Lockwood’s Colbert graphic
“If I had a title for this work, it would be ‘I am Captain America (and so can you!)’” quipped Lockwood, an avid reader of the works of mythologist Joseph Campbell and – you guessed it – a big fan of The Colbert Report. When I asked about the the eagle claw and arrows rising from the microphone, Lockwood says he was looking for something that was peculiarly American and also ripe with “truthiness.” He found inspiration on the dollar bill. “It’s the eagle clutching the olive leaf in one set of talons and arrows in the other,” he points out.The six in the upper left corner of the trading card represents the “play cost.” The play cost is how many resources a gamer must use to play the card and, in this particular game, six is a LOT. Stefen Colbear is a “Human Paladin,” one race of several in the fantasy – orc, trolls, night elves etc. The symbol in the upper right hand corner indicates that Colbear is part of the Alliance faction, one of two in the WoW universe battling for world domination.
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