More dialog bubbles on covers lately?

[tib2d2]

Any notice more diolog bubbles on the covers lately? Not the variant covers, but the actual standard covers.

Its a nice throwback, but I'm just not sure if it works any more these days with how covers are drawn.

[DevilBat66]

I've been diggin' it.

[Jim Kelly]

Its a nice throwback, but I'm just not sure if it works any more these days with how covers are drawn.

Maybe what needs to change is the art not the dialogue balloons. Those painted covers can be so austere and static--and seem to promise what's inside the comic is a Metropoltan Museum of Art exhibition and not a fast-paced, action-packed adventure with people speaking in dialogue balloons all over the pages.

Back in the 1970s, I used to think that the Marvel covers were a little more tacky than the DC covers, because they seemed to have more hype. But in hindsight, I love the way Marvel went for the throat.

[KC]

I like it. I think it gives the covers more personality.

[Lee Stone]

Yeah... I'm liking it so far.

I think the trend I hated most on covers was the generic pose covers that was most common with Marvel's Ultimate line.
I think they're perfect for first issues, anniversary issues or on issues of a team book where they have a major line-up change, but I still prefer covers that appear to be a scene from the story inside.
Having story reliant covers helps in associating what story was in which comic and just glancing at the cover can help in remembering key points later.

[tib2d2]

Yeah... I'm liking it so far.

I think the trend I hated most on covers was the generic pose covers that was most common with Marvel's Ultimate line.
I think they're perfect for first issues, anniversary issues or on issues of a team book where they have a major line-up change, but I still prefer covers that appear to be a scene from the story inside.
Having story reliant covers helps in associating what story was in which comic and just glancing at the cover can help in remembering key points later.

Agree, DC has been guilty of some quite misleading covers lately (first one comes to mind is Brainiac on the cover of last month's Detective Comics). I prefer covers that I can pull out past issues and quickly glance at the covers in order and be reminded exactly what was going on at that point in the series. If that makes sense.

[Lee Stone]

Agree, DC has been guilty of some quite misleading covers lately (first one comes to mind is Brainiac on the cover of last month's Detective Comics). I prefer covers that I can pull out past issues and quickly glance at the covers in order and be reminded exactly what was going on at that point in the series. If that makes sense.

Totally makes sense to me.

[mrbrklyn]

Maybe what needs to change is the art not the dialogue balloons. Those painted covers can be so austere and static--and seem to promise what's inside the comic is a Metropoltan Museum of Art exhibition and not a fast-paced, action-packed adventure with people speaking in dialogue balloons all over the pages.

Back in the 1970s, I used to think that the Marvel covers were a little more tacky than the DC covers, because they seemed to have more hype. But in hindsight, I love the way Marvel went for the throat.

They kept adding verbage to the cover, though, as the size of the books shrank. Reading comics in the 1970's, you wouldn't know how gutted the books became until you went to the conventions and saw real golden age books. Marvel alway had talkative covers, even FF#1. They wanted to scream at you and ahwk the books.

[mrbrklyn]

Yeah... I'm liking it so far.

I think the trend I hated most on covers was the generic pose covers that was most common with Marvel's Ultimate line.
I think they're perfect for first issues, anniversary issues or on issues of a team book where they have a major line-up change, but I still prefer covers that appear to be a scene from the story inside.
Having story reliant covers helps in associating what story was in which comic and just glancing at the cover can help in remembering key points later.

It wans't long ago that DC made up a cover and told the writer and artist to produce a story around the cover...

[Jim Kelly]

It wans't long ago that DC made up a cover and told the writer and artist to produce a story around the cover...

In fact, Cary Bates started out in comics by sending in cover ideas to DC. SUPERMAN No. 195 being one of those--with Curt Swan and George Klein doing the actual cover art, and the lettering by the immortal Ira Schnapp! Another newcomer, Jim Shooter, wrote the inside story inspired by that cover idea.

[mrbrklyn]

In fact, Cary Bates started out in comics by sending in cover ideas to DC. SUPERMAN No. 195 being one of those--with Curt Swan and George Klein doing the actual cover art, and the lettering by the immortal Ira Schnapp! Another newcomer, Jim Shooter, wrote the inside story inspired by that cover idea.

sounds like a current storyline as well .. Hello Mr Bendis

[Rod G]

I like it. I think it gives the covers more personality.

I couldn’t have put it better myself.

[Restingvoice]

I get the personality argument, but I still don't like it because the texts tend to make me cringe, especially if the tone of the book doesn't match the cover. If the book is supposed to be campy then it fits, but if it tells a tragedy, horror or serious story, no.