This series recounting how I added art to DC cards to make ‘em prettier continues with this BFC from Arkham Asylum:

This image from the early ’80s Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew series is the best possible choice to illustrate this card.

Next week, more Arkham.

This series recounting how I added art to DC cards to make ‘em prettier continues. Last time, I said I’d move on to Secret Invasion, which was the next set with feat and BFC cards. But I forgot that I was only doing DC sets because the Marvel ones already HAVE art. So, on to Arkham Asylum.

This image from a mid-1990’s issue of Legion of Super-Heroes sort of illustrates the concept of a team dispersing. I don’t know that I ever used this feat at all. Busting up your own formation doesn’t seem like a great move.

Next week, more Arkham.

This series recounting how I added art to DC cards to make ‘em prettier continues. Here, we conclude Crisis with an innocuous-looking card:

This BFC was printed about a half-dozen times. The image from JSA vs. Kobra #5, in which the villain moves among unsuspecting civilians, was perfect.

As noted, Crisis is done. Coming up next are cards from a Secret Invasion. See it in seven.

Wow, it’s been a long time since this series recounting how I added art to DC cards to make ‘em prettier saw an addition. There are two reasons:

The blog got sidetracked from this semi-regular feature by first a hiatus, then other special series including the usual looks back at the past year and the just-completed focus on the Legion.

But the bigger reason is that A) I never did a card art version of the next card in line and B) once I did, I lost the new one in a hard drive crash and C) have only recently reacquired the Photoshop software needed to redo said card art.

So yeah. It’s been a little bit of a journey to present:

It was also really difficult to find art that illustrated the concept. (Actually, I did have the perfect image, but it was already spoken for by another card.) So this Barry Kitson art of a baddie falling [heh] victim to a character’s gravity power in the 2007 Legion of Super-Heroes [there’s that name again ] series was the next best thing.

Next week, look for the series back on its sorta regular schedule.

Tomorrow: The return of Token Totin’!

Continuing the series recounting how I added art to DC cards to make ’em prettier. The next feat of Crisis WOULD be Opportunist, but it’s another WOT (Wall of Text) card that leaves little or no room for art. So it’s on to the next in line:

Man. At the time, there were very few Duos in DC Heroclix and even fewer images of them doing anything like what the card describes. This Alan Davis bit from the writer/artist’s “Another Nail” Elseworlds was the best I could find.

Next week, another BFC from Crisis.

Continuing the series recounting how I choose art for DC cards to make ’em prettier.

Here’s the next BFC in the set:

Though he’s my favorite character, Aquaman on a wrecked throne well-illustrates the card. This was from a cover 2/3 through his 2002 series run, just after Atlantis had gotten smooshed by the insane Spectre during Infinite Crisis.

Next week, another feat from Crisis.

Continuing the series recounting how I added art to DC cards to make ’em prettier. I’m going to switch things up a little by alternating between BFCs and Feats in each set. To wit, this time Heroclixin’ looks at the first Feat of Crisis:

Well, technically it’s the 2nd feat, but F001 is an Alternate Team Ability that was banned when WizKids upgraded to the current Additional Team Ability rules.

Anyhow, the challenge was finding a DC character jumping off a building and NOT FLYING. This crop of two panel of Young Heroes In Love member Thunderhead doing so was the best I could recall and find. Art’s by Dev Madan, who apparently went on to great success as a creator of Sly Cooper.

Next week, another BFC from Crisis.

Continuing the series recounting how I added art to DC cards to make ’em prettier.

Last time, I promised another feat from 2007’s Justice League set. But the remaining feats of the set were either too laden with text to work — such as Contingency Plan — or are outright banned, like the Alternate Team Ability feats. So we’re moving on to cards from the next DC set, 2008’s Crisis.

When I read the issue of Starman that this excellent art came from, I knew it was the best choice to illustrate this battlefield condition — one which could not be used at all on a lot of the more recent maps in the game, according to this Player’s Guide ruling:

This card can‘t be played if any of the starting areas is made up exclusively of elevated terrain.

Next week, more BFCs from Crisis.

I added art to DC cards to make ’em prettier. Here’s the latest, another feat from Justice League:

From Final Crisis #6. Doug Manke draws a fighting-mad Superman smashing walls like they’re not there.

Next week, more feats from JL.

I added art to DC cards to make ’em prettier. Here’s the latest, another feat from Justice League:

It’s pretty. More to the point, Brainiac 5 (as drawn by Barry Kitson on the cover of Legion of Super-Heroes #1) is the prototype of the feat.

Next week, more feats from JL.