dpk431 #002: Cover
Ah, yes, my parody of The Good, The Bad and the Ugly movie poster (above and lovingly looted from All Posters).
If this were an actual cover with, you know, actual art (hint, hint), all three dpk431 characters thus far would be featured.
Cue theme music. The incredibly cool theme music…
- The Good: Calgary, dressed as a spaghetti western hero in classic Clint Eastwood pose. Or classic Bill Murray pose. Calgary should look unbelievably cool in this getup and have the HOLY BLUNDERBUSS OF ANTIOCH in addition to his revolvers.
- The Bad: Demon as Lee Van Cleef. He should look menacing, not silly.
- The Ugly a.k.a The Criminally Insane: The Dark Punishing Knight. Imagine an Eastwoodian poncho over his costume as he stares intently down the barrel of his own six shooter.
Cover Notes:
- I really wanted to use the Good Bad Ugly font (I mean, who wouldn’t?), but that just ended up looking wrong. Then I moved to the Eastwood font (again, who wouldn’t), but that looked just plain kooky. I finally fell back to my old western standby, RosewoodStd-Regular (someone has got to come up with a better abbreviation for standard than Std). Not perfect, but I think it provides the spaghetti western aesthetic I’m looking for.