I had thought Marvels must have been the pinnacle of comics excellence, but almost unbelievably Kingdom Come trotted up alongside it, and they gave each other a friendly pat on the back as they raced far ahead leaving the rest of their cohort in their wake. That book was a mind-bender for me (story for another time), and it brought Ross right to the forefront of greats.
A couple of years earlier he released Marvels, a mini-series that looked at the exploits of superheroes from the perspective of the citizen bystander, and it remains arguably the most original and seminal work that Marvel has ever released. This is not even the first time Alex Ross had done this. The amount of effort it took to do this book must have been eye-wateringly huge. You can’t draw the lines and hand it off to the inker and then passing that along to a colourist. Not a lot of comics was done this way, before or since, compared to the usual comics art style, and for good reason - everything was done by one guy. Then at a closer look you realize that the art is not line drawn at all, but painted.
Superman is older than is generally depicted, the muscles on the dudes are not grotesquely huge to a point where the regular comics reader would feel a little underwhelmed (such has been our conditioning). So many things to unpack when one looks at the book that would at first glance confuse the would-be reader.
The first thing you notice about this book is the art.
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