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Awkward pose by Steel. Large head shots of people who aren't immediately recognizable. (I admit, I haven't followed 52, but I have followed DC, and these three aren't ringing a bell.) A woman who looks like the Twylek dancer from Star Wars/Jedi. Booster Gold supporting Soda?

That is ONE strange cover. And it doesn't exactly entice me to get one.

Well, if you're gonna feature your story's main characters on the cover, what else can you do? It's "a year without ... " as we all well know. So you can't put your company's big icons on there, or even your prominent B-listers. It's all about Montoya, Dibny, Black Adam, et al. Steel's probably the most recognizable character (for the S on his chest if nothing else) so he gets the full-body center shot.

I guess they're hoping that word of mouth (and that prominently placed quote from EW) will get new readers to pick it up. I'm happy with my individual issues. Until, perhaps, the inevitable Absolute edition; I'd like to check out lots of extras. How long are they waiting to roll out each volume, I wonder? More than a month between collected volumes seems like too long. But of course I was spoiled by the weekly dose.

Oooow, Star Warsy.

Wow, that's a dreadful cover.

I presumed they were just going to use covers from the series for the trades...

They should've used covers from the series for the trades.

That's just lousy.

Why no Vic Sage on the cover? He was one of the advertised main characters, but instead we get a weird looking Natasha Irons eating up one corner of the cover. I love me some JG Jones, but I'm not digging on this cover very much.

I don't even know who Booster Gold is but I fully support his character and soda of choice.

Having not read the series I can't comment on the quality inside, but damn those were some truly GREAT covers week in and week out. Then we get...this.

How many volumes is it going to take and will it include the extra pages (origins, I think) from the back?

Why is this being released nearly a year after people who missed the first issues could have used it to catch up? Would it have been so hard to crank out the trades while people were still into the story?

DC's logic was that they did not want retailers to have that option, because they thought they would not order as many if they had that fallback option.

They felt strongly that the series would be a high-seller, so they backed up their claim by making the first 8 weeks fully returnable. They wanted to make sure that retailers were keeping the book in stock for readers.

I will say that I appreciate seeing Steel's niece have the body of an actual woman. God bless those hips!

Why don't more people recognize that this is an homage to Star Wars?

to be exact. it's like a reversed attack of the clones poster by drew struzan.

I like it!

Soon as I saw it, I thought Star Wars. Then I thought, wow, it sort of sucks. They should have just gone with the cover from Issue 1.

more importantly, do we know

* when its out
* what issues are collected
* what extra content (if any)?

Isn't it the first 13 issues, but I heard it was without the backup stories, not sure about that though.

Meh - Aside from the occasional good cover I've never been huge on J G Jones. I don't dislike his work or anything, but it's never bowled me over.

J.G. Jones is awesome, but this cover is far from his best work. In fact, I really don't like it.

They somehow managed to make Booster Gold look goofier than he usually does.

And I really hate ref shots that are obvious to the point of characters looking EXACTLY like actors. For example: Salvador Larocca's work in NEWUNIVERSAL is swimming with blatant screen-grabs. It looks awful.

If you can look at this picture and tell me Black Adam ISN'T Michael Keaton, I'll eat my shoe.

Needs more lesbians.

The cover for #1 was pretty much perfect to get the idea out, I thought. It had the principal players in the background, plus the "abandoned" cowl of Batman, cape of Superman and sword (I think?) of Wonder Woman, suggesting that they weren't around.

I was planning on buying this anyway, but I think #1 was a stronger cover and would've worked fine for the collected edition.

-M

"If you can look at this picture and tell me Black Adam ISN’T Michael Keaton, I’ll eat my shoe."

I keep looking at Montoya and expecting to see two large bun things stuck to the sides of her head.

Yeah, I agree, Matt.

I just assumed they WERE going to use the cover for #1 as the trade cover, BECAUSE it worked so darn well.

I'm going to have to join the camp that says that this cover has some good ideas, but it's not good overall.

Steel's pose just looks like he's squinting to figure out when his plane's supposed to be departing.

"And I really hate ref shots that are obvious to the point of characters looking EXACTLY like actors. For example: Salvador Larocca’s work in NEWUNIVERSAL is swimming with blatant screen-grabs."

Alex Ross does a lot of that too. See the Tony Stark example at my pitiful excuse for a blog:

http://comicsamstoopid.blogspot.com/