This Massimo Carnevale offering for Northlanders #33 is an easy win this week. The use of light is just awesome.
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For a big project I’m working on for She Has No Head! I had to pull together images of all the comics I was planning to buy in the month of September…and since I’m frequently asked about my pull list, I thought since I’d already done the work that I’d share it with you fine folks here.
You can click to enlarge on all of the images below.
Additionally I bought Secret Warriors #20, Batman: Brave & The Bold #21, Crossed: Family Values #4, Joe The Barbarian #7, Heralds (hardcover), a new Betty & Veronica and a 1993 Betty & Veronica (long story), Last Days of American Crime 3, Justice League: Generation Lost #10 (thanks to the sweet Cliff Chiang cover), Batman #703, and The Muppet Show #10.
What was the best book I read this month? Well, taking Madame Xanadu out of contention as it hasn’t released yet, I’d say it was easily Stumptown #4 followed by DV8 #6. What was the worst book? Hmmm. Such a tough choice as there were a lot of mediocre books this month, but I’d say Star Spangled War Stories #1 was a horrifically lame train wreck of both writing and art, but with a fairly gorgeous Brian Bolland cover, which only made the insides MORE disappointing.
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Not that wildly impressed with the covers to anything I bought this week, but the cover to Batman Detective Comics is pretty sweet. I like the nice balance of darks and lights, the stylized figures, off-center action/composition and the use of graffiti, which is surprisingly under used in comics as a visual device, all make a pretty nice looking picture.
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Our second ever Cover of the Week – and no surprise that it’s going to the sublime Cliff Chiang and this fantastic stylized Batman. Covers like this are what comics are all about to me…and perhaps most importantly, I haven’t been reading Justice League Generation Lost, but Chiang’s last two covers (see #9 at the bottom) convinced me to pick it up this week…of course there’s a huge disconnect between the exterior and interior art…but it’s almost always going to be a let down if you’ve got a Chiang cover and non-Chiang interior art.
Fantastic cover. I wish more comics could be like this.
Cliff Chiang's Justice League: Generation Lost #10
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So I’ve been working on an exciting two part post for She Has No Head! over the last month, and in the process it had me thinking a lot about comics covers – which is saying a lot as I already think about comic covers quite a bit thanks to my monthly Cover Solicits In Three Sentences Or Less posts. But int the spirit of “Panel Of The Week” and trying to be more positive and find more things I love about comics (ah, why does only the hate come so easy!?) I’ve decided to do a best cover of the week as well. I’m basing this, like Panel Of The Week, solely on comics I buy…so it’s entirely possible that there will be another better cover (even in my eyes) for the week…but if that book didn’t rate a buy I’m not going to consider it eligible. This may be a bit unfair…but hey, I make the rules…and there are so few instances in which I get to say that in life…that I’m just going to revel in it. 
So welcome to our first ever, Cover Of The Week on 1979 Semi-Finalist.
And right off the bat I’m going to set a terrible precedent and give cover of the week to two covers…
MORNING GLORIES #2
Morning Glories has been selling out like crazy and I have to say…it deserves it. It’s a pretty good book so far. It’s smart and has some nice unexpected twists and turns. The characters are kind of designed to be stereotypes, but then twist nicely and subvert some of those ideas. Additionally, while I love some long slow drawn out deconstructed comics…this is moving at a breakneck pace (but not too fast that they’re screwing it up) and it’s kind of refreshing. A TON has happened already and both issues have ended on fairly awesome cliffhangers. It would be great if the interior art was better and more consistent, but it’s good enough to not get in the way. Also, this cover rocks.
DV8: GODS & MONSTERS #6.
Ironically, though all of Fiona Staples covers for DV8: Gods & Monsters have been outstanding, this is probably my least (or second least) favorite of the bunch and yet it’s still awesome enough to get cover of the week. Fiona has been doing an amazing job and this excellent graphic representation, which nicely reflects what’s going on in the book (and has the lovely white space I so crave) is a home run.
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And when I say “the year” I mean since last year’s comic-con in San Diego. That’s right, in honor of SDCC 2010, which I am, again, not able to attend I thought I’d do a list of my 52 favorite covers since last year’s comic-con, so essentially July 2009 – July 2010.*
I’m not going bore you with lengthy descriptions about what I respond to in each image, but if you frequent this blog with any regularity, the choices will not surprise you. My tastes skew to specific things like anyone, and I reward covers that cater to those personal tastes. For example, as a woman, I tend to be interested in covers with female characters and at the same time you’re unlikely to see many covers with a lot of objectification and hyper sexualization. As an artist (but only sorta, and a crappy one at that) I tend to be a bit of a snob about what I think is a good or bad cover – good often involves highly graphic images, lots of great negative space, interesting/solid composition, single figures, white space, and good integration of text into the image.
I’m sure I missed a bunch of great covers anyway and, as always, I never feel great about the order, but I tried my best!
If after this list you only desire to see MORE comic covers, then check out my 100 Best Comic Covers list of last year here, here, here, and here. As well as my “already second guessing myself” modified list here.
Next year SDCC, next year!
52. Wonder Woman #40. Aaron Loprestri.
51. Batman Confidential #40. Sam Kieth
50. Red Robin #3. Francis Manapul.
49. Heralds #1. Jelena Djurdjevic.
48. Punisher Max: Butterfly #1. Laurence Campbell.
47. Batgirl #1. Phil Noto.
46. Beasts Of Burden #3. Jill Thompson.
45. Joe The Barbarian #5. Sean Murphy.
44. American Vampire #1. Rafael Albuquerque.
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