Actually, I think Harold shouldn’t change much; he holds a mirror up to the MRA / incel movement, which would be perfectly relevant at this point in time.
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Invincible is one of those comics that starts off as a regular superhero comic and then pretty quickly turns into a deconstruction of superhero comics. While also keeping the main character, Mark, pretty idealistic, even when facing off against horrific enemies that subvert the very things he believes in himself. It’s…
Had to add in my most recent acquisition: 40th Anniversary Poster for Empire (in Japanese) by Matt Ferguson (from Bottleneck Gallery). The giant characters, focus on the sense that it was Luke all by himself against the entirety of the Empire. I also had the “Revenge of the Jedi” Vader in Red poster when I was a…
Beautiful list, Germain. You wrote about the criteria for this list, that they were specifically for film distribution, but I’d love a secondary by you on ‘all the rest’ of the sanctioned/promotional posters. Like, where would the album insert poster rank on your list?
Years ago I went on a quest to get an original of the iconic Forbidden Planet poster, but after a bit of scouring ebay etcetera I discovered that the originals were out of my price range. In that process though I came to the realization that the Style A New Hope poster was the equivalent really for my generation and…
My uncle worked at the Fox studio in 1983. I think he was a janitor of some sort. Ironically after they changed the name from “Revenge” to “Return” One of the original posters and the printing plates to create more were lying around. He was told to “get rid of this stuff” and it ended up in his back seat.…
Hugh Fleming, 1998. Everything else can pack up and go home.
Then again even the Star Trek cast think Galaxy Quest may be the best movie.
How in the world did you miss this one? How much more iconic can you get? I remember seeing this teaser poster as a kid and getting CHILLS. Vader’s menacing face, the title... oh the horrible (in the best ways possible) possibilities this poster teased.
I would add this one. I got it as part of a Coca-Cola promo at the theater. It hung in my room for years. I didn’t even know who Boris Vallejo was at the time.
No Olly Moss posters?
It counts. Released to theaters still showing it with instructions to display it on May 25, 1976 only. For just that day. When I win the lottery, I’m hunting one of these down.
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I’ve got a theory brewing. The reason this and Orville ‘feel’ more Star Trek than the new shows is two-fold. One is just obviously the sheer optimism of space nerds nerding out about space while scootin’ around on a frickin’ spaceship and not the dour dark space conspiracy stuff. The other, maybe less obvious factor…
I love that you’re doing this list, though I have a few quibbles. I’ll ignore subjective disagreements over the rankings in favor of two actual straight-up errors, if you’ll forgive some Comic Book Guy-esque nitpicking.
I never understood why anyone liked the Last Jedi poster at #15. Everyone flipped out about it at the time, like it was so great. For me, the asymmetry is jarring. Why have a split face type image going on if one is gonna be an extreme close up and the other one is going to be awkwardly positioned further down so the…
I had this one on my wall as a kid, still one of my favorites and was done by boris
That thing had me so hyped.
That’s a good point. Even with DS9 during the height of the Dominion War, you still had the occasional moment or even episode dedicated to lightening the mood a little bit.
It’s kind of weird to me. The two best Trek shows to come out in recent history have both been comedies. This and The Orville. Well, I’m not complaining. Good stuff, at least.