REPO: Luigi Largo Says Poster

"One brain, mark it up! Only I got brains enough..."

Here's another "propaganda poster," which accompanies each chapter as a splash cover for our story, Et In Arcærdia Ego, co-written by my friend ~Lady-Rorschach and myself, where we took characters from the Human Target universe and placed them in the REPO! the Genetic Opera universe.

Taking place after the events of the REPO! film of a post-apocalyptic, dyspotian future where an epidemic of organ failures devastated the planet, the biotechnological mega-corporation called GeneCo emerged out of the tragedy to provide organ transplants to the needy populace on a financial plan, making it affordable to anyone who needed one. The story's heart deals with a brilliant coroner-turned-plague researcher named Juan Guerrero and his wife, Lucreztia "Lucy" Alighieri, who were caught stealing GeneCo-owned organs and supplies to help save their prematurely born year-old son, Juanito. Their employer Rotti Largo threatened to "repossess" their child, as they begged him not to, and Rotti blackmailed them. Guerrero was forced to become one of the Repo Men, assassins dispatched to re-harvest the organs of customers who default on their payments, and Lucy was forced to serve as the Gentern responsible of managing and directing those said organs directly from the Repo Men to be brought back into the populace. They also became privy to the Largo family's many whims. Rotti's eldest child, Luigi, lusted after Lucy and envied her husband; and, in a fit of jealous rage, slashed Guerrero's face, blinding his right eye, in the hopes of have Lucy for himself by "cutting off his nose to spite his face," so to speak.

Six years later, the spoiled children of Rotti Largo — Amber Sweet, Luigi and Pavi Largo — are now the new heads of GeneCo and became living proof that "absolute power corrupts absolutely," taking their sibling rivalry and transforming it into a major power struggle for the company. Juanito, now seven years old and completely sheltered from the outside world, has become sicker than ever and each day becomes more and more grim. When Luigi ordered Guerrero (who has became infamous as the Repo Man known as the "Plague Doctor," due to his long-nosed bird mask used by medieval medics to protect them from the bubonic plague) to repossess the organs of a child the same age as his son, Guerrero refused. This was a breach of contract and GeneCo, by default, can reclaim their son as their property and execute the Repo Man for failure to perform. However, Luigi offers Lucy to spare her family if he claimed "full possession" of her, body and soul, for a year and, at the end of the term, will give her Juanito's "cure." She, to her hate of him, agrees. Luigi parades her around as his lover, to anger Guerrero, and uses her the new prima donna-like Voice of GeneCo, to the anger of his sister Amber, as Luigi begins his plans to dethrone his siblings and take over GeneCo for himself. Secretly, Guerrero and Lucy take a year-long plot of revenge to take down the Largo family (particularly Luigi), destroy GeneCo, cure their son, or die trying...

I said I was going to take a break from REPO! the Genetic Opera and start concentrating on some GMD and Rorschach in Gotham, but I had forgotten about this one, thus I'm torturing you with more poster art, bwhahahaha! This time it's of our main villain, Mr. Luigi Largo himself (as played by Bill Moseley who I got to meet at Texas Frightmare Weekend on my birthday this year), who is also one of my favourite characters in the film. He just makes me laugh! This is actually a near-reproduction of the "Luigi Largo Says" Poster, but the most difficult thing was just removing the fairly unreadable text on the bottom — and could anyone else see the stock photo X-watermark on the starburst? So I technically just remade it from scratch. This piece is a foreshadow to Luigi ordering Guerrero to "harvest" the parts of a child who was the same age as his own son. The situation was the Zydrate-addicted parents "financed" their own child to pay for their debts to GeneCo, and it was a job Guerrero refused to carry out. This triggers the events of the main story. Also, it foreshadows his "ownership" of Lucy. I really wanted this poster to be dirty and as filthy as possible. I was pretty close to giving it poo or pee stains, but I thought that would be a little much.

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Medium - Photoshop.

Human Target © DC Comics/Fox.
REPO! the Genetic Opera © Darren Smith/Terrance Zdunich.