Take the Gloves Off

reference atlas

The Cast

Recurring entities, borrowed faces, side characters, and source-world people. Motifs repeat; cast members return.

Sunburn at the Garden

Color Guy

Friend, dog, boogieman, witness, commander, absence.

13 works

Sunburn at the Garden - A red rectangular chamber with the word DEAD sits beside a dense field of small ringed circles and rows, like…Pegasus - A white horse-like animal bends forward against a nearly black background, with a small red mark near the head and…There's No Crying In Table Tennis - A red-faced figure or mask with open mouth appears under black triangular shapes, with small objects and a hand-like…Walking the Dog - A yellow-suited figure walks across a green field holding dark objects, with a loose dog-like or bag-like black…My Friend Color Guy - A red outlined character or creature faces a black silhouette on a red-brown ground, with a glowing red profile and…
Friend of Akuma

Peco

Hero-body, beach friend, ping pong pressure, red-sun face.

3 works

Friend of Akuma - A pale-faced figure with black hair occupies the right side of a dark interior; green angular forms and a small red…Sunburn - A yellow circular face or sun with wide eyes sits in front of a red star shape, with the word smile near the upper…Buckshot - A black-haired child-like figure in a red jacket holds or bites a white object, standing on a brown floor with a red…
Humility (TEETH)

Muhammad Ali

Boxer, icon, fellow painter, heroic public body.

7 works

Humility (TEETH) - Two frontal heads share a scene with a narrow architectural or tunnel-like white shape between them and warm brown…Baptism of Icarus - A green standing figure raises one arm beside a white wing-like form against blue, red, and black horizontal bands.Eighteen Hundred Thousand - A dark portrait head in a red helmet or hood appears before a blue starry ground, with a white panel and red stars…Take The Gloves Off - A raised white hand and a bright, shouting figure appear against black, red, yellow, and pale blue bands.Father Stretch My Hands - A tall red-clothed lower body stands in a dark ring-like space, with white shorts, gloves, and a small blue figure…
Akuma

Akuma

Masked pressure from Ping Pong; quiet threat and held role.

1 works

Akuma - A pale side-profile head wearing glasses or a mask sits in the lower half of a blue-green room with a red ringed…
I AM NOT A JOKE

Daffy Duck

Butt-artist, stage body, pronoun trouble, brave humiliation.

1 works

I AM NOT A JOKE - A collage-like scene includes a rabbit head, a record or circular object, a red square, a bird-like head, ladder…
I AM NOT A JOKE

Bugs Bunny

Ladder access, rhetorical immunity, the joke's clean operator.

1 works

I AM NOT A JOKE - A collage-like scene includes a rabbit head, a record or circular object, a red square, a bird-like head, ladder…
Xman Dies

XMan

A closed death cycle: body, ghost, reaper, title, aftermath.

4 works

Xman Dies - Three panels, one fall: a WHITE sun — not red — and a dark moon over a grasping hand, a curled figure in the spiral…Xman Dies (Ghost) - The white sun and the dark moon share the sky; a pale hand grasps through the panel.Xman Dies (Reaper) - A figure curled inside the spiral — going under or coming around.Xman Dies (Xman) - The X-eyed man crossed out at the center of the wreckage.
Super Ducky

Super Ducky

Cartoon heroism at its smallest and cleanest.

1 works

Super Ducky - A brown duck with a yellow star eye under blue rain dashes — SUPER Ducky.
Sunburn at the Garden

Smile

A recurring face-command: funny, forced, exposed, sometimes wrong.

15 works

Sunburn at the Garden - A red rectangular chamber with the word DEAD sits beside a dense field of small ringed circles and rows, like…Humility (TEETH) - Two frontal heads share a scene with a narrow architectural or tunnel-like white shape between them and warm brown…My Friend Color Guy - A red outlined character or creature faces a black silhouette on a red-brown ground, with a glowing red profile and…Sunburn - A yellow circular face or sun with wide eyes sits in front of a red star shape, with the word smile near the upper…QUIT SKATEBOARDING - A figure in a pink cape or hoodie faces forward with an orange head area above, black side shapes, and a small dark…