#mon-el

[IMG ID: Portrait of Mon-El from DC Comics as a Black man. End ID]

For @creatingblackcharacters 's Melanin Beam Challenge: Mon-El (aka Lar Gand)

I've seen a lot of great Black Superman designs, so I wanted to do something for Superman's big brother friend guy he met one time big brother* and the stalwart soul of the Legion of Super-Heroes!

I based his face off Sam Cooke, since I wanted to base him off a famous singer from the 60s (which when the LoSH became big, as well as when Mon joined) and to be honest I think Sam Cooke is very handsome. I found a photo of Cooke with the most soulful, beautiful eyes and based the drawing off that. I knew I wanted to give Lar a part as a nod to his normal bangs, but also to make him look like he was from an older time period because of his 1000 years in the Phantom Zone before being freed and joining the Legion

My art for the Superfam Big Bang! @superfambigbang

I got to work on the AMAZING fic by @pocketramblr. Clark and Mon-El and cowboys and horses and adventure! I love it so so much. The world building is spectacular. You can read it on ao3 as sunny skies, hale horses, leprous leads. Here's an excerpt:

A large white horse—large as Krypto, white as Krypto, and for a heartbeat Clark thought it was Krypto, except for the mane being yellow instead of white, but who else—raced around the station and leapt up onto the platform with a thunderous crash that split the wood. But the horse didn’t even flinch at the sound or at the outcry as everyone gasped, yelped, screamed, just kept moving forward and in two steps was inside one of the train cars.

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Below the cut is more art... but BIG spoilers for the end of the fic. All chapters are out now, but be warned that this is like. big huge spoiler. Go read the fic first.

Mike Grell did these headshots of the Bronze Age-era Legion of Super-Heroes, the comic that first brought him to comic book readers' attention.

ROLL CALL (from left-to-right, top-to-bottom): Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad, Superboy, Dawnstar, Mon-El, Shadow Lass, Ultra Boy, Wildfire, Princess Projectra, Karate Kid, Phantom Girl, Shrinking Violet, Star Boy, Dream Girl, Colossal Boy, Tyroc, Light Lass, Timber Wolf, Chameleon Boy, Element Lad, Brainiac 5, Supergirl, Sun Boy, Invisible Kid, Duo Damsel, Bouncing Boy, and Matter-Eater LAd.

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