I get Crimson King from the Dark Tower vibes from this

The dark tower really did manage to capture a surreal picture of the lovecraftian grotesqueness of America and the west in general.

the younger King had his finger on the political pulse of america despite lacking the ideological language for it

The Running Man is astonishingly on-target for 1980, more predictive than most any cyberpunk imo
- Absolutely agree. The Stand was muddled with religious allegory but had a kernel of critique on how to rebuild society after all is wiped clean, with the Dark Man recreating pre-existing neoliberalism while the protagonists in Colorado are seemingly embracing a form of primitive communism.
- what the fuck happened to him? he got rich and just pulled his finger away i guess?

Charles, King of Rot *haunting choral music *

I can't wait for the dlc

bold move to portray him being consumed by unnatural fire

a little preview of what he's got to look forward to in hell

Charles making a deal with the godhand

would be amazed if someone has not already modded this portrait into amnesia: the dark descent

Dark Tower spoiler

Quick, somebody find an eraser!

Also, only tangentially related, but I just realized how funny it is that the bad guys use Harry Potter gear, especially with how the social context will be completely different for future readers than when King wrote it

Yea pretty wild that between DR DOOM, star wars, and Harry potter DOOM turned out to be the least cartoonishly evil of the three.

illegal-to-say with your heart.

Vigo the Carpathian, Sorrow of Moldovia

On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood! What was will be! What is will be no more! Now is the season of EVIL!

Jonathan Yeo has the skills to make decent portraits and yet has never done so, and at this point is almost has to be on purpose. It is pretentious, in the actual definition of that word. In that it has pretenses of depth it does not actually have. Why is this shit red on red on red? What does it symbolise? Im sure Jonathan Yeo could make some shit up, but ultimately the answer is it means nothing. And i admire his grift.

Like he paints the face pretty realistically and then he just does a gimmick, and he gets paid millions. "Yea this time I only painted the face the rest is just the sketch."
"Yea this time everything except the face is red."
"Yea this time I only painted half the face."
"Yeah this time I mostly used blue"

King paimon

We have looked to North London and called you in m8

I have a source with knowledge of the artist and they are convinced they did this in a deliberately fucked up way just to fuck with the royals.

Bro didn't bother mixing colours he went straight for that magenta tube