keep up the great work i really like this column

it’s a shame it’s only once a month! =P

So I hope to have the Marvel stuff this week, then next week have DC and Marvel’s April stuff (and if we’re lucky – perhaps Image and Dark Horse? Dare to dream!!).

Love the Lapham cover, too. It’s a great #1 cover. It actually makes me want to get the issue (and I had NO interest before this second). But the JJ Kirby cover doesn’t leave me wanting to pick up the New Dynamix comic. Standard group shot? Been there, done that…a hundred covers ago.

Lots and lots of style points this month. The Fables cover is gorgeous, the Gen13 cover ditto, also the once for Northlanders.

Man, does Renato Guedes ever draw a great Superman.

I’m assuming that isn’t supposed to be the Kingpin on the Gotham Underground cover… but, wow. Does he have an [eviller?] twin in the DCU I’ve never heard about?

More proof that Batman has the official Best Rogues Gallery Ever: The 10 feet or so of flourishes in the ‘Boiling Vat of Acid’ pipe on the Batman Strikes cover. I’m imagining Harley looking at one of those novelty straws as a kid and going “Someday…[evil giggle]”

It’s a lovely drawing, but I’m not quite feeling the amazing specialness of the Terry Dodson WW cover otherwise. My first take on the pose was Amazons do ballet now?”

And Giganta makes everything better.

The Tony Moore Exterminators cover was changed last minute to cover up the bomb in the melon.

http://tonymooreillustration.com/

The post from 11.26.2007 shows the original.

Thanks for that!

It’s staggering the amount of changes like that occur. Like, I’ll say, “Why was the cover like ____?” and someone will reply, “On the artist’s website, it was originally ____ before they made him change it.”

Stephane Roux’s a dude.

I just googled Roux, and Anun is correct. He’s a he.

Roux as a she must be one of the most common misconceptions around.

I guess he and Adrian Alphona will have something discuss at conventions.

http://tonymooreillustration.com/

The post from 11.26.2007 shows the original.

Terry Dodson Wonder Woman: This is the first time I think I’ve seen the bodice look good. I hate that comic artists want to draw the costumes as if they’re painted on. The costume is fabric, but is never drawn as such. This is a GREAT rendering of WW’s bustier.

Damion Scott / Raven: I happen to like minimalist comic art. This is a little too cartoony for me, but it’s a nice change from the norm. Paul Smith was the master at realistic minimalisn in comics.

JSA: When did a floating Pipi Longstockings join the team?

Ivan Reis GL: There’s something wrong with Hal’s lower anatomy. His package is just in the wrong place. If it’s gonna be pronounced like that, it’s gotta be in the right spot.

GLC: Deathbird got waxed in Annihilation, then showed up in Green Lantern?

Stephane Roux BoP: It’s interesting that a female artist would draw a female character with her hooties ready to pop out of her poorly designed costume.

Brave & The Bold: Perez pretty much gets a pass at this point. He’s earned it.

Teen Titans Year One: I’m sorry, but the depressive, ‘I need more sleep’ Aqualad just looks dumb. Maybe it’s the oxygen drying out his eyes.

and is that Abin Sur as an angel on that Authority Prime cover?

Best portrayal of archery on a DC cover since Gene Ha’s JLA one.