Dynamite Entertainment announced last month the creation of “Superpowers,” the next project by the “Earth X” and “Justice” team of Alex Ross and Jim Krueger.
The project in development for the last three years, is scheduled for release at the end of 2007 and marks the return of a host of classic Golden Age heroes and villains, all under the creative and artistic direction of Ross and writer Jim Krueger.
Many of the featured characters have not been seen in many years, lost to time and obscurity. They have all have been drawn, designed and/or re-imagined by Alex Ross, including Fighting Yank, Green Lama, The Death Defying ‘Devil, the Black Terror, Masquerade, The Flame, Mister Face, Samson, The Scarab, The Owl, the Claw, Pyroman, the Arrow, the American Spirit, the Crusaders, the F-Troop and more.
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I gave up on Justice after 7 issues, might go back to it at some point but the story was tedious. The art however...
Alex Ross is a phenomenal artist. He gets his friends to pose for him and photographs them, then uses them as models to base his art on. For instance he will make someone pose as if they were superman about to fly off into the sky, and use that to model his art on! He is very talented.
This work sounds like some kind of amalgamation of archetype heroes.
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They look fantastic! As long as he isn't writing tho :) Who is Jim Krueger?
Edited Fri 10 Aug 2007 at 3:02pm
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Phoenix wrote:
Who is Jim Krueger?
what? youre serious
http://www.jimkrueger.com/
amongst other things he wrote:
earth X./Universe X
Foot Soldiers (check it out)
Matrix comics
Star Wars comics
Micronaughts
Solar, Man of the Atom: Revelations (check it out)
and your fav Justice ;)
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I don't tend to read film related stuff like matrix comics. Have read some SW stuff, not sure if any of it was his. Solar - is that from Valiant comics? You know they are doing a bg reprint and maybe reboot of that?
Will have to check the site later to see what else there is - never heard of Foot soldiers
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Yeah Solar was from Valiant.was quite good. Didnt know they are doing a reboot?
Foot Soldiers was good
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Oh, not a proper reboot, just a new book:
newsarama
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