Cover art theme

[Codyyy]

First post and newbie comic fan. Long story short I recently got into Batman after playing the Arkham series games and being blown away by the stories and universe. I didn’t know where to start so I got Year One, Two and Three followed by some other comics. Around this time I got into collecting the Three Jokers comics, and it reminded me of the Killing Joke cover art which I also got. Then I discovered Wonder Woman Rebirth number one as well as Suicide Squad Rebirth number one. I don’t know what to call this style of cover other than “Peekaboo”. Do you guys have any suggestions for other covers following this style? Do you guys collect cover art themes? Thanks.

[batnbreakfast]

If you like WW I'd check out WW by Greg Rucka. If you like SS you should get the John Ostrander and Ales Kot issues. I can only imagine the mind-boggling quality drop of reading Year One, Year Two and Year Three. If you're into line wide covers I'll do some research on Saturday since I have some good ideas

[Batgrayson]

All the Rebirth oneshots' covers were just the face of the titular character or a very very close shot of them.

[Restingvoice]

All the Rebirth #1 covers are portrait but not all of them are peekaboo

Does Batman Rebirth #1 counts as peekaboo or just boo? ^^

[Codyyy]

Thanks for the replies, I had no idea most if not all the Rebirth covers were the style I'm after. As for the story I've heard varying opinions on the Rebirth series themselves. I'm looking to delve into Wonder Woman anyway so I'll look into those suggestions on where to start.

As for the covers, my line of thinking was from looking at the Three Jokers Hawaiian Shirt variant vs. The Killing Joke cover. Then the Crowbar cover vs. WW Rebirth #1 with her holding the sword. The SS one is with Harley Quinn holding photos in front of her face. The art looks a bit different than the other covers but I figured it goes well enough.

[LordMikel]

First post and newbie comic fan. Long story short I recently got into Batman after playing the Arkham series games and being blown away by the stories and universe. I didn’t know where to start so I got Year One, Two and Three followed by some other comics. Around this time I got into collecting the Three Jokers comics, and it reminded me of the Killing Joke cover art which I also got. Then I discovered Wonder Woman Rebirth number one as well as Suicide Squad Rebirth number one. I don’t know what to call this style of cover other than “Peekaboo”. Do you guys have any suggestions for other covers following this style? Do you guys collect cover art themes? Thanks.

While I personally do not collect based on art themes, many people do, so don't feel it is weird or anything.

[Restingvoice]

Thanks for the replies, I had no idea most if not all the Rebirth covers were the style I'm after. As for the story I've heard varying opinions on the Rebirth series themselves. I'm looking to delve into Wonder Woman anyway so I'll look into those suggestions on where to start.

As for the covers, my line of thinking was from looking at the Three Jokers Hawaiian Shirt variant vs. The Killing Joke cover. Then the Crowbar cover vs. WW Rebirth #1 with her holding the sword. The SS one is with Harley Quinn holding photos in front of her face. The art looks a bit different than the other covers but I figured it goes well enough.

Okay for more character portraits holding up something (though it will be in various pose/angle/shot) it will be Aquaman, Nightwing, Teen Titans, Green Arrow, Green Lantern Rebirth #1


There's also the original Green Lantern Rebirth


Sometimes there are a set of variant covers showing portraits but that's harder to track or remember and I don't know if it's limited or not. This one's for Catwoman #2 in 2018