Last year I did them in the form of an advent calendar, but I won't be doing that again this year - so I dunno what I'm going to do - we shall see!

The Morales Superman/Batman cover is some fine artwork but tells us nothing of interest. To me, it looks like a pin-up...and that's what it should have been. Alex Ross never seems to do less than good work but he's not bringing much new to the table. One exception (you liked it, too) is the Batman cover with Gordon and the bat. Again, it's as much a pin-up as anything else -- it doesn't draw you to buy the comic, does it? -- but it's good stuff.

Love the James Jean cover for Fables. I'm sorry to hear that he's leaving. And the Northlander cover? Absolute art, man, and great to see. But my favorite DC cover of the month? The Gary Frank/Creature Commandos piece. Wow!

The best Alex Ross cover is definitely the Batman one... Agree with your Top Five, though I'm surprised you didn't bump the All-Star Super-Santa up... (Is that for some kind of All-Star Special?)

Brian, why is it the December solicitations when DC just released the january Solicits ??
Wasn't this column in synch with the solicitations, why is it a month later now ?

Not that important though.
Good job, I wonder how much time does it take you to come with a commentary for each cover ?

My 1rst though for the Kelley Jones’ Batman After Midnight cover & the anatomy thing, was that that's what you get when you have a tied woman as a Christmas gift for the godamn Batman, very Tex Avery, hehe.

How is it each time that I see a Alex Ross cover, I think "Soon available as a very expensive litho !!!" should be added to the cover ?!

If that Flash cover was adaptated to a cop, that would be a cool cover with a gun & a badge but when it comes to the Flash, it's pretty stupid.

It always impresses me when companies allow low-selling books time to gain an audience.

Thanks for doing this, Brian, good stuff as always...

At least, I believe we are supposed to get a bit of a scary/spooky vibe from this, and instead, it’s just a well-drawn cover of a woman with a migraine - or telepathy (I always mix those up, visually).

I dunno man, if this is tied into the movie Push, then going by the trailer, having any sort of vibe whether scary/spooky or anything, is definitely not on the agenda.
Looks like one bland piece of shit trying to tie into the 'Heroes' meme, but trying to ignore the fact that it's audience has seen Heroes, and so seen everything done in the film done in the show (if not the six thousand times other shows, films, books and comics that have done it before).

(Honestly, they are being hunted by a division of the government called 'Division'??? That's so shit...)

Ha! That's laugh-out-loud funny. Good one, Brian.

In other matters: I used to enjoy these "Judging Covers" posts a ton, and I still do — but only sorta. I have a problem: I can't see a good quarter or so of the covers! The ones that drop out are mostly near the end of the post, which means all the covers that Brian actually ranks are just tiny blue icons with question marks on them. I'd guess that maybe there's too much to download on this one CSBG page, but that never used to happen on my computer before, and obviously everyone else can see them, so ... WTF? Do I have to change some sort of setting? Thanks to anyone who can help me see all the pretty pictures.