![]() Superman is sad, Wonder Woman is angry, and Batman is just fed up with everything. ![]() Through the dialogue, he never lets you forget the drama that these characters are experiencing. Luckily for Ross, Waid is all about playing to the melodrama in his writing. By trying to depict reality, Ross brings all of these magical beings down to our levels and that just never really works. It is easy to ooh and ahh over the painted importance of this story but in comic books, there is a thrill to seeing the world in a way that we never can in real life. With his painted style that owes far more to Norman Rockwell than to any comic artist, Ross’s work tries to signify its importance but is never able to really bring these characters to life. ![]() While it’s not full-on uncanny valley territory, Ross’s dedication to realism creates a mask over the whole story. His figures go through the motions of the story without ever inhabiting the heart and soul of the story. Waid does not help out here as his sole idea of these characters’ development is 'more grim' and 'more conniving.' While Ross can bring a weight of visual realism to this story through his painted artwork, he is just not able to reveal the characters’ motivations and challenges. Sure, his Superman is often grim-faced and his Batman is always plotting, but that is the total range of emotion that he can give them. Ross cannot get out of the mode of showing the inner might of these characters enough to show their inner struggles. One of Ross’s biggest challenges is to get you to believe in the inner struggles of these characters and he just isn’t able to live up to that challenge. Part of the price of admission to Kingdom Come is believing that the characters need to be reconstructed, to be reformed once again to be the heroes of myth and legend. Reestablishing this nobility to all of the classic characters is Ross and Waid’s self-appointed mission. ![]()
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