The Stand: Captain Trips #5 p.19 - Dark Man Origins ! Pulp

The Stand: Captain Trips #5 p.19 - Dark Man Origins ! PulpThe 2nd of a 3 page sequence in which we learn a little bit of the Dark Man's origins going back to the 1960's civil rights movement!

Great images of both of these guys

But it is the very conversations this image provokes which made us want to offer this print in the first place

In the early 1980s

which we soon find out is an order for the military to begin randomly executing innocent civilians

as Lois types away and Jessica Midnight listens to the news reports on television

Look at all the attention to details Perkins puts in

A lovely page featuring Dominus in his time & reality bending domain

the ropes that make up the net are dark brown but don't have any coloured highlights as they seem to appear here

as the pigments never fade and remain just as vibrant as they were over 3 decades ago

If you're reading the series

it really brings the view into the scene and makes you feel like you're right there with the X-Men

Meese painted a few hundred paperback covers during his career