The Best of the Week in... Covers (12/03/09)
22 Posted on Dec 4, 2009 in articles by Conor Kilpatrick |
Comics! They have covers!
Ultimate Spider-Man #5
Cover by David LaFuente
I love the sense of claustrophobia that permeates this cover. As someone who suffers from it myself I look at this cover and get tense. Wherever Peter is and whatever he is doing, he's in trouble and the world is closing in around him. It's a dynamic and forceful image.
The Boys #37
Cover by Ron Richards Darick Robertson
I love this cover for both its composition and coloring. The characters in the foreground are silently watching the couple in the background and so are we. Our eyes are drawn right to them. I noticed the couple before I noticed the figures in the foreground. It's not often that your eye is drawn to strongly to on part of the cover.
Jonah Hex #50
Cover by Darwyn Cooke
Most of the time I judge these covers by covers alone without any regard for what's on the inside of the issue. But not this time. Don't get me wrong, this is a good cover all on its own. It's a stark and powerful image all on its own. When you think of Jonah Hex you don't usually think of an image so bathed in white light. It's a clean image in a gritty world. But then when you read the issue, the cover hits you even harder than you ever thought possible.
Those are my favorites. What are yours?
Comments
Oh Man, Jonah Hex was so awesome.
Posted by AmirCat on 12/04/09 at 04:23 PM
The Mighty and The Sword would be my picks!
Posted by thescimitar on 12/04/09 at 04:27 PM
Black Flash.
Posted by zombox on 12/04/09 at 04:31 PM
The Boys #37, easily my favorite comic this week, actually had a great cover featuring a ridiculously funny depiction of The Frenchman by Robertson.
Posted by TomAdams on 12/04/09 at 05:04 PM
I thought The Mighty's cover was really striking.
Posted by Neb on 12/04/09 at 05:05 PM
I thought the House of Mystery cover was perfect.
Posted by HailScott on 12/04/09 at 05:05 PM
That's the cover for the boy 39, Conor. This weeks issue was 37
Posted by mikeandzod21 on 12/04/09 at 05:19 PM
Indeed it is! Enjoy your glimpse into the Best Covers from two months in the future!
Posted by conor on 12/04/09 at 05:21 PM
I'd keep the list but replace The Boy's with The Mighty's cover (which is amazing and frightening and beautiful all at the same time). I like the idea of The Boy's cover, but the bland gradient is a turn off for me. I would've preferred a setting and background instead. The other two were spot on though. Nicely picked.
Posted by OttoBott on 12/04/09 at 05:21 PM
I enjoyed the covers to the Dark Avengers Annual, the Empowered oneshot, and the final issue of Batman: The Unseen. Then again, how could I not when Bachalo, Adam Warren and Kelley Jones are three of my personal favorite artists.
That LaFuente guy sure is divisive in that people either seem to love him or hate him. I've heard from about a dozen people and/or podcasts that they outright dropped USM because they found his art awful and inconsistent. Then there are other people like the three iFanboys who seem to love him. I don't feel that strongly about what I've seen of his stuff one way or the other, though. (I stopped reading USM long ago.)
Posted by flapjaxx on 12/04/09 at 07:15 PM
I'd go with the Mighty, Jonah Hex, and Blackest Night Wonder Woman.
Posted by JesTr on 12/04/09 at 10:27 PM
Great choices. I love the Jonah Hex cover by Cooke, I need to get this series eventually.
Torch #4, The Mighty #11, and Sword #20 also had great covers as well.
Posted by TheNextChampion on 12/05/09 at 12:33 AM
Every week that Scalped came out and isn't on this list is a crime to humanity.
Posted by Ruo21 on 12/05/09 at 03:41 PM
The Boys consistently have great covers.
Posted by SirCox on 12/05/09 at 04:32 PM
Blackest Night Flash was awesome..
Posted by NathanNicdao on 12/05/09 at 07:35 PM
All great Covers! The Cover to Blackest Night#5 really grabbed me by the throat! I wonder why that wasn't chosen as one of the top three.
Posted by JLA1 on 12/05/09 at 10:32 PM
@JLA1: Probably because it came out last week.
Posted by conor on 12/05/09 at 10:32 PM
"@JLA1: Probably because it came out last week."
And covers from the future are okay? Can I go read issue 39 this week? I've been waiting for them finally show the story depicted, but that's not what I'll find*. Why not wait a couple months and pick it then?
*of course, I'll find the Frenchie's origin story, which is probably just as good or better :)
Posted by dignan17 on 12/07/09 at 08:38 AM
Hex, HEx, HEX!!!!!!
Posted by vadamowens on 12/07/09 at 10:36 AM
I like the Hex cover - I'm a sucker for powerful simplicity if you catch my drift. No big art job to it, but powerful enough in the message it tries to convey. A big reason why I like the Kuberts' art.
Posted by trobinson79 on 12/07/09 at 10:51 AM
I liked Blackest Night: Flash #1, Mighty #11 and House of Mystery #20. All great covers!
Posted by Drake on 12/09/09 at 02:16 AM
I really liked Strange #2. Both covers in the series have been ver nice.
Posted by AlanRob on 12/04/09 at 04:19 PM