With this drawing, I had at last arrived at the look I wanted for Titanium Tom!  I imagined him as part astronaut, part the anti-hero step-brother of the Six Million Dollar Man.  Pasting the symbol for the element titanium on his shoulder sealed the deal for me!  Interestingly enough, Tom’s shiny suit got more crinkly and shinier when he appeared in the comic, and Tom himself got much beefier.  The spit curl was an afterthought, yet many people have told me that this is their favorite element of the character… Really!