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Post subject: Alex Ross' Best Project? Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:21 am |
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Post subject: Alex Ross' Best Project? Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:24 am |
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Post subject: Alex Ross' Best Project? Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:25 am |
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I went Justice, but Kingdom Come isn't too far behind.
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Post subject: Alex Ross' Best Project? Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:41 am |
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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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Post subject: Alex Ross' Best Project? Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:49 am |
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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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Post subject: Alex Ross' Best Project? Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 1:50 am |
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Night Owl wrote: 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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Post subject: Alex Ross' Best Project? Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:43 am |
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I loved the Trilogy X stuff, but I gotta go with Marvels.
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Post subject: Alex Ross' Best Project? Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:48 am |
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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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Post subject: Alex Ross' Best Project? Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:23 am |
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Post subject: Alex Ross' Best Project? Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:26 am |
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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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Post subject: Alex Ross' Best Project? Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:33 am |
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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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Post subject: Alex Ross' Best Project? Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:39 am |
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In this order with my most preferred on top:
KINGDOM COME TABLOIDS MARVELS JUSTICE UNCLE SAM SUPERPOWERS EARTH X POLITICAL CRAP
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Post subject: Alex Ross' Best Project? Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:41 am |
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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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Post subject: Alex Ross' Best Project? Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:43 am |
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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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Post subject: Alex Ross' Best Project? Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:15 am |
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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? Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:46 am |
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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.  His Cap redesign (as drawn by Steve Epting) has grown on me, too. 
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Post subject: Alex Ross' Best Project? Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:47 am |
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His Spider-Man redesign is garbage.
His Cap redesign worked, but not when he drew it.
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Post subject: Alex Ross' Best Project? Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:53 am |
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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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Post subject: Alex Ross' Best Project? Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 4:28 pm |
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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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Post subject: Alex Ross' Best Project? Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 4:48 pm |
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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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Post subject: Alex Ross' Best Project? Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 4:49 pm |
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Could someWAN post his GL redesign?
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Post subject: Alex Ross' Best Project? Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:35 pm |
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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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