“Love will lead us, alright
Love will lead us, she will lead us
Can you hear the dolphin’s cry?
See the road rise up to meet us
It’s in the air we breathe tonight
Love will lead us, she will lead us”
–Ed Kowalczyk, Live, speaking about the impact of this week’s comics covers in 1999.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 9 #3, Steve Morris Variant
My Art History minor fails me here. The rolling hills of the San Francisco landscape seem influenced by a Van Gogh or Cezanne, in form and color if not brush work. It there’s a more direct homage, it’s escaping me. Either way it’s an absolutely spectacular bit or portraiture and landscape, vibrant and lush but also so somber in expression.
Batgirl #3, cover by Adam Hughes
Well aint that a kick in the Dick. Mahmud Asrar recently gave us a similar image with Supergirl socking her cousin Kal in the jaw, but this is replete with a complicated romantic history, making it all the more interesting. It’s probably also the best the Nightwing costume’s looked in its new black-and-red iteration.
Avengers Origins: Vision #1, cover by Marko Djurdjevic
Elegant and even a little haunting with some cool design work in the layout. The subtle thing that sells this all goes back to the character’s internal struggle. Top to bottom it’s all about the organic versus the machine. I also like that Djurdjevic opted against giving Vision perfect, rigid posture. There’s a slight curvature there, a natural asymmetry.
Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E. #3, cover by J.G. Jones
You just want to dip the whole thing in tartar sauce, yeah? Jones’ best Frankenstein cover to date is the most successful homage to the pulps and a stirring action composition as well. The linchpin is that skull. It’s not just resting on a rocky atoll. It’s in motion, batted about by the combatants or the raging surf. It allows Frankenstein a dramatic pause at rest without robbing the scene of dynamic energy.
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buffy came out this week?
Knew Frank would make the list 😛
Seriously a badass cover. If something that huge was bearing down on me, hell, I don’t even want think about how I’d react.
That Vision cover is awesome. I hadn’t seen it.
Why is Abe Sapien in drag and in a DC book?
lol, just me, really?
Glad to see that the Frankenstein cover made the list, though I was hoping that the Unwritten would as well — all that white space was simply lovely. The Vision is pretty striking tool. I hadn’t noticed the Buffy cover on the racks, but it’s a fine image as well . . .
Is Batgirl and Nightwing crossing over or is Nightwing just featuring in Batgirl? Hopefully they’ll crossover because I’m reading Nightwing and Barbera would make a good series even better.
Frankenstein has some of the best covers on the stands! I also would have put X-Force on the list, but I guess it is a bit “assey.”
Haha! Good one. Loved that line.
I’m also very surprised X-Force isn’t. It was a beautiful cover. But these are all very solid as well.
I love the pierced ears, sans jewelry. Wow. You can really sense the trepidation Buffy feels at what just might be lurking inside the book.
I am so loving my in-store list right now. I get about 20 comics a month. I have to travel a little further to buy them and not into going digital just yet. Nightwing is in my top five but didn’t pick up Batgirl.
Always a pleasure to see Vision, classic character, good art and a one-shot worth the eye candy alone, have it but haven’t read it yet…..Ultron created him, he’s an android Avenger that was married to Scarlet Witch,the end,jk.