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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 2, 2015 15:20:42 GMT -5
We have to call the proportion police for this one.  |
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Post by foxley on Oct 2, 2015 19:18:16 GMT -5
Here's one to make Star Wars fans weep:  |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Oct 2, 2015 19:49:45 GMT -5
Yeah. Batman is almost too damn ripped to fit on the cover of his comic! I think it's an original idea, very well executed. Me too - I think that's a great cover. Maybe not so much - especially after reading Holy Terror I just brought myself to read that for the first time a couple weeks ago. It was almost exactly as terrible as I thought it was going to be. Even the art was just one skosh to abstract for my tastes. (And the story... ohhhhhhh man. 9/11 really did a number on poor Frank, huh?) |
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Post by berkley on Oct 2, 2015 21:52:33 GMT -5
I've never liked this character or the costume, but otherwise I think this is an excellent cover myself, very nicely rendered. |
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Post by berkley on Oct 2, 2015 21:58:34 GMT -5
how long has this WW+Superman romance thing been going on? For some reason I thought it was a relatively recent trend, but this cover must date from the early 90s, by the look of it. It goes back a long way. ye gods, I'm sorry I clicked that link. Something about the whole thing feels a little creepy to me, for some reason. Like it's some embarrassing fan-fiction that should never have made it onto an actual comic book page. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Oct 2, 2015 22:28:24 GMT -5
 What do I win? In all seriousness.. why is there a bald female head floating near Captain America's Crotch? That's not only bad.. it's bizarre. Did someone mess up the layering, and cover up her body with the giant Red Skull head? Then there's a random forearm and hand, positioned such that it can't possibly go to the woman? Slam definitely wins  |
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Post by the4thpip on Oct 3, 2015 4:51:15 GMT -5
What do I win? In all seriousness.. why is there a bald female head floating near Captain America's Crotch? That's not only bad.. it's bizarre. Did someone mess up the layering, and cover up her body with the giant Red Skull head? Then there's a random forearm and hand, positioned such that it can't possibly go to the woman? Slam definitely wins IIRC, this version of Cap is kept in a kind of "Truman Show" world where LMDs stand in for his family. Those are his wife's parts, so to speak. |
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Post by the4thpip on Oct 3, 2015 4:54:42 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 3, 2015 6:46:46 GMT -5
It occurs to me that there came a time when editors allowed any type of subpar cover to be used. I recall reading accounts from the Silver and Bronze age where there were covers that were rejected. None of these covers in this thread were rejected and it's just bizarre that they weren't.
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Post by Ozymandias on Oct 3, 2015 7:20:55 GMT -5
ye gods, I'm sorry I clicked that link. Something about the whole thing feels a little creepy to me, for some reason. Like it's some embarrassing fan-fiction that should never have made it onto an actual comic book page. Yes, but only because there was no real intention, to give it any traction. Kingdom Come is a good example, to the contrary. |
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Post by the4thpip on Oct 3, 2015 7:28:25 GMT -5
It occurs to me that there came a time when editors allowed any type of subpar cover to be used. I recall reading accounts from the Silver and Bronze age where there were covers that were rejected. None of these covers in this thread were rejected and it's just bizarre that they weren't. Back then, covers were also designed to make you curious about what is in the book. This here from the 90s is one of the most "who cares" covers I have ever seen:  Seriously, who the f*** cares who the driver is, as long as he is not drunk? Could that costume be any more generic? The artwork more pedestrian? |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Oct 3, 2015 7:33:39 GMT -5
Seriously, who the f*** cares who the driver is, as long as he is not drunk? Could that costume be any more generic? The artwork more pedestrian? Well, isn't that Ron Lim's trademark? |
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Post by the4thpip on Oct 3, 2015 7:40:52 GMT -5
Seriously, who the f*** cares who the driver is, as long as he is not drunk? Could that costume be any more generic? The artwork more pedestrian? Well, isn't that Ron Lim's trademark? True, one man's "solid" is another man's "boring." But he did turn in some Silver Surfer covers that were much more exciting than this. The Driver. My god. |
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Oct 3, 2015 10:55:00 GMT -5
I guess there's a chance that with this style, Ron Lim thought he might tripple or more his income, drawing 3 monthlies a month... He just didn't take into hte equation the fact that some readers had taste, or would at least outgrow their morbid fascination for Rob Liefeld...  |
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Post by the4thpip on Oct 3, 2015 11:26:58 GMT -5
Speaking of Liefeld clones, here is Dave Hoover's idea of human anatomy:  This is the guy who they also picked for the art on Roy Thomas very old school Invaders mini in the 80s. Why? |
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