Comic Book Resources

It’s neat, but some of the faces are really weird-looking. Superman’s, for example.

Oh, sorry, I’ll edit in that that is just a sketch of what the cover WOULD look like.

I’m not sure if this counts as a spoiler or not, but the faces of the ‘big gun’ heroes are supposed to look weird.

Okay, well fair enough, then. Also, I don’t care about spoilers. I have more important things to worry about, like if I should eat that sandwich or not.

I don’t know – I think cross-company cover homage trumps Superfriends homage. If nothing else, they should have let him go ahead with that, and put it on the back cover. Maybe upside down, like Previews…

Also, I don’t care about spoilers. I have more important things to worry about, like if I should eat that sandwich or not

[SPOILERS]

He eats it.

[/SPOILERS]

Retcon!

I had pizza instead.

you raped my childhood!

I raped your childhood with pizza.

Oh yeah.

I always like a well done cover swipe. I don’t mind at all if the art is stylized, as in this case. So what if the background characters look odd… they’re apparently supposed to.

It’s not that often we see a cross-publisher swipe. As long as it’s done respectfully, and due credit is given, this is a nice show of respect.

It’s a cool cover, but isn’t the one they used, a swipe of a vintage DC cover, more appropriate than a swipe of a vintage Marvel cover?

It’s a cool cover, but isn’t the one they used, a swipe of a vintage DC cover, more appropriate than a swipe of a vintage Marvel cover?

I thought the finished cover was an homage to Super Friends, not a previous DC cover.

Unless it was a cover to a Super Friends tie-in, I guess.

I remmeber that composition from something. Maybe a Super Friends DVD.

Isn’t it an Alex Toth image, from the old Super-Friends comics, or at the very least, the trade?

Here’s the link to the Toth Superfriends image.

I think the Toth homage trumps the cross-company homage simply because that X-Men cover has been homaged to DEATH by now.

Sure has, my first thought wasn’t even Giant Sized X-men, but rather ‘oh, and X-Statix #1 homage’.

I miss that book.

Ian,

It’s definately an homage to Super Friends. I don’t know if that image was first used in the comics or the show or the merchandizing or what. But my point is it’s still a DC reference rather than a Marvel one.

CBrown: Please tell me you’re talking about the published cover, not the one pictured in this post. The one up top is clearly a GS X-Men swipe. Even the cover banners are placed & designed alike.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=28072&zoom=4

Avengers63, I don’t get what the confusion is. The published cover is obviously a Super Friends swipe. The unused cover is obviously a swipe of Giant Size X-Men. I know that. Everyone knows that. If it WASN’T obvious, they wouldn’t be very effective swipes.

Retcon!

I had pizza instead.

My childhood is destroyed forever.