I think this was a rejected national flag for Australia, well, gold and green ARE official colors in Australia, right? Right?

We almost had it to, but then Harradine decided The Phantom Stranger wasn’t a wholesome enough character, and said he wouldn’t approve the Telstra sell off, and so they replaced him with The Flash, but at the time Morrison was writing him in his book and in JLA, so of course the National party pulled it’s support – you never get the farm vote with Morrison – and so then Howard declared it wasn’t a ‘core election promise’ and it fell of the agenda, so we stuck with ol’faithful.
(Of course Latham had ideas about an Elongated Man and Atom flag, but as soon as the election was called he lost his nerve on that one, like he did with everything else.).

Because, since it’s Babs, odds are pretty good that Joker’s missing a few teeth as well. That’s why the Oracle character works well – while she’s always an underdog whenever things get physical, she’s tough enough to give as good as she gets.

As usual, the wordpad dump of thoughts while reading:

- That Rags “Batman Breaks Bane” cover is just fugly. The perspective doesn’t work, Batman looks as though he’s dislocated both shoulders, and Superman looks like his left leg’s been amputated.
- Take one look at Supergirl’s chin in that Ross cover and tell me that he didn’t just start off with a leftover Superman cover sketch. In this case, though, “looks the same” appears to be quite deliberate, as I’d bet good money it’s a three-part piece split over the three Superbooks (the middle appears to be missing).
- I thought it was just scar *tissue* on Two-Face’s mug – EG, he healed enough to function, but not much more than that. Besides, being in constant pain is a nice element for the character, isn’t it? (edit: beaten to it.)
- Who WOULDN’T be preferable to Benes on JLA right now? I think it’s a close call between him and Liefeld. To think I used to like the guy a lot in his BoP days….
- Rant ahead… Will the Gog storyline please just END? It’s been like eight months already and has somehow turned Johns into Bendis in terms of plot / page ratio. Rant over.
- The Icon / Superman cover was, I think, supposed to be the “test of strength” spot from wrestling, used since time immemorial, but who the heck knows what Benes did with it.
- Booster should’ve been striking the Heisman pose – since that adds the Desmond Howard joke to the proceedings (if you don’t get it, think of what Howard was wearing when he struck his famous pose).
- The Ben 10 transition worked because they weren’t all that small to begin with, and the kids had clearly run their course – there was only so long Ben and Gwen could be on summer vacation. Of course, now there’s all sort of creepy net fangirls drooling over Kevin, so while the show’s better it’s created a monster.
- That Kristan Donaldson Chuck cover looks like something out of the monochrome era of Detective. In a very good way.

It’s the epitome of what’s wrong with these photo-referencing/throwing a jpeg thru a photoshop filter artists.

What’s Mulder looking at? How about Sculley? How about the Gunmen? There’s stuff on the table, but no one has the same eyeline. None of these characters are in the same scene.

Yes it looks just like the characters…but as an art composition, it’s garbage.

I, too, was surprised to find that large quantities of Alex Ross = boring. I was pleased that Cliff Chiang continues to impress (his Green Arrow stuff has been uniformly solid) when he never seemed capable of better-than-B stuff before. The Lopresti ‘Guardian’ cover is bland while his Wonder Woman cover leads me to believe he could have done better. Maybe he should stick to WW. Or to women in general — his Ms Marvel/Red Sonja stuff was great.

There aren’t any really bad DC covers this month and there aren’t any really knock-out, wowza!, pieces. I agree with your #1 pick: JG Jones did some good stuff here…but I almost hate to say it since I don’t think I’ve ever agreed with your #1 pick before.

You say it’s weird for Alex Ross to homage himself on the KC Special, but when Kevin Maguire homages his own JL #1 for the forty-fifth time on that Ambush Bug cover, you call it “Straight-forward, but funny”.

Now, I agree that it’s funny, and I always love to see Maguire do a take-off on that cover, but why isn’t it weird when he does it?

Because he’s doing it as shtick.

Perhaps not a huge difference, but I think it’s a difference.

Also isnt the Vixen mini taking place in Africa…those are probably wild dogs..They have those real big ears.

Having said that, the second -darker- cover of for Batman is very beautiful, especially the small Talia and Damian segment.

Now, I agree that it’s funny, and I always love to see Maguire do a take-off on that cover, but why isn’t it weird when he does it?

That Gen13 cover makes me wonder yet again about the post-Apocalyptic setting Wildstorm is sporting these days. That’s a really awkward fit for Gen13.

>Jordan D. White
>September 11, 2008 at 6:30 am

> How dare you imply Catwoman is a pig!

I would buy a comic called Pigwoman.

Yes…Massimo

am awarding this bout to Noto!!

I think his cover flowed a bit better.

Not just that but lordy is that anatomy bad by Morales on the cover. Look at the muscles on top of muscles on top of muscles on Batman’s arms and torso, the width of his torso compares to his shoulders, etc. And this is the guy who ripped Liefeld online for his poor anatomy? Geez!

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One of those Fabry covers is dated ‘o7 so it may have been sitting in a drawer for awhile.

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I agree with you on the X Files cover, but Mulder and Scully’s heads don’t look as if they fit their bodies.

While the solicits would have you believe this is by one of the Kuberts, I’m pretty sure it is actually interior art by Walt Flanagan.

If you scroll down just wrong, so you don’t actually see Joker’s hands, you’re looking at what the Comic Critics were looking at this week.