Unique Things Life: coolest covers

Dienstag, 22. Dezember 2009

Art Attack: March 2010's coolest covers

Just like last month, we now interrupt our regularly-scheduled word-filled programming with pretty pictures of the raddest comic book covers coming our way three months from now by the reckoning of one humble blogger...

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #627 by Lee Weeks

AZRAEL #6 by Francesco Mattina

BATMAN AND ROBIN #10 by Frank Quitely

BATMAN: STREETS OF GOTHAM #10 by Dustin Nguyen

BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #15 by Robert Pope & Scott McRae

DEADPOOL: MERC WITH A MOUTH #9 by Arthur Suydam

HELLBLAZER #265 by Simon Bisley

HOUSE OF MYSTERY #23 by Esao Andrews

HULK #21 by Ed McGuinness

HUMAN TARGET #2 by John Paul Leon

JONAH HEX #53 by Billy Tucci

MIGHTY AVENGERS #35 by Khoi Pham

PUNISHER #15 by Mike McKone

THE SHIELD #7 by Sami Basri

STEPHEN KING'S "N." #1 by Alex Maleev

USAGI YOJIMBO #127 by Stan Sakai

WEAPON X NOIR #1 by C.P. Smith

WOLVERINE: WEAPON X #11 by Adam Kubert

X-FORCE #25 by Clayton Crain

X-MEN: PIXIE STRIKES BACK #2 by Stuart Immonen

Montag, 23. November 2009

Art Attack: February 2010's coolest covers

Comics are of course the perfect marriage of words and images, which is one reason I love 'em.

However, comics are also about getting people excited, or, to be a bit more to the point, about marketing. Those of us in the business try to generate enthusiasm about the product we're producing any way we can so these stories have a fair shot to make their impression.

When it comes to solicitations, Rickey works tirelessly on the words side of the equation and does a great job of it, but no question, when you're dealing with stuff as far out as he is, the images help a lot. No question, a great cover can draw somebody in to read a comic they might not have otherwise given a second look.

(Hey, I totally just spent three hours in the ER because I was having chest pains. Turns out it was just bad indigestion, but it hurt like hell. Right back blogging though--HARDCORE)

The major companies released their solicits for February 2010 last week, and because I dig things that are pretty (and am kinda lazy), I figured I'd throw together a little gallery of the covers that caught my eye. Roll tape...