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Welcome once again to another of our fine trips down Best Covers Lane. It’s a pilgrimage so entertaining that we keep going back for more every week! But occasionally, as our duties often overlap with website functionality, the tour includes updates concerning our internet home, www.cosmiccomix.com. So it shall be today!
I recently made a change that I’m hoping will dramatically increase the speed of the website. I can’t tell you exactly what I did… not because it’s a secret or anything, but because my main technique for working on the website involves a lot of rapid button mashing and I can never tell which sequence of keystrokes was the good one. It’s a computing style I learned by playing Track & Field on the Nintendo Entertainment System for hours on end.
But in all seriousness, I did make some changes. Please let me know if you notice (or don’t notice) a difference.
WITCH DOCTOR
THE RESUSCITATION
Cover by Lukas Ketner
As I mentioned in our most recent Tweet, we’re here at Cosmic Comix bright and early this morning. It’s a holiday week and that just means we have to come in early on Wednesdays to sort out the new comics. All I can say is, neither Rusty nor I (nor David, who also happens to be here) is a morning person. I think it would take whatever is happening to the guy in this Witch Doctor cover to actually wake us from our sleep-deprived stupors.
Anyway, I gave Witch Doctor a belated shout on Monday (the trade came out last week) and I gotta mention it again because this cover is totally sick. In a good way. I know we’ve all heard the urban legend about getting knocked out at a party or something and then waking up in a bathtub full of ice short one kidney. This takes that to a whoooole different level. Now you’re waking up in the bathtub without any skin! Not sure you can come back from that, but Witch Doctor looks willing to give it a try.
SECRET AVENGERS #20
Cover by John Cassaday
Moving right along from the disgusting to the delightful… Meeeee-YOW! John Cassaday gives us a fine take on Black Widow, who is here wielding not only some kind of raygun but also a bow. Don’t know where she’s keeping the arrows, though… Hey-O-O-O-O! Wait, can you do two different types of catcalls in the same paragraph? I don’t know, we don’t follow the internet playbook around here. Rebels. That’s us.
I also like the wavy lines in the background. Very Steranko-esque. And yes, any time you put wavy lines in the background you have to give Steranko credit. He owns that. Not unlike Steve Carrell owning "That’s what she said."
JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #4
Cover by Ryan Sook
I actually really do like this cover, but I’m only using it as an excuse to talk about something that I noticed this week: every single DC comic has a cover tagline tease. Is it a company-wide editorial decision? I don’t know. What do you think, though? Do you like those taglines? They always make me chuckle.
That said, I thought it would be fun to play a little game with you. Without cheating, see if you can name the comics that feature these taglines:
- "Nuclear armageddon!"
- "The Ring Thief revealed!"
- A shocking beginning! Will it all end too soon?"
- "Cornered!"
- "Prepare to be purged, Superman!"
- "Too much too fast!"
- "Russia’s Firestorm rises!"
Obviously some are easier than others… or are they?? Good luck!
UNWRITTEN #32.5
Cover by Yuko Shimizu
We started with gross (Witch Doctor) and we’re gonna end with gross. Peter Gross, that is! Haw, haw! (Geez, what a terrible joke. And not just because it’s a terrible joke, but because not many people can actually name Peter Gross as the artist of this series and make that connection. Whoever is writing this column should keep their day job.)
If you’re not reading Unwritten, I doubt this cover makes much sense to you. Just enjoy the artistry and creativity and color palette of Yuko Shimizu and her winged, bearded horse standing ankle-deep in a pool of blood and skulls.
- Andy B.
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