Wednesday, January 14, 2009

POSTERS part 2

The first poster that came out for this series was a promotional one that featured new art by Alex. It was used for advertising purposes only so it came folded, NOT rolled, which as you know, tends to leave creases, so handle with care. This poster features little black and white mugshots of the most important players in Kingdom Come: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Shazam and on the background, The Spectre's cloack. I like this poster because it doesn't suggest comic books at all, it looks like a Rock & Roll band's CD cover, as a matter of fact, Alex got inspiration from an album by the band YES. The Kingdom Come captions on this poster (not shown) are its only drawback they are a hideous light purple color which messes up the whole color composition. I've had this poster IN MY COLLECTION for quite some time and it looks great on my wall.

This poster which came next does feature the superheroes in all their glory coming from the sky like gods coming from Olympus. I really enjoy the Michael Bay-esque sunset/sunrise behind them which gives everything a soft orange tone. As you can see this is a reinterpretation of one of the panels in KC that sports a bright blue sky instead. This is a gorgeous image, worthy of display. If you have one consider yourself lucky. Sadly, This poster is NOT IN MY COLLECTION, yet.

There was a third poster which featured the art from issues 1 to 3 of KC one stacked above the other, this images have been used ad nauseam in trading cards and t-shirts so it's not worth mentioning it any further.

What IS worth mentioning is the image below, this poster reprinted the cover of the trade paperback edition of Kingdom Come, which in its original state isn't displayed well enough, but as a poster the image of the battle just ROCKS!. This is a poster that I want to include IN MY COLLECTION, yet it's harder to find than the 2 I mentioned above, which is strange for a non-original image.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

OH WOW. I haven't seen that first poster before. LOVE IT.

Please take good care of it! lol