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December 31, 2018 6:24 AM   Subscribe

Paste Magazine makes its choices for The 50 Best Comic Book Covers of 2018.
posted by taz (13 comments total) 3 users marked this as a favorite
 
Aw, fuck. Saga #54. I'm traumatized again. Fuck.

Also: Making a good comic cover is hard. And, given the number of variant covers and/or covers by artists who didn't do the interior artwork, is Comic Book Cover Artist becoming its own specialty? Just another step in the Writer → Penciller → Inker → Letterer → Colorist assembly line?
posted by 1970s Antihero at 6:47 AM on December 31, 2018 [1 favorite]


The cover for Scarlet #3 appears nowhere on this list. But it really should.
posted by Paul Slade at 6:55 AM on December 31, 2018


Goes to see Yuko Shimizu on the list, sees one of her covers in the preview for the whole gallery, is satisfied already.
posted by limeonaire at 8:52 AM on December 31, 2018


This is great.

Outta curiosity, anyone reading any of the Sandman universe books? Are they any good?
posted by es_de_bah at 9:54 AM on December 31, 2018


I’m so behind on Saga. And now after 1970’s Antihero’s comment, I’m scared.
posted by greermahoney at 11:29 AM on December 31, 2018


Plenty of time to catch up, after #54, Saga is on extended hiatus.
posted by 1970s Antihero at 11:51 AM on December 31, 2018 [1 favorite]


Oh. That’s not comforting.
posted by greermahoney at 12:29 PM on December 31, 2018


Caught up. Oh, god.
posted by greermahoney at 5:29 PM on December 31, 2018


Yeahhh...I'd gotten in touch with Image Direct a while back because I decided I wanted to subscribe to Saga monthly, after catching up on all the collected volumes, and they wrote back to tell me I couldn't because it was on hiatus. Ugggh.
posted by limeonaire at 5:56 PM on December 31, 2018


Actual best cover, dangit.
posted by Artw at 10:08 PM on December 31, 2018


More seriously, Little suprised at the lack of Immortal Hulk covers. I guess it’s a very wide field of great covers this year and something is always going to get squeezed out.
posted by Artw at 10:10 PM on December 31, 2018


Also: good to see Doe in there. Everyone here is picking up Die/going to be getting the trades, right?
posted by Artw at 10:12 PM on December 31, 2018 [1 favorite]


I mean, they included that Miller one as a joke, right?
posted by parm at 12:52 PM on January 1, 2019 [1 favorite]


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