Jock’s Cover for Detective Comics #873

First of all, it's not my fault that Jock keeps sharing all his covers.  If you were me, you'd post them all too.  But today, he said this is the last one for a while.  Behold the cover to Detective Comics #873.  His first issue with writer Scott Snyder will be November's Detective Comics #871 with a back up Commissioner Gordon story by Francesco Francavilla.

That still feels like a long time from now, so enjoy this for now, and imagine how striking this is going to look on a shelf next to all those other comic covers.

Comments

  1. Wow.

    That is all.

  2. SpiderTitan SpiderTitan says:

    Jock has really gotten so much better with age he’s like the DC John Romita JR

  3. Minion Minion says:

    Please don’t be Morrison. I might actually pick this up.

  4. Dan Dan says:

    Nice

  5. wow.

  6. I literally gasped when I saw it. Amazing.

  7. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    @Minion: Did you not read the actual words in the article?

  8. ludusmaximus ludusmaximus says:

    Fuck Yeah

  9. vinh vinh says:

    Jock is killing it with these Detective covers.

  10. marshak75 marshak75 says:

    This is a great cover.  I’m still a bit freaked by that crouching position.  First Wolverine, now Batman.  Much better use of space though.

  11. seNoj1 seNoj1 says:

    Love it.

  12. WheelHands WheelHands says:

    The image is gorgeous. Don’t care for the liberties he takes with Dick’s costume, but that goes for any artist. Most of them just refuse to stick to Quitely’s original design.

    Still, nice work from Jock as usual. 

  13. LostArtist LostArtist says:

    that’s nice!  makes me want to start drawing again

  14. stuclach stuclach says:

    I’ve never framed a comic book, but I might have to start.

  15. vadamowens vadamowens says:

    His style is perfect for Batman

  16. Josh Flanagan josh (@jaflanagan) says:

    His style is perfect for paper.

  17. Minion Minion says:

    @Conor I did right after I posted my comment, but you can’t edit and I didn’t want to double post.

  18. His style is perfect for my brain.

    This one goes on the wall.

  19. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    @Minion: Read first, comment second.

  20. Fantastic cover, shame Jock’s interiors can’t wow me as much.

  21. tschafer tschafer says:

    so is that Dick or Bruce?

  22. JesTr JesTr says:

    @tschafer By the looks of the suit it looks like Dick.

  23. If this is stories about Batman fighting crime, I’ll read it for a little while.

    I love Batman, when he’s fighting crime in Gotham.

  24. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:

    @tschafer: As we reported, Dick Grayson Batman is set to be the star of DETECTIVE COMICS.

  25. tschafer tschafer says:

    @conor: Bless you conor…..you do the work/digging for us all.

  26. stuclach stuclach says:

    @tschafer – You can generally tell by looking at the gauntlets.  Two "spikes" = Dick, three "spikes" = Bruce from what I can tell.

    (That may be the nerdiest thing I’ve ever posted.) 

  27. @stuclach: Oh great now I can’t enjoy my Bat-books because you pointed that out!

  28. odare77 says:

    Oh dear lord, this is so perfect…is it too soon to hope for a nice lengthy run between these two guys which could lead to a magnificent absolute edition?  Imagine this caliber of art in that format…

  29. MisterJ says:

    Dude’s pretty good

  30. Kenzaburo Kenzaburo says:

    sweet, gotta get my hands on those jock issues!

  31. AmirCat AmirCat says:

    Jock is awesome. I don’t know if it’s me, I feel like he has changed his style a little bit (atleast for these covers). It seems a little less abstarct than his usual stuff (Rucka’s detective comics, etc …). I love him eitherway, but just thought his slight change in style was interesting.

  32. kennyg kennyg says:

    "Awesome! Totally awesome!" – Jeff Spicoli

  33. pppiquer pppiquer says:

    that is simply beautiful

  34. edward edward says:

    So is Morrison writing this one? 

  35. @Edward: Brilliant! lol

  36. Reform Reform says:

    What is this the cover for?

  37. Reform Reform says:

    They have this same cover posted on iFANBOY.com

  38. Reform Reform says:

    But all jokes aside,  I will buy Detective comics as long as JOCK has is art on/in it.  Love this guys work, his last cover is my phone screen saver, he knows how to walk the fine line between realism and fantasy with his art, he gets it and makes us want it.

  39. vadamowens vadamowens says:

    @josh I love everything he does.

  40. Patman2 Patman2 says:

    mmm……comics………

  41. Patman2 Patman2 says:

    oh crap did I just make it weird? Meh, I stand by my previous statement

  42. captbastrd captbastrd says:

    Jizz.

  43. Diabhol Diabhol says:

    Jock is awesome. They only way this would be better is if it were Batwoman. :)

     

  44. smeeeeee smeeeeee says:

    i guess im going to be the one that has to nitpick but he forgot the bat design on the belt -__-

     But it is a very beautiful page regardless that i plan on buying the Original Art

  45. balsalm balsalm says:

    Looks beautiful with the white background.

  46. Firebreather Firebreather says:

    Almost Batman ballet. Nice though.

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