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April 20, 2006
Celebrating One Year Birthday...With Justice!
Today is the one year anniversary of Photon Torpedoes. We're having fun writing bitchy and misanthropic posts on almost daily basis. I wasn't sure if we could continue this past a year, but it still seems like fun. Keep watching during the next week because I'm cooking up a little Gil Kane Gallery, which I hoped to have ready today, but this also happens to be my last day of work at my current company.
I'm really starting to dig Alex Ross and Jim Krueger's Justice series. Ross has thrown everything into this that he loves about the DC Universe. The Legion of Doom's master plan is starting to be revealed and it's quite a doozy. They seem to know the secret identities of the superheroes and they are trying to overpower them one by one. I'm worried about Aquaman, who looks like he's been dissected by Braniac in a laboratory. Superman was almost destroyed by the perfect trio of Parasite, Bizarro Superman, and Metallo. I love Ross' version of Bizarro Superman, he looks like Frankenstein with super-powers. When this project was started, I had doubts about Doug Braithwaite providing the pencils\breakdowns for Ross' painting, but they mesh perfectly together. As you can see above in that full page view of Superman getting saved by the Big Red Cheese.
I have to confess that I love it whenever Wonder Woman fights Cheetah. I loved it during the Golden Age stories by Moulton, during the Perez revamp, and Ross' version of this conflict is titillating as hell. There's something here I can't figure out: how can Cheetah hold Wonder Woman down by squatting on her back? WW is almost as powerful as Superman. Diana has been poisoned by Heracles' Lament, a centaur's poison, so she's possibly in a weakened state.
I think my biggest fanboy moment must have been the time that Alex Ross appeared on World Talk Radio's Comic Zone. I told him: "I love your work and I buy everything you do!" Sheesh, but it's the truth. I have the Marvels poster framed on my wall, and several additional Ross posters are in my closet because I have no where to hang them. Nuff said.
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Ah! The Big Red Cheese! It is quite possible no other character could be so awesome and yet so goofy at the same time. Great blog by the way.
Posted by: Norman | April 20, 2006 10:26 AM
