The Comic Book Collection by Kernie

Post by **Speedz0r** » Sat Sep 12, 2020 5:17 pm

Awesome colors, looks brilliant buddy!

nightcrawler23 · Post by **nightcrawler23** » Mon Sep 14, 2020 11:15 am

Thanks for the update collection Kernie!!!

Post by **Kernie** » Sat Sep 19, 2020 12:13 am

Kernie's Weekly Cover Update #30: Batman Beyond!
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First off, a couple of apologies: work is kicking my butt right now and I haven't been very chatty in the forums. Teaching a new course on Photoshop to 72 teenagers in a hybrid/virtual learning model is an insane amount of time and effort... recording daily 40-minute video tutorials, grading daily assignments, tracking attendance, e-mailing back and forth... it's pretty crazy. Haven't had much time for much else these days. Luckily, I have a stockpile of covers from the summer stored up and ready to upload each week!

Second apology: I know Batman Beyond got a Blu-ray upgrade last fall, but it took me a while to revamp them to a level that I felt they deserved. This is actually the third time I've revised the DVD editions of these covers... and I hope the third time is the charm! New 3D title treatment and logo, new custom keyart, revised color palette... basically a whole new template!

Since the series was only released as a "Complete Series" set, I decided to finally do something I've tried to resist doing in the past... make a space-saving complete series cover set as well! I won't do this for every series, only for the ones that get official, dedicated "series sets," and even then I'm not sure I'll always have the time to do it for other shows. The complete series cover set includes Blu-ray covers in 10mm & 15mm spines and DVD covers in 14mm and 33mm spines (to hold all 10 DVD discs)! Separate season set covers are available as well... although technically, you can't buy the individual seasons on Blu-ray at present time.

Batman Beyond: Season 1 (1999) - Blu-ray Edition
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Batman Beyond: Season 1 (1999) - DVD Edition
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Batman Beyond: Season 2 (1999) - Blu-ray Edition
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Batman Beyond: Season 2 (1999) - DVD Edition
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Batman Beyond: Season 3 (1999) - Blu-ray Edition
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Batman Beyond: Season 3 (1999) - DVD Edition
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Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000) - Blu-ray Edition
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Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000) - DVD Edition
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Batman Beyond: The Complete Series (1999) - Blu-ray Edition (available in 10mm & 15mm)
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Batman Beyond: The Complete Series (1999) - DVD Edition (available in 14mm & 33mm)
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I also did something I've never had to do for a cover before... draw a character from scratch! I've always been fortunate to find good resources, or have some level of success with upscaling/restoring less-than-ideal images... but I just couldn't find a good enough version of Joker Beyond from Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker. So I grabbed a low-res image and completely redrew it in Adobe Illustrator. It doesn't perfectly match the same style as the images of Terry Batman, Bruce Batman, and Tim Robin on the cover, but I think it's good enough that most of you would never have noticed without me telling you!

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Enjoy! See you next week!

Post by **ctaulbee** » Sat Sep 19, 2020 12:24 am

Outstanding group of covers you have made Kernie and superb work on the Joker illustration

Post by **RRJR84** » Sat Sep 19, 2020 12:42 am

excellent job ,you always seem to out do yourself.

Guitarmo · Post by **Guitarmo** » Sat Sep 19, 2020 12:57 am

WOW Mister Kernie!!....

Excellent work my friend, I am sure that you still have many more surprises for all of us.

Admin Edit: Please keep cover and label requests in the request forum

I do not want to say goodbye without first thanking you greatly for fine work!

God bless you very much and your family.
Greetings from Costa Rica!!

Post by **Speedz0r** » Sat Sep 19, 2020 6:06 am

That drawing is very decent buddy, is there anything you can't do?

Post by **cas** » Sat Sep 19, 2020 9:20 am

owwowowowowowowow truly amazing they look so cool i really love the return of the joker cover wowwo owowwowo

Post by **bazzah** » Sat Sep 19, 2020 9:48 am

Damn Kernie. The old set was great, but as usual you managed to make them even better. And you are right, nobody would have been able to tell that it was not an official Joker illustration. It looks pretty damn perfect to me. That must have taken you a long time to make!

And please do not apologise for being caught up with work etc. These are unprecedented times that have affected us all in various ways. I am sure I speak on everybody's behalf, when I say that we are just grateful that you still find time to fit us in and supply us with a glorious new cover set every week

merdec · Post by **merdec** » Sat Sep 19, 2020 12:35 pm

A very pleasant surprise, the new covers are amazing. :cool:

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