Artist Gives Harry Potter Space-Opera Update

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

This idea needs to be sent back into the fanfic realms where it belongs. If you take a good look in that gallery it would seem that the artist (while more talented than I will ever be) is a bit of a Harry/Snape fangirl. That would NEVER bode well for any kind of mainstream title. Sad in a way I suppose.


But yeah if my picks are jetting around the universe with Harry Potter or Jean Luc Picard then shit sign me up for Starfleet Academy.

 

[Super Toast]

That's kinda cool I guess.

 

[Asuka Soryu]

That art style seems nice. Not needing to worry that the arms don't look realistic. Gah, I hate how tiring it is to make realistic arms and hands without screwing up.

 

[carpathic]

There is a pretty fascinating almost art-deco stylization of the characters that I find to be highly engaging.

An interesting concept also!

 

[Paradoxrifts]

To paraphrase the good shepherd Book, "There is a special level of hell for those who create fan fiction. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater."

 

[Kinokohatake]

did.. did i hear you right? this is the SECOND kind of re-imagining??? you really think it's genius to take someone else idea and stick the word "space" on it as an excuse to carry on the storyline (which btw, NO-ONE has any right to do!), this is cheesey and naff! yes, i like the character designs but this isn't a storyline ANYONE has ANY right to tamper with, not even J.K! it just ended too well!

What?

Do you not know what fan-fiction is?

People can write whatever the hell they want in any pre-established universe that they choose and as far as those go, the Potterverse is probably one of the most popular. I'd love to see you stumble on a Potter fanfic forum with all their different stories, not the least of which would include Harry and Ron being lovers...

Exactly. I personally find the idea fantastic. If you think this is bad, compare this to "My Immortal" HP fanfic.

How would Zero Gravity Quidditch be any different?

you lose the ability to horribly fall to your death.

If this was Facebook, I would "Like" this comment.

 

[rokkolpo]

How would Zero Gravity Quidditch be any different?

you lose the ability to horribly fall to your death.

Or you could fall eternally, just having a fate worse than death.

FUCK YEAH!!!

Falling eternally would imply that they actually will take the time to feed him and give him drinks but don't care enough to save him.

xD FUCK YEHUUUUUUH!!!

 

[Ravek]

The character design is okay, the drawings are bad.

 

[Paradoxrifts]

Do you not know what fan-fiction is?

It is the literary version of graffiti. The analogy is both concise and fitting.

 

[Gabanuka]

The picks are awesome, but being the Pot head I am, I need to pont out that Luna is in Ravenclaw.

 

[wolf92]

This is too epic for words. But I'll try
EPIC
AWESOME
EPICLY AWESOMELY EPIC
TIMES TWO

 

[Nieroshai]

This requires a COMPLETE rewrite based on the art, which makes me wonder why bother with the resemblance in the first place? To go from Harry Potter to what seems to be the plot of Mass Effect seems a bit of a stretch. And Slytherin is an enemy fleet, not a pretentious other house, and Voldemort's their leader? Did she just glance over a wiki for three minutes before drawing these?

 

[Death God]

It's pretty cool but I am a Harry Potter fan and I still like the original ideas better. But it is interesting and different.

 

[Ih8pkmn]

what the- uh- bwuh-

Well. This looks better than some of the Potter movies, at any rate.

Flame shield up, Weasley! Full power!

 

[standokan]

I am only interested in spacehagrid, which she didn't make D:, i like voldemort though.

 

[Svenparty]

CAN I GET A FUCK YEAH?

Spoiler: FUCK YEAH!!!11!!

Space Wizzards? Why does no one do this? Space + Magic + 1950s space Opera Asthetic/World would equal Awsomeness.

.....It's called Star Wars? They may not wear pointy hads but you can't say that shooting lightning and moving objects around IN SPACE isn't what a Space Wizard is.

 

[OceanRunner]

These are fantastic! But where is Luna's raddish neclace?

 

[Therumancer]

Hmmm, well to be honest I kind of think stuff like this moves in a circular direction. I have been thinking that the next big kid/young adult fad that went beyond them was going to be something science fiction related. Not this per se, but something with a similar vibe to a "Harry Potter In Space". The "Space Cadet" used to be a stereotype for a reason, and I'd imagine it's so old that it's new now, not to mention that one of the most influential science fiction characters you've never likely heard of is "Telezy Amberdon" is is a psionic school girl (and honor student) written by James Schmidt in his "Federation Of The Hub" stories which themselves inspired a ridiculous number of the science fiction staples you see today.

Look at this as sort of being prophetic, we probably won't see any kind of direct "Harry Potter in space" works, but give it a decade or so and you'll probably be looking at something very similar to what shown here without the iconic characters. Complete with people saying "hey this is just Harry Potter in space!", similar to how when Harry Potter got started people were talking about how similar it was to some other ideas about apprentice wizards, albiet a lot of the referances were not things known to the mainstream. Harry Potter succeeded more on the merits of doing what it did well, rather than being totally original, and we're liable to see that again.

Sadly, at 35 it probably won't be until I'm grandparent-age (even if I never plan to have children or grand children) until we see another serious attempt at Young Adult Horror. When things like "Fear Street" came out I was getting old enough to be outside the target audience (and always read above my age level anyway) but could appreciate the attempt for what it was, and thought the contreversy at the time was a good thing. Sadly it died out though, and the author(s) decided to focus on the far less offensive and contreversial "Goosebumps" which remains a franchise to this day.

Ah well, my rambling is getting increasingly irrelevent.

Neat art work though, a little too heavily stylized for my tastes though. Makes me think I'm looking at an Esurance commercial.