Saturday, January 21, 2012

Cover Me Saturday

#1) Wow...

...Green Arrow really doesn't like Jim Lee's Justice League costume designs, does he...? (that's the solicited cover to Justice League #8)

#2) Daredevil is one of the best mags on the market right now, stem to stern, and it starts with great covers:

And, as local comics shoppe curmudgeon Josh pointed out to me, the conceit works equally well if you turn it upside down:

Marvel kinda missed the boat by not releasing it that way as a variant cover (or even as the cover to the first part of the story, in Amazing Spider-Man...

#3) Lyingest Cover Blurb Of The Week:

Yeah, right...this is DC, where heroes get to commit universal genocide and walk away with a shrug, a grin, and a "my bad."

6 comments:

  1. Poor Ollie. He just wants to join SO BAD! I agree with the Daredevil cover, that's pretty fabulous.

    And I have been avoiding the new Blue Beetle book like the plague. I like the OLD new Blue Beetle book with John Rogers SO much better.

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  2. I think Ollie's just irritable because he's been, in the words of Chris Sims, "Justin Hartleyed up".

    Daredevil#8 is my candidate for cover of the year so far. But the year's still young.

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  3. That Green Arrow cover seems like yet another homage to the old "Days of Future Past" Uncanny X-Men cover...

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  4. That Blue Beetle cover blurb is just sad.

    And stupid.

    And apropos of nothing.

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  5. In fairness, Mitchell, Blue Beetle--or, rather, the Scarab--had just impaled and apparently killed Paco. So, apropos of something...

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  6. Thanks, Snell.

    However, not having read the book, it's hard to tell just why BB has his woe-face (as opposed to his war-face) on. The blurb does not invite me to find out what's going on.

    But it is nice to know that our hero has a reason to be upset.

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