Gallur-y: The Burden of Death

Over the last few years, Mexican artist Rafael Gallur has become a go to painter for action. A regular painter of amazing lucha libre magazine covers, he channels the energy of Frazetta into modern cover art, something very lacking on this side of the border. And since his art doesn't quite fit into the usual comic-oriented Great Art feature, I thought it was time to give him his own feature here at Super Powered Fiction. Few painters can match the power he brings.

We start the feature off with an amazing Blue Demon piece, "The Burden of Death." It's one of his older pieces on the site, a cover to an old lucha comic. And no, I don't have a clue as to why he's fighting a 19th century United States cavalrymen.

So I'll open up a challenge. Tell me why this heroic Mexican hero has come to this position. I will award the best reason a copy of Quadrant 7, the launch of the second volume of that title, days before anyone else sees it! 

Be sure to head over to Gallur's DeviantArt to check out more work by him and order some of his amazing work as prints. After you're done admiring his work, don’t forget to check out some of the other great stuff from me this week!