Marvel Zombies Tattoo

A few comic fans out there may have heard that in the much loved Marvel Zombies series that the original zombie plague carrier was supposed to be Superman. However, as fucking awesome as that would have been, DC refused to give Marvel the permissions. The Sentry was put in the golden boy's place and the simple recolor to achieve the ole switch-a-roo is very obvious in the trade paperback, Dead Days.

Here is an excerpt from wikipedia discussing it:



Marvel Zombies


A zombie Sentry appears in the "Crossover" story arc of Ultimate Fantastic Four. This Sentry is the source of the infection in Marvel Zombies. He is never called by name, and is only identifiable by his costume. Other aspects of his appearance are more reminiscent of Superman including short, spitcurled hair rather than the Earth-616 Sentry's long hair. The zombie Sentry is also missing a patch of his uniform roughly in the shape and location of Superman's "S" shield due to Ash shooting him in the first issue of the prequel miniseries Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness. Originally, the source of the infection was intended to be a zombie version of Superman, hence the similarities. However, due to copyright issues, trademarked names and images such as Superman's logo had to be omitted. Some reprints of Marvel Zombies have altered artwork to remove these similarities.


The zombie Sentry isn't seen again after infecting the Avengers shortly after his arrival. His fate is not revealed.


In Marvel Zombies Return, it is revealed that Sentry from Earth-Z is the original host seen in Ultimate Fantastic Four #21. After being bitten by a contaminated Hulk, the Earth-Z Sentry is trapped by Giant-Man in order to power up the Multidimensional Device owned by Uatu (the Watcher) in the Blue Area of the Moon. After Spider-Man releases Sand-Man with nanobots that destroy all zombies present (except for the Sentry himself), Uatu appears and sends Sentry into the universe that was first infected, thus beginning the infection, trapping the Sentry in a time loop and thereby containing the infection to an extent.






And here is some images for comparison:






The official page.











The intended version










Notice the the tear on the chest.










Notice again, the tear on the chest. It is oddly in the same shape as Superman's S emblem.













The Sentry. Notice the long hair.










Superman (as if you couldn't tell :P)
Just coincidence?

I decided to have a half sleeve tattoo of the original page concept done by one of the country's top artists, Donald Purvis of Asgard Ink (www.asgardink.net).

This tattoo is also covering up a lot of scarring that was self-inflicted way back in my depressive teenage years (don't be an asshole, my home life was terrible and I haven't been that person in many years. It's a story for another time, spacetime fans). It holds an underlying symbolic meaning that no matter how pure, even the golden boy can fall from grace amongst his peers.

I have only one more session to go.