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The thing I love most about the MODOK cover is that for each lil' MODOK I look at, I get a different lil' MODOK voice in my head (usually saying something like 'argh! curse my tiny arms!'). I want a Spidey MODOK. He is teh cute.

Surprisingly, since I usually hate Greg Horn's art, the cover for the most recent issue of She-Hulk, with Awesome Andy walking away from the viewer, is one of my favorites. I could probably find others (this is from a pool of probably 2000 images, at least), but that's the one I thought of off the top of my head.

Ooh, I thought of another one: Godland #12, the wraparound cover with the Statue of Liberty!

Pretty damn good picks.

Wish Quietly was still doing American Virgin covers. Each and every one of them was worth the three bucks by itself.

Although the Marvel/DC thing is a tad limiting. Have you noticed how, like, JUST reacently Jaime Hernandez has turned into one of the best cover artists in comics?

I went with Marvel and DC because those are the only two companies that I did twelve months worth of Judging Books By Their Covers for.

I think the cover to THE THING #8 is my favorite of all these. The concept enough, as you say, is practically enough all by itself, but for me, Lockjaw pushes it over the top, with a faint echo of "Dogs Playing Poker."

I still think "Lockjaw as Ben Grimm's dog" is one of the single best comic book ideas in recent memory, the kind of thing that's such a perfect fit that you wonder why it wasn't done decades ago.

Speaking of covers, does anyone besides me find it ludicrous that a mere couple of weeks ago in the "DC Nation" page, Mark Chiarello requested nominations for the best cover of any comic DC's ever published - with a deadline of January 5? With tens if not hundreds of thousands of possible covers to consider (admittedly, most of us will have seen, and therefore consider, only a fraction of these) during a busy holiday season, what kind of response does he expect?

Of course, even if there were more time, this survey would be bound to be highly unscientific - not that I think it's pretending to be otherwise - since (a) it'll reflect the limited knowledge and/or memory of its contributors, with a bias toward younger current readers, and (b) to get meaningful results from a survey with so many choices, you'd need hundreds of thousands of submissions. (If you're not up on your statistics, just consider how many people you'd want to survey before concluding that people had a real preference in a simple two-choice test, like Coke vs. Pepsi.)

If I had to guess, I'd expect that the tallied results will be all over the map, with slight bumps upward for historically significant covers like Action #1 (which I don't think was technically published by "DC" but perhaps rather by "Detective Comics" - but I think they'll let it slip) and relatively recent books by current stars (say, a Jim Lee cover for "Hush").

Yeah, I think that DC survey is the sort of thing you'd need to start with a "blue ribbon panel" of fans, pros, comics journalists, bloggers, etc., and have them select a preliminary list of, oh, 200 or so. I doubt they'll be able to even make such a list from this survey, which will probably have hundreds of covers with a single vote each.

On #6, JG Jones has a weekly feature on his 52 cover design process on Wizard's website. Here's the link for that particular one:
http://www.wizarduniverse.com/magazine/wizard/001422059.cfm

Thanks a lot, kymaera!!

I am a dummy for not thinking of checking that out myself!

And JG Jones confirms that the idea for the cover was all his own! Yay! We can give JG Jones uber credit now (well, the poster was an homage, but that is not really the key to the cover)!!

Best part about the first ASS cover? Flip it around and the only difference between Superman and Bizarro is the coloring...

--yo
again with the ugly-ass faces

"Best part about the first ASS cover? Flip it around and the only difference between Superman and Bizarro is the coloring…"

Hey look! You're wrong!

Superman has cleaner lines, and a more dynamic look to him. It's these kind of comments that really make it clear to me that people who like to bash Quitely just aren't able to recognize and understand what it is about his art that is so wonderful.

Also, I can't fucking believe that comics fans are complaining about superheroes not being pretty enough. Because it's so much better when all the characters are drawn like models or porn stars.