More Pieta Fun? Yes please!

[auggie18]

A question finally answered...



Recently, the question was asked whether the famous Pieta pose homage had been ever been done woman holding dude instead of the other way around. I found two images, but one of them was too tiny to post here, so I'm just going for one. (The other one was a Sue holding Reed pic.)



And a girl on girl one. Just for fun.




Suggested tags: char: captain atom/nathaniel adam, char: plastique/bette sans souci, char: supergirl/linda danvers, char: supergirl/kara zor-el

Comments

[shadowpsykie]

i still think the best one is the Superman supergirl one... that one made me cry :( the story that is....

[jaybee3]

I agree. I still think it's the best Supergirl story yet written (and I miss Linda Danvers).

[nezchan]

The one from the original Crisis? Yeah, that whole issue just had me speechless at the time, and the cover said everything that needed to be said.

[punishermax]

"NOOOOOOOO....SHE WAS WEARING MY FAVORITE OUTFIT !"

[celestialchild]

Wow. That Captain Atom one is just beautiful!

It really goes to show you though... sometimes art is in the subtleties. This is one of those pose-images that comes off really corny or really beautiful depending on the artist and how they illustrate it (the Supergirl(s) one doesn't really hit me as hard).

[ian_karkull]

Uhm... the classic (as in original) Pieta pose is a woman holding a dude, not the other way around. Am I missing something..?

Also, the famous Captain Marvel cover is also (technically) a woman holding a man, since Marvel Death usually manifests as female.

[darklorelei]

Yeah, I'm confused, too.

[nagaoka]

That confused me too. I'm guessing most comic artwork would show a man holding a woman though.

[halloweenjack]

Right. The Crisis on Infinite Earths cover, while evoking some of the spirit of the original sculpture, really isn't the same thing, since part of the meaning of the Pieta is that of a mother mourning her son.

[auggie18]

That's why I said "famous Pieta homage", AKA the cover to Crisis on Infinite Earths. It was an homage, but gained it's own meaning. Most covers with this pose seem like they're more of a nod to COIE than to the statue and they usually have guys holding girls.

[deepspaceartist]

I just noticed on the Supergirl cover. Earth-1/New-Earth Superman seems to be facepalming. Perhaps he's gotten sick of CoIE cover references?

[bluejaybirdie]

I think he's *supposed* to be crying onto his hand, but it's hard to tell...

[deepspaceartist]

Yeah, I figured that was the most likely meaning. I just like the thought of Clark getting sick of people doint the cover homages over and over.

[cainofdreaming]

You know you've failed your innocence roll when the first thing that comes to your mind from the second cover is "Bet Batman's going to just leave Babs on that outcropping. With no way to get down. The $%&#."

[deepspaceartist]

There's a ramp just to the left, off-panel. It's one of the new wheelchair accessable rocky outcropping. So everybody can trake part in the CoIE cover homages.

[goblinthebamf]

take a look here, just glancing through real quick I noticed a Wonder Woman cover where she is holding Steve Trevor.

also, tv tropes ohgodtheregoesmyday

[goblinthebamf]

a slightly bigger gallery.

[cmdr_zoom]

I have occasionally wondered, if Michaelangelo hadn't sculpted that, what other work would people have been blatantly copying ever since?

[crabby_lioness]

The pieta pose was a classic before Michaelangelo was born.

I've always loved the Captain Atom series.

Also...

[deepspaceartist]

I see your Supergirl # 79, and Raise you a Firestorm # 21!

[schala_kid]

Oh man I've been hearing a lot about the Pieta this whole week, art class, TV, this one magazine, also this girl and guy in one of my classes is are going to cover themselves with b mix clay and do the pose and they have asked me to help them with the photos....


No scans-daily is talking about it! I am sure this is all coincidence but lol I've been having a Pieta focused week here.

[halloweenjack]

Probably not a coincidence at all.

[darkblade]

Um guys...Powergirl is in the background of the Supergirl shot. The tag line LIES!

Song in my head!

[silverzeo]

DANG IT! Whenever I see Many Happy Returns, I think about that Awesome music video, and then it makes me think of the song on the later half of it. I know the lyrics and meoldy, but I can't figure out the frag'n name of the SONG! IT IS DRIVING ME INTO RAGE!

I know the first half is Please Forgive me by David Grey, but the other one I do not know. All the lyrics I can remember from the song is like, "You'r not alone.... You're not alone. Your not al-alalala (or something like that at the end.)" Does anyone know what I am talking about?

Re: Song in my head!

[badficwriter]

now you've made me crazy. Google pointed me at some songmeme who liked 'please forgive me' and 'keep holding on by avril lavigne..."you're not alone, together we stand et cetera Eragon"..that it?

Re: Song in my head!

[silverzeo]

NOT EVEN CLOSE! DAMN IT! IF ONLY THE VIDEO WAS STILL UP. The song was sung by a easy voice guy, kinda like the guy who voiced Please Forgive Me" and has a...paino in the back around. This is worse when you have a song in your head. When you have a fregment of a song in your head and you have no idea what it is called or who is singing it! True Madness!

[queenanthai]

WITCHBLADE #128 did one:

[iondan]

It's not a Comic cover but Nathan Sawaya's work isn't any less cool