This is a piece done for the R3 Jam, the subject being Lex Luthor.

A concept piece.
The year is 1953.
A young, brilliant weapons designer, Lex Luthor, one of the principal architects of the post-war military industrial complex and Cold War alarmists, identifies the imminent future threat of a culturally-embraced, seemingly all-powerful alien entity active in the West without government controls. Operating a heavily-modified prototype deep-sea diving mechanism, and employing a flachette dispersal system equipped with shards of ore believed to be sourced from the alien’s own homeworld, and acting while the alien is relatively inexperienced in the use of his abilities and unaware of his limitations, and far too trusting of his civilian fellows, drags the Man of Steel to the depths of the ocean, beyond the reach of the ultra-violet radiation on which the alien is sustained. Weakened by Kryptonite deposits in the protective paint on the mechanism, the alien is unable to break free from Luthor’s grasp, and is injected in the orifices of the skull by high-velocity Kryptonite fragments, until dead.

Luthor is rewarded for his efforts in protecting the free world, with exclusive government contracts and forms a private defense militia to assist the American government with policing, security and operations needs domestically and abroad in the decades to come. In memory of the incident, the company is named Black Water. Luthor dies from radiation poisoning three years after the alien, and is unable to enjoy the spoils of his work.

You can see this illustration herein the TRDL Tribute Gallery.

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