# Alex Ross wallpapers - Neato! - He's the artist that did the "Kingdom Come" cover **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 8, 2004, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-ross-wallpapers-neato-hes-the-artist-that-did-the-kingdom-come-cover/258848 "2004-08-08T03:17:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-ross-wallpapers-neato-hes-the-artist-that-did-the-kingdom-come-cover/258848/1 "2004-08-08T03:17:28Z")
Alex Ross wallpapers - Neat! [From his web site- Neato!](http://www.alexrossart.com/wallpapers.html) ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-ross-wallpapers-neato-hes-the-artist-that-did-the-kingdom-come-cover/258848/2 "2004-08-08T03:22:15Z")
Is this not the best Joker, ever? [http://www.alexrossart.com/images/wallpaper/harleyquinn1024.jpg](http://www.alexrossart.com/images/wallpaper/harleyquinn1024.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-ross-wallpapers-neato-hes-the-artist-that-did-the-kingdom-come-cover/258848/3 "2004-08-08T03:56:28Z")
He didn’t just do the covers, he did all the artwork for Kingdom Come. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-ross-wallpapers-neato-hes-the-artist-that-did-the-kingdom-come-cover/258848/4 "2004-08-08T05:22:29Z")
I have his book, _Mythology_ but one thing isn’t clear to me - how fast is he? Because considering how much work he produces, I find it amazing that it appears he can produce a page of artwork a day. Anybody know? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-ross-wallpapers-neato-hes-the-artist-that-did-the-kingdom-come-cover/258848/5 "2004-08-08T06:07:33Z")
Y’know, when this is on the same page as the recent Bob Ross thread, my mind flashes them together and I find myself awestruck that happy trees are residing on someone’s computer desktop somewhere… ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-ross-wallpapers-neato-hes-the-artist-that-did-the-kingdom-come-cover/258848/6 "2004-08-08T07:30:03Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I have his book, _Mythology_ but one thing isn’t clear to me - how fast is he? Because considering how much work he produces, I find it amazing that it appears he can produce a page of artwork a day. > > Anybody know? No idea, though I vaguely recall hearing somewhere the **Kingdom Come** took a full year to draw. And according to Wizard’s _The Alex Ross Special_ (yes, I have a copy here), Ross typically wakes up at 1:00pm and works until 6:00am(!), and the **Crisis On Infinite Earths** deluxe slipcase dust jacket took more than six weeks with ten hours a day. ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-ross-wallpapers-neato-hes-the-artist-that-did-the-kingdom-come-cover/258848/7 "2004-08-08T07:52:29Z")
> [@](#): > > No idea, though I vaguely recall hearing somewhere the Kingdom Come took a full year to draw. Given that _Kingdom Come_ was a little over 200 pages, that would make it about a page a day if it took him a year. I think I’m in the minority in not being a fan. Ross’s artwork doesn’t really work for me in superhero stories. I’ll be the first to admit that if these characters were real people, they’d probably look like an Alex Ross drawing. Which is why it doesn’t work for me; they look too realistic, which draws attention to the more ridiculous aspects of the characters and their costumes, and away from the story. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-ross-wallpapers-neato-hes-the-artist-that-did-the-kingdom-come-cover/258848/8 "2004-08-08T08:08:37Z")
> [@Number Six](#): > > I think I’m in the minority in not being a fan. Ross’s artwork doesn’t really work for me in superhero stories. I’ll be the first to admit that if these characters were real people, they’d probably look like an Alex Ross drawing. Which is why it doesn’t work for me; they look too realistic, which draws attention to the more ridiculous aspects of the characters and their costumes, and away from the story. I think his art worked rather well in Kingdom Come as it went great with the story. I don’t think his style would work in the typical Superman or Batman comic book. Marc ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-ross-wallpapers-neato-hes-the-artist-that-did-the-kingdom-come-cover/258848/9 "2004-08-08T16:18:40Z")
> [@MGibson](#): > > I think his art worked rather well in Kingdom Come as it went great with the story. I don’t think his style would work in the typical Superman or Batman comic book. > > Marc It worked for me too in Kingdom Come. It’s interesting how much of a change it is to see characters with actual human faces. In a lot of the Superman Batman stuff you could change the hairstyle and the physique and even the faces of the two characters are almost interchangable. John Byrne’s females for example (even the humanoid aliens) all look like they came from the same family. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-ross-wallpapers-neato-hes-the-artist-that-did-the-kingdom-come-cover/258848/10 "2004-08-08T16:59:15Z")
> [@Silentgoldfish](#): > > Is this not the best Joker, ever? > > [http://www.alexrossart.com/images/wallpaper/harleyquinn1024.jpg](http://www.alexrossart.com/images/wallpaper/harleyquinn1024.jpg) No, the best is another one he did of the Joker leaning and staring into a smashed mirror. ---
**Author:** ![robgruver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@robgruver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robgruver)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-ross-wallpapers-neato-hes-the-artist-that-did-the-kingdom-come-cover/258848/11 "2004-08-08T19:40:45Z")
I met Alex Ross at the San Diego Comic Con, and watched him paint for a while. He is VERY methodical when he is working, so I guess you could say he is slow. Great site too. I put one of the Supermans on my desktop. Very cool. ---
**Author:** ![SuperNova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SuperNova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNova)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-ross-wallpapers-neato-hes-the-artist-that-did-the-kingdom-come-cover/258848/12 "2004-08-08T20:34:02Z")
Bah. Let me know when the paintings he did for the Spiderman 2 opening scenes are available. Then I’ll be excited. ::never been a big DC fan:: ---
**Author:** ![SuperNova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SuperNova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNova)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-ross-wallpapers-neato-hes-the-artist-that-did-the-kingdom-come-cover/258848/13 "2004-08-08T20:40:07Z")
Now [this](http://www.alexrossart.com/gallery/movies/spiderman2/spidey4_lg.jpg) is what I’m talking about…