Sometimes less is more, except when it’s blood and then more is always more!
Go Fiona Staples with this excellent cover (and issue – her interior art is fantastic) from Jonah Hex #66!
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Not a very strong week for covers in my books, which makes this very pretty Zatanna #11 cover by Adam Hughes an easy pick. Plus I like to give him points for some restraint in the boobs/cleavage/etc. areas. This is still very pretty, and exceptionally executed, but without making me feel all squirmy as Hughes covers sometimes do.
More of this please, sir!
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Any week that The New York Five comes out is a rough week for anyone else to win cover of the week as I am just loving Ryan Kelly’s covers for this series. There’s honestly nothing I haven’t adored about each issue’s cover so far, and issue #3 is one of my favorites, check it out:
Northlanders #38 (The Siege Of Paris: 2) is an easy win for Cover Of The Week this week – with Massimo Carnevale’s gorgeous image that feels both up close and personal, and also epic and battle worthy (check out the city and torchlight in the background). His great use of lights and darks, composition, and color…it’s just beautiful.
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Oops. First ever Cover of the Week F up. I read Magus #3 digitally this week, and as such wasn’t looking at the cover as a contender when I made my decision…but that’s a mistake, because though I really like the Zatanna #10 cover I prefer Magus #3.
So here I am, rectifying the error. I’ll give Zatanna #10 a strong honorable mention as it’s still a nice cover, but my vote has to go with Fiona Staples gorgeous Magus #3 cover. A great perspective choice really gives this image powerful movement. That, combined with wonderful composition and color choices, not to mention, it’s got a fucking dragon, makes this a home run as far as I’m concerned.
I like everything about this Stephane Roux cover for Zatanna #10. The posing and expression is perfect, the empty space is fitting, and the slight wooden texture to Zatanna is just dead on, subtle enough, but not too subtle. Plus, there’s CLIFF CHIANG art inside when you open it. NOTHING CAN BE BETTER! 
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I liked quite a few covers this week, Janet Lee’s Emma #1, David Yardin and Sonia Oback’s X-Factor #216, Greg Tocchini’s Captain America And The Falcon one-shot, but I’m still going with the awesome Michael Avon Oeming’s Powers #7. Great white space and movement paired up Oeming’s always cool character design.
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I had a lot of pretty good books this week, and some fun covers, but none of them came even close to usurping the crown from Ryan Kelly’s cover for Brian Wood’s The New York Five #2. Just gorgeous, beautiful stuff. In my dreams more comic covers look like this every week.
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These Esad Ribic Uncanny X-Force covers continue to impress me. The kind of stiff, slick style is usually not my thing, but how Ribic stages the composition gives them this fantastic movement…they feel full of movement and that we’re just getting a look at a split second of it all on pause. I really like them…this one is so flawless and elegant it almost looks like dancing…like ballet…which I guess has more in common with great choreographed action than we probably give it credit for.
I’m not sure why only one character is an actual X-character…but I don’t really care. When you’re cool, you’re cool.
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While I don’t like the implications of Justice League: Generation Lost #19‘s cover, it’s pretty hard to beat Dustin Nguyen when he is just BRINGING IT.
This is beautiful, simple, pared down and incredibly effective. The use of limited color, basic shapes, composition, positive and negative space…it’s just exceptional.
Any other week John Cassaday’s clever Superman #708 cover would have had a great shot at “best”, but Nguyen just nailed it.
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Easy pick this week if only because my pull list was so slim. So an easy win for iZombie #10 by Mike Allred.
Bonus points for it being based on/inspired by this fantastic photograph as commenter JRSM pointed out a few months ago on Cover Solicits.
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