Another Remake/Remodel thread on the Whitechapel/Freakangels forum. This one involves redoing a deity named Glycon, a snake-god who's apparently a fraud. There was sock puppetry involved, according to historians or whoever claiming that the whole god was a hoax.

So, in my head, snake god + sock puppet = hand/snake monster who has a priest sockpuppet it uses to gather followers. And when some bum stumbles upon the truth, well... Said bum's screwed.

The description given in the thread follows:

"There was, way back in the mists of... 2007... a recurrent meme among several comics art blogs. Reclaiming characters from their owners, I guess it could be broadly described as... people were reimagining abused characters (chiefly Supergirl) as artistic call-and-response various places, chiefly LiveJournal. In the aftermath of that, I did a similar thing on old messageboard The Engine, called REMAKE/REMODEL. They were embraced as technical exercises, bits of fun, ways to get the brain moving. I think most people's favourite was the dear late Mike Wieringo's wondrous retro-aristo Buck Rogers...

I thought it might be an interesting thing to bring back here. So, once a week, I'll call a character, and you art types here can post images of your reinterpretation of that character.

NOTE: NO MORE PHOTO-MANIPULATION "art". I'll just delete them. People have been drenching recent threads with several pieces at a time that they've knocked out in photoshop in 2 minutes with no thought at all. I consider this to be taking the piss now.

The point is REinterpretation: remake/remodel.

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BY REQUEST:

Glycon was a snake god, according to the satirist Lucian, who provides the only literary reference to the deity. Lucian claimed Glycon was created in the mid-second century by the Greek prophet Alexander of Abonutichus. Lucian was ill-disposed toward the cult, calling Alexander the "oracle-monger" and accusing the whole enterprise of being a hoax—Glycon himself was supposedly a hand puppet.

Glycon is, of course, the preferred deity of Alan Moore.

Your task, as ever, is to re-invent that into something a 21st Century audience could enjoy."