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July 5th, 2009
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Comic art that recreates or references famous paintings and sculptures, like the Wolverine Art Appreciation covers, or this page by Roberto De La Torre. Help me SDers, you're my only hope! (Ok, not my only hope, but help me anyway).


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From:[info]mysteryfan
Date:July 5th, 2009 09:40 pm (UTC)
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Oh, wait. I think I had the concept flipped around.
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From:[info]schmevil
Date:July 5th, 2009 10:37 pm (UTC)
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Still, those are awesome. :)
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From:[info]kamino_neko
Date:July 5th, 2009 09:39 pm (UTC)
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There's a couple in Legion of Superheroes, during the Giffen/Bierbaum runs.

I can't find the scan I had of the Last Supper (from issue 1 or 2, IIRC), but here's the Birth of Adam, from the Great Darkness Saga.
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From:[info]sigma7
Date:July 5th, 2009 10:11 pm (UTC)
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The Last Supper pic -- of the LSV, if we're on the same page -- is from one of the first Baxter issues of Levitz/Giffen, so v3 #1 or #2.

Yes, a nitpick, but I'm one of those for whom "Bierbaum" functions as an emetic.

Also the cover of Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 seems spun from the same cloth as Michelangelo's Pietà, and we've seen that Crisis cover references/parodied more ways than I can count....
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From:[info]sigma7
Date:July 5th, 2009 10:15 pm (UTC)
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Also my Pietà HTML is borked. Sigh. I give up; I think everybody downthread's already got'cha covered.

Great question, though.
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From:[info]perletwo
Date:July 5th, 2009 10:15 pm (UTC)
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Here's the Last Supper panel, from LOSH #2, baxter paper run:

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From:[info]thanekos
Date:July 5th, 2009 10:19 pm (UTC)
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wow, looking at some of those names, I keep thinking someone should have done " Legion of Super Villains as antimatter LOSH " by now.

(Sun Emperor? Chameleon Chief? A Daxamite? What, is Polar Lord hanging out off screen?)
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From:[info]icon_uk
Date:July 5th, 2009 11:44 pm (UTC)
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Pretty much in some cases. Esper Lass is also from Titan, Lightning Lord from Winath (being Lightning Lad's brother), Micro Lad from Imsk and so on. You NEEDED characters with broadly the same powersets to be a real challenge to as varied a team as the Legion.
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From:[info]kamino_neko
Date:July 5th, 2009 10:30 pm (UTC)
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Yay, sankyuu.

One thing that I like about this one - unlike most Last Supper references in comics, this has the right number of people - most usually only have 6 or 7.
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From:[info]mykie1234
Date:July 5th, 2009 09:56 pm (UTC)
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Good post idea!!! I must see more of these.
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From:[info]jkcarrier
Date:July 5th, 2009 10:07 pm (UTC)
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From:[info]goblinthebamf
Date:July 5th, 2009 10:10 pm (UTC)
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beat me to it!! it's actually been used a number of times, but "Death of Captain Marvel" is the most famous one.
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From:[info]schmevil
Date:July 5th, 2009 10:42 pm (UTC)
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Good lord! I knew there were a lot of them, but... just wow.
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From:[info]kamino_neko
Date:July 5th, 2009 10:11 pm (UTC)
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From:[info]sigma7
Date:July 5th, 2009 10:13 pm (UTC)
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That's the one I was thinking of -- I kept blanking on it and could only come up with the COIE cover. Good call.
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From:[info]gargoylekitty
Date:July 5th, 2009 10:24 pm (UTC)
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First thing I thought of.
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From:[info]kamino_neko
Date:July 5th, 2009 10:39 pm (UTC)
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Oh, and Action recently did a fairly interesting take on the Pieta Plagiarism concept with Nightwing and Flamebird. (Those are the top and bottom panels of the page...the others focus on Ursa.)
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From:[info]perletwo
Date:July 5th, 2009 10:48 pm (UTC)

Gamma-ray Gothic:

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From:[info]schmevil
Date:July 5th, 2009 10:51 pm (UTC)

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I've always loved this one.
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From:[info]yaspis
Date:July 7th, 2009 02:33 pm (UTC)

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That's awesome. Especially the little chicken on Shulkie's apron. Hee!
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From:[info]perletwo
Date:July 5th, 2009 10:59 pm (UTC)
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And here is a blog post that collects some Norman Rockwell parodies. Can't say as I'm familiar with these; I could swear I've seen somebody other than the one here do the triple self-portrait, though.
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From:[info]kamino_neko
Date:July 5th, 2009 11:05 pm (UTC)
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The artist painting the JSA in this spread may be the one you're thinking of.
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From:[info]perletwo
Date:July 5th, 2009 11:07 pm (UTC)
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Yes, that must be it, seeing as I'm a DC girl. Thanks!
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From:[info]kamino_neko
Date:July 5th, 2009 11:10 pm (UTC)
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Nae problem. Thank you for reminding me of it.
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From:[info]strangething
Date:July 7th, 2009 02:22 am (UTC)
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I remember seeing a Hulk cover that parodied The Runaway a few years ago.
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From:[info]dejadrew
Date:July 5th, 2009 11:52 pm (UTC)
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I think Alan Moore's Promethea had a whole issue done in the art style of Van Gogh's Starry Night. I'm afraid I read it at the library, though, and don't have my own copy to scan. (Yet.)

But I do have this Plastic Man cover:

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From:[info]sandoz_iscariot
Date:July 6th, 2009 12:42 am (UTC)
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Is manga acceptable? The last two pages in my MW post show Osamu Tezuka referencing Aubrey Beardsley.
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