Rather than wax poetic about deeper things, Full Circle is a straightforward celebration of Marvel’s first family. Kingdom Come and Marvels encapsulated decades’ worth of mythology and examined the interplay between ordinary people and superheroes. Again, super rich thematic territory that resulted in one of the hardest-hitting books DC has ever published.įull Circle works simpler magic. Aided by Mark Waid’s inspired scripting, Ross painted heroes as unwitting agents of destruction, consequences in capes who needed to take responsibility not just for who they were protecting but how they were protecting them. Kingdom Come for DC Comics was just as good - if not better - as an epic and a showcase for Ross as a visual storyteller. And Ross, in his now-famous style and with no small amount of talent, made that assertion ring true. The story was ruthlessly hypothetical, an assertion that we would be helpless against these super-beings if they decided to take us down a peg or three. Writer Kurt Busiek brought out the very best in Ross his script, by virtue of what it was, demanded angles and perspectives that hadn’t been done this way yet.
The This seminal book framed superheroes as beings whose derring-do forced our eyes skyward, evoking an awe that stopped us cold and enforced humility. His first major work, the 4-issue Marvels (1994), packaged decades of Marvel canon into a beautiful book about humanity learning to live among (and around) gods. To discuss Ross’ present, we need to touch on his beginnings.
The second is that he’s writing and drawing the book himself, marking his first long-form work as a solo comic writer. The first is that he has deviated from his signature style. Full Circle separates itself from Ross’ earlier works in several immediately obvious ways.
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