A-ha!
Teh wow, Lu!
April Fool: Not much is known about her, but she might be a follower of the Joker's style. She was first seen in the Gulag. Her appearance was based off of Columbia from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Goblin King: Not much is known about him, as he was first seen in the Gulag. His look is based off of Nosferatu and Riff Raff from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show".
(Wikipedia)


So I finished reading Kingdom Come sometime in the early hours of yesterday morning - as soon as I finished it, I closed my eyes and woke up later in the afternoon. My impression through reading the book was that it was pretty mediocre - but since then I've let it ruminate and I'm reading annotations and it's revealing a lot more of the story to me. Why it didn't jump out at me the first time through is a combination of a) lots of Biblical references I didn't get, b) lots of comicbook references I didn't get, and c) becoming jaded by all the books I've read lately that are supposed to be the best of the best, many with the same general theme - I couldn't appreciate this as one of the best because all the ones I've read previously are supposed to be the best as well.

There is an excrutiating amount of details I completely passed by on my first read-though. I have a habit of just whizzing through the dialogue and hardly glancing at the pictures; this is generally a bad plan during most of the book and completely missing the point of the book during action sequences.

ROFL. Wikipedia is fun.
Lobo: He has aged badly, becoming similar in appearance to Homer Simpson.

So, the art is gorgeous - every panel is a watercolor painting. I can't begin to fathom the amount of work put into the pictures. It's all practically photorealistic too - Superman, Wonderwoman, Bruce Wayne and Oliver Queen are living, breathing characters. And I STILL think the speech baloons clash with the art terribly.

The universe of Kingdom Come says To Hell with Continuity and Logic, which is a Very Good Thing(tm). It allows for some interesting and awesome things: Such as Sherlock Holmes, The Question, Rorschach and The Shadow (y'know... The Shadow knows! That Shadow.) to meet together in a bar. It's one panel and it's completely in the background of the story, but it's things like these that make a series cool.


...I think I was spurred to write up this whole entry just 'cos Rorschach made a cameo. Because I want to tell that to the world. Also THE WONDER TWINS.
THE MOTHERFUCKING WONDER TWINS ARE IN KINGDOM COME.
And I never, ever would have known were it not for these annotations. D=

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/7160/kc2.html

PS: And the Village People. I don't know how; I don't know why; but the Village People are superheroes in this book.

PPS: Scanned.