: Finally re-found this piece by Dan Milligan... it was posted on the
: conceptart.org website a while back as part of their Thunderdome 5
: competition. The theme of the competition was to redesign classic game
: characters, and Dan chose the Marathon Marine for a makeover.
I always dug this one, and the style is really original in that it looks as though it belongs on a Robert Heinlein book cover from way back when, like how the future looked to a geek subculture searching for a literary escape from the nulclear madness of what was the cold war. The crouch, the flight suit style get-up, the chrome barrel, the polished, rounded shoulder armor; it all just screams 1962...
..er, uh, well, that's what Christoper Lowell said about it on the Discovery Channel...