The Revenge of Boris Vallejo - Part 2

Part 1 primarily focused on how to take the absolute piss.

https://nukesandknives.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-revenge-of-boris-vallejo-part-1.html

Now I pull out all the stops.

Video game box art

Ecco series

Original (1992), The Tides of Time (1994) and Defender of the Future (2000)

Miscellany

Star Control (1991 Genesis version)

Onslaught (1989)

Les Manley in: Lost in L.A. (1991)

Eric the Unready (1993)

Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium (1993)

Conan the Cimmerian (1991)

Dragon Wars (1989)

Golden Axe II (1991)

Mike Ditka Ultimate Football (1991)

Swords and Serpents (1990)

Wings of Wor¹ (1991)

¹Known as Gynoug in Japan.

Demise: Rise of the Ku'tan (2000)

Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor (1999)

Music

Maniaca - King's Sight - EP (2002)

Ars Amatoria - Aphrodite - single (2006)

Demos

Bliss - Where the Shadows Dance (1997)

Diabolika - Demo (2007)

Yana Raymi - Ayllu Sañachkan (2006)

Sacrilegium - Sleeptime (1994) - Vampire's Kiss (1979)

Anesthesia - Burning Souls (1996) - The Bride (1981)

Albums

Flotsam and Jetsam - No Place for Disgrace (1988)

Chevelle Niraras - Nothing is Real and This is a Simulation (2021)

English Dogs - Forward Into Battle (1985)

Hypnotic Scenery - Deeper and Deeper (1997)

Pandora - Moje Iluzije (2000)

Seamount - Sacrifice (2010)

Sithlord - The Return to Godless Times (2002)

Molly Hatchet - Take No Prisoners (1981)

Ozzy Osbourne - The Ultimate Sin (1986)

Masacre - Sin Piedad (1998)

Ted Nugent - Penetrator (1984) - Dragon Tattoo (1981) - detail

Septic Flesh - Mystic Places of Dawn (1994) - Pan (1984)

Derivatives

To Sail Beyond the Sunset² (1987) vs The Bride

²Robert A. Heinlein's final novel published before his death in 1988.

Hercules and Cerberus (1988) vs Taurus, the Bull (1987)

Oh yeah.

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
Ben Stiller's White Goodman literally takes the bull by the horns.

(Shakes head).

There's only one film I know displaying an actual Vallejo painting.

Stripped to Kill (1987) - Dragon Tattoo

Now things get really exciting.

An Apple a Day (2017) has a miniature statue of Vampire's Kiss on top of a pedestal.

Renato Casaro is known for designing movie posters, including Red Sonja (1985), Army of Darkness (1992), Conan the Barbarian (1982), Over the Top (1987), the international version of Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and Rambo III (1988).

Quentin Tarantino even coaxed him out of retirement to create posters for fictional spaghetti westerns in Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019).

But geezer took things to obscure extremes.

Satan's Baby Doll (1983)

A source told me that Boris was 'disappointed'.

One more piss take.

The Church (1989)

Dark arts

Yeah, it's time to spill some spectacular beans.

Heavy Metal (1985) vs Lisa Lyon by Robert Mapplethorpe (1982) 

Hmmm.

It's common knowledge that Frank Frazetta was Vallejo's nearest rival, so inevitably, something had to give.

National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) vs Conan the Adventurer (1965)

I'm guessing woman clinging leg was no accident.

Topping everything though.

Conan the Magnificent (1983) vs Creepy #12 (December 1966)

Placing protagonists side by side.

Conan vs Richard Vane

I am over-fucking-whelmed.

Cover depicts story Dark House of Dreams, art by Angelo Torres.

Before I go, shit comes full circle.

Rastan (comic) - unique to 1988 North American C64 version vs Monkey Magic (1984)

Sword-wielding swines rape:

Eternal Champion (1979)

But scene as a whole.

Creepy #9 (June 1966)

On this evidence, there is indeed Terror in "The Dark Kingdom".