“EDITOR’S NOTE: Sinestro’s real name translates as ‘left-handed’ in the language of his home planet Korugar — just as the word ‘sinister’ means ‘left-handed’ in English! Hal’s ring automatically translates the name into the nearest English equivalent, just as it does for all alien languages he encounters!”

Clever, Richard! Clever!!!

Surely Sinestro’s ring should be on his left hand?

I seem to recall someone (it may have been a fan suggestion) claiming that that is how Sinestro got his name – the ring translated his name into English, and it was basically “left-handed.”

I don’t believe that’s Nguyen on Ft13th, but if it is, good for him. There’s an Andi Watson influence to Mama Vorhees that I like.

If it wasn’t for the signature, I wouldn’t believe it was him either!

That American Virgin cover confuses me.

Agreed, O. It was a weird cover. I liked it well enough, in that I think it’s strangeness worked for it, but yeah, it didn’t make sense as a cover.

I really like the drawing and design on that Good As Lily cover. (On the other hand, I don’t understand your joke about Hamm, about whom I know nothing.)

Recently, on his website/blog, Jesse Hamm made some comments about comic book writers. At the time, a good deal of people took issue with the statement under the whole, “Who is this guy to be telling us anything?” argument.

No Spirit this month?

It was solicited last month, so I featured it then (it made my top five!).

But Ordway inked Jurgens on all five issues of Zero Hour. And the Superman Wedding issue

Thanks, Graeme! The Wedding issue I barely remember, but it’s amusing, I just re-read Zero Hour recently, and I totally forgot that Ordway inked it (or, in the alternative, it didn’t look like his normal inks to me).

What? No love for AQUAMAN: SWORD OF ATLANTIS #54? Why not? It is a nice cover, in my opinion.

I feature the covers when they’re solicited. The Aquaman cover was in the solicits last week as a poster, so I commented on it then.

Apodaca: “There’s no big deal. We’re just making fun of it? Does it offend you to see strangers make fun of other strangers’ drawings?”

If the reason is due to latent homophobia and/or complete misunderstanding of the appearance of male anatomy, then making fun of a drawing doesn’t “offend” me, it just makes you look stupid. Sorry.

Why would you assume homophobia/not knowing what junk looks like? Couldn’t it be that some see a problem with emphasizing a guy’s package on the cover of a mainstream comic book? I’ve seen people making fun of covers with overdone hooters {see the recent to-do over Power Girl) too; does that make them (us) woman haters? Maybe we just don’t know what hooters look like…

Brian: “If you don’t think there is an erection there, then yeah, not creepy.”

You find an erection “creepy”? Dear lord.

The problem isn’t with erections, it’s with the painting of an erection on the cover of JSA. But you knew that already.

“10-inch pole”? “Hypnotic breasts”? A bit puerile, but nicely done. I’ve had my cheap laugh for the day.

As for the best cover of the lot, it’s 100 BULLETS. It’s ALWAYS 100 BULLETS. Dave Johnson is in the running for best cover artist of all time. I completely agree with your absinthe comment. In fact, I would love to put that to a test. You could call it the Dave Johnson Challenge.

If the reason is due to latent homophobia and/or complete misunderstanding of the appearance of male anatomy, then making fun of a drawing doesn’t “offend” me, it just makes you look stupid. Sorry.

Brian: “If you don’t think there is an erection there, then yeah, not creepy.”

You find an erection “creepy”? Dear lord.

Some of you see a hard-on in his shorts, is that it? Whereas the rest of us simply see a guy’s package, not much different from what we’d see on some guys wearing a speedo. However, I realized just now, looking at the image anew, that because Ross drew all those shiny lines on his underpants (because I guess his costume is shiny reflective steel, like his skin?!), it might appear to be revealing the contours of big Steel wood. Which would be weird. But I honestly don’t think that’s what Ross is going for.

Correct-a-mundo.

If you don’t think there is an erection there, then yeah, not creepy.

Yeah, folks, I did a poor job of getting my point across there. By “good” creative team, I just meant “big enough that they could follow Loeb’s run and not lose any of the book’s hotness.”

As I have said here before, I am not a fan of Loeb’s Superman/Batman.

I remember talking to him at Wizard World Boston after the first issue had come out, and he talked about how he was already behind, but that it didn’t bother him because he had no love for deadlines and the book would be finished when he wanted it to be finished.

Well considering the reasons he got fired from Crossgen, it shouldn’t come as any surprise that professionalism isn’t his strong suit.

So I think if he’s going to be working on mainline DCU stuff, covers and special projects should really be it.

Remember when this book was kinda a big deal? Now it’s like those 80s World Finest issues. Is it really that hard to get a good creative team for this title?

Uhh…what? It never ever HAD a good creative team, how can this be a low point. At worst, it’s just continuing a tradition of crappiness.

As for the Jock ones, I would’ve given Faker an honorable mention at least – it’s simple yet disturbing, and it keeps being subtly disturbing when you keep looking at it – not gross out disturbing, it just has an edge to it.
As for his GAY1 cover… not really a good cover, but could you imagine if you opened the comic and that was the opening splash page… it’d be awesome.
(it’d be super awesome if it was written by Ostrander and was entirely set in the jungle with Green Arrow taking down an evil mining corporation or something, and it was all done and told in one issue).

Hey Brian, any chance you could name the comics when you do this?
I don’t know which book half the covers are for!

What’s the big deal about the Alex Ross cover?

There’s no big deal. We’re just making fun of it? Does it offend you to see strangers make fun of other strangers’ drawings?