The idea was to give it a James Bond look-and-feel. I found that most of the classic JB posters had a white background, but I didn’t want to go there. I couldn’t do the ‘collage of babes’ found in so many old movie posters. Actually, I didn’t want to make it look too ‘classic’ at all — this is aimed for TODAY’S kids remember.

So I tried to synthesize some of the posters, keep it simple, and give it a modern color-scheme — like the ‘next’ JB movie might have. If I had it to do over again, I’d move the action vignettes up in the frame, and have a better balance between background and Bugs.

-Scott

IIRC, Whilce mentioned at Wizard World Texas that the issue of Superman/Batman has been in the can for a while.

Thanks!

Wait, the Manhattan Guardian is white again now?

Different guy.

And yeah, don’t you remember, the Manhattan Guardian was a character Morrison invented so that other writers would use him, so naturally no one will touch him with a ten-foot pole. Honestly, I think it really is more of a compliment than an insult that other writers don’t use the new characters he creates, in a sort of “we won’t mess with your characters” type of way. Even when the characters were created FOR other writers to use.

- I don’t think either of those is supposed to be the Bat-Signal, actually.

- Someone didn’t tell Daniel that Huntress’ Lee-designed costume was subtly modified during Simone’s run. Also: three DC female characters in a shot and Nightwing’s only slept with one of them? That’s a rare occurence.

- Looking over some old BoP covers… geez, you’re right, Babs rarely got that type of cover treament. Although… look up the cover to BoP 59. Not unprecedented, although given that was Ed Benes it’s not unexpected.

- Gary Frank’s Superman needs a bit more bulk to him. He’s aping Chris Reeve, but Reeve was JACKED when he filmed the first couple of movies.

- Black Adam raising the People’s Eyebrow at Evil Mary is the funniest image of the month, no doubt.

- See, the outfit on the Secret Six cover is the current Huntress one, with the cross motif being more pronounced.

- I haven’t seen that JLU piece before, actually – it doesn’t look like any DVD cover I can remember.

- That Unknown Soldier cover is *really* disturbing. I don’t think I’ve had such a freaked-out reaction to a piece of comic art since the infamous reveal at the end of 52 (which still creeps me out to this day).

- The Super Friends covers should get mandatory honourable mentions at this point. Even if Flash and GL don’t really work right with their particular gimmicks (GL should be making balloon animals with the ring or something like that).

- BATB is so much better than any lame Obama cover.

What, no Scooby-Doo this month?

That’s it, exactly, Robert.

There were no new Scooby Doo covers this month.

However, when the cover used this month was originally solicited (I think back in July for October shipping), I had it in my Top Five for that month!

Turds on my BelLAY.

It’s German.

If by last costume, you mean every costume that Katana has ever worn before this, then I agree. This is by far Katana’s best looking outfit. (The Japanese flag suit is worth mentioning for being particularly awful.)

I liked the GL cover better than you did, but that’s because I really dug the coloring (especially as it fits in with the Rainbow Lantern theme.)