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00:00I fell a great star from heaven, and I beheld and heard an angel.

00:12I remember when the Dark Knight Returns came out.

00:15I remember when Watchmen came out.

00:17So of course I remember when Kingdom Come came out.

00:19Kingdom Come is four separate issues, 48 pages apiece.

00:23It was an all-immersive kind of lifestyle for me.

00:26It blew people away.

00:27I mean, this was the most sought-after book there was.

00:29This was something very new, very different.

00:32No one had seen anything like that at that scale before.

00:34It was amazing.

00:35I never thought from anything that people would still be talking about this book 25

00:39years later.

00:40There were voices, and lightnings, and thunderings.

00:45This was my dream.

00:46What makes Alex Ross's art stand out from the others is his approach to realism.

00:51You think of a Superman, you're thinking of the Alex Ross Superman.

00:55It almost looked like Renaissance paintings that we were told these were the masters.

00:59Alex was taking some of those techniques and applying them to superheroes.

01:041938, DC released the first issue of Action Comics, the magazine that introduced Superman.

01:11Gives you motion.

01:12It gives you expression, all in a little magazine that you can afford.

01:17Comic art would abstract the human form in a way that was very inspiring to me as a young

01:22person and something I would imitate for my whole life.

01:25Wish fulfillment.

01:26This is power fantasy.

01:27If I just had the abilities to do these things and make the world a better place, I could

01:31do it.

01:32He makes them look like real, live superheroes.

01:36They look like Olympian gods.

01:42You gotta have the balance of the eyes.

01:44Perfect.

01:45Let me tell you the story of Kingdom Come, page for page, panel for panel.

01:49It's such a huge, epic story.

01:52The DC fans, when he did their favorite characters, and then they came back to save the world

01:57one more time, you know, just minds blown.

01:59I see a shot that is, I know, since it was like a pencil layout through final rendering,

02:05and then I see it on a bus ad or a poster or a shot set up, I'm going like, oh, totally,

02:11totally.

02:12You totally see Alex's influence.

02:13The way material folds the shadows, the angst of the character, the history of the character.

02:19I mean, he's like Stellar Adler.

02:21He's the master class of how you approach comics.

02:26This is a true art form.

02:29It would weigh on us the way it would be perceived, but I always had this sense of like, oh, I'm

02:37making a legend right now.

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