The covers of the week article is back, and it’s under a new identity: Multiversity’s Got You Covered. All covers posts will now go under this banner (the physical representation of which was designed by design superstar Tim Daniel), and will find me choosing the best covers of the week/month.
Now, after last week’s star studded affair, we have a slight downturn in overall quality, but we still have enough to make a high quality top five. What do we have? Find out after the jump.
5. Tiny Titans #50
Art by Art Baltazar
While this type of cover wouldn’t typically make my list, I can’t help but feel a little bad that this book is going away when everyone else at the site is so bummed out about it. This book from Art Baltazar and Franco clearly made a lot of people, both little and big, very happy. And this final cover is a delightful distillation of that, what with the casting call in the middle with the line of lines for the book – “aw yeah Titans!” – making its way in at the bottom. It’s a pitch perfect representation of the book, and there is assuredly something to be said about that.
4. Dark Horse Presents #10
Art by Fiona Staples
This cover just entertains the hell out of me. Before getting into that, beautiful work as per usual by the wonderfully gifted Fiona Staples (two weeks in a row!). This “Criminal Macabre” cover shows off her skills at design and storytelling in a wonderful way, plus, how damn funny is that banner? Is it wrong that I’d probably vote for a werewolf running for president at this point? Especially one with awesome banners like that? Sign me up.
3. Ragemoor #1
Art by Richard Corben
For me, Richard Corben is the guy Mike Mignola likes to do his really crazy stories with in “Hellboy.” And with good reason: the guy excels at making monsters come to life. This first issue of “Ragemoor” is blessed with one epic monster, a castle or something of that sort come to life, and it’s both a creepy/awesome shot as well as a powerful one. This puppy almost came home with me unexpectedly simply because I loved the cover so much. Fantastic work by Corben, as per usual.
2. Fables #115
Art by Joao Ruas
Note that I didn’t use the real cover. The real cover was persecuted by the “We Could Be Heroes” or whatever banner. Doing that to this exquisite offering by Joao Ruas is just straight up messed up. Ignoring that banner, which I prefer to believe simply does not exist, you’ve got an incredible image of one of Bigby and Snow’s pups lost in a literal island of misfit toys, with everything besides her and the logo popping with color to the grayscale background. It’s outrageously great work, and another feather in Ruas’ ever growing cap.
1. The Strange Talent of Luther Strode #6
Art by Tradd Moore
This cover is incredible. Moore has been throwing down amazing work month in and month out on this book, but this is the first cover where I really was blown away. First, I have to mention how much I enjoy the title layout. The skewed text for Luther Strode and emphasis on Strange add wonderful little touches to the overall package. Then, you have the image itself, a creepy look into the world of Luther, as he begins to harness the power of the Hercules Method and starts realizing what that means for him. His habitat of destroyed, mangled bodies is intense, but beautiful in the depth and detail, and Luther’s face to makeshift face with his alter ego is quite the central image to build around.
Top work for the final issue of this superb mini-series. Well done, sir.
