Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with probably the coolest poster I'm posting today, which has turned into poster day for some odd reason.
As a kid I was big into comic cards. Shocker, I know. A nerd into comic cards! The hell you say! They were like crack to me. The thrill of finding those rare hologram cards or the embossed foil cards that were worth, like, fifty bucks... of completing a whole set... Those things really are like gambling for tykes. Spend $2 and see if you get a value of $50.
I collected a lot, but nothing I ever got was cooler than that first run of Marvel Masterpieces, comprised completely of Boris Vallejo's takes on the Marvel Superheroes.
The rare cards there were a series of VS foil cards... Cap vs Red Skull, Wolverine vs Sabretooth, Spider-Man Vs Venom... One of the biggest thrills of my childhood was opening up a pack that had two foil cards... that was really like hitting the Mega-Millions for a young geek kid.
Anyway, my point is that Boris Vallejo was huge for me because of that series, which was the first time I saw a realistic portrayal of these characters. If my memory doesn't fail me, it was shortly after the Marvel Masterpieces set hit that Alex Ross' amazing series of one-shots called MARVELS was released.
So, while airbrushed isn't my favorite artistic technique, I make the exception for Boris and look at what he's given us now!
Rubber is the crazy flick about a tire that gains sentience and discovers it has telekinetic abilities that it uses to explode birds and human craniums all while stalking a hot girl across a desert. Great flick, seriously out there, but always entertaining and never too full of itself.
And almost as proof of that it now has a Boris Vallejo poster. Check this awesomesness out!
Rubber was in my top 10 films I saw last year. Love it to death and you can watch it before it hits US theaters April first by renting it VOD at places like Amazon.
-Quint
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