Earth X Graphitti Designs Limited Signature Edition w/ CD Alex Ross,
Publisher: Graphitti Designs
ISBN: 0936211679
Edition: Hardcover; 2001
Summary:
It started out as just an exercise. Comic art painter extroardinnaire
Alex Ross sketched out some ideas of what some of the greatest Marvel
super heroes-Spider-Man, Captain America, the Incredible Hulk-would
like in a grim possible future where a terrible experiment has left
all ordinary humans with super powers. What would become of the
heroes who had been set apart by their strange abilities, which now
seemed so commonplace? Thus was born Earth X, one of the strangest
and best selling Marvel projects in recent years. Ross' visionary
ideas were fleshed out by some of the industries top talents, taking
shape in a year-long epic that excited and thrilled comic fans
everywhere, and spawned a second series to debut later this year. In
an outpost on the Moon, the robot known as X-51 must watch the dark
events as they unfold on the Earth, relating them to the alien
Watcher-charged with the responsibility of recording all events on
Earth-who has now been rendered blind. We will encounter a Captain
America whose cheerful idealism has been replaced by a tight-lipped
life of vengeance against his foe the Red Skull; a Spider-Man who has
given in to the excesses of middle age and is now no different than
the average man, except in his memories; and Reed Richards, Mr.
Fantastic of the Fantastic Four, the man responsible for the mutation
of all humanity, and who in penance now locks himself in the armor of
his defeated arch-nemesis, Dr. Doom. Dark in mood, yet hopeful in its
themes of rebirth and redemption, Earth X is an epic tale told on a
global tapestry, with humanity itself at stake.
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