Triathalon

Avengers Month continues with Triathalon of the Perez/Busiek Avengers!

I decided on doing Triathalon mainly to finish up the second lineup from this creative team. But I honestly do like the character. He’s really neat to see in a comic, because he’s got very ill-defined powers. He should have rigidly-defined powers: he’s supposed to have three times the physical capabilities as peak human levels. So you get your Guiness Book of World Records, find an entry, triple it, and that’s what Triathalon does. But in the comic, it’s hard to figure out just what three times peak human strength is. So he’s always doing some trick you wouldn’t expect, like somersaulting 50 feet into the air and punching a cement column in two or something. And your gut reaction is to call bullcrap, but then you figure, what the hell, let Busiek have his fun, it’s a new character.

I didn’t have to do any joint painting on this one, so the paints went on in maybe an hour. I did do some sculpting after the WIP, to smooth out the join between the Iron Fist body and the Falcon neck. I also added a big triangle for his central icon. But it was still a real simple custom. I would recommend it as a simple project to get started with customizing, except that, you know… not everyone wants a Triathalon.