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* While [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Spider-Man's]] basic design has stayed pretty consistent, there's been a number of changes throughout the years. When he was first drawn by Creator/SteveDitko, Spidey's eyes were much smaller, and he had web nets underneath his arms. When John Romita took over drawing, the web wings grew smaller, and his eyes grew a little larger. By the '80s, the web wings were completely gone, and the eyes started being drawn absolutely huge compared to Ditko's art style. Today, the eye size still fluctuates from artist to artist, but hardly anyone includes the web wings.
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* ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'' changed artists between volumes 1 and 2.

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* ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'' changed artists between volumes 1 and 2. And if you compare Charlie Adlard's art from Volume 2 to the art in the present day, that looks quite different as well.
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** Parodied/Lampshaded in a ''DorkTower'' strip celebrating ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'''s 30th anniversary. The strip purports to show how the three strips then running have evolved over the years. A genuine early Nodwick, crude stick figures that are supposed to be "early ''[[Creator/PhilFoglio What's New?]]''", and an "early Carson the Muskrat" ... who is actually Webcomic/{{Yamara}}.

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** Parodied/Lampshaded in a ''DorkTower'' ''Webcomic/DorkTower'' strip celebrating ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'''s 30th anniversary. The strip purports to show how the three strips then running have evolved over the years. A genuine early Nodwick, crude stick figures that are supposed to be "early ''[[Creator/PhilFoglio What's New?]]''", and an "early Carson the Muskrat" ... who is actually Webcomic/{{Yamara}}.
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*John Green's style changes from being semi-realistic to having a simple and cartoony style throughout volume 1 of ''ComicBook/JaxEpochAndTheQuickenForbidden''
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* ''{{Nodwick}}'' gradually got more stylised during its time in ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' magazine. Most notably, in the early strips, Nodwick's nose and Piffany's glasses are both realistically sized. (One strip suggests Nodwick's nose has gained mass to balance out the stuff he's expected to carry on his back, and in an interview Aaron Willia says Piffany's eyes keep getting wider with shock at what her teammates get up to.)

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* ''{{Nodwick}}'' ''ComicStrip/{{Nodwick}}'' gradually got more stylised during its time in ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' magazine. Most notably, in the early strips, Nodwick's nose and Piffany's glasses are both realistically sized. (One strip suggests Nodwick's nose has gained mass to balance out the stuff he's expected to carry on his back, and in an interview Aaron Willia says Piffany's eyes keep getting wider with shock at what her teammates get up to.)



* This also happened with LoveAndCapes, between [[http://www.loveandcapes.com/readit/lnc0104.html the first appearance of Abby and Mark]] and [[http://www.loveandcapes.com/readit/lnc0145.html just an issue later.]]
* ''ArchieComics'' has gone through some serious redesigns over the past 50+ years. The art was simplified sometime within the 60s or 70s and occasionally Archie tries out a new design - to which they always return to the "classic" one in the end.

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* This also happened with LoveAndCapes, ''Creator/LoveAndCapes'', between [[http://www.loveandcapes.com/readit/lnc0104.html the first appearance of Abby and Mark]] and [[http://www.loveandcapes.com/readit/lnc0145.html just an issue later.]]
* ''ArchieComics'' ''Franchise/ArchieComics'' has gone through some serious redesigns over the past 50+ years. The art was simplified sometime within the 60s or 70s and occasionally Archie tries out a new design - to which they always return to the "classic" one in the end.
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* ''ComicBook/DruidCity'': The series starts with a [[http://druidcitycomic.com/comic/volume-1-page-092/ very simple, poorly penned style]], done entirely with a computer mouse. The artist for the series originally wanted to place as many limits on himself as possible. The methods changed starting in [[http://druidcitycomic.com/comic/volume-2-page-012/ Volume 2]], where everything is drawn with a stylus and the artist has more experience with the personal style used in the series. Now that Volume 3 has started, the artist has also announced that Volume 1 will be redone with a stylus and more detail, so as to not scare away new readers.
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* ''ZipiYZape'': Compare [[http://www.recuerdas.es/tebeos/zipi-y-zape-por-josep-escobar-primera-historieta-publicada-en-la-revista-pulgarcito-numero-57-en-1948.php this]] and [[http://www.tenyten.com/entretenimiento-infantil-destacadas/humor/1066/zipi-y-zape-se-pasan-al-cine this]].

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* ''ZipiYZape'': ''ComicBook/ZipiYZape'': Compare [[http://www.recuerdas.es/tebeos/zipi-y-zape-por-josep-escobar-primera-historieta-publicada-en-la-revista-pulgarcito-numero-57-en-1948.php this]] and [[http://www.tenyten.com/entretenimiento-infantil-destacadas/humor/1066/zipi-y-zape-se-pasan-al-cine this]].
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* Noticeable in TheBeano when David Law was drawing ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUK the character actually grew over the years from a small child who looked about 8 to by the 70s the character was lanky almost teenage looking character. The character's design stayed constant when David Sutherland took over drawing him in the 70s and then finally the character was made smaller and younger looking in the 90s in time for the AnimatedAdaptation.

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* Noticeable in TheBeano ComicBook/TheBeano when David Law was drawing ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUK the character actually grew over the years from a small child who looked about 8 to by the 70s the character was lanky almost teenage looking character. The character's design stayed constant when David Sutherland took over drawing him in the 70s and then finally the character was made smaller and younger looking in the 90s in time for the AnimatedAdaptation.
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* Likewise fellow Anarctic series ''NinjaHighSchool'' did so as well. Starting off from a look reminiscent of Golden Age comics to a more cartoony look giving the characters wider eyes and less thick outlines.

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* Likewise fellow Anarctic series ''NinjaHighSchool'' ''ComicBook/NinjaHighSchool'' did so as well. Starting off from a look reminiscent of Golden Age comics to a more cartoony look giving the characters wider eyes and less thick outlines.
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* ''MortadeloYFilemon'' looked [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DBGRwBG2dbk/T2Gk4GhEfrI/AAAAAAAABW4/p9ewIdezEKk/s1600/mortadelo+y+filem%C3%B3n.gif like this]] in 1956. And [[http://www.oconowocc.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/OLE-N-%C2%A6191-Mortadelo-Filemon.jpg this is the cover]] for one of their latest books.

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* ''MortadeloYFilemon'' ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'' looked [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DBGRwBG2dbk/T2Gk4GhEfrI/AAAAAAAABW4/p9ewIdezEKk/s1600/mortadelo+y+filem%C3%B3n.gif like this]] in 1956. And [[http://www.oconowocc.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/OLE-N-%C2%A6191-Mortadelo-Filemon.jpg this is the cover]] for one of their latest books.
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* Creator/FrankMiller appears to be a complete ''inversion'' of the trope, with his quality taking a nosedive between ''ComicBook/SinCity'' and ''HolyTerror''. In ''TheDarkKnightReturns'', Miller made the effort to include detail and backgrounds. But after ''Sin City'', Miller made all of his art resemble the gritty minimalism of that work at the expense of background, detail, realism, and eventually any sense as sequential art, while experimenting with... ''questionable'' new methods. Of particular notoriety was his use of cheap Photoshop effects as substitutes for backgrounds in ''TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain''.

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* Creator/FrankMiller appears to be a complete ''inversion'' of the trope, with his quality taking a nosedive between ''ComicBook/SinCity'' and ''HolyTerror''. ''ComicBook/HolyTerror''. In ''TheDarkKnightReturns'', ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightReturns'', Miller made the effort to include detail and backgrounds. But after ''Sin City'', Miller made all of his art resemble the gritty minimalism of that work at the expense of background, detail, realism, and eventually any sense as sequential art, while experimenting with... ''questionable'' new methods. Of particular notoriety was his use of cheap Photoshop effects as substitutes for backgrounds in ''TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain''.''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain''.
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* This can be semi-justified in ''ComicBook/{{Noob}}'' by the fact that it's set in a {{MMORPG}} and character designs imply that avatars gradually change their head to body ratio from "super-deformed" to almost normal-looking as they level up. Fantöm, however, is already at maximal level when the story starts and in first shown with a slightly muscular upper body. Later on, the upper muscles became much more impressive and his legs very thin.

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* This can be semi-justified in ''ComicBook/{{Noob}}'' by the fact that it's set in a {{MMORPG}} and character designs imply that avatars gradually change their head to body ratio from "super-deformed" to almost normal-looking as they level up. Fantöm, however, is already at maximal level when the story starts and in is first shown with a slightly muscular upper body. Later on, the upper muscles became much more impressive and his legs very thin. Ystos is noticeably subject to that too, but it may have been done one purpose as his player gets introduced in an unexpected real life scene and taking the opportunity to update his design was the best way to keep the reader from immediately realizing that it was him.
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* Creator/FrankMiller appears to be a complete ''inversion'' of the trope, with his quality taking a sharp nosedive between ''ComicBook/SinCity'' and ''HolyTerror''. In ''TheDarkKnightReturns'', Miller made the effort to include detail and backgrounds. But after ''Sin City'', Miller made all of his art resemble the gritty minimalism of that work at the expense of background, detail, realism, and eventually any sense as sequential art, while experimenting with... ''questionable'' new methods. Of particular notoriety was his use of cheap Photoshop effects as substitutes for backgrounds in ''TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain''.

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* Creator/FrankMiller appears to be a complete ''inversion'' of the trope, with his quality taking a sharp nosedive between ''ComicBook/SinCity'' and ''HolyTerror''. In ''TheDarkKnightReturns'', Miller made the effort to include detail and backgrounds. But after ''Sin City'', Miller made all of his art resemble the gritty minimalism of that work at the expense of background, detail, realism, and eventually any sense as sequential art, while experimenting with... ''questionable'' new methods. Of particular notoriety was his use of cheap Photoshop effects as substitutes for backgrounds in ''TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain''.
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* Creator/FrankMiller appears to be a complete ''inversion'' of the trope, with his quality of his art taking a sharp nosedive between ''ComicBook/SinCity'' and ''HolyTerror''. In ''TheDarkKnightReturns'', Miller made the effort to include detail and backgrounds. But after ''Sin City'', Miller made all of his art resemble the gritty minimalism of that work at the expense of background, detail, realism, and eventually any sense as sequential art, while experimenting with... ''questionable'' new methods. Of particular notoriety was his use of cheap Photoshop effects as substitutes for backgrounds in ''TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain''.

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* Creator/FrankMiller appears to be a complete ''inversion'' of the trope, with his quality of his art taking a sharp nosedive between ''ComicBook/SinCity'' and ''HolyTerror''. In ''TheDarkKnightReturns'', Miller made the effort to include detail and backgrounds. But after ''Sin City'', Miller made all of his art resemble the gritty minimalism of that work at the expense of background, detail, realism, and eventually any sense as sequential art, while experimenting with... ''questionable'' new methods. Of particular notoriety was his use of cheap Photoshop effects as substitutes for backgrounds in ''TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain''.
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* Creator/FrankMiller appears to be a complete ''inversion'' of the trope, with his quality of his art taking a sharp nosedive between ''ComicBook/SinCity'' and ''HolyTerror''. In ''TheDarkKnightReturns'', Miller made the effort to include detail and backgrounds. But after ''Sin City'', Miller made all of his art resemble the gritty style of that work at the expense of background, detail, realism, and eventually any sense as sequential art, while experimenting with... ''questionable'' new methods. Of particular notoriety was his use of cheap Photoshop effects as substitutes for backgrounds in ''TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain''.

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* Creator/FrankMiller appears to be a complete ''inversion'' of the trope, with his quality of his art taking a sharp nosedive between ''ComicBook/SinCity'' and ''HolyTerror''. In ''TheDarkKnightReturns'', Miller made the effort to include detail and backgrounds. But after ''Sin City'', Miller made all of his art resemble the gritty style minimalism of that work at the expense of background, detail, realism, and eventually any sense as sequential art, while experimenting with... ''questionable'' new methods. Of particular notoriety was his use of cheap Photoshop effects as substitutes for backgrounds in ''TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain''.

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* Likewise fellow Anartic series ''NinjaHighSchool'' did so as well. Starting off from a look reminiscent of Golden Age comics to a more cartoony look giving the characters wider eyes and less thick outlines.

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* ''ComicBook/{{XMen}}'' is a prime, often jarring example of this. Compare their [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks very first]] [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/Magnetodebut.png appearance]] [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks to]] Creator/RobLiefeld's [[http://cache.coverbrowser.com/image/uncanny-x-men/245-6.jpg tenure]] to their [[UsefulNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks modern]] [[http://media.comicbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/UncannyXMen_1_Cover.jpg incarnation.]]
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* ''ComicBook/{{XMen}}'' is a prime, often jarring example of this. Compare their [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks very first]] [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/Magnetodebut.png appearance]] [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks to]] Creator/Rob Liefeld 's [[http://cache.coverbrowser.com/image/uncanny-x-men/245-6.jpg tenure]] to their [[UsefulNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks modern]] [[http://media.comicbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/UncannyXMen_1_Cover.jpg incarnation.]]

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* ''ComicBook/{{XMen}}'' is a prime, often jarring example of this. Compare their [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks very first]] [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/Magnetodebut.png appearance]] [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks to]] Creator/Rob Liefeld 's Creator/RobLiefeld's [[http://cache.coverbrowser.com/image/uncanny-x-men/245-6.jpg tenure]] to their [[UsefulNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks modern]] [[http://media.comicbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/UncannyXMen_1_Cover.jpg incarnation.]]
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* ''ComicBook/{{XMen}}'' is a prime, often jarring example of this. Compare their [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks very first]] [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/Magnetodebut.png appearance]] [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks to]] Creator/Rob Liefeld's [[http://cache.coverbrowser.com/image/uncanny-x-men/245-6.jpg tenure]] to their [[UsefulNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks modern]] [[http://media.comicbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/UncannyXMen_1_Cover.jpg incarnation.]]

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* ''ComicBook/{{XMen}}'' is a prime, often jarring example of this. Compare their [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks very first]] [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/Magnetodebut.png appearance]] [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks to]] Creator/Rob Liefeld's Liefeld 's [[http://cache.coverbrowser.com/image/uncanny-x-men/245-6.jpg tenure]] to their [[UsefulNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks modern]] [[http://media.comicbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/UncannyXMen_1_Cover.jpg incarnation.]]
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* ''ComicBook/{{XMen}}'' is a prime, often jarring example of this. Compare their [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks very first]] [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/Magnetodebut.png appearance]] [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks to]] [[Creator/Rob Liefeld]]'s [[http://cache.coverbrowser.com/image/uncanny-x-men/245-6.jpg tenure]] to their [[UsefulNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks modern]] [[http://media.comicbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/UncannyXMen_1_Cover.jpg incarnation.]]

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* ''ComicBook/{{XMen}}'' is a prime, often jarring example of this. Compare their [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks very first]] [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/Magnetodebut.png appearance]] [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks to]] [[Creator/Rob Liefeld]]'s Creator/Rob Liefeld's [[http://cache.coverbrowser.com/image/uncanny-x-men/245-6.jpg tenure]] to their [[UsefulNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks modern]] [[http://media.comicbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/UncannyXMen_1_Cover.jpg incarnation.]]
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* ''ComicBook/{{XMen}}'' is a prime, often jarring example of this. Compare their [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks very first]] [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/Magnetodebut.png appearance]] [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks to]] [[Creator:Rob Liefeld]]'s [[http://cache.coverbrowser.com/image/uncanny-x-men/245-6.jpg tenure]] to their [[UsefulNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks modern]] [[http://media.comicbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/UncannyXMen_1_Cover.jpg incarnation.]]

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* ''ComicBook/{{XMen}}'' is a prime, often jarring example of this. Compare their [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks very first]] [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/Magnetodebut.png appearance]] [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks to]] [[Creator:Rob [[Creator/Rob Liefeld]]'s [[http://cache.coverbrowser.com/image/uncanny-x-men/245-6.jpg tenure]] to their [[UsefulNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks modern]] [[http://media.comicbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/UncannyXMen_1_Cover.jpg incarnation.]]
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* ''ComicBook/{{XMen}}'' is a prime, often jarring example of this. Compare their [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks very first]] [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/Magnetodebut.png appearance]] [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks to]] [[Creator:Rob Leifeld]]'s [[http://cache.coverbrowser.com/image/uncanny-x-men/245-6.jpg tenure]] to their [[UsefulNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks modern]] [[http://media.comicbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/UncannyXMen_1_Cover.jpg incarnation.]]

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* ''ComicBook/{{XMen}}'' is a prime, often jarring example of this. Compare their [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks very first]] [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/Magnetodebut.png appearance]] [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks to]] [[Creator:Rob Leifeld]]'s Liefeld]]'s [[http://cache.coverbrowser.com/image/uncanny-x-men/245-6.jpg tenure]] to their [[UsefulNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks modern]] [[http://media.comicbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/UncannyXMen_1_Cover.jpg incarnation.]]
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* ''ComicBook/{{XMen}}'' is a prime, often jarring example of this. Compare their [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks very first]] [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/Magnetodebut.png appearance]] [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks to]] [[Creator/Rob Leifeld]]'s [[http://cache.coverbrowser.com/image/uncanny-x-men/245-6.jpg tenure]] to their [[UsefulNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks modern]] [[http://media.comicbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/UncannyXMen_1_Cover.jpg incarnation.]]

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* Naturally, every [[TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] character has gone through this. For example, Franchise/{{Superman}}'s emblem wasn't quite the shape we know today when he first came out. Also, Franchise/{{Batman}}'s costume was modified a lot in the first few stories and, appropriately enough, it wasn't until Robin debuted that Bob Kane had come up with all the main elements of the design.

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* Naturally, every [[TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] character has gone through this. For example, Franchise/{{Superman}}'s emblem wasn't quite the shape we know today when he first came out. Also, Franchise/{{Batman}}'s costume was modified a lot in the first few stories and, appropriately enough, it wasn't until Robin debuted that Bob Kane had come up with all the main elements of the design.
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* In ''GenerationX'', Skin has the mutant power of extra skin that he can control at will, sort of a pseudo-RubberMan. However, it left him grey-skinned and ugly in the beginning. But by the end of the book's run, he had this roguish handsomeness going on. It's never addressed in the books, but it's fun to imagine that as he found new ways to make his powers useful, he began altering his appearance, or that his improved self-image made him more attractive on the outside.

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* In ''GenerationX'', ''ComicBook/GenerationX'', Skin has the mutant power of extra skin that he can control at will, sort of a pseudo-RubberMan. However, it left him grey-skinned and ugly in the beginning. But by the end of the book's run, he had this roguish handsomeness going on. It's never addressed in the books, but it's fun to imagine that as he found new ways to make his powers useful, he began altering his appearance, or that his improved self-image made him more attractive on the outside.
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* Phil Foglio's work on his own BuckGodotZapGunForHire can be seen to become more streamlined, distinctive and iconic with literally every single installment of the series.

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* Phil Foglio's work on his own BuckGodotZapGunForHire ''ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire'' can be seen to become more streamlined, distinctive and iconic with literally every single installment of the series.
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** Parodied/Lampshaded in a ''DorkTower'' strip celebrating ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'''s 30th anniversary. The strip purports to show how the three strips then running have evolved over the years. A genuine early Nodwick, crude stick figures that are supposed to be "early ''[[PhilFoglio What's New?]]''", and an "early Carson the Muskrat" ... who is actually Webcomic/{{Yamara}}.

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** Parodied/Lampshaded in a ''DorkTower'' strip celebrating ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'''s 30th anniversary. The strip purports to show how the three strips then running have evolved over the years. A genuine early Nodwick, crude stick figures that are supposed to be "early ''[[PhilFoglio ''[[Creator/PhilFoglio What's New?]]''", and an "early Carson the Muskrat" ... who is actually Webcomic/{{Yamara}}.

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