![]() Major events in the DC Universe have become a house cleaning for unwanted characters (along with a few big boys to add some shock value to the events). The disappointing Infinite Crisis featured Superboy Prime casually killing half of the Titan's reserve membership during a battle with Conner Kent (soon to be deceased himself). The number of deaths in the past decade have been on the raise, as well. The number of characters who have died and remained dead since Crisis on Infinite Earths continuity reboot is almost without measure. It takes two pages just to show them all, and even then some are left for later in the issue to illustrate. Halfway through the issue, Hal Jordan shows the recently returned Flash, Barry Allen, just how many people have died since he himself departed the world of the living. Indeed, readers might have noticed a lot of deaths during the Sinistero Corps War, but now that they're all in one place, illustrated in all their gory detail does it become obvious how many recognizable characters were lost over just a single year. A single splash page featuring all the deceased Green Lantern Corps members illustrates the mind-boggling losses this one small section of the DC Universe has experienced. In the first issue alone, more once-beloved characters are brought back to life than can be shown reasonably in the pages of the book, earning only brief mentions as the book focuses on those Geoff Johns has chosen to share with us thus far. Fans may joke about characters dying and being resurrected before the end of the issue, but it wasn't until the dead began to rise it became apparent just how short a lifespan heroes have in in DC comics. Warren Criswell is currently represented by M2 Gallery in Little Rock and Saatchi Art.With the Black Lanterns running rampant as part of the Blackest Night summer event, the DC Universe is showcasing one of their largest rosters of B-List characters: the deceased ones. In 1996 he was awarded a fellowship grant for painting and works on paper by the Mid-America Arts Alliance and the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2003 an Individual Artist Fellowship Grant for painting and drawing by the Arkansas Arts Council. In 2021 he won the Arksnsas Governor's Award for Individual artist. His work has been included in 77 group exhibitions in New York, Atlanta, Washington DC, Arkansas, Virginia, North Carolina, Germany and Taiwan, and is represented in the permanent collections of many institutions, including: The Arkansas Arts Center the McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina The Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, AR the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Capital Arts Center, Taipei, China the University of Central Arkansas Hendrix College the Center for Arts & Science of SE Arkansas and the Central Arkansas Library System, as well as in private and corporate collections in the United States, Europe and Asia. He has had 41 solo exhibitions in the United States and one in Taiwan. Primarily a self-taught painter, Criswell is also a printmaker, sculptor and animator. They haven't caught me at that yet." (Warren Criswell) - “I am saying that a journey is called that because you cannot know what you will discover on the journey, what you will do, what you will find, or what you find will do to you.” (James Baldwin) - Warren Criswell was born in West Palm Beach, Florida in 1936 and has lived in Arkansas with his wife Janet since their bus broke down there in 1978. I wasn't interested in terror but tried robbery, stole a watch in the third grade but got caught and took up art. ![]() "I was a loner as a kid, an only child, the kind that grow up to be terrorists, bank robbers or artists. I approach each painting with fear and trembling, pretending it's my first and hoping it's not my last. The worst thing that can happen to a painter is to learn to paint. I never know what's coming next, I only hope it's something. Each of my paintings is a discovery, each with its own formula and rules. But I have no formula or rules except to express the truth as I see it. I animated this as part of my short film "The Shadow," which you can watch here: PAINTINGS I use the materials and styles of the Old Masters to express images and ideas of the present, or timeless archetypes and myths set in our present day environments. In this one he's not quite that far gone. ![]() ![]() (See additional images.) What is more archetypal than this image? In my recent watercolor "Autumn Leaves," where it is reflected in the water, the man is old and bent, supported by his staff, but still struggling on after the woman. I've done many variations on this theme, in paintings, sculptures and animations.
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