CSBG Archive
A Month of Cover Theme Games #31
Every day this month, I’ll give you a new cover theme game! If you don’t know the game by now, it works like this: I’ll show you three covers. They all have something in common, whether it be a character, a trait all three characters share, a locale, a creator, SOMEthing. And it isn’t something obvious like “They all have prices!” “They all have logos!” “They all feature a man!” “They are all Avengers (who ISN’T?)!” “They’re all dead (who HASN’T been killed off?)!” etc.
In addition, please note that you must have some familiarity with comic book history to correctly guess these comics. You cannot guess the connective theme just by looking at the covers solely, you must have some knowledge beyond just the covers.
If you come up with an answer that works outside of what I intended, I’ll give you credit (well, provided I think it fits, of course).
One more thing – if there are floating heads on the cover, ignore them! They don’t mean anything!
If you think you know the answer, e-mail me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com (make sure to write which number game you’re answering). Don’t answer in the comments. This way, people who check in at different times of the day can still get credit for answering it correctly! After two days, I’ll post the people who answered today’s game correctly! Here is the list of all the games, along with the answers to each one (after two days go by, of course).
Good luck and enjoy!
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#2
#3
This one is the trickiest yet! The third cover is the trick. The overall theme is emminently gettable, but the third cover will be the hitch. I have faith in you all, though! You can get it!
9 Comments
ookerdookers
February 1, 2011 at 12:58 am
Nice! Took me a minute, but I think I got it!
Palomides
February 1, 2011 at 9:39 am
So is this it? I’m embarassed by the derth of answers I came up with over the course of this month; but I certainly enjoyed it. I would like you for the effort you put in to coming up with these and entertaining (and in my case, perplexing) us for a month.
Bill Reed
February 1, 2011 at 11:01 am
Man, I thought that one from a couple days ago could have been Disney characters, but I couldn’t tell you what “Turbo” was from. I’ll cry into my beer now.
Brian Cronin
February 1, 2011 at 12:08 pm
Well, it’s it as far as a month of them goes. I’m sure we’ll see them return at some point in the future, in some capacity.
Brian Cronin
February 1, 2011 at 12:20 pm
Phew, it was good to see someone nail it right off the bat so that I could rest knowing that it WAS gettable.
Michael Howey
February 1, 2011 at 1:43 pm
I’ve had a go at this one but I’m not getting my hopes up.
Mary Warner
February 1, 2011 at 2:56 pm
I’m so embarassed that I never got a single one of these.
sterg
February 1, 2011 at 9:32 pm
Thanks for doing a whole month of these games, Brian!
Sometimes they hurt my brain, but in a fun way!
Jazzbo
February 3, 2011 at 1:51 pm
When are we going to get the answer to this one and #30? Actually, I know #30, but I’d still like to see the answers posted and if there were any interesting alternate theories that people came up with.