Luke Cage

Avengers Month continues with Luke Cage in his New Avengers non-costume!

I’ve seen quite a few customs that just take Guile and repaint the skin. In the first year of New Avengers, Luke would never wear the same thing twice, so it fit. I tried the same thing: turning the Guile camo pants into jeans, turning his green a-shirt black, and repainting the skin. But first, I’ve never heard of a black a-shirt, and second, I got crazy paint rub on the shoulders. I had to sand them down drastically, and they no longer looked like musculature.

Actually in the latest New Avengers, Cage wore a black A-shirt. It's a ridiculous thing no one else can buy! It's his superhero costume!

So post-Civil War, Luke Cage is always in a black t-shirt. I went back to my custom and added a collar and sleeves, and repainted those parts black. Now the savaged shoulders can be fabric, and the whole thing looks better. I’d still prefer if Luke Cage, superhero, had a costume. But this has been the status quo for long enough for me to become enured to the whole thing.