of Day.
Ares-
The noble Greek god of war saw the atrocities cast in his name during the Second World War and so came down and took on human form to help fight for truth and honour with the legion. He took on the human name of Steve Trevor and has a romantic relationship with Diana Prince who is ,unknown to him, the original Superwoman.
The Joker-
A man with no past. No other alias. He is Gotham City's Clown Prince Crusader. Noone knows what his real face looks like. All is know is that he uses his gimmicky gadgets and arsenal to combat the crime underworld ruled over by the tyrannical Owl-man.
Captain Cold-
Leonard Snart developed his own freeze-gun and with it an identity as Captain Cold and in his actions ended up becoming arch-nemisis of the fastest man alive, Johnny Quick.
Sincero-
A member of the Legion Corps commissioned with the task of hunting down and arresting all members of the Ring of Power in his designated sector. Part of which covers Earth. As such he has become the rival of every earthman to ever claim the title 'PowerRing1'.
Fernus-
The last surviving member of the Red Martians. His people whiped out by the white deviants of their race. He now resides on Earth and uses his mastery over his pyrokinetic abilities (amongst others) to fight crime as a member of the Legion of Day.
Manta-
As a young boy the man who would become the Manta was tortured, bullied and occasionally raped by kidnappers who forced him to work as their first mate. One day he saw them offering sacrifices to a being they claimed to be Neptune reborn. A diety they named Orin. He never really escaped this fate and became conditionalised to the torment well into his adult life. After Orin did rise again his ship was at the scene. He breached the waters at the Bermuda triangle. The perveted cultists on the boat wanted to offer themselves as tribute. He then beat, brutalised and systematically killed all on board. The only one to survive dedicated his life to free the world of this monster. He underwent trials and stole experimental technology. Now he is the underwater crime fighter known as the Manta.
Merlyn-
Little is known about the man who goes by the name of Merlyn saved that he has operated as a vigilante in the shadows long before the arrival of Oliver Queen, the Evil Archer known as Darkbow.

The Crime Syndicate of Amerika:

Ultraman-
After killing his adpotive parents Kaleb Eldridge took very literally his parents teachings. He was the master race. He understood the ideals of the man and the superman. And they were inferior to him. His life was something that could not be measured by the rule of mortals. He was not man. Nor was he even confined to the superman. He was the Ultraman. He was living power. He became the ultimate white supremacist. The boy had become a man. Yet still a young man and somewhat still seeking his true potential. He still dyed his hair to fulfill that destiny. The ideal of the perfect human. The Master Race. It would be years before he realized that his origins were not even of this Earth and that no rules applied to him. Yet it was at this early stage in his life that he rallied around himself all of the worlds psychos and despots. He rose as a figure of anarchy and freedom. Freedom to kill, maim and destroy. Ultraman was born.
Superwoman-
The island of Thermyscia was believed to be only myth. But all myths have roots in reality. This one more so than others. Deacades ago a physchotic female killer going by the name of Hyppolita, gathered hundreds of women to her cause of female dominance. When their terrorist attacks were foiled they were banished to an uncharted island with no knowledge of how to return to the world of men. But Hyppolita had found a way to leave. She found secret ways to return to the world of man. And used them. However for fear of losing her dominance and power on the island kingdom she ruled, she told noone. However when in the world of man she walked among us as the all powerful self-proclaimed goddess, Superwoman, and aided her lover and sometimes rival Ultraman in his quest to purge the Earth of weakness. However she herself saw men as the embodiment of weakness and planned to eventually kill Ultraman himself. He killed her first.
Owlman-
For the majority of Thomas Wayne's life he was chronically bored. He had the largest fortune in the world and he didn't have to work for a cent. For some men a wife and son would have been enough but not for Thomas. At first he experimented with gambling, drink, debauchery and petty theft. But this took a cruel turn. He got a taste, and in fact an obssession, for violence and senseless murder. He enjoyed brutalizing and scaring people. And thus a new personality was born. A psychopathic murderer and darkly obssessive individual who shadowed himself with a disguise. A mask of intimidation. A creature of the night. Thomas Wayne was the original Owlman. When Bruce Wayne caught a glimpse of his father one night in costume both of their lives changed forever.
Johnny Quick-
Born with amazing abilities, Jay Garrick became the worlds fastest pickpocket but his talents were wasted. He amassed a great fortune. And got bored. But his gifts had caught the attentions of another dark and obsessive individual. The Owlman. Recruiting had begun.
Power Ring-
When confronted by a glowing, green flame most men would not know what to do and few would agree with the offer of a disembodied voice. A voice that promised it would come three times for great purpose. Once to grant life. Once for death. And this time to grant great power. The voice called itself Volthoom and promised it would grant power to Alan Scott if he promised to use it for violence and to spread fear. He is now Power Ring.
Barracuda-
Years ago an Attlantean Queen had a one night stand with a surface dweller. Orin was the result of this. Washed up as an infant, he was raised on land and slowly began to learn of his origins. With his great powers he bacame a diver and collected endagered species from the reef to sell on the black market. After having met Ultraman he proclaimed himself King of Atlantis and Ruler of the Seven Seas. He has since killed an Atlantean gaurd that attempted to arrest him. He stole the armour and claims it is his royal garb.

Many, many, many thanks to DTB for the Captain Cold who I only edited face wise and gave a gun from a template set. hes helping me alot with this project! Cheers m8!

Urban DC's 'Justice'


Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Flash, Green Lantern, The Martian, Orin, Hawkman, Atom, Green Arrow, The Marvel,

Urban Teen Titans-

Nightwing, Superboy, Wondergirl, Kid Flash, Tempest, Arsenal, Starfire, Raven, Cyborg, Beast Boy

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Earth 3's 'CSA'


Ultraman, Superwoman, Owlman, Johnny Quick, Power Ring, Martian Maneater, Barracuda, Warbird, Germ, Darkbow, The Horror

Urban Teen Terrors-

Raptor, Ultraling, Supergirl, Johhny. B Quicke, Pike, Quiver, Princess Koriand'r, Dove, Virus, Feral

Okay so I google searched images of them and yeah youre right lol. not intentional but lol and if you look close just before john paul jones ive done Michael Jackson

Really impressive work, Q! What an onslaught of designs. I can only imagine the amount of time and work that went into this.

Some of these designs aren't exactly my cup of tea, but some of them are really sharp and exceptionally cool. Great stuff, sir!