Cover Contest 4/29-5/5: Shut in!

[CaptCleghorn]

Congrats to Ajax, that is a harrowing cover!

I didn't want to saying anything adverse about a cover while the contest was on, but feel compelled to now say that Star Wars cover with Luke in carbonite was among the worst piece of art I have ever seen on a cover. Let alone a major publisher. I looked up the artist, and he does not do bad work, but everything about that cover, from the cramped composition to the awful rendering is just awful. No offense to siesmic, and he actually got a vote. But I can't understand how an editor let this through. Just my humble opinion.

Perhaps a "bad covers" theme might be in order for a future contest. And now that I've mentioned it, I may never get a vote again.

[PaulBullion]

Congrats to Ajax, that is a harrowing cover!

I didn't want to saying anything adverse about a cover while the contest was on, but feel compelled to now say that Star Wars cover with Luke in carbonite was among the worst piece of art I have ever seen on a cover. Let alone a major publisher. I looked up the artist, and he does not do bad work, but everything about that cover, from the cramped composition to the awful rendering is just awful. No offense to siesmic, and he actually got a vote. But I can't understand how an editor let this through. Just my humble opinion.

I can't find that variant on this rather exhaustive (and exhausting) list of 68 (!!!) variant covers of Marvel's Star Wars 001.

Could it possibly be a con sketch done on the blank cover variant?

[Tami]

Speed Force League Unlimited's Star Wars cover made me think of Shut Out more so than Shut In.

And Congrats Ajax.

[Kirby101]

I can't find that variant on this rather exhaustive (and exhausting) list of 68 (!!!) variant covers of Marvel's Star Wars 001.

Could it possibly be a con sketch done on the blank cover variant?

Thanks that explains it somewhat.

[Tami]

I can't find that variant on this rather exhaustive (and exhausting) list of 68 (!!!) variant covers of Marvel's Star Wars 001.

Could it possibly be a con sketch done on the blank cover variant?

I suspect it's the equivalent of fan art, only using cover markings.

[babyblob]

Great Job Ajax

[ed2962]

Congrats, Ajax_X!

[Iron Maiden]

I grew up in NYC, and had a pretty misspent youth.
Me and two of my three bff’s were looking to smoke some weed one day, and wound up at the old abandoned East River Park Amphitheater. This is what it looked like in the eighties...:



We were screwing around inside, pretty stoned, and stumbled onto a hole down into the lower part of the structure (not sure if it was technically a basement). FIRST BLOOD had come out that summer, so we got the bright idea to make our own torches out of the crap all up in the place, lit them and climbed in.
It was pretty spooky w. the mood lighting, but we were fine, at least until we found the skeletonized remains of a kid that must’ve been younger than us (we were 14). I still vividly remember it had a Christmas themed red & green stocking cap in its jaws.
Being the incredibly dumb kids we were, once we were done freaking out/convincing each other we hadn’t freaked out, instead of leaving and calling the police, we decided to keep it a secret.
After that we went back a few times, to get stoned and sort of, I dunno, include the kid who we felt must have been lonely.
This one time though, it was the weekend and two of us were spending the night at the third’s place, we went and dropped a **** ton of acid and went out to enjoy the night, then the park and the river, then the amphitheater.
We did our usual torch deal and found the kid. Well, we were tripping pretty hard. How hard? Hard enough that I didn’t notice my friends had hung back as we made our way, and hard enough they thought it’d be funny if they climbed back out the hole and blocked me in so I couldn’t get out.
So, I wound up trapped overnight, eventually having to burn my shirt to keep my torch going, w. a corpse. A corpse my acid feuled mind was convinced was moving whenever I looked away, and whispering to me whenever I started to nod off. I panicked and broke off a few fingernails trying to claw my ass out of there. Rough frikkin’ night.
My friends showed up and let me out the next morning.
I didn’t talk to them again for about a month.

I don't blame you. That story is way creepier than mine. Did anyone ever report the body to the authorities?

[Nschornhorst]

Congratulations, Ajax_X!

[Ajax_X]

thanks again all !
and thanks for the story Riv!
I did work in an ER for a day and got to help put a body in the bodybag, didn't get to wheel it down to the morgue tho.

[Riv86672]

I don't blame you. That story is way creepier than mine. Did anyone ever report the body to the authorities?

Yeah, that’s a whole other story, though!

[Iron Maiden]

Yeah, that’s a whole other story, though!

I hope we get to know the conclusion, with perhaps a certain amount of discretion

[foxley]

Perhaps a "bad covers" theme might be in order for a future contest. And now that I've mentioned it, I may never get a vote again.

Ask you shall receive, Captain:

https://community.cbr.com/showthread...test-8-13-8-19

(Warning: You may wish to remove sharp objects from your presence before viewing this thread, lest you succumb to an urge to gouge your eyes out.)

[CaptCleghorn]

Ask you shall receive, Captain:

https://community.cbr.com/showthread...test-8-13-8-19

(Warning: You may wish to remove sharp objects from your presence before viewing this thread, lest you succumb to an urge to gouge your eyes out.)

I humbly beg forgiveness from anyone who felt curious enough to look. Still it's fun to take a look at the pre-captain days.

[Iron Maiden]

I humbly beg forgiveness from anyone who felt curious enough to look. Still it's fun to take a look at the pre-captain days.

I was entertained. But I didn't go back far enough to see if there were any Doom 2099 covers. When Marvel fired the editor of the 2099 line and writers like PAD and Warren Ellis quit in protest, it really went downhill after that