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Post by G on Jan 9, 2011 18:31:08 GMT -5
I think I critiqued every single one of them, not just the Superhero comics. I also think I buy a bit of everything, not just Superhero comics, hell I just ordered a new Walt Disney comic last week. I'll buy anything. As far as needing for it to lay out the entire comic for me or having to read a comic to appreciate the cover, I don't think I had to do that before. If a cover needs to be explained to me, than I guess it should only be sold to those who already read it. I used to remember covers being the selling point and what would entice a new reader to buy the books. Shouldn't you want the cover to gain people it didn't already have? And gee, when I was 12 years old books like Daredevil, Hulk, Captain America, Batman, X-Men, Fantastic Four and Superman were already well into their 100's or 200's issues. So who would pick up a comic 10-20 issues into it? Damn, just about every comic I bought back then was 100-200 issues into it.
I've critiqued these the way I see them. As far as selling to me as a new reader, 90% of them miss the mark. Like I said, I genuinely like about 3-5.....I'd call a few more....decent. But in terms of being something I would consider best of type qualities.....I think our standards have gotten way too low and these are missing the mark. We're making this too easy for them. Don't draw me a head, a frontal pose, an unexplained element and expect me to be happy. I'd personally would want more out of you too if you were drawing comics.
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Post by defiant1 on Jan 9, 2011 20:57:58 GMT -5
It has been said may times that a book should not be judged by the cover. That is a fair assessment. On the other hand, I'm not going to buy every comic that comes out, so the cover is the only thing that gives me a clue what the comic is about.
I think the Mysterio cover caught my eye because it was well drawn. I know who Mysterio is, so that cover catches my eye more than a lot of the others. It doesn't give me any clue as to why I should pick up this comic over an equally pointless cover with a chicken on the cover. The Spider-Man/Mary Jane embrace is a very nice stylized cover that would be great as a poster, not as a comic book cover. I guess my point is that none of these serve the purpose of enticing me to buy the comic. Some, like the gay Superboy cover are just poorly drawn. Comics tell stories. The art should facilitate telling a story or I can just go to an artists site and buy commissions. Most of these covers aren't even great art that I'd want to own. A few are artistic as stand alone pieces, but that's not what I'm looking to buy.
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Post by bigw1966 on Jan 10, 2011 10:00:07 GMT -5
We should start a new thread that is a Cover appreciation thread.
We can post images of the covers and explain what makes it a good cover. Any genre of books would be welcome. Plus maybe selective quoting, like just the portion of the statment that we are responding to instead of filling 3 pages up with the same picture.
But, I think that would make for a good thread.
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