Superficial Saturdays #7 – KICK-ASS #6 by John Romita, Jr. and Tom Palmer
Just got back from watching KICK-ASS 2 at the movies. In honor of this weekend’s soon-to-be blockbuster sequel, maybe the most arresting cover from the original KICK-ASS: Comic: KICK-ASS #6 Artists:...
View ArticleSuperficial Saturdays #8 – CONAN THE BARBARIAN ANNUAL VOL 1 #1 by Barry Smith
My friend and podcast partner Brian David-Marshall (once “Brian Marshall”) suggested this classic CONAN THE BARBARIAN cover by the similarly-hyphenated Barry Windsor-Smith (credited at the time as...
View ArticleSuperficial Saturdays #9 – ADVENTURE TIME #16 by Meredith McClaren
Comic: ADVENTURE TIME #16 (cover d) Artist: Meredith McClaren First of all this picture is just beautiful. So subtle. It would be cute and tender pic even if we didn’t know who the characters were. But...
View ArticleSuperficial Saturdays #10 – SECRET AVENGERS #18 by John Cassaday
Comic: SECRET AVENGERS #18 Artist: John Cassaday One of the thing a good cover does — especially when you hire a separate artist to do them (rather than just paying say a perfectly great interior...
View ArticleSuperficial Saturdays #11 – CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FALCON #6 by Joe Bennett
Comic: CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FALCON #6 Artist: Joe Bennett I actually remember buying this issue of CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FALCON back in 2004 on account of the cool cover. It’s got big swaths of...
View ArticleSuperficial Saturdays #12 – MAGNETO #1 by Paolo Rivera
Comic: MAGNETO #1 Artist: Paolo Rivera This is a relatively recent cover (maybe two months young) RE: a new-look Magneto. I’ve always thought of Magneto as an A-list and relatively interesting villain;...
View ArticleSuperficial Saturdays #13 – ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #9 by Stuart Immonen
Comic: ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #9 Artist: Stuart Immonen This will probably be an atypically long — and maybe atypically political — edition of Superficial Saturdays. Which might be surprising given...
View ArticleSuperficial Saturdays #14 – RUNAWAYS #2 by Jo Chen
Comic: RUNAWAYS #2 Artist: Jo Chen Nothing too much to say here, other than I really like the composition of this cover. Not a huge surprise that Jo Chen did a good job on a comics cover (she is widely...
View ArticleSuperficial Saturdays #15 – DAREDEVIL #12 by Paolo Rivera
Comic: DAREDEVIL #12 Artist: Paolo Rivera Mark Waid’s 2011 reboot of DAREDEVIL (DAREDEVIL volume three) has had no shortage of acclaim… Or acclaimed artists. The book itself was unapologetic old-school...
View ArticleSuperficial Saturdays #16 – THE MIGHTY THOR #337 by Walt Simonson
Comic: THE MIGHTY THOR #337 Artist: Walt Simonson I was hanging out with Matt Wang today [okay yesterday now] and told him I wanted to do something old school for Superficial Saturdays; he suggested...
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