Just read Hivebusters, and though it’s a pretty good comic, I noted their appearances shifting early on. The way the hivebusters look now, save for Mac who received the big change, is how they look on the cover art. However, read through a bit and you’ll see their appearance is all over the place. In some sections, Mac looks like the new overhauled Mac. In other sections, he looks like someone else. He never looks the way he does on the cover in the actual comic. Overall though, he is probably closer to the comic book with how they changed him now, even though the previous version is preferred. Keegan has a long face in some drawings. Lahni looks like a totally different person in various parts of the comic. It’s as if there were different artists working on different chapters. Either that, or the guy drawing wasn’t going by a reference photo as he drew them and also didn’t reference his earlier drawings. I didn’t take photos of my comic book, but here’s a few a found online just as evidence of what I’m saying.
Front cover, this is how they look (save for Mac) in game now:
One example of how they look in some parts of the comic
Note Mac’s altered appearance:
Another example of Keegan and Lahni:
Note how Lahni looks like someone else entirely here:
The examples go on and on, but I can’t bog this down with photo links. Hopefully, the point is clear whoever was drawing them was just all over the place. What point am I trying to make? Well, one I guess is that the artists were inconsistent in drawing them. And two, I guess is the fact that they don’t have a consistent appearance pretty much gives TC license to change their look whenever, however they desire because there’s no “set” way they actually look in the first place.
