A friend of mine sent me this link with your comment regarding the cover for Jonah Hex #40,…I thought I might write you with a bit of technical info just for the record. The covers for Jonah Hex #40, & 41 are oil on canvas. None of my work is digitaly rendered. Even the lettering is hand executed.

The design of cover #40 was along the lines of an iconic approach, not nessarily to be taken literaly. I very much appreciate and respect your perspective ,comment, and additional exposure of the Jonah Hex title and my work associated with it.

Regards,

DMB

The Lopresti Adventure Comics #0 cover does what a good cover is supposed to do; it makes me want to buy the comic. To my mind, it’s much superior to the Lopresti/Action cover.

Lopresti’s Wonder Woman cover is the best he’s done for the series…which is sad, ’cause it isn’t that great a cover. The guy has done some fine variant covers for different stuff, some dynamite Red Sonja covers, he goes to one of the Big Three, and suddenly seems over his head (cover-wise. The interiors are solid).

I think the BoP cover is the best BoP cover I’ve ever seen Roux do. So why didn’t he throw in Black Canary?

The Jerry Ordway/JSA cover hit me the same way as Adventure #0 but even harder. It’s a great and intriguing comic cover. It’s my #1.

You wouldn’t. If memory serves, he was a fat professor of Egyptology who’d occasionally get bonked on the head and start thinking he was the actual King Tut. Sadly, as Batman made-for-TV villains go, he was probably the best of the bunch (and because of the amnesia gimmick, he wound up discovering that Batman was Bruce Wayne in practically every appearance).

He was kinda like the Maxie Zeus of that era, I guess.

The cover idea is good, but David Michael Beck’s art here is way too “photoshop-y.”

The cover idea is generic. The execution is awful… Hex looks too plastic. His scar looks too much like Two-Face meets the Joker, and the horizon meeting the sky looks like a stock background…
Took me ages to actually notice the flyer…
That shiny face just reminds me (in a bad way) of really early Chris Bacchalo stuff – where, for some reason, everyone had shiny red noses…

Great idea, Brian. Here are three more covers that could benefit from Joker-style laughter:
Action Comics
Adventure Comics
Jonah Hex

Why, this could be a new feature!

What’s up with Kid Eternity on that cover(aside from the fact I thought it was Power Girl at first)? I don’t get what’s significant about him taking off his sunglasses. Did they turn him into the Corinthian or something?

Bit of a lackluster cover homage, though, by Lopresti to the #0 issue of the new Adventure Comics.

To be fair, though, the original cover is lackluster it’s homaging was flat and bland and is only homaged so often because of the significance of the issue rather than the cover’s merits. It’s pretty hard to do a homage of that cover that ISN’T lackluster. I think the angle actually helps a little bit.

I was there that day that Kelley Jones and Anatomy got into a huge fight. As Anatomy walked away in a huff, I heard Jones shout, “I’m through with you, Anatomy! THROUGH!”

THANK YOU. I’ve always wondered why Liefeld is hounded for his horrible anatomy, but Jones is diefied when his anatomy may be even worse and even MORE distracting from the story. How many ribs and abs can a human being have anyway?

How amusing is it, though, that the book lasts 50 issues as the Outsiders, gets re-launched as Batman and the Outsiders, and within 15 issues, it’s back to the Outsiders again?

Not exactly stellar future planning there…

Making it up as they go along is par for the course for DC.

There is something off about the way Don Kramer does faces, especially the lower half of the face and the mouth and chin area in particular that I can’t stand. If he could fix it, I think he could be one of the greats. Or maybe it’s just me. Everyone looks mildly retarded to me when he draws their facial expressions.

Oh, and for once I think I actually 100% agree with your top five Brian!

DAMMIT!

10 clues, five true, five false

One of the clues from an old DC Nation was “the Owl is the butler”.

As for the Fables cover, does it look like someone’s pulling someone else to them in an embrace?? I’m thinking Red and Blue here…

No, it’s not relating to the Mummy, it’s relating to the original production of the Batman TV series from the 60ws. The way I recall it, WB obviously retained their copyright to any characters created prior to appearing on the TV series, but Fox own(s/ed – the entire series is legally tied up) any characters created for the TV series. So King Tut, the Batman villain, can therefore be their property.

DC is getting around this by, as you suggested, just calling a dissimilar character “King Tut”.

I think they’re still worried about being sued by Fox over King Tut.

How?? King Tut is a nickname for King Tutankhamun isn’t it? How can Fox seriously argue copyright over a historical figure?

If it was the Mummy from The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, etc., I can see the point… But that wasn’t King Tut… or Rama Tut…

The Andy Kubert homage cover is a bit odd… Batman’s not actually holding his rope… Guess he just let go, in order to quickly drag his cape up???

On a similar note – DC’s soliciting a JLU trade in the new Previews. Go buy it, those are all good stuff and expose why half of us thought Beechen was the next big thing for a while there.