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 Alex Ross’ close collaborators shed light on the moments that made AVENGERS/INVADERS a hit and how the finale changes everything…

Buddy Steve Sadowski is interviewed by Marvel News… Check it out!

 Though it launched amidst the onslaught of SECRET INVASION, the time-hopping crossover series AVENGERS/INVADERS defied trends and reignited fan interest in the 1940’s super team it returned to the modern Marvel Universe. By focusing on an in-continuity meeting with ramifications for both teams, the 12-issue epic headlined by acclaimed painter Alex Ross proves with each new installment that Marvel’s past remains influential on its present.

With the first volume hitting in trade paperback this June and the lynchpin ninth issue kicking off the series’ final third on April 1, we tapped series co-writer Jim Krueger and interior artist Steve Sadowski for their thoughts on what it took to make the series matter from the start and what the return of even more Golden Age super heroes and villains means for the upcoming finale.

Blue line sketch for a book cover project. A Mount Rushmore sculpture in which the ENTIRE mountain has been carved/shaped into figures.

It was never realized but its somewhere in the million item long list of ‘Things for us to finish’….

This illustration was recently done for an article on Extrasolar Plant life.

An unused illustration that was done for an article on the retirement of the worlds aging nuclear arsenal. Scientific American Magazine.

A superorganism is a higher-order, “living” system, whose components are organisms themselves. (in this case, individual humans and thier technology).

This is an outtake/concept sketch for a full page illustration which was commissioned Focus Magazine on the emergence of a true ‘global’ intelligence.

There is a rather dry (but still a cool read) piece on this concept by Francis HEYLIGHEN at the University of Brussels – http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Papers/Superorganism.pdf

The Lighthouse of Alexandria (or The Pharos of Alexandria, Greek: ὁ Φάρος τῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας) was a tower built in the 3rd century BC (between 285 and 247 BC) on the island of Pharos in Alexandria, Egypt to serve as that port’s

With a height variously estimated at between 115 and 200 m (380 and 660 ft) it was among the tallest man-made structures on Earth for many centuries, and was identified as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Antipater of Sidon. It may have been the third tallest building after the two Great Pyramids (of Khufu and Khafra) for its entire life. Some scholars estimate that would make the tower the tallest building up to the 14th century.

Illustration done for Fortune Magazine on what they thought would be innevitable demise of General Motors…  I guess that one is still up in the air…