On the Emperor's reecommendation, turned that demon pic into an entry for the current competition over at Warren Ellis' Whitechapel site. The brief was too re-imagine the cover of 'Amazing Adult Fantasy' #15, knowing only that you have to depict a character called 'Spiderman'. Thought this would make for a suitably macabre take on the subject.
PS - big thanks to Dave Evans (Bolt-01) for the ace logos.
Yes when I saw Warren Ellis' contest I immediately thought of this (in particular that foot at the bottom of the picture). Matt'd moved on to go with another picture and so it seemed an ideal opportunity to recycle this and get it a wider audience.
ReplyDeleteBolt's lettering worked a treat and the bottom right text is excellent and taken from The Cure I assume?
The complete lyrics are worth reproducing:
on candystripe legs the spiderman comes
softly through the shadow of the evening sun
stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead
looking for the victim shivering in bed
searching out fear in the gathering gloom and
suddenly!
a movement in the corner of the room!
and there is nothing i can do
when i realise with fright
that the spiderman is having me for dinner tonight!
quietly he laughs and shaking his head
creeps closer now
closer to the foot of the bed
and softer than shadow and quicker than flies
his arms are all around me and his tongue in my eyes
"be still be calm be quiet now my precious boy
don't struggle like that or i will only love you more
for it's much too late to get away or turn on the light
the spiderman is having you for dinner tonight"
and i feel like i'm being eaten
by a thousand million shivering furry holes
and i know that in the morning i will wake up
in the shivering cold
and the spiderman is always hungry...
Glad it works for you, Matt- and i'm sorry I forgot to to the price box.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to say that I thought of the cure when the tagline popped into my head, but really it was just to play on the possible sexual connotations of the word 'comes'...
Think that actually makes it creepier Dave! (A Good Thing)
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