Characters talking on covers

[Trey Strain]

Should DC go back to that?

What do you think?

[Carabas]

They do go back to it from time to time.

[Restingvoice]

They already do it
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Depend on the content. If it's light I'm okay, if it's supposed to be serious I don't like it.
You know what, I'm going with no since I already dislike when there's a big headline such as BEWARE THE POWER OF... THE ARCHITECT!

Also, I like the current variant where they don't even have anything except DC logo

[Robotman]

I think it’s great some times. It adds some Silver Age fun to the book. The Flash #163 where he’s looking at the reader and saying “Stop! Don’t pass up this issue! My life depends on it!”, obviously influenced a lot of Grant Morrison’s work.

[ed2962]

I wouldn't mind it every once in a while.

[dan12456]

Yeah they still do it quite often actually.
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[KC]

They are already doing that. And I think they should continue doing it.

[Star_Jammer]

Go back to something they never left?

::thinking::

[byrd156]

Depends on the cover design.

[Trey Strain]

Come on, folks. Stop suggesting that it's just the same as it ever was. You know better than that.

There's not one cover with a speech balloon here.

https://www.cbr.com/dc-comics-august...solicitations/

By comparison:

http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/green-lantern-1960

[Lightning Rider]

I don't mind too much when it's done, but I almost always prefer when it isn't. I don't really see what it adds beyond nostalgia, it feels a bit goofy, and I don't see new readers being pulled in by them. Maybe I'd feel differently if it wasn't always a character talking to themselves with a cardboard statement that summarizes the theme of the issue. I like them just fine on older comics and they have a certain charm when in their proper context but it feels contrived nowadays.

That Catwoman cover, for example, looks great. Do I really need her to advertise the issue that way? The bubbles just obscure the image and tell me what I already need to know in a way that doesn't enhance my visual or storytelling experience.

[Güicho]

No to it becoming a standard on near every cover, they do detract from the cover art.
Absolutely yes to it being used when a cover editor deems it appropriate or fun, sure use it, along with the big blurbs! .
Ideally there should be no edict for or against it (not sure there ever was), and really just left to the whims of the cover editors.
Which seems how it's been, making this whole thread moot.

So on another note, as far as "Talking on Covers": I'm surprised those greeting-card chips with actual lines of dialogue or theme-music when you open the cover, haven't been used more often LOL!

[Mar-Vell]

Talk bubbles or no talk bubbles; makes no difference to me.

Either way works fine, but the talk bubbles do add a fun element to the covers as a bonus.

[caj]

[KC]

Come on, folks. Stop suggesting that it's just the same as it ever was. You know better than that.

There's not one cover with a speech balloon here.

https://www.cbr.com/dc-comics-august...solicitations/

By comparison:

http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/green-lantern-1960

DC does not put the speech bubbles on the solicitation version of their covers, but they still put them on the sale version of their covers. It isn't the same as it ever was, but that is not what you were asking.