Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Alex Ross walks through the entire creation of Kingdom Come, page by page, issue by issue. He talks about why the series was a reaction to 90s anti-hero culture, how he used his father's church in Chicago as the real-world setting, the challenge of painting a believable Superman, his creative tension with Mark Waid over the story's ending, and why he regrets adding the epilogue.
This clip is from the Kingdom Come documentary, a documentary by RA Imaging and Comic Book Pros.
Chapters
0:00 - A Reaction to the 90s
1:33 - Issue #1: The Cover and the Spectre
3:33 - Grounding the Story in a Human Narrator
5:04 - Painting in Sequence at His Father's Church
7:06 - Painting Superman for the First Time
9:08 - The Most Important Splash Page
10:08 - Norman Rockwell and the Cover Compositions
12:09 - Deep-Cut DC Cameos and Easter Eggs
14:10 - Revealing Batman Without the Costume
15:41 - Luthor, Captain Marvel, and the Villains
17:12 - Superman Walks Into a Bar (Inspired by The Crow)
19:13 - Issue #2: Reassembling the Justice League
20:44 - Issue #3: The Quintessence and Raising the Stakes
21:45 - Fighting Mark Waid Over the Ending
23:47 - Batman's Secret Son and Hidden Subplots
27:19 - Issue #4: Captain Marvel and the Superhuman War
29:19 - Why He Regrets the Epilogue
31:51 - "Nothing Else Was Ever Going to Be Quite Like This"
#KingdomCome #ComicBookArt #DCComics #ComicBooks #ComicBookPros #Superman #Batman #CaptainMarvel #MarkWaid #PaintedComics
Alex Ross walks through the entire creation of Kingdom Come, page by page, issue by issue. He talks about why the series was a reaction to 90s anti-hero culture, how he used his father's church in Chicago as the real-world setting, the challenge of painting a believable Superman, his creative tension with Mark Waid over the story's ending, and why he regrets adding the epilogue.
This clip is from the Kingdom Come documentary, a documentary by RA Imaging and Comic Book Pros.
Chapters
0:00 - A Reaction to the 90s
1:33 - Issue #1: The Cover and the Spectre
3:33 - Grounding the Story in a Human Narrator
5:04 - Painting in Sequence at His Father's Church
7:06 - Painting Superman for the First Time
9:08 - The Most Important Splash Page
10:08 - Norman Rockwell and the Cover Compositions
12:09 - Deep-Cut DC Cameos and Easter Eggs
14:10 - Revealing Batman Without the Costume
15:41 - Luthor, Captain Marvel, and the Villains
17:12 - Superman Walks Into a Bar (Inspired by The Crow)
19:13 - Issue #2: Reassembling the Justice League
20:44 - Issue #3: The Quintessence and Raising the Stakes
21:45 - Fighting Mark Waid Over the Ending
23:47 - Batman's Secret Son and Hidden Subplots
27:19 - Issue #4: Captain Marvel and the Superhuman War
29:19 - Why He Regrets the Epilogue
31:51 - "Nothing Else Was Ever Going to Be Quite Like This"
#KingdomCome #ComicBookArt #DCComics #ComicBooks #ComicBookPros #Superman #Batman #CaptainMarvel #MarkWaid #PaintedComics
