Thursday, March 12, 2015

The Worst Cover You've Never Seen--Man-Thing #11 (1981)

Even at their most cloyingly self-indulgent, DC's "Earth-Prime" stories never produced anything like this:

Danny Fingeroth earns a place in the Bad Cover Blurb Hall Of Fame here. The self-deprecating, faux-cursive "Oh pity me" captions, the needless shout-out to X-Men's popularity...man, the "hey, look at me" factor here is off the charts.

The cover is penciled and inked by Bob Wiacek, and none of this is his fault. It's a pretty good cover, until someone decided that, since it was the last issue, let's break that 4th wall in the most ridiculous and attention diverting way possible. Because it's funny when an editor detracts from a book in order to show off how "meta" he can be.

Yuck.
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3 comments:

  1. SFMarch 12, 2015 at 11:48 AM

    Ummm.... what exactly is the Man-Thing doing with an apparently naked Professor X there?

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  2. snellMarch 12, 2015 at 11:17 PM

    That's "Thog the Nether-Spawn," a recurring Man-Thing villain...

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  3. SmurfswackerMarch 13, 2015 at 10:21 PM

    So the question becomes...what exactly is Man-Thing doing with an apparently-naked Thog the Nether-Spawn? Whatever it is Thog seems to be enjoying it.

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