Cartoon Version / Realistic Version

 

So, I wrote this to my Trope Bingo prompt “Cartoon Version / Realistic Version.”  This is obviously another art prompt, but I am not a visual artist.  I hope this 1,374 word piece is coherent and that you find it entertaining.

For contract reasons Red Zebra Comics sent Heavy Weight a blown-up copy of a comic cover once a year.  Usually, it had their comic version of him on the cover except, of course, for the years that they weren't running a Heavy Weight comic.  One of those years had provided the artist and colourist signed and numbered copy of the cover art for the first issue of The Vermilion Queen's Return which sat behind UV blocking plexiglass on Heavy Weight's office wall.  Facing it on the opposite wall was this year's cover showing a young, buff-bodied Heavy Weight in the iconic suit the cartoon version of the hero had worn for thirty-five years wrestling with two female naga.  Red Zebra Comics had a target audience in mind for their current run of Heavy Weight comics and the artwork made it fairly clear what that audience was.

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