Back in the 1987 update of DC's Who's Who series - which was a glossary of all the DC characters post-Crisis on Infinite Earths - McFarlane did a wraparound cover for issue #4. He was on Infinity Inc. at the time, if I'm not mistaken. You can see the front section of that cover here:
Inside the issue was a write-up for The Minutemen, the Golden Age super-team seen in Watchmen. Here's that write-up:
Note at the end how they made a point to say the Watchmen Universe
was NOT a part of the DCU in the above scan
In the new movie, the above image looks like this:
The purpose of the series' wraparound covers was to fit all the characters indexed within on one image. The Minutemen landed on the back cover section of the wraparound, which you can see below with call-out notes for each member. Click to enlarge.
The purpose of the series' wraparound covers was to fit all the characters indexed within on one image. The Minutemen landed on the back cover section of the wraparound, which you can see below with call-out notes for each member. Click to enlarge.
And there you have it. Todd McFarlane of Spawn and Spider-Man fame officially drew Watchmen art for DC.
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What is that giant pantheon of characters he seems to have scribbled "Ben Morse on a birthday card" style in the upper left hand corner? Is that the Legion?
I should clarify that style as "Ben Morse struggling to fit a bunch of comic book characters on a birthday card."
I think they're Gods of some sort, dude. And what birthday cards are you drawing filled with characters and where can I see them?
Like, you remember that card we drew for the writer of Infinite Crisis after Infinite Crisis ended? Stuff like that.
I DO remember! I thought that was just a random thank you card, though. Do you have more cards like that that you've created?
I'm totally posting that image one day, too. It'd be a shame if NO ONE ever got to see it. Didn't he never get it?
For some reason this reminded me of that "Dark Knight" cover for 'Mazing Man that Frank Miller did back in the day...
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/06-16-2007%2002;35;36PM.JPG
Jesse, I love that cover!
I'm pretty sure he never got it. You should absolutely post it.
I can't think of any other recent cards like that I've done, but I used to do them.
Todd McFarland makes the 1940s Comedian look kind of like a young Robert Downey Jr. or maybe Brad Pitt, and interesting to see him and Silk Spectre looking kind of like a happy couple. Another splendid and almost lost moment from 1987 DC.
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