The Spider

[Earth 2 Chris]

Ross definitely has a better eye for modernizing the characters without over-designing them like Lee has.

Imagine if Warners just dumped a truck full of money on Ross or Bruce Timm's doorstep?

Chris

[The Toyroom]

The Spider looks interesing. Can you believe this is the first time ive seen him? To my fresh eyes he literally looks like a batman ripoff with spiderman designs.
Do you think Stan may have SLIGHTLY had this character in the back of his head when they were designing ol' webhead?

Stan Lee mentions The Spider, Master of Men as being one of his influences for The Amazing Spider-Man in "Origins of Marvel Comics".

[samurainoir]

the pulpy original.

[Figuremod73]

The Spider looks interesing. Can you believe this is the first time ive seen him? To my fresh eyes he literally looks like a batman ripoff with spiderman designs.
Do you think Stan may have SLIGHTLY had this character in the back of his head when they were designing ol' webhead?

[thunderbolt]

And no unnecessary armor

Yeah, I still wanna know why the h e double hockey stick Superman needs armor. Its idiotic crap like that, makes me quit comics. New big two comics anyway.

[The Toyroom]

Nice covers as always , BUT whose doing the interior artwork? any scans of that? I find it always to be a disappointment......I kinda don't like the idea, that the selling point is a nice cover.....

That's how it was with me and Dynamite's "Project Super Powers" stuff...great Ross covers and sketches/designs but the interior art was very disappointing...

[kingdom warrior]

Nice covers as always , BUT whose doing the interior artwork? any scans of that? I find it always to be a disappointment......I kinda don't like the idea, that the selling point is a nice cover.....

[The Toyroom]

And no unnecessary armor

[The Toyroom]

^ He's definintely got the chops...Notice that his designs don't have any of the piping or seams showing that are so prevelant in the DCnU costume designs...

[samurainoir]

They were giving him a bunch of design work for a while there... I think his Batwoman has a really classic look to it.



And most of his JSA designs really worked as well.

[The Toyroom]

I don't think anyone's character designs were going to save Hawk and Dove from Liefeld or cancellation.

Ross's designs would have been a better choice then Jim Lee for DC.

I don't know any of these Dynamite characters I've seen lately so it feels like a waste of Alex Ross to me.

I can already picture Ross' Hawk and Dove redesigns in my mind....They're cool!

[The Toyroom]

DC should have thrown a ton of money at Ross and made him creative director...he is faithful to the characters but has great ideas and designs that are modern yet with a nod to the past...much better than what they get for their dollar with Jim Lee IMO...

[boynightwing]

I don't think anyone's character designs were going to save Hawk and Dove from Liefeld or cancellation.

Ross's designs would have been a better choice then Jim Lee for DC.

I don't know any of these Dynamite characters I've seen lately so it feels like a waste of Alex Ross to me.

[samurainoir]

^^^
don't sell yourself short, I think you are totally right. Marvel and Dc have both let him walk twice each at least and turned down some really awesome proposals.

It's The Kingdom that I think was really missing Ross' touch... I know Waid had creative differences with Ross, but just seeing the proposal art on that is pretty tragic when you think about what could have been.

[emeraldknight47]

I think ANY comics publisher who would let Alex Ross walk away or turn him down would be foolish, but what do I know; I'm just a schmuck in southern Indiana! Heck, I still would LOVE to see Ross's Spider-Man movie costume design on the big screen. To this day, it's still as cool as hell!!