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Published: 2008-09-22 09:45:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 1220; Favourites: 38; Downloads: 0
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Iβm a big fan of the painter Alex Ross and years ago he came up with a project that I believe was going to be called Portraits of Evil or Villainy, Either way it was going to be fully painted portraits of the villains of the DC Universe but for whatever reason this never happened and the art was never used as far as I remember. I saw a few thumbnail sketches of some of the portraits on the internet and the one that grabbed my attention the most was my favorite Batman villain Two-Face.I took the very blurry thumbnail and redrew it in my style and then colored it without keeping the majority of the black lines in the piece to make it more like a painting or animation cell and this is the result.
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He's my all time favorite
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The Duke of Duality has always been my favorite Batman villain.
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He's been my favorite since I first started reading Batman comics.
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Another great idea wasted by the good people of DC. This is an excellent piece as well as idea. I like the design choices and the clairity of the coin face.
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Yeah, even if they had released it as a trading card series it still would have been something. Besides Two-Face, the Joker, Darkseid, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy and Gorilla Grodd were already in the pencil stages before the whole thing was shit-canned. If they were smart Marvel would snatch up this idea for their next Marvel Masterpieces series and hire Alex Ross to do it.
I really canβt take too much credit for this picture since it was Alex Rossβ idea and composition that makes it look so good. I drew the coin from a replica I have from Batman Forever only I made it thicker and used a light effect to make it shiny.
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It is a great idea to be inspired by though. It's hard to image them scrapping Alex Ross projects. He practically rewrote (and ruined) the DC universe with Kingdom Come. I figured he could just tell them his ideas and the company would just say yes.
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From what Iβve read about him, Ross had a lot of struggles with companies when he first started out. Marvel rejected him initially when he first proposed doing an Iron Man series, which looked amazing and when he finally got hired by Dark Horse to do a Terminator series, they made him change some of his stuff because it looked too close to some celebrities and they were afraid of getting sued.
The way I see it, even now with all of his acclaim and massive fan base he still doesnβt have cart blancheβ to do whatever he wants.
I love Kingdom Come, but I really dislike that it lead into the multiverse concept coming back in the DC Universe. It kind of made the entire Crisis on Infinite Earths final outcome irrelevant and it just makes me think they are trying way too hard to become like Marvel with its Multiverse concept.
By comic book time DC has just gotten their shit together as far as continuity goes and this just seems like it will be an excuse to start ripping into classic Elseworlds storylines and throwing them into mainstream DC and diluting the essences of those great tales. They had just gotten Power Girl all straitened out and now all of a sudden her existence has become a huge issue in the JSA books and the Superman from Kingdom Come is now part of the team. Now, Gog is in the mainstream DCU and heβs created a new Magog.
Iβm sticking with the title because I really want to see how it all plays out, but they really need to stop mining Elseworlds stuff for their current storylines. At any minute I expect Frank Millerβs Dark Knight to come through a warp and start kicking the shit out of the mainstream Superman for no reason.
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I had nothing against Kingdom Come at first, in fact I made all my friends read it because I thought it was so well written. I think it was about a year later when signs of characters or similiar arcs started saturating every section of DC was when it started wearing away at my tolerance levels.
Multiverses were fun to read about, but you can't turn a corner in the DC universe without tripping over an alternate version of someone anymore. I had thought the Elseworlds were like the What If? series of Marvel.
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DC is making the same mistake Marvel made in the 1990s when they tried to turn everyone into a Frank Miller character. Whenever they get a hold of something original, the suits usually try to jam that concept into every title to boost sales. I can't blame them for wanting more money, but when they start to sacrifice originality and repress other artistic ideas in order to push their agenda, it makes the whole comic book line as a whole suffer.
Elseworlds were always supposed to be seperate, just like the What If books, but DC is clearly going overboard with the whole alternate universe trips. It's like you said, Elseworlds used to be something rare and unique and now every title has some kind of alternate universe character popping up. It dilutes the impact of having alternate universe storylines and characters when they become mainstream.
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I'll say. How many Supermen do they need in one continuity?
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at this point two. One in JLA and the Kingdom Come Supers is in the JSA. I think he's leaving after the current storyline plays out, but I'm not sure.
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Did they finally get rid of Superman Prime? I lost my taste for DC comics after he showed up in Infinity Crisis.
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Yep, he's Dead. Last I saw Superboy Prime was still running around as a bad guy.
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That is so effing lame. He turned DC into DBZ.
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exactly! three characters that they should have just left in limbo and they bring them back to kill two and turn the other into a villain for no other reason than they could. Same with Maxwell Lord and Ted Kord. Just wasteful, lame and stupid.
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I freaking miss Ted. He and Booster Gold were two favorite characters of mine. I really got sick of watching Wonder Woman break Max's neck in every comic book produced for a year and a half.
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I know, it's just a sad waste of characters for the sake of shocking people.
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