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Thanks for the suggestions for better O, P R and S!!! Much better!!
I really like the current list now! Thanks, folks!
Enjoy this utter silliness, devoid of any intellectual merit!


























Thanks for the suggestions for better O, P R and S!!! Much better!!
I really like the current list now! Thanks, folks!
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40 Comments
Francisco Germiniani
February 18, 2008 at 3:53 am
I…Vampire! That’s a classic.
Kyle
February 18, 2008 at 5:24 am
O-MAC!
Adam Weissman
February 18, 2008 at 6:08 am
Man of Steel #1 for S.
Aaron
February 18, 2008 at 7:26 am
Sebastian O, of course, for O!
Wikipedia has a cover image and everything.
Rob M
February 18, 2008 at 7:54 am
D.P. 7 (New Universe title) might make a better “P” entry.
Or maybe something by P. Craig Russell? http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=231479&zoom=4
Thok
February 18, 2008 at 8:10 am
No V for Vendetta? Although that’s just nit-picking, as the current V is good.
For I: There’s a Showcase Presents I Spy that works well.
O, P, and to some extent R should be improvable. I’m surprised there’s not a Metal Man cover with Platinum as a P.
Sallyp
February 18, 2008 at 8:20 am
You worked very hard. I am very impressed.
Thok
February 18, 2008 at 8:38 am
Actually, this one is sort of OK for P. http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/metal-men/29-1.jpg
Zach Adams
February 18, 2008 at 8:42 am
A and S just made my day.
joecab
February 18, 2008 at 8:59 am
On a kind of related note, if you like puzzles you may want to check out one I created for this year’s MIT Mystery Hunt. Solving the puzzle will yield a one-word answer: http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/08/confession/
Chris Heide
February 18, 2008 at 9:14 am
I seem to recall an issue of Wizard Mag from the good old days where they riffed on that Superman “Mr. Z” cover to the point where I was damn near pissing my pants from laughing so hard…
Ryan
February 18, 2008 at 9:42 am
Oh, Jim Lee’s c-23. You wanted to be so much more than you really were.
John Trumbull
February 18, 2008 at 10:16 am
D should have been DNAgents.
DC also did a tie-in comic with the TV series V.
Took me ages to recognize the R in the Quicksilver-Scarlet Witch cover.
But very cute idea. I’m suprised you found that many, frankly.
TheSeaKing
February 18, 2008 at 1:18 pm
J2: the son of the ORIGINAL Juggernaut. That’s fantastic. Thank you for that reminder.
MJ
February 18, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Didn’t Puck have a big ‘P’ on his costume? I think there is an issue during the Byrne Alpha Flight run that wouls be perfect for the ‘P’ spot.
Omar Karindu
February 18, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Surely the Alphabet Supes ought to be a coda here….
Cass
February 18, 2008 at 3:14 pm
This maybe stupid, but what’s R in that Wanda Pietro cover? The background? If so, why?
Ryan Breck
February 18, 2008 at 3:22 pm
@ Cass
In the Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes series, each of the 8 issues had a letter each, spelling A V E N G E R S, on the cover.
Rob M
February 18, 2008 at 4:12 pm
A better entry for “P” might be PT-109, Gold Key’s adaptation of the movie based on JFK’s WW2 experience http://www.comics.org/series.lasso?SeriesID=1655
Brian Cronin
February 18, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Thanks, folks!
I put in the new O, P and S!
It’s a lot cooler looking now!
Thok
February 18, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Here’s a link to the I Spy cover I mentioned. http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y104/CSBG/1194_4_50.jpg
The link comes from one of Brian’s Urban Legends posts.
Novaya Havoc
February 18, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Why are there two C’s and no D’s?! You just didn’t want to use a cover. Like, oh, DAZZLER the MOVIE. You break my heart sometimes, BC!
Brian Cronin
February 18, 2008 at 5:47 pm
I used D-Man, Ben!!
MarkAndrew
February 18, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Is that REALLY the best D-Man cover?
Poor guy.
Stephane Savoie
February 18, 2008 at 5:54 pm
They look much better now. “R” could still use an improvement, though.
John
February 18, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Wouldn’t a good Robin cover work for R?
yo go re
February 18, 2008 at 7:20 pm
not that it would be a big change, but I actually prefer the Y on the final issue of Y: The Last Man to the one on the first issue.
(I just wanted to comment because I thought it was cute that there were 26 replies to the alphabet topic)
Brian Cronin
February 18, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Yeah, that was my first thought, too, but I wasn’t able to find a cover where the “R” in Robin was significant enough.
ZZZ
February 18, 2008 at 10:54 pm
For “R,” how about this or this?
Assuming I got the html right, which is a crapshoot.
Brian Cronin
February 18, 2008 at 11:27 pm
You know what, ZZZ, you’ve convinced me!
I’ll use the latter one! Thanks!
Alberta Bangworthy
February 19, 2008 at 4:32 am
God, aren’t you glad you weren’t alive when that ‘F-Troop’ comic was published?
I’m pretty sure that if I had walked into the corner store and saw that fuckin’ shit-smear staring back at me from the spinner-rack, I would have pulled out a knife and slashed my own throat right then and there. Bleeding to death on the shopfloor, I would have joyfully gone to meet my maker knowing that I didn’t have to spend another second in the company of such hideous cuntery.
Christ, they used to publish some fucked-up, retarded shit, didn’t they?
CaptainAverage
February 19, 2008 at 6:17 am
Excellent edits. This is a much more satisfying set than the one I first saw here. And I knew that somehow, somewhere, there would be a reason (excuse) for the existence(fictional) of Puck. God I hate that little spinning freak.
MWGallaher
February 19, 2008 at 9:56 am
I think the weakest cover remaining is the “M”. How about
http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/49699659688.1.GIF
for an alternative?
DanLarkin
February 19, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Wouldn’t a House of M cover have worked better for “M’.
Brian Cronin
February 19, 2008 at 3:09 pm
I like M!
If you can find a better cover featuring M, though…
John Trumbull
February 19, 2008 at 8:08 pm
I agree with MWGallaher above. The “M” on the Generation X cover doesn’t really pop, since there’s so much other type there (Similar problem with the D-Man Captain America cover – The D is lost in all the other cover elements). The M cover he suggests is much better.
I think that this would be better for V, though. I tried to find a good image for DC’ s V tie-in comic, but it’s almost impossible to search for a series where the title is just a single letter.
John Trumbull
February 19, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Damn it, that was supposed to link to a V for Vendetta cover image. Argh.
John Trumbull
February 19, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Here’s the V comic I was trying to get a decent image of:
http://www.dcindexes.com/timemachine/comic-details.php?comicid=30509
Brian Cronin
February 19, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Yeah, I’ll take that V over V Battalion, but I love M too much! If you can find a better M cover, though…;)
sgt rawk
November 30, 2008 at 8:59 am
Is it just me or does Captain N look stoned?