Basically, there’s three grabbers, three taggers, five twig runners, and a player at Whackbat. Center tagger lights a pine cone and chucks it over the basket and the whack-batter tries to hit the cedar stick off the cross rock. Then the twig runners dash back and forth until the pine cone burns out and the umpire calls hotbox. Finally, you count up however many score-downs it adds up to and divide that by nine. That’s the Best of the Week in Covers.
Young Avengers #8
Cover by Jamie McKelvie & Matthew Wilson
A terrific representation of the alternative visions of the multiverse. Cool that Ms. Chavez has drastically different forms depending on the reality, whereas someone like Prodigy looks pretty much the same from dimension to dimension.
Mind MGMT #13
Cover by Matt Kindt
Stepford chilling and watercolor elegant.
Wolverine & the X-Men #33
Cover by Nick Bradshaw
Sometimes playing with your food has an aesthetic value. Wonderful scale and fine detail. More importantly, an irresistible call to adventure.
The Dream Merchant #3
Cover by Konstantin Novosadov
Color and typography elevates this one into the stratosphere. Dreamy.
Hawkeye Annual #1
Cover by Javier Pulido
My late grandmother collected masks like these. It was never not creepy. I once saw her at a flea market choosing between four or five designs, ultimately purchasing the most harrowing one in the bunch. Anyways, nothing else on the shelves looks quite like this. It’s like a Criterion cover.
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I love that Hawkeye cover… I always sit in my vehicle and look through all of my covers again with my son after leaving the shop. This week, that cover really jumped out and both of us. It’s almost…mesmerizing.
“What? They don’t have whackbat on your side of the river?”
Very glad to see some love for Mind MGMT. Kindt’s watercolor work continues to amaze me with every issue. I love the Young Avengers cover as well.
The Hawkeye cover is quite striking. And you’re right, it does look like the cover to a Criterion edition of some previously obscure Japanese 60s youth in crisis film . . .
That Mind MGMT cover reminds me of Betty Draper shooting birds in the backyard.
I just read Super Spy. I think I have to pick up the first collection of Mind MGMT this week.
Mind MGMT is well worth it, a stellar series. I need to read some of his original graphic novels . . .
what no flash cover?
Doesn’t look like it made the cut.
Have to agree about the Flash cover. It was stunning and now currently my desktop background picture. It looks better in person than a PC screen though
I made it my Cover of the Week
http://ubercomicsblog.wordpress.com/2013/07/26/cover-der-woche-kw-30/
Oh I hope they collect the Hawkeye annual in the trades. Floppies suck!
Talk about burying the lead… we need more (MUCH more) on Paul’s grandmother.
My grandmother also makes an appearance in this very odd piece from 2009.
https://ifanboy.com/articles/a-bit-of-nostalgia/
Ha, very odd indeed! But a cool article nonetheless, Fred…
@Paul Montgomery What an interesting piece! Every once in a while I write a strange story like that, too…! Unless it WASN’T fictional…
That Young Avengers cover! The amalgamation of the different universes makes it look like a male Hawkeye with a female body. Could it be a subtle nod from McKelvie to the Hawkeye initiative? (note that Hawkeye is the only character on the cover with a clearly gender-bent alternate universe version)