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Favorite Ross Stuff?
Earth X 7%  7%  [ 2 ]
Justice 7%  7%  [ 2 ]
Marvels 53%  53%  [ 15 ]
Superpowers 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Kingdom Come 25%  25%  [ 7 ]
Dini Tabloids (Superman: Peace, Batman: Crime, etc.) 7%  7%  [ 2 ]
Uncle Sam 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
His Political Cartoons! HAW! 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
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 Post subject: Alex Ross' Best Project?
PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:21 am 
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I haven't read Justice yet, but I voted for Marvels. The tabloid books kind of bored me, as did the Earth/Universe/Paradise X books.

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I went Justice, but Kingdom Come isn't too far behind.


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I have read them all, except Superpowers. I'd rank them:

Kingdom Come > Tabloids > Justice > Uncle Sam > Marvels > Trilogy X.

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Marvels, because Ross was just acting more as "art robot." (Yes, I hate myself for using that phrase.)


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Marvels, because Ross was just acting more as "art robot." (Yes, I hate myself for using that phrase.)

You have something against 2000 A.D.? :)


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I loved the Trilogy X stuff, but I gotta go with Marvels.


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Again, Kingdom Come 'cos it had some fresh visuals (new costume designs) rather than just being photorealistic takes on things we'd already seen.

(I might be one of the few people on Earth who liked his proposed costume for the Spider-Man movies.)

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Linda wrote:
Again, Kingdom Come 'cos it had some fresh visuals (new costume designs) rather than just being photorealistic takes on things we'd already seen.

(I might be one of the few people on Earth who liked his proposed costume for the Spider-Man movies.)


I liked it, too.

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I liked Kingdom Come, because it read well, and Justice was fun, but I think I really liked the tabloid size books the best.

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In this order with my most preferred on top:

KINGDOM COME
TABLOIDS
MARVELS
JUSTICE
UNCLE SAM
SUPERPOWERS
EARTH X
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Marvels
Kingdom Come
Earth X and company
Dini Tabloids (Superman: Peace, Batman: Crime, etc.)
Justice

That's all I've read

My grandpa saw the Batman: War on Crime book and when they showed Bruce Wayne training or whatever out of costume he said, seriously "I used to look just like that."

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For me it's Marvels because he captured the mood of the periods covered in that series with Normal Rockwell-like wholesomeness.

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Torn between Marvels and KC. The Tabloids are nice to look at, but Dini's stories are really lightweight and more of a guideline for the direction of the art than anything of substance. Justice, while I quite like it, isn't a pure Ross project, he's painting over someone elses pencils, so that's out too. I never read the Earth-X stuff and I have no idea what Superpowers is. Uncle Sam, the character, doesn't appeal to me.
I'm going to go with Marvels in the end I guess, because he covered all my high points of the MU and did so magnificently. KC second.


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 Post subject: Alex Ross' Best Project?
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Linda wrote:
Again, Kingdom Come 'cos it had some fresh visuals (new costume designs) rather than just being photorealistic takes on things we'd already seen.

(I might be one of the few people on Earth who liked his proposed costume for the Spider-Man movies.)


I like it.

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His Cap redesign (as drawn by Steve Epting) has grown on me, too.

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His Spider-Man redesign is garbage.

His Cap redesign worked, but not when he drew it.

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The Spider-Man and Captain Puerto Rico redesigns have similar elements... and they remind me of the recent Hal Jordan redesign... did he do that one too?

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Marvels is his purest work for me at least. Followed by Kingdom come and then Justice. I think sadly that he needs be be teamed up with a much better writer though these days. Invaders is like a very average Brubaker rip off and Superpowers is crap.


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Marvels > Trilogy X> Kingdom Come>Tabloids > Uncle Sam

for me. I tend not to like his design sense, so Marvels edges out the ones where he redesigned costumes, and the tabloids were good, but not very memorable to me, either artistically, nor story wise. Uncle Sam was "ehh". Basically, I think that Marvels was a great combination of art and script, and had the benefit of novelty. Any Ross project I read now doesn't have that last quality, so he's got to go a bit extra to make up for that.

I haven't read Justice - waiting for a complete collection to be issued. I do like Jim Kreuger's writing (though more so without Ross), so I expect I will enjoy it. I'll probably read his other projects in collected form also.


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Could someWAN post his GL redesign?

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Linda wrote:
Could someWAN post his GL redesign?


This is the redesign I was talking about. I was merely asking if Ross did this one too... cause it seems similar to his Spider-Man and Captain Puerto Rico version.

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