What is your favorite comic book cover?
08-03-15, 03:29 PM
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Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
Well, he did say "everybody loves it."
I'm sure he's done covers he'd think were worse, but those don't get reprinted a lot, so he doesn't keep seeing them and can't obsess over the one thing about them he did that he didn't like.
EDIT: He's had a few chances to revisit that image. I remember the Action Comics cover, hadn't seen the newer two. Looks like he fixed the leg in the last one.
I'm sure he's done covers he'd think were worse, but those don't get reprinted a lot, so he doesn't keep seeing them and can't obsess over the one thing about them he did that he didn't like.
EDIT: He's had a few chances to revisit that image. I remember the Action Comics cover, hadn't seen the newer two. Looks like he fixed the leg in the last one.
08-03-15, 06:11 PM
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Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
I like comic covers that freeze a moment of action, that capture the energy of the book, then characters posing.
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08-04-15, 03:42 PM
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Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
Have you seen McFarlane's art before? There are too many lines everywhere, it's like his signature.
08-04-15, 04:00 PM
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08-04-15, 04:07 PM
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08-04-15, 04:50 PM
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That Silver Surfer cover is pretty great. I'd agree that modern covers are pretty awful. The artwork on a lot of them is fine, but it just tends to be random pinup stuff completely detached from the content of the issue. Marvel is especially guilty of this.
08-04-15, 06:29 PM
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08-04-15, 07:13 PM
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Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
80 pages is even better! I can't say this is a "favorite" cover - other than it being the Offical Beginning of My Collecting Phase - but I loved these 80 Page Giant books as a kid! I didn't know or care that they were reprints; they were a bunch of stories all stuffed into one book!
08-04-15, 07:35 PM
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Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
80 pages is even better! I can't say this is a "favorite" cover - other than it being the Offical Beginning of My Collecting Phase - but I loved these 80 Page Giant books as a kid! I didn't know or care that they were reprints; they were a bunch of stories all stuffed into one book!
08-04-15, 07:38 PM
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08-04-15, 11:30 PM
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That Silver Surfer cover is all kinds of greatness. There are good covers still being made today, but so often they resemble pin-up art more than a cover trying to sell you a comic. We get a lot more painted comic book covers today, which is good.
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08-05-15, 12:55 AM
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It wasn't until Barry Smith's Weapon X story in MCP that they were definitely shown to be natural claws and not weaponry added when his skeleton was bonded with adamantium.
08-05-15, 01:23 AM
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Re: What is your favorite comic book cover?
A few for me, greatly influenced by the contents within, of course:
(with the famous Kirby cover-up)
Yep, I've complained about that crap here before.
Man, I forgot all about Captain Thunder. That makes me want to re-read the issue just to remember what it was about.
I just re-read that arc and was thinking about posting this one:
(with the famous Kirby cover-up)
Man, I forgot all about Captain Thunder. That makes me want to re-read the issue just to remember what it was about.