Welcome to another edition of Got You Covered, as we take Sunday to look back on the week in comics and pick out the best in comic book covers.
This week doesn’t bring a ton of great covers, but it does bring some particularly awesome ones. You can find those picks after the jump.
3. Swamp Thing #4
Art by Yanick Paquette
Why it’s #3: Paquette may not have worked on this issue of Swamp Thing’s interiors, but he made his influence felt with this creepy cover. Paquette’s interiors have been so fantastic partially because of just how he lays them out, and this cover is made significantly better in the same way. I love covers to tell a story in their own right, and this one – with Kid Rot (or whatever you want to call him) being framed with a look at the evolution of The Green below him and the his rot BFF’s behind him, showing Swamp Thing himself rapidly approaching from the front.
It’s a great cover just from a design and attractiveness standpoint, but it really stands out especially after you read the book. Top notch work from Paquette.
2. Men of War #4
Art by Viktor Kalvachev
Why it’s #2: This one started out as my top pick of the week, but it dropped down to the number two spot when it was all said and done. Not because it’s bad by any means, but because I really started to fall in love with the cover that finished on top.
This cover for DC’s Men of War comes from Viktor Kalvachev, someone I had never heard of until 2011 but am now officially on notice because the guy does great, great work. This piece in particular does a genius job of using the snow of the battlefield as a source of naturally generated white space to add value and tension to the rest of the piece. It, along with the motion of the lead character and the blurs in the background, give this cover a lot of kinetic feel and a whole lot of rack value for me. It’s very attractive, and I enjoy how it pairs with the other covers Kalvachev has done for this series.
1. Thought Bubble Anthology #1
Art by Becky Cloonan
Why it’s #1: This is the big winner for the week, and it’s unsurprising considering that it comes from the great Becky Cloonan. This piece is part of Image’s Thought Bubble Anthology and it quite brilliantly depicts both a wicked witch and a princess enjoying some fairy tale themed comics. The image itself is top notch, but framing it in what looks like a piece of parchment with something that looks like a blend of an apple and a heart (with what looks like a bite out of it no less) is genius, especially by superimposing the princess outside of the fairy tale land and on the parchment itself.
It’s a story and a magical one at that, just on a cover.
Throw in the beautiful Thought Bubble logo, and boy, this is one hell of a cover. Nice work by Cloonan, and seeing this cover makes me want to head back to my local shop to pick up this book.
