Superheroes is a collection of awe-inspiring original artwork created by husband and wife team Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell. Along with using a classic sense of style to create and master sensuous full color oil paintings, Boris Vallejo is best known as the visual creator of Conan the Barbarian. Combining strength with sensuality and infusing the human form with incredible power and motion, fantasy artist Julie Bell continues to use her "metal flesh" trademark to produce dramatic works of art. This collection overflows with superhuman characters captured in the act of saving the world, destroying evil protagonists and battling dark beasts. Featuring fantastic figures such as Spiderman, Captain America, and the X-Men, these paintings represent the best of Boris and Julie.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful Art, Bad Text....,
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This review is from: Superheroes: The Heroic Visions of Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell- Featuring X-Men, Spiderman, Spiderwoman, Silver Surfer, The Hulk (Paperback)
Superheroes (Titled "Titans" in it's hardcover printing) mainly covers the art Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell produced for the Marvel Masterworks trasing card series in the mid-80's, with a few covers and misc. art thrown in for good measure. While it's nice to see the art at a larger size, the limited variety of poses gets old after a while. Boris and Julie use each other as models, so most of the faces look alike; The ones that don't look like them are based on bodybuilders, so the female characters have a very hard look to them, facially speaking. The colors are gorgeous, though. The real problem with the book is the text, by Nigel Suckling, who manages to live up to the first syllable of his last name. The book is riddled with spelling errors (Ogum, instead of Ogun), characters have the wrong names attatched to their paintings (Mariko and Yukio's names are transposed, as well as Yukio being called by the wrong name). The text passages show that Suckling didn't bother to get more than a passing familiarity with the comic characters; He describes Spider-Man as being bumbling...? His passages about Boris & Julie's views on time-travel & Geography are hilariously bad.Superheroes is a nice book for fans of Boris & Julie; I would have liked more information on their techniques, and their opinions of the pieces, though. Anything to save me from Suckling's turgid prose....
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Liked Julie, not so struck on Boris,
By Blue-Rat "BR" (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Superheroes: The Heroic Visions of Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell- Featuring X-Men, Spiderman, Spiderwoman, Silver Surfer, The Hulk (Paperback)
The artwork, featured on a very popular series of Marvel trading cards, is powerful and brings a certain amount of realism to our favourite comic book heroes. The problem is, some heroes benefit from a more realistic look, while stylised characters such as the Hulk, tend to look a bit silly in such glorified detail. I tended to prefer Julie's style, more in proportion and more recognisable. The text describes Boris and Julie's relationship and their approach to their art, no doubt of interest to the budding artist but a bit dull for the average reader. However, all in all a powerful and exciting set of super hero artworks.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Why so many small images?,
By Carlos Severino (Lisbon, Portugal) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Superheroes: The Heroic Visions of Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell- Featuring X-Men, Spiderman, Spiderwoman, Silver Surfer, The Hulk (Paperback)
With paintings of such high quality it's really a shame to see so many small and half-page images. This could easily have been a 5 star art book.
Anyway, for any comic book fan it's pretty much indispensable. SPECIFICS: Page Count: 160 Number of images: 172 Small images: 39 Half page images: 38 Full page images: 88 2-page spreads: 7 BW images: 0 TEXT: 1 page - General introduction 7 pages - Chapter introductions Comments on the paintings and some characters ART: 42 images: 5 stars 81 images: 4 stars 45 images: 3 stars 4 images: 2 stars 0 images: 1 star Overall: 4 stars
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