Let’s talk about these strange cartoon versions of Andrew Luck and Tom Brady

We need to talk about his promotional image for this week’s Thursday Night Football game between the Colts and Patriots.

There’s just something, some things, about it ...

Andrew Luck looks a lot like LeBron James in this rendering. But he’s also been given an little of the Civil War general veneer with a double-breasted uniform coat and epaulettes on his shoulders, perhaps a nod to the enormously popular meme with a mysterious origin (cough, cough we came up with it, right here). He also looks like RoboCop.

But this is what he really looks like:

Tom Brady is apparently Thanos, but with a pointier chin. He’s got five gemstones in his glove, which is more than enough to make the Colts disappear tonight. His nose is especially prominent, pointing the way to a better future when the body’s inflammation has been vanquished and humanity purified by a diet of kale and plain chicken breasts.

No overbite either.

Here he is in real life, before his annual voyage on Alex Guerrero’s spaceship commune for the rich and fit. Brady’s a certified Level 15 there, which explains the gold trimming on his jacket here.

How they got the TNF cartoon versions from the real visages of either one of these dudes is a mystery to me. I want to say this is kind of fascist art. A trash approach that emphasizes the orderly and methodical while projecting an idealized version of the regime’s future and the prototype for the kind of people the despot and his bootlickers wanted populating that future (overlooking that the dictator himself and his cronies were usually bald guys with potbellies or short insecure men with terrible facial hair and pinched face or a toxic shade of orange with a physics-defying combover).

The men in fascist paintings usually had clinched fists too, who knows what else. Fascists are usually really uptight people.

But that’s probably overthinking it.

Let’s just enjoy the really weird promotional art for tonight’s game, because, honestly, making a game out of what these cartoon images look like is probably going to be more fun than the game itself.

What does the animated version of Brady and Luck supermensch look like to you?