Let's take a moment out of our busy day and appreciate the art of Ken Kelly.
Ken Kelly Gallery
Let's take a moment out of our busy day and appreciate the art of Ken Kelly.
Let's take a moment out of our busy day and appreciate the art of Ken Kelly.
Baby Kal-El's rocket ends up on the Kree home-world. He is brought up by the Supreme Intelligence to be the champion of the empire. This is an older idea I had from back when I was a frequent contributor to the "Super-Buddies" message board.
So this started out as something else. I was inspired by a panel by José Luis García-López. When I think about it now, I am just as confused as to how it got to this point as you may be. I REALLY wanted to capture the dynamic feel of José'sSuperman coming in for a landing. [...]
Today I want to reflect on the old-school model kits by Auroroa. Before we had screen or page accurate toys that we could just pull out of the packaging and get our play on with, there were model kits. While even these were limited, they were far better than most of the rack toys that [...]
There are things lost or never undertaken that mankind is the lesser for… the original JLA / Avengers crossover is one of those things. I can still recall hearing about this when I was a kid and it lit my entire being on fire. Yeah, I didn’t get out much. I still don’t get out much and it still gives me chills. I am stoked that we got a crossover story in the aughts.
It’s one of the great unfinished symphonies in the history of comics. After having successfully teamed up Superman and Spider-Man twice, Batman and the Incredible Hulk, and the X-Men and the New Teen Titans, in 1983 Marvel and DC were prepared to release JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA VS THE AVENGERS, uniting their two flagship teams in a single crossover book. Of the greatest excitement was the fact that this book was being illustrated by George Perez, who was not only just about the most popular artist in the business but who also had a history of working on both groups. In the end, the project was troubled and it never came to fruition–I don’t have enough time here to give chapter-and-verse on it, something that I may cover at some later date. But the key mistake made was that DC, who were producing the book, gave a green light to…
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