CBI Archive
Judging (Marvel’s December) Books By Their Covers
Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 at 11:46 AM EST
Updated: Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 at 12:15 PM EST
Marvel’s December Solicitations are up, so now is as good a time as any for us to make prejudgements based just on the covers (as we all love to make prejudgements, don’t we?).
Let’s begin!
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Not a bad 1602: Fantastic Four cover by Gabrielle Dell’Otto.
Although, I’d like to see him throw a little more pizzazz into his covers. He has the art style down pat, but at times, it almost strikes me as though he is saying, “My characters are so well drawn, I don’t have to bother with making the rest of the cover interesting.”
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Mike Wieringo breaking out the remote control with superhero faces on it for this Avengers Next cover!
Well done, Mike! That’s a classic motif little used anymore!
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These Anita Blake cover (from Marvel’s new deal with Dabel Brothers) are all credited to Brett Booth. They don’t all look like him, though.
I like this more cartoony style from him. At times, his older work seemed to be too stiff.
and the wraparound effect is handled nicely, I think.
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This non-wraparound cover, though, reminds me a bit more of his old stuff (if this is, in fact, Brett Booth).
I’m less impressed with this one.
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I have not been thrilled with Phil Hester’s Ant-Man covers.
Even here, while the idea is quite interesting, the execution leaves me disappointed - the decision to go so broad with the teeth and all? I don’t think it helps the cover.
As an aside, how long can Kirkman possibly keep the character “irredeemable”?
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Like the ‘Ringo Avengers Next cover, this Frenz Spider-Girl cover is also pretty old school, but I think this one is a lot less interesting looking than the Avengers Next cover.
You can barely tell that is Spider-Girl’s arm!
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I don’t get Dave Johnson. His 100 Bullets covers are exquisite, and yet, the very same month, he has a cover like this that looks like he drew in, like, 20 minutes.
He’s a great enough artist that it is still a good looking piece, but it doesn’t (and his previous cover didn’t) have a tenth of the same creative spark as his 100 Bullets covers.
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Very nice cover idea by Scott Kolins for this Beyond cover.
Probably should have gotten an honorable mention.
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Wouldn’t you buy, like, three copies of this book if Hudlin had to write Black Panther agreeing with Iron Man?
That’d be hilariously awesome.
As it is, we’ll certainly either get
A. Black Panther siding with Cap
or
B. Black Panther siding with Cap, but saying that, politically, he must support Iron Man.
And yes, I understand that I’m criticizing a book for a position it hasn’t taken (and won’t take for a few months), but come on, it’s Hudlin - it’s a given!
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I had been loving Tommy Lee Edwards’ covers for Marvel, but his first Bullet Points cover was a letdown, and this second issue cover is even more so.
I mean, the individual figures are drawn well enough - but there seems to be no point to the arrangement of the figures.
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I like that, when Deadpool thinks of all the people he’s killed - a member of ULTIMATUM makes the list!
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Very nice, cinematic cover for Criminal by Sean Phillips.
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I’m not that impressed with this Bermejo Daredevil cover.
It’s a nice enough drawing, just not all that dynamic.
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This pains me.
I love Marcos Martin’s art a lot.
I picked his #1 cover for this mini-series as my favorite cover from that month.
This one, though?
I don’t even think it’s particularly GOOD.
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It’s nice to see an artist stay with a book like Jim Calafiore has stayed with Exiles.
I mean, the dude’s never even been the book’s regular artist, and yet he’s remained the fill-in artist for now 89 issues (plus, if you look down a bit, an annual now).
That’s pretty impressive.
These covers, however, are not.
Although I like the second one (the Annual) better.
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Well drawn Fantastic Four: The End cover by Alan Davis, but I dunno…I think the perspective feels a bit off to me.
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What I like about brining Deb Whitman back is that you really don’t need to know who she is to understand her role in this story. Peter David could have just invented her, and it would work the same.
Not the greatest Scot Eaton cover, though.
Who’s inking Eaton?
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Pretty cool looking Ghost Rider cover by Richard Corben.
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Yuck.
This Billy Tucci Heroes for Hire cover is just icky.
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Ladronn was doing such a great job on the Hulk covers before, but the last couple of months, they feel a bit listless.
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I have a real problem with issues like this. Captain America and Iron Man take one last shot at privately reconciling their relationship.
In a one-shot.
Written by Christos Gage.
Drawn by Jeremy Haun.
Yeah, something big is gonna happen!!!
Man, why even bother with stories that everyone knows months ahead will have no relevance?
Remember that Adventures of Superman issue awhile back where Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman talk after the events of Sacrifice? Written by Nunzio DeFillipis and Christina Weir? Same deal.
We knew nothing would actually happen, so the issue was just this filler waste of space.
Gage (and DeFillipis and Weir) are too talented to be wasted on fluff like this (although, obviously, they appreciate the exposure, so I understand that it is, on the whole, good for them and their writing careers).
Pretty good Cheung cover, though.
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When you have a design virtuoso like David Mack, you have to have cooler covers than this.
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Very nice cover for the collection of the first two issues of Magician: Apprentice.
It’s listed as being by Brett Booth.
Seriously?
Did this guy just discover three new styles at once, or is it a miscredit?
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The OTHER Magician: Apprentice covers, however (also credited to Booth) are falling down fairly dramatically.
First, this one for #3 is pretty non-descript.
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While this one for #4 - I wish was LESS descript!
Not a good character figure here.
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Wow, Sean Chen’s figures on this Marvel Adventures: Avengers cover are just astonishingly stiff-looking.
Remember when they tried putting Tom Palmer on Chen’s pencils?
Such a non-match, because not even Palmer’s character-infused inks could do much to help Chen’s stiff pencils.
Chen obviously has a lot of talent, but I would really love to see him loosen the pencils up a bit. Give the characters some more personality! Everything doesn’t have to be sharp and stiff!
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Kano seems to be having a lot of fun on his Marvel Adventures: Fantastic Four covers.
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I really like Patrick Scherberger’s pencils on this Marvel Adventurs: Spider-Man cover.
Just bursting with a dynamic energy that is a lot of fun to see.
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Fun drawing by Mike Wieringo for this Ms. Marvel cover, and he also does a nice job (not on purpose, of course) of showing us just how garish Coipel’s redesign of Ms. Marvel’s costume was.
That MAY have been the worst redesign of an Avengers costume ever - including George Perez’s Wonder Man.
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What I wouldn’t give for this Jimmy Cheung Illuminati cover to have Professor X saying, “Wanna make somethin’ of it?”
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Tsk, tsk, Paco Medina.
Should have tried to pull a Van Sciver on that New X-Men cover!
Like maybe a wispy cloud of smoke!!
It was there for the taking, Paco!!
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Not a fan of this Calafiore New Excalibur cover. Is Black Knight on the team now?
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Not to belabor the point, I do not think this Onslaught Reborn cover by Rob Liefeld is all that good.
To be fair, though, it’s not godawful or anything like that.
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Pretty interesting Ptolus covers from Caanan White, a name I am unfamiliar with.
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The first cover for Red Prophet by Renato Arlem is strong, I think. The Dabel Brothers, so far, have done a very good job on the covers for the collected editions of the books they’re bringing over to Marvel.
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However, the following two covers that FOLLOW the collected edition by Arlem are none too impressive to me.
The latter is better than the former, but still, not the most eye-catching of covers.
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Jo Chen does a good job of making Niko’s eyes appear as though they are looking through the staff.
Impressive.
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That’s supposed to be Peter Parker on this Clayton Crain Sensational Spider-Man cover, right?
Not, like, a Marvel Zombie, right?
Right?
Cuz that dude doesn’t look human.
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Greg Horn!!
Woah!
Horn pulling out a really nice drawing job!
I am heartily impressed!
Very nice cover.
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Cute Miyazawa Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane cover.
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This Arthur Suydum cover for Son of Satan reminds me of a recent Image book…I can’t recall which one, though…
Could anyone help me out?
It may just be the logo to me.
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Decent Gurihuru Spider-Man/Power Pack cover.
Not exactly a lot to work with here.
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As I mentioned before, not a fan of this Kaare Andrews’ Spider-Man: Reign cover.
Looks like it was drawn by a fan of Andrews.
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Wow.
I’ve heard of being a slave to continuity, but I’ve never seen someone ATTACKED by continuity before!
Thunderbolts - using continuity in new ways every month!
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Nice Aja cover for the Immortal Iron Fist.
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I like Pasqual Ferry’s artwork, but his covers seem so lifeless to me.
It’s just like a scene from the comic, not a cover to a comic.
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An improvement for Greg Land on this Supreme Power cover.
However, is that a THIRD photo reference he’s using for Hyperion - in THREE issues?!?
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This would be a pretty cool band.
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Mike Carey has his work cut out for him if he’s to make me interested in Ultimate Vision at all.
Decent Brandon Peterson cover, though.
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Fine enough Ben Oliver cover, but seriously, Cable? STILL Cable?
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I think, on this Billy Tan cover, Havok is thinking, “This still beats being written by Chuck Austen.”
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Iron Man and the Kingpin.
Civil War: War Crimes.
Neat-o.
Seriously, Iron Man has to die, doesn’t he?
How could he exist after Civil War?
And Sean Scoffield looks like he is better off sticking to realistic artwork (which he is quite good at).
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This Marko Djurjevic What If…? cover is a nice enough drawing, but really doesn’t get across the idea behind the topic well at all, I don’t think.
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Now THIS is a classic What If…? cover.
It totally gets across the topic in a clear and concise (and inviting) manner.
Well done by Yardin.
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When you have a design virtuoso like David Mack, you have to have cooler covers than this.
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Similar to the Bermjeo Daredevil cover, this Epting Winter Soldier cover is drawn well, but is not that dynamic of an image.
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Oh, wouldn’t it be great if that was the hand of It, The Living Colossus?!?!
No one else?
No one?
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Strong Wolverine Origins cover by Quesada.
And a shout out to Danny Miki, who apparently inked this cover with a broken arm!
Well done, Mr. Miki! A real trooper!
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Laurence Campbell had a great idea for this Wolverine cover, but I think obscuring the face was a really bad choice.
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What the hell is up with this hideous Wonder Man cover?
Shouldn’t someone somewhere said, “Yeah…listen, here’s the thing, that’s just awful.”? Someone? At some point in the process?
I like his inking, though (no need to mention the guy’s name, I think)!
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Nice Marvel debut cover for Mike Choi.
He has improved so much since he began on Witchblade - nice to see stuff like that.
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Nice Pablo Raimondi X-Factor cover.
And I’m not just saying that because there’s no big stupid giant wolf head in sight.
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Marko Djurjevic does wonderful character figures.
Wonderful.
I think a good deal better than Alex Ross.
However, the poses he puts them in sometimes seem kinda awkward.
Like this one from X-Men: First Class.
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Nice Chris Bachalo X-Men cover.
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Just creepy enough Zombie cover by Kyle Hotz!
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HONORABLE MENTIONS
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VERY nice piece of design work by Salvador Larocca for this newuniversal #1 cover.
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Bradstreet is making me look bad!
ANOTHER strong cover!
Isn’t it interesting how things open up when you move the characters around a bit?
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Not a big fan of this Tomm Coker Agents of Atlas cover, but he’s so strong, that even a lackluster cover is worth an honorable mention.
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TOP FIVE
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5. Christmas covers!
I love Christmas covers!
And this Frazer Irving one is a very good one.
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4. I am pleased to see Mike Perkins mix things up a bit and have less “posing” covers, and have a little more interaction in the covers.
It is a striking work.
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3. Now HERE, Marko Djurjevic is using his characters in a more interesting manner.
And it’s a CHRISTMAS cover! I love Christmas covers!!!
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2. Meet the reason I made it a point to reference Gabrielle Dell’Otto not doing anything interesting with his character work.
Because he sure shut me up later on with this striking Annihilation cover.
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1. Was there ever any doubt?
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Okay, that’s it for me, folks!
Feel free to share YOUR prejudices (and YOUR top five)!!
34 Comments
The Dane
September 20, 2006 at 1:38 pm
I dunno who did it, but that Magician: Apprentice cover is the one that appeared on the paperback book I got in 1997.
So do you think that half these cover artists look at the stuff that comes out from the other half of cover artists and wail: “I am nothing! I am worse than nothing! I should be an accountant instead of a cover artist!” Yeah, I don’t think so either, but maybe they should consider wailing that.
Adam Jones
September 20, 2006 at 1:48 pm
What if Blackbolt said “Want to make something of it?”
Now THAT would be something!
T.
September 20, 2006 at 2:31 pm
if this is, in fact, Brett Booth
No offense, but you seem to have a lot of problems spotting art styles between the Bolland/Ordway thing with the DC covers and now this. That style is so very blatantly Brett Booth in my opinion, it’s the first name that popped in my mind, except for that one painted “Magician” cover, which looks like someone else did it. He still comes off as an overdetailed 90s throwback to me though.
Nice Chris Bachalo X-Men cover.
Agreed. Also, is that the new Cannonball costume? Sweet. Carey writes Cannonball totally out of character, but it’s so good and badass I don’t care, I like it better than the real Cannonball personality anyway. I think Cannonball will be Carey’s Mary Sue.
w THIS is a classic What If…? cover.
I’m shocked you didn’t give it honorable mention of at least top 5, it’s very strong with hints of Steranko.
And this Frazer Irving one is a very good one.
Agreed, I’d have given it #1 status personally.
rong Wolverine Origins cover by Quesada.
Artwise its great, but man is it gross and over the top!! The blood is a little overkill.
I have not been thrilled with Phil Hester’s Ant-Man covers.
One should never be thrilled by a Hester cover.
Like the ‘Ringo Avengers Next cover, this Frenz Spider-Girl cover is also pretty old school, but I think this one is a lot less interesting looking than the Avengers Next cover.
Couldn’t disagree more, it’s really understated and simple yet powerful and striking in my opinion. It made me do a double take, I think it’s the kind of image that would make someone browsing a comic rack to pause and give a second look.
Very nice cover idea by Scott Kolins for this Beyond cover.
Agreed, I’m not even that much of a fan of his but that cover’s awesome. Very Barry Windsor-Smith like.
Ian Astheimer
September 20, 2006 at 3:12 pm
The Exiles Annual cover was very clearly drawn by Tom Raney. His name’s even in the rubble.
Michael
September 20, 2006 at 3:28 pm
That’s Xavier on the Uncanny X-Men cover.
Lex
September 20, 2006 at 3:34 pm
I love that Nextwave cover. It just makes me want to hug my computer screen.
Brian Cronin
September 20, 2006 at 4:38 pm
Oh, is it?
I honestly thought it was Havok with a shaved head.
Brian Cronin
September 20, 2006 at 5:18 pm
That must be why I liked it better!
Damn you, lying Marvel solicits! I trusted you!
Michael
September 20, 2006 at 7:41 pm
” Oh, is it?
I honestly thought it was Havok with a shaved head. ”
The solicits say Xavier was captured, so you’d figure it’d be him strapped into the big torture doohickey.
Ian Z. Lachut
September 20, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Am I the only one that thinks the covering on the Spider-man: Reign cover looks terrible? I thought Joe’s final answer was that it was a leaked fan piece and that matched perfectly with what looked (to me) like an amateurish piece of work.
I’m really surprised that thats the real cover.
Brian Cronin
September 20, 2006 at 10:38 pm
Oh, I believe you. I’m saying “I honestly thought it was Havok” as more of a “silly me” thing!
Brian Cronin
September 20, 2006 at 10:39 pm
Well, I DID say above
, so I am going to say, “No.”
adam!
September 20, 2006 at 11:56 pm
yes, nice cover design on NEW UNIVERSE, but not really forthcoming on the contents of the book. and i think the plaid on the NEXT WAVE cover takes all the fun and cutesyness off of it.
Anun
September 21, 2006 at 12:05 am
I really like that Kano FF cover. Especially because it has Arcade, my favorite cheesy Claremont creation.
TeamSmithy
September 21, 2006 at 1:19 am
“I think the plaid on the NEXT WAVE cover takes all the fun and cutesyness off of it.”
It’s Tartan surely.
Pol Rua
September 21, 2006 at 1:22 am
I think the cover you’re thinking of which looks like Hellstorm is ‘Meltdown’.
It’s on the front page of CBR.
GQ
September 21, 2006 at 3:25 am
Gorgeous:
Daredevil (Love the image. The sky, the backlight, the reflections. Lovely.)
She-Hulk (A non-scary-porno cover! Yay! Plus, just a great, well-drawn image.)
Power Pack (Cute as all heel. Lovely lines, gorgeous colours)
X-Men (Striking. Love it.)
Annihilation. (THAT’S a cover.)
Goddawful:
Heroes for Hire (Wrestling porn photo ref.)
Heroes Reborn (Hands that are holding things look different to clenched fists, goddamnit!)
Wonder Man (Just… wow. Awful. Why is she digging her foot into his shoulder blade? And the faces!!)
Evan
September 21, 2006 at 6:17 am
I love the Christmas Cover’s homage to Norman Rockwell. Priceless.
Chistopher
September 21, 2006 at 11:26 am
Wow,
Looking at DC and marvel’s covers back to back is a jarrin experience. In my opinion DC does a much better job of getting some really compelling covers out there. Maybe that should be the subject of some kind of comparison. I would have had trouble finding a top five for Marvel this month whereas DC I could have found at least 15 and I really used to be a Marvel guy. I think you were incorrect on the Mack DD cover, I think that it is some very good use of color and will stand out very nicely on the rack given the use of negative space. Marvel Adventures by Scherberger hello early 90s McFarlane style and the black costume. I’m one of those people who looks forward to this. Finally that Liefield cover is an affront to people who make their living drawing. It gave me shudders. Peace out
John Seavey
September 21, 2006 at 11:41 am
Two Things:
1) The Marvel Adventures line is absolutely f’ing great, and needs to be the subject of more entries. (I know you guys have given it love, but it needs more.) Reading it was practically an epiphany–I suddenly realized that this was exactly what comics had been missing, light-hearted, upbeat, escapist, self-contained adventure fare. It’s exactly what comics used to be great at, what they abandoned in a quest to become more “adult” like a thirteen-year-old saying the stuff they once liked is for “babies” now, and it’s just awesome. It is almost to the point that between this and the Essentials books, I don’t need the regular Marvel books anymore.
2) You’re just plain wrong (and I mean that in a nice way
)–having the face obscured is what _makes_ that cover. The snowstorm, the figure in it totally obscured by the wind and the darkness and the heavy coat…and then you see the claws, and you just know. Oh yeah.
JR
September 21, 2006 at 12:26 pm
-I rather like how the stark white is played off the background of skulls and off of Venus’s face in that Agents of Atlas cover. It’s a rather eye-catching image, I’d list it as my 2nd fave behind the Nextwave cover.
-I want to like that Iron Fist image too, but it’s a victim of my personal peeve of modern comics: muddy, overly grey-ish color tones. Note to comic companies, this doesn’t make and image look “realistic”, just ugly.
-I’m a big fan of size changing heroes, but wow these Ant-Man covers have been a let down in their fairly average approach to the concept. The great thing about growing and/or shrinking heroes is the weird, trippy visuals you can get out them. The Oletti Atom covers may not have been great (especially the first two) but at least they were trying. Not that I’m too thrilled about this title to begin with, Kirkman’s theme as a writer (intentional or otherwise) seems to be “you’re better off being an a-hole cause good guys get the crap beaten out of them and a-holes get away with it” so I’d expect Ant-man to be Irredemable for as long as he was on it or as long as it lasts, and that’s just not my thing.
-Gonna go with “I’m pretending to side with Iron Man so I can spy on him and figure out what’s really going on” for my guess as to how things would play out in Black Panther. As much fun as the blogverse likes to have at his exspense, at least Hudlin is one of the few people at Marvel who’s at least not trying to pretend that Iron Man isn’t coming off as a bad-guy.
Part of me thinks it would be hillarious if he took his “anything you can do” approach on Black Panther and just completely undermined Civil War with it. “Hey you know that guy you just buried? We dug him up, made him a cyborg and put him on my royal guard. He can kick The Avengers collective ass by himself now. Oh and clones? I’d did that like 10 years ago, say hello to New Night Thrasher.”
Conor E
September 21, 2006 at 9:12 pm
So… I take it I’m the only person who actually liked Coipel’s Warbird costume?
Bill Reed
September 22, 2006 at 3:30 pm
I immediately thought of It, the Living Colossus too, Brian. You’re not alone!
A. Dave Lewis
September 26, 2006 at 6:56 am
I’m wondering what you think of IGN’s year-long wrap-up of Marvel’s “Best” Covers (http://comics.ign.com/articles/733/733763p1.html) — Methinks they are radically different from your own, yes?
Brian Cronin
September 26, 2006 at 10:35 am
Thanks for the link!
Wow…that was pretty damn scary. It was almost like an affirmation of all of Marvel’s worst excesses.
Except, obviously, I think we can all agree on a few of their choices, like the Bachalo X-Men cover they have as #2 IS a pretty damn nice cover.
Still, though, a Michael Turner cover as the fourth best cover!?!?
It was at least very consistent - they really liked Gabrielle Dell’Otto.
Brian Cronin
September 26, 2006 at 10:36 am
Perhaps not the ONLY one, but one of the few - the proud!
Brian Cronin
September 26, 2006 at 10:36 am
Yay!
yo go re
October 1, 2006 at 8:59 pm
Marcos Martin doesn’t even get a special consideration for forming Nightmare’s (?) face from all the headshots? It’s got a ballcap for a mouth! Love!
I’d probably be more impressed that Jim Calafiore has managed to be the regular fill-in artist for nearly 90 issues if I liked Jim Calafiore’s art at all. As it is, all that means is that my Exiles collection has all these three-to-six issue gaps all over the place.
Even worse? I’m a huge Juggernaut fan, and now that New Excalibur is finally giving him the spotlight? They let Calafiore draw it. SON OF A CRAP!
I like that the Iron Man/Cap one-shot has two different covers, each with a different “victor.” Not that that validates the contents of the issue, but I dig stuff like that.
Best part about the godawful Heroes Reborn cover? Judging by the angle, Mjolnir’s handle doesn’t come out the other side of Thor’s fist, but in between his fingers. That’s talent, right there…
Kristen
October 17, 2006 at 6:59 pm
What the heck is it with Marvel and neck tendons, month after month?
Anonymous
April 30, 2007 at 9:26 am
Anonymous
May 27, 2007 at 9:18 am
this was exelent thank you for showing all of these pictures they all look great
jon
June 25, 2007 at 2:54 pm
I really like that Kano FF cover. Especially because it has Arcade, my favorite cheesy Claremont creation.
eduardo
August 7, 2007 at 4:22 pm
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Anonymous
August 14, 2007 at 8:36 pm