The Best of the Week in Covers will always sit by your bedside and watch Downton Abbey with you until you feel better.
Hawkeye #10
Cover by Francesco Francavilla
A creepy cover for a deeply unsettling issue. This one’s disturbing on a Kubrick frequency. It makes me want to confess stuff I didn’t even do! I tinkled on Josh’s floor! Not George Clooney the Dog! I couldn’t help myself! Forgive me, Hawkeye #9 cover!
Earth 2 #12
Cover by Brett Booth & Norm Rapmund
WIZARD FIGHT!
The Superior Spider-Man #9
Cover by Marcos Martin
Best peek into a brain pan since that issue of Lock & Key. A perfect metaphor for this issue’s Inception-style meta-brawl.
Abe Sapien: Dark & Terrible #2
Cover by Sebastian Fiumura
Great storytelling of course, but it’s also heartbreaking to see a swell guy like Abe in this situation. He’s had it rough enough as it is!
X-Men Legacy #10
Cover by Mike Del Mundo
Mike Del Mundo is racking up more landmark covers on this single run alone than many artists accrue over five or ten years. I have no stats for this. It just feels like that.
Love Francavilla great issue ail-round!
meant all-round!
I think I’d probably go with Green Arrow #20, Earth 2 #12, Hawkeye #10 (although I wasn’t a big fan of the interior artwork), All New X-Men #11 and Aquaman #19 as my choices for cover of the week. Great selection though.
Well, I tried my best.
::kneels down, unsheathes seppuku blade::
Dibs on being Paul’s second. My katana’s a little dull…sorry.
Maybe it’s because I’ve grown so used to David Aja’s artwork that the change took me by surprise as I went it without knowing that the artist had changed :P. A second read-through has won me over though, I think.
Were you feeling weird about having X-Men Legacy here for each issue? I’m not reading it, but every cover has been pretty rad.
It’s up there!
Wha?! Either I am super unobservant or you are a Jedi Master of webpage editing. Anyway that cover is great. White backgrounds always get me.
You’re in MY house now.
A good week for covers, i’d have added Jae Lee’s Animal Man & Ryan Sook’s Worlds’ Finest to the list.
…and now that Paul has most honorably offed himself maybe i will:)
X-Men Legacy has had really rad covers, I agree. Totally psychedelic and appropriate for the schizophrenic plot.
Great cover on Abe Sapien this month. I don’t even read the series and I feel bad for the character on the cover :-p
Judging a book by its cover, x-men legacy should be one of the best books on the stands.
Is it worth checking out? A lot of reviews were kinda meh. Any opinions?
Up until recently I wrote the AR cover recaps for the series (they’ve since gone in-house). I think it’s a fascinating character and the writing’s quite good. It’s only held back by the art, except for a handful of issues by fill-in artist Jorge Molina, who’s TERRIFIC.
X-Men Legacy is hands down one of my favorite titles right now.
I love about half of the Earth 2 cover – Dr Fate’s colouring makes him indistinct on my printed copy, and Alan Scott looks like he shouldn’t be there. But Wotan – wow!
Forgot to say, my fave was Animal Man #20, by Jae Lee and June Chung, with its Rockwell feel – just beautiful.