Favorite Modern Comic Covers
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Re: Favorite Modern Comic Covers
really? what about this one...Lightning Strike wrote:That was lost in the mid 80'smyron wrote:while all the covers shown have great art, what ever happened to the idea of the cover describing what was happening in the book??? To grab your attention and say "HEY...CHECK IT OUT! IN THIS ISSUE..."
Is it just me or has that been entirely lost?
IDK...
or this one
or this
and these are just a couple from this site...
my point is I think it's been more recently...
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Re: Favorite Modern Comic Covers
Well, I thought we were talking about Marvel and DCmyron wrote:really? what about this one...Lightning Strike wrote:That was lost in the mid 80'smyron wrote:while all the covers shown have great art, what ever happened to the idea of the cover describing what was happening in the book??? To grab your attention and say "HEY...CHECK IT OUT! IN THIS ISSUE..."
Is it just me or has that been entirely lost?
IDK...
or this one
or this
and these are just a couple from this site...
my point is I think it's been more recently...
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Re: Favorite Modern Comic Covers
if you were, sorry. I was trying to make a generalization...across all publishers.
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Re: Favorite Modern Comic Covers
X-Men Legacy has had some really nice/weird covers featuring Legion usually illustrating how crazy he is. So far it's been a good book and worth checking out.
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Re: Favorite Modern Comic Covers
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Re: Favorite Modern Comic Covers
Detective 27. Greg Capullo cover.
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Re: Favorite Modern Comic Covers
Two recent favorites (both variants, surprisingly enough)
Dead Boy Detectives #1 (Cliff Chiang)
Ghost (Volume 387) #1 (Paolo Rivera)
Dead Boy Detectives #1 (Cliff Chiang)
Ghost (Volume 387) #1 (Paolo Rivera)
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Re: Favorite Modern Comic Covers
pretty much all the batman covers from relaunch are great
and infinity gauntlet will be iconic very soon
and infinity gauntlet will be iconic very soon
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Re: Favorite Modern Comic Covers
One of my recent favourites. Seeing it on a digi screen does not make it justice. 
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