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A discussion of all things Superman. Let’s kick things off with a little home-grown fan art. Here’s my depiction of The Last Son of Krypton.

I’ve been a fan of the Man of Steel for a while now. My first real visit to Metropolis came about three years ago when I had the privilege of working on Superman Returns, the video game counterpart to the movie. I was working for Electronic Arts - Tiburon in the Concept Art Department, and one of the tasks I was assigned for Superman Returns was the creation of billboard signage in and around the famed home of Clark Kent. Looking back I almost feel that I should have added “Metropolis Ad Agency Exec.” to the work experience on my Resume. It was pretty cool to be involved in the rich history of the legendary DC Comics superhero. In this blog post I hope we can share more thoughts and experiences about the last son of the planet Krypton.

A good friend of mine asked me to show him how to recreate a Photoshop technique I use in many of my illustrations that simulates swirling beams of light or, as I have come to call them, light ribbons. This brief tutorial will show the basic steps I take to make these glowing beams of energy. Typically the process is mostly trial and error but I should be able to give you the tools needed to start experimenting. Here’s a closer look at the finished example.

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Rod Serling’s Opening Narration

“This object, should any of you have lived underground for the better parts of your lives and never had occasion to look toward the sky, is an airplane, its official designation a DC-3. We offer this rather obvious comment because this particular airplane, the one you’re looking at, is a freak. Now, most airplanes take off and land as per scheduled. On rare occasions they crash. But all airplanes can be counted on doing one or the other. Now, yesterday morning this particular airplane ceased to be just a commercial carrier. As of its arrival it became an enigma, a seven-ton puzzle made out of aluminum, steel, wire and a few thousand other component parts, none of which add up to the right thing. In just a moment, we’re going to show you the tail end of its history. We’re going to give you ninety percent of the jigsaw pieces, and you and Mr. Sheckly here of the Federal Aviation Agency, will assume the problem of putting them together along with finding the missing pieces. This we offer as an evening’s hobby, a little extracurricular diversion which is really the national pastime in the Twilight Zone.”

“The Arrival” explores a man’s mental struggle over an airplane mishap. In the episode, it happens to aviation officer Grant Sheckly. The plane comes in, but with no pilots, passengers or luggage. There is some element of mystery in the business but it turns out to be nothing more than a delusion of Sheckly’s over an unresolved case of many years ago… or is it?

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When you’re seven miles up in the heavens,
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