Cover Art This Week - 8/15/07

[iSteve]

So what was your favorite cover this week? Least favorite? Which one best represented its book?

[labor_days]

Though I don't read Catwoman, that cover was gorgeous this week. Very striking. Almost made me buy it.

Cap was my favorite cover this week that I bought.

http://img01.picoodle.com/img/img01/9/8/15/f_cap29m_c989335.png


Flash was good too. Robin was the worst.

[horatio616]

Isn't that Falcon they're burning? Haven't they already gotten in trouble for that before?

[conorkilpatrick]

Isn't that Falcon they're burning? Haven't they already gotten in trouble for that before?

I'd really hope not.

[horatio616]

I'd really hope not.

The cover should have Falcon burning his own costume, since, historically, Falcon has had horrible costumes. Even Ultimate Falcon's costume sucks. This guy really deserves better.

[iSteve]

My personal favorite this week is Yu's cover on Sub-Mariner...

http://www.marvel.com/comics/onsale/covers/0807/Submar_3.jpg

[labor_days]

Namor looks like deformed angry elf. When Yu is bad, he's really bad. Not that the cover is bad, per se. I mean in general, Yu is hit-n-miss.

[kwok_talk]

Namor looks like deformed angry elf. When Yu is bad, he's really bad. Not that the cover is bad, per se. I mean in general, Yu is hit-n-miss.

If you take Wolverine out of the picture, it kind of looks like Namor is the most enthusiastic cheerleader ever. GO TEAM!

[mikegraham6]

those were all good covers, but i liked JLA #12, i thought that booster gold's cover was horrible, it looked like (and was) an ad for the series

[paper]

These are all good guesses, but the best cover for the week is actually....

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y192/polcapn/8059_400x600.jpg

Of the books I picked up that is. Other than that, I agree with Labor's pick of Catwoman #70. I was close to buying it as well. I'd let Hughes tattoo an image directly onto my skin. No tracing, no practices. Whatever he'd do would be just fine.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y192/polcapn/7772_400x600.jpg

[labor_days]

Yeah, that jpg doesn't do the Catwoman cover justice. The black on red with the shiny leather highlights really catches the eye on the comics rack.

[itsbecca]

FNSM was the standout in my stack.

http://images.tfaw.com/covers_tfaw/400/ju/jun072130d.jpg

[labor_days]

Bizzaro. Didn't think anyone read Friendly. Huh.

The cover is nice though.

[marshallg]

My favorite cover from my stack was JLA #12. Ross rarely disappoints.

[labor_days]

I would enjoy Ross more if he didn't make Wonder Woman look so severe and mannish. This week's JLA is one of his better renderings of Diana. Dug it.

[itsbecca]

Bizzaro. Didn't think anyone read Friendly. Huh.

The cover is nice though.

I beleive Jimski mentioned he does as well.


So uhhh that's makes the two.

[labor_days]

Hmm, yeah guess you just don't hear enough about Friendly.

Wonder how many people are jumping on Amazing when it goes weekly.

[jimski]

I beleive Jimski mentioned he does as well.

So uhhh that's makes the two.

I do read the Friendly, and I have been waiting for an issue like this one for quite some time. Too bad the book died before ever really living up to its potential.

Here's the thing about the cover, though: it's a very nice picture of Spider-Man... but this issue features the only confrontation so far between J. Jonah Jameson and the now-unmasked Peter Parker, written by Peter David. There is a splash page in this comic in which J. Jonah Jameson clocks the f*** out of Peter Parker in a boxing ring. In the sixties, in the seventies, in the eighties, hell, in the nineties this would have absolutely, 100%, no question been the cover of the goddamn book. And it would have been great! It would have caught the eye from across the shop; it would have enticed the curious to buy; it would have swayed a couple people who wouldn't otherwise be buying the "other" spider-book.

Instead? Some f***ing picture of Spider-Man spidermanning around a-f***ing-gain, just like I have easily 100 indistinguishable variations of thanks to the Ultimate line. It is a crime. It punches me in the heart.

[labor_days]

Never get tired of Jimski's rants. Golden.

[paper]

....in a boxing ring?

[labor_days]

....in a boxing ring?No, as in Pony Boy at the end of The Outsiders.

[esophagus]

I do read the Friendly, and I have been waiting for an issue like this one for quite some time. Too bad the book died before ever really living up to its potential.

Here's the thing about the cover, though: it's a very nice picture of Spider-Man... but this issue features the only confrontation so far between J. Jonah Jameson and the now-unmasked Peter Parker, written by Peter David. There is a splash page in this comic in which J. Jonah Jameson clocks the f*** out of Peter Parker in a boxing ring. In the sixties, in the seventies, in the eighties, hell, in the nineties this would have absolutely, 100%, no question been the cover of the goddamn book. And it would have been great! It would have caught the eye from across the shop; it would have enticed the curious to buy; it would have swayed a couple people who wouldn't otherwise be buying the "other" spider-book.

Instead? Some f***ing picture of Spider-Man spidermanning around a-f***ing-gain, just like I have easily 100 indistinguishable variations of thanks to the Ultimate line. It is a crime. It punches me in the heart.This makes me want to go pick it up so much. I agree 100% though. every spider-book has the same cover with a different pose.

[itsbecca]

but this one's pretty. :) I would have a painting like that on my damn wall.

I do agree about content though. Especially after reading the book.

[mikegraham6]

I do read the Friendly, and I have been waiting for an issue like this one for quite some time. Too bad the book died before ever really living up to its potential.

Here's the thing about the cover, though: it's a very nice picture of Spider-Man... but this issue features the only confrontation so far between J. Jonah Jameson and the now-unmasked Peter Parker, written by Peter David. There is a splash page in this comic in which J. Jonah Jameson clocks the f*** out of Peter Parker in a boxing ring. In the sixties, in the seventies, in the eighties, hell, in the nineties this would have absolutely, 100%, no question been the cover of the goddamn book. And it would have been great! It would have caught the eye from across the shop; it would have enticed the curious to buy; it would have swayed a couple people who wouldn't otherwise be buying the "other" spider-book.

Instead? Some f***ing picture of Spider-Man spidermanning around a-f***ing-gain, just like I have easily 100 indistinguishable variations of thanks to the Ultimate line. It is a crime. It punches me in the heart.

Good Call jimski, hell I would have bought FNSM if it had that cover! especially considering i had so few books this week. I wanted to see more done with an unmasked Spidey and this JJJ aspect is something they seem to have forgotten post civil war (wasn't he suing Peter?? what happened to that?) Marvel is just wasting the loads of story potential that come from an unmasked spidey!

[luthor]

I don't read the book, but I really liked the cover to Shadowpact this week.

[kahunablair]

I don't read the book, but I really liked the cover to Shadowpact this week.

I thought it was pretty interesting as well, not enought for me to pick up mind you, but interesting enough.

[jimski]

Good Call jimski, hell I would have bought FNSM if it had that cover! What I'm taking from this thread is that I have personally sold more issues of the book than that f***ing cover. Will no one in Editorial hear my cries?

[labor_days]

Zatanna's pelvis and positioning looked horrible on that Shadowpact cover. The hell was that?

[kwok_talk]

Zatanna's pelvis and positioning looked horrible on that Shadowpact cover. The hell was that?

Is it worse than the awkward positioning of Bucky & Sharon on the Cap cover?

[labor_days]

Nothing wrong with Sharon's pose on Cap. There could probably be a bit more weight on her back foot. That's minor though. The composition of the cover is good.

[mrugly]

Marvel is just wasting the loads of story potential that come from an unmasked spidey!

And this is exactly why I'm opposed to the reboot. What was the point of exposing him, and then canning it all without exploring the countless possibilities?

[kahunablair]

And this is exactly why I'm opposed to the reboot. What was the point of exposing him, and then canning it all without exploring the countless possibilities?

Just because we can see possibilities with it, doesn't mean the current Marvel Staff does. If they don't feel excited about something, do you really want them writing about it?
I'd rather have them come up with something that actually excites them, rather then just a gimmick that they get bored with after a few months (the unmasking).

[labor_days]

Liked the Frank Cho variant of Killing Girl this week.

http://img33.picoodle.com/img/img33/9/8/16/f_killinggirlm_3d34695.png