Alex Ross did it all, achieved all his goals by the time he was 30. He is a blessed dude with talent and a burning passion to comic books. Long live AR.
"and those guys are just workers!" Anyone who like me grew up watching Battle of the Planets (and the electric company for that matter ^_^ ) was blown away seeing how almost every episode starts off introducing us to a bunch of incidental background characters who are all slaughtered wholesale in a matter of minutes. Alex, thank you SO MUCH for helping this show come back untouched.
Grew up watching BOP as a kid in the 1970's ... it was as powerful to me then as a drama is to me today ... extremely visceral and with some pretty heavy story lines at times. That show has never left me and formed a massive part of my childhood consciousness - Jason was my favourite member then and remains so to this day some 40 odd years later. The Yanks did the same thing to Gatchaman as they did to the Original Australian Mad Max ... just couldn't leave it alone.
The moral guardians wanted bland kidvid heroes. That's why Mark could do no wrong (even when he was plainly wrong) and Jason was a hotheaded complainer. And they concealed death and injury as much as possible.
Honestly, I didn't know who the fuck Alex Ross was until he mentioned Kingdom Come. HOLY SHIT!!! Epic stuff lad. I love his work on that. I'm super excited by The Russo Brothers' announcement.
before DBZ before Sailor Moon before Pokemon before Bleach before Naruto before One Peice before Ghost in The Shell before Full Metal Alcamist before Cowboy Bebop thier was Astro Boy (the only Anime my mom likes) Speed Racher and GATCHAMAN!
Before giant mechas gurren Lagann and Gundam there was go nagai Mecha series like mazinger z and getter robot. Way before that as far I can think of tetsujin 28.
Before all that, the honor of being the world first animated film recorded on standard picture film goes to "Humorous Phases of Funny Faces", a 3 minute cartoon released in 1906 in the United States. It preceded Astro Boy by 46 years. Booyah.
That last line is SO POWERFUL…. If you love something so completely, and put ALL of your passion into creating something related to it, an homage to it, and do so with a pure heart, your effort WILL be noticed, and perhaps, celebrated. It’s true. I hope you find this out for yourself, and are able to enjoy the good feelings that explode out of what happens next.
I bought every Alex Ross cover for the comic book series... when I got to the end of the last one (and they said it was last one on the last page), my heart sank...
🦆🕊️🦉🦅🐦 This guys art IS truly AMAZING‼️🐦🦉🦅🕊️🦆 reminds me of those awesome Slane' & Hellraiser comics from the late 1980's... loved his work on Flash Gordon also... DEATH TO MING‼️🌟🌠💫✨⭐🌌☄️🚀🛰️
Honestly Alex Ross commentating on the ADV dub of Gatchaman as he draws some of his murals for the series is the most Based shit I have ever seen in anime. I remember watching Gatchaman during the 90s post-anime ban Korea where it was translated as Eagle Five Brothers. It was one of my go-to series next to the Brave Series.
Anime con today in Abq, NM had your comics and I am in love...Gatchaman is the only anime I have followed...I was addicted in childhood. Thank you for your amazing artwork! I am cosplaying Jun soon...hope to see you sometime in the con circuit. :D
His artwork just feels too good to be true. They must be some sort of gimic it’s just completely insane. There is literally no artist I’ve seen that illustrates to a photorealistic level like him
kingdom come and earth history X were great novels. I too watched battle of the planets/gatchaman as a child, and boy, it stands the test of time. I can't even relate to people nowadays how it was the progenitor of power rangers. They were the quintessential color coded five person superhero team, driving mecha. Interestingly, shogun warriors were licensed from marvel to use Spiderman in their own show. He is NOTHING like our Spiderman, and eh even has his own giant flying spider mecha robo. Anyways, i'll stop being nostalgic now. One of the best things about Gatchman to me was how the female superhero, Jun, only needed to be saved exactly once in the entire series. She wasn't forced to be the helpless female eye candy, she was an integral part of the team and always pulled her own weight, like every member did.
As Fred Wolf tried a follow-up on "Mach Go-go-go", I could imagine someone approaching Alex Ross to do storyboards for a stateside "Gatchaman 21" or "BotP 21". This comes from the same line of thought that imagines Matthew Lilliard voicing the field commander in either hypothetical project.
One of the most pervasive urban legends holds that the original Gatchaman scripts often had G-4 (Jinpei) telling Galactor agents where to shove it and/or telling dirty jokes.
Good for Alex. I totally believe in creating your own opportunities. And I appreciated the way he describes how the show was so different and totally captivated kids like him and myself back in the day.
The bot was added for one to soften the series but also because by the time they got done chopping up the episode through censorship the episode was to short to air... so they needed a way to fill the time gap as well as explain all the missing info from any deleted scenes.. Hence the buggy botty... Just watch the uncut complete Japanese version... its better..
The original American version of battle of the planets .. was such sanitized crap!!! with 7 zark 7 used as filler because of the super heavy censoring. It should only be seen in the original Japanese format which is amazing.
+alexrosscollector um do you think the unreleased 3D animated movie Gatchaman (Imagi leaked) is supposed to be in 2 Canadian animated studios like Rainmaker Studios and ToonBox Entertainment distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures?
🇦🇲🇦🇷🇦🇩🇨🇱🇨🇺🇪🇦🇪🇨🇲🇽🇺🇲🇺🇾🇻🇪🏳️🏳️🌈 Para todos los hispanohablantes: este vídeo es muy bueno si quieren aprender Inglés, ya que la dicción es muy, pero muy buena 😃 (for all Spanish-speakers: this Is an excelente video 'cause the man who being interviewed has very goog diction )😃
agreed, kingdom come got me into to dc again in my high school years lol. Return Of The Dark Knight is my favorite batman story beside the hush storyline. Have not got to All Star Superman
J'ai les trois premiers tomes en version française de Gatchaman mais malheureusement je n'ai pas les deux ou trois derniers tomes car faute de succès chez nous ils n'ont pas été commercialisés. Où puis-je les trouver même en VO ? Merci
ithsi is just a fanboy dream but if they ever think of making a Kingdom Come movie i really hope the make it a CGI film to keep it close to Alex Ross original worm
I loved BOTP when I was a kid. Even more than Star Wars, Superman, and Spider-Man etc. The only BOTP merch I could find were comic books, but I would've killed for some action figures.
Alex Ross did it all, achieved all his goals by the time he was 30. He is a blessed dude with talent and a burning passion to comic books. Long live AR.
As a young child of the 70's Battle of the Planets was my intro to anime. Time to make a feature film asap! Such great memories!
You mean like the Toho movie from 2013?
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Alex, your art is unparallel to any other comic book art I've ever seen!
"and those guys are just workers!" Anyone who like me grew up watching Battle of the Planets (and the electric company for that matter ^_^ ) was blown away seeing how almost every episode starts off introducing us to a bunch of incidental background characters who are all slaughtered wholesale in a matter of minutes. Alex, thank you SO MUCH for helping this show come back untouched.
Grew up watching BOP as a kid in the 1970's ... it was as powerful to me then as a drama is to me today ... extremely visceral and with some pretty heavy story lines at times. That show has never left me and formed a massive part of my childhood consciousness - Jason was my favourite member then and remains so to this day some 40 odd years later. The Yanks did the same thing to Gatchaman as they did to the Original Australian Mad Max ... just couldn't leave it alone.
The moral guardians wanted bland kidvid heroes. That's why Mark could do no wrong (even when he was plainly wrong) and Jason was a hotheaded complainer. And they concealed death and injury as much as possible.
Alex is a lot younger than I expected it just shows that his talent is beyond his years.
One of my favorite artists of all time.
Alex Ross is soooo damn articulate! His voice is way deeper than I imagined.
Honestly, I didn't know who the fuck Alex Ross was until he mentioned Kingdom Come. HOLY SHIT!!! Epic stuff lad. I love his work on that. I'm super excited by The Russo Brothers' announcement.
I want that shirt!!😭 this is my all time favorite anime from childhood. 😍😍
Gatchaman is my number 1 favorite tatsunoko anime and Super hero Anime series of all time.
Gatchaman and also hurricane polymar.
Then you'd love Infini-T Force.. brings all Tatsunoko defining characters into one "world".
Christopher Washington
Did you watch ALL of the Gatchaman episodes Christopher?
@@regularslick6038 Yes I did all of them I LOVE IT!
Gatchaman is Legendary.
@@luva_carnincatsnmusic I don't like gatchaman crowds
crowds is terrible.
The art on the Part 1 DVD is so crisp. Thanks Alex Ross!
Kingdom Come is one of the greatest comics I have ever read, along with All-Star Superman and the Return of the Dark Knight.
before DBZ before Sailor Moon before Pokemon before Bleach before Naruto before One Peice before Ghost in The Shell before Full Metal Alcamist before Cowboy Bebop thier was Astro Boy (the only Anime my mom likes) Speed Racher and GATCHAMAN!
***** Dont forget Mighty Orbots
Before giant mechas gurren Lagann and Gundam there was go nagai Mecha series like mazinger z and getter robot. Way before that as far I can think of tetsujin 28.
DharkSamuel yes
Before all that, the honor of being the world first animated film recorded on standard picture film goes to "Humorous Phases of Funny Faces", a 3 minute cartoon released in 1906 in the United States. It preceded Astro Boy by 46 years. Booyah.
You forgot Mazinger Z!
ガッチャマンはかっこいいですよね。私も好きです。
That last line is SO POWERFUL…. If you love something so completely, and put ALL of your passion into creating something related to it, an homage to it, and do so with a pure heart, your effort WILL be noticed, and perhaps, celebrated.
It’s true.
I hope you find this out for yourself, and are able to enjoy the good feelings that explode out of what happens next.
I bought every Alex Ross cover for the comic book series... when I got to the end of the last one (and they said it was last one on the last page), my heart sank...
🦆🕊️🦉🦅🐦 This guys art IS truly AMAZING‼️🐦🦉🦅🕊️🦆 reminds me of those awesome Slane' & Hellraiser comics from the late 1980's... loved his work on Flash Gordon also... DEATH TO MING‼️🌟🌠💫✨⭐🌌☄️🚀🛰️
He really likes it and his art of it shows. I aspire to be like him
Amazing artist!!!! So much respect for this man. 🙌🏼
Honestly Alex Ross commentating on the ADV dub of Gatchaman as he draws some of his murals for the series is the most Based shit I have ever seen in anime. I remember watching Gatchaman during the 90s post-anime ban Korea where it was translated as Eagle Five Brothers. It was one of my go-to series next to the Brave Series.
Hell to the yea!!
G- Force rulled and still rules!!!
Favs are Tiny,Keopt he was cool even
With his studder!!!
I love Gatchaman/Battle of the Planets
Alex Ross, IMO, is the standard for wich all comic artist should be measured.
Your passion and output for everything you create is very appreciated Alex.... accept for money grabs like generations... by Marvel
this guy is the greatest painter living
Anime con today in Abq, NM had your comics and I am in love...Gatchaman is the only anime I have followed...I was addicted in childhood. Thank you for your amazing artwork! I am cosplaying Jun soon...hope to see you sometime in the con circuit. :D
His gatchaman paintings are seriously some of the most visually arresting he's ever created.
His artwork just feels too good to be true. They must be some sort of gimic it’s just completely insane. There is literally no artist I’ve seen that illustrates to a photorealistic level like him
"And those guys are just workers!"
lol!
kingdom come and earth history X were great novels. I too watched battle of the planets/gatchaman as a child, and boy, it stands the test of time. I can't even relate to people nowadays how it was the progenitor of power rangers. They were the quintessential color coded five person superhero team, driving mecha. Interestingly, shogun warriors were licensed from marvel to use Spiderman in their own show. He is NOTHING like our Spiderman, and eh even has his own giant flying spider mecha robo. Anyways, i'll stop being nostalgic now. One of the best things about Gatchman to me was how the female superhero, Jun, only needed to be saved exactly once in the entire series. She wasn't forced to be the helpless female eye candy, she was an integral part of the team and always pulled her own weight, like every member did.
As Fred Wolf tried a follow-up on "Mach Go-go-go", I could imagine someone approaching Alex Ross to do storyboards for a stateside "Gatchaman 21" or "BotP 21". This comes from the same line of thought that imagines Matthew Lilliard voicing the field commander in either hypothetical project.
I really like that Mark statue behind you!
Trent Phillips
Ken the Eagle
Gatchaman best cartoon ever
it would be cool too see a Tatsunoko vs Capcom poster done by Ross. lol
Shinkiro doing the artwork was just as Satisfying.
Gatchaman kick ass. 😀👍
One of the most pervasive urban legends holds that the original Gatchaman scripts often had G-4 (Jinpei) telling Galactor agents where to shove it and/or telling dirty jokes.
alex, u r great, i love u work
I see chibi versions of casshern and polymar in alex's glass display case..
Good for Alex. I totally believe in creating your own opportunities. And I appreciated the way he describes how the show was so different and totally captivated kids like him and myself back in the day.
I wish that battle of the planets would do a live action movie. That would be slick.
They had one a couple years after your comment.
waw amazing
GATCHAMAN:The Real BATTLE OF THE PLANETS without 7 ZARK 7.
@ランディバース I think they added that Character in there as Filler to delete most of the Violent Scenes in certain Areas!!!!
@@db3crashcoursecinema - Filler and narration.
The bot was added for one to soften the series but also because by the time they got done chopping up the episode through censorship the episode was to short to air... so they needed a way to fill the time gap as well as explain all the missing info from any deleted scenes..
Hence the buggy botty...
Just watch the uncut complete Japanese version... its better..
JUST LOOK AT ALL THAT GATCHAMAN GOODNESS BEHIND HIM!!! AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
The original American version of battle of the planets .. was such sanitized crap!!! with 7 zark 7 used as filler because of the super heavy censoring. It should only be seen in the original Japanese format which is amazing.
YES COMPLETE BULLSHIT
Agreed
+alexrosscollector um do you think the unreleased 3D animated movie Gatchaman (Imagi leaked) is supposed to be in 2 Canadian animated studios like Rainmaker Studios and ToonBox Entertainment distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures?
I know I'm like 7 months late, but the seahorse is Tatsunoko's (the studio that created Gatchaman) logo.
im sure gatchaman crowds is heart breaking for him...
The mark statue in the back is bad ass
Alan Mendez thats ken
I have the complete Gatchaman OVA DVD collection.
🇦🇲🇦🇷🇦🇩🇨🇱🇨🇺🇪🇦🇪🇨🇲🇽🇺🇲🇺🇾🇻🇪🏳️🏳️🌈 Para todos los hispanohablantes: este vídeo es muy bueno si quieren aprender Inglés, ya que la dicción es muy, pero muy buena 😃 (for all Spanish-speakers: this Is an excelente video 'cause the man who being interviewed has very goog diction )😃
gatchaman is super sentai before super sentai in japan
hi!! i'm like you, we have the same mission!!! keep the real cartoon alive!!!! and comics too!!! greetings from france!!
agreed, kingdom come got me into to dc again in my high school years lol. Return Of The Dark Knight is my favorite batman story beside the hush storyline. Have not got to All Star Superman
J'ai les trois premiers tomes en version française de Gatchaman mais malheureusement je n'ai pas les deux ou trois derniers tomes car faute de succès chez nous ils n'ont pas été commercialisés. Où puis-je les trouver même en VO ? Merci
what would the Gatchamen look if Rob Liefeld Draw them?
god i loved mark from g-force he's soooooooo.....cute lol!
I wonder if he is drawing something for the upcoming Gatchaman movie
You complete me.
Alex Ross is a God I love his BOP/Gatchaman art....but why does he look like Captain Underpants in this video, forgive me
I want that poster at 1:14!!!
Got ya man XD "gotcha man" XD
Where's part 2?
I saw the Tatsunoko Seahorse in 2:03
Movie real poeple
holy cow
ithsi is just a fanboy dream but if they ever think of making a Kingdom Come movie i really hope the make it a CGI film to keep it close to Alex Ross original worm
I wish Mr. Ross would make a painting of the current American politics
Bernie, Hillary and President Trump
It would look awesome
Matt Black his artwork is so great. Doesn’t deserve to be criticized due to politics.
I wish he'd make a how-to DVD. Btw, why's there a seahorse in 2:03 xD
Michael 10 6 Years late but the sea horse is Tatsunoko's mascot/logo. The animators of Gatchaman.
@conradojavier why!?, we got Shinkiro!
tatsunoko now currently working with nelvana and d-rights to remake Botp, but sadly it's aimed kids.
Kiryu Sannagi god no
seraphimprince but the problem is they were promised to release for Fall 2017 but they don’t give any information until now
go play Tatsunoko vs Capcom Alex Ross.
@felixwilliam30 Holy COW! YES!
just buy his books. they all explains how he does what he do
There should be a Kingdom Come movie, It would be better than watchmen
ABSOLUTELY!
movies suck nowadays
Is this guy married? Just wondering...
Lets leave it to japan.
@PantherCaruso I guess Time Bokan Anime are not his taste.
Conrado Javier but the others like hurricane polymar, Casshern and tekkaman might be his taste
Gatchaman with Youngblood's Disease, ,Badly Drawn Feet,Giant Guns, & Giant Muscle = Fail lol
I loved BOTP when I was a kid. Even more than Star Wars, Superman, and Spider-Man etc. The only BOTP merch I could find were comic books, but I would've killed for some action figures.