Yeah, I like it too. Been thinking of a way to make it work for months. I’m going to talk it over with my tattoo artist asap. I wish to be done with this, putting a lot of money into it, but I’m not stopping until I get what I want, that’s all that’s to it. I see potential to turn it into an unbelievable piece. It’s going to bring me comfort into knowing the new direction will call for a messed up Superman and theme to the story I want it to portray.

I agree with the white as well. Here’s a couple pics of Bizzaro:

What I meant was, I’m going to go with darker-tones to the Bizzaro suite, maybe a dark blue meets purple and black shading and do a light-bluish gray tone color to the skin, then obviously have the real Superman done perfectly to the standard. The background will work out nicely as well with the purple and pink sky and darker Superman symbols in the background. Seems appropriate.

I have a lot of time and money invested like I said, and this will probably take more of both, but with the vision I have, it’ll be worth it for my mind. It’s also fun to spice it up a bit. Really put out a badass piece.

That’s the truth, haha. It’s funny how it all worked out because before the idea to do a coverup half sleeve, all I had was the symbol and a tribal band. After much thought, I said “what the hell” in covering up the tribal and going for a half-sleeve that was themed that I always wanted. Unfortunately, my older tattoo artist shit the bed (got in a Harley accident, claimed he was healthy enough to tattoo– bad mistake) forcing me to go elsewhere to find someone to fix a mess. I love my new artist and I want her to pull this off so I can be done with it for good!

That’s the plan my man! She’s good, real good. I have 100% confidence in her so we’ll see how good she is in taking the pose I shown above and tweak it into making it work. Turning my ‘now Superman’ into Bizzaro won’t be a tough task, as you said above. It’ll be nice to finally embrace his ugliness since it’ll be the new theme. We’ll see if she can earn my money and turn this thing into a beaut. If you have anything to add, feel free to suggest anything or comment! Negative obviously welcomed as well. 😎

Yeah, there’s pretty much nothing I can do at this point other than make it look as grungy and dark as possible. Make it look more dark-purpleish so to speak. There are different renditions of Bizzaro, some have the “S” as is, and some have it backwards. Most interpretations have it backwards but I’m left to make it look as dark and dull as it can get. Maybe I can throw in some backward “S” shields in the background for the effect.

Haha, Bizzaro was Superman’s arch nemesis, Lex Luthor’s, failed creation on cloning Superman so Lex can use him against Superman himself.

Instead of Lex’s creation coming out perfect, the experiment and cloning process went wrong and the clone came out all backwards of what Superman really is. He thinks backwards, talks backwards and is as imperfect as it comes to the real Superman in brains (although he has his power-set.) He even has a backwards world called “Bizzaro World” where Bizzaro himself has cloned his imperfect significant other, Bizzaro-Lois Lane.

It’s a pretty cool character, my favorite villain of Superman. Sometimes, he could be a friend, depending on how Superman deals with him as a pest or sometimes he comes around just to torment Supes and not cause any harm. In the new Superman movie coming out “Man Of Steel” in 2013, an evil Superman is rumored to make an appearance (Bizzaro.)

In fact, as soon as I went to my new artist to get it fixed, she said “He looks more like Bizzaro than Superman.” So, we can make it all work.

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Thanks man. Here are other angles in case your interested in seeing the entire tattoo.

I would obviously have to re-do the swoosh as well with darker tones. I’m thinking about having Superman inside of my arm in a fighting pose looking up at him while he’s flying away. Might sound corny in words but I have a pretty cool vision of it.