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Best Comic Covers of the Week: 1/04/12

Check out some of our favorite comic book covers for this week!

Each week we highlight our favorite covers out of all the new comic releases. This week we had a ton of great books with gorgeous covers, check out our favorites below and let us know what you think!

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If you like Mike Mignola's art then you are absolutely going to love his cover to HELLBOY IN HELL #2. The cover to this issue is extremely minimalistic, but still really stunning. Mignola casts a darkness over the characters that grace the cover of this issue in a way that enhances the premise, tone and theme of the issue.

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The cover to issue #34 of AMERICAN VAMPIRE is another one that really struck us. Artist Rafael Albuquerque captures loss and sadness in a very simple image. The use of rosy colors really enhance the image. Albuquerque also does a fantastic job conveying the rising sun in the background and the two characters in the foreground. Albuquerque masters light and shadow in this image.

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Artist Stjepan Sejic delivers a very pretty colorless cover to ARTIFACTS #23 that gives the image an aged look. Personally, we liked the image on it's own without any of the lettering. It's a very simple picture that speaks volumes.

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David Mack's cover to WILLOW #3 is absolutely stunning. Again, another very simple cover that is very fluid and beautiful, we had to put it on our list.

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The cover to COLDER #3 by Juan Ferreyra is super creepy, but really beautiful.

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As simple as it is, Skottie Young's cover to the first issue of NEW AVENGERS #1 is just adorable which is the reason why we simply had to add it to our list.

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Colin Lorimer's HARVEST #5 cover is extremely detailed and paints a very eerie image of what fans can find inside.

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Artist John Rauch's cover to INVINCIBLE #99 is just stunning. Not only is it a complex image that captures a moment of sheer excitement that we find in the issue, but it's just an all-around great action shot.

As usual, if there is a cover you absolutely loved that did not make our list, be sure to share it with us and the rest of the community below.

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The New Avengers cover made me smile. Thats a good sign.

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Colder cover, amazing. Invincible looks like an interesting comic book series.

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That Buffy cover is awesome and the Hellboy is killer.

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Can someone tell me who the floating baby is?

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All so good. That Dinosaurus on Invincible looks kickass.

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@cameron83 said:

Can someone tell me who the floating baby is?

Black Bolt

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That Harvest cover is the prettiest thing I've seen in a minute. Someone buy Colin a Drink for that cover.

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Sara, the Invincible cover is drawn is by Ryan Ottley. John Rauch is only the colorist.

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The Albuquerque cover to American Vampire #34 takes the cake, with Mignola's Hellboy in Hell #2 in a close second...

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Artifacts, Willow and Invincible really are eye catching, and each beautifully done. Incredible work.

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They are all great. Wow.

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Um...Flash #15 anyone?

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Seriously. I'm continually blown away at how incredible the art on this series is.

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I love Skottie Young's covers. The Buffy cover is beautiful.

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@cameron83: black bolt

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hmmmmmm artifacts shouldnt be on this list becouse that issuse came out like 2 weeks ago maybe 3 weeks ago

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the willow is my fav

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The Batman Inc. #6 cover also.

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Ooohh! That is neat!

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@millennium: it is pretty cool though 
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I think the worst cover of the week deserves a mention:

blegh

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@pikahyper said:

I think the worst cover of the week deserves a mention:

blegh

LOL wtf.
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@Billy Batson: at least they were smart enough to just keep that art on the cover.

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@pikahyper said:

@Billy Batson: at least they were smart enough to just keep that art on the cover.

The fact that kind of art makes in the book one way or the other isn't smart :p
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All with their own merits perhaps, but nothing really revving my engine.

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@Billy Batson: unless they are doing it on purpose to see what they can get away with, if sales didn't dip they could continue doing it.

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That baby cover art doesn't interest me anymore.

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LOVE THE COLDERR COVER

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@millennium said:

hmmmmmm artifacts shouldnt be on this list becouse that issuse came out like 2 weeks ago maybe 3 weeks ago

Yeah I thought that was odd. Considering issue 24 comes out next week

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The Willow cover is gorgeous. Great story as well.

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@cameron83: Black Bolt

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Wow, only 1 Marvel and no DC.. Than is a change from the normal.

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The Harvest cover is beyond gorgeous.

I always enjoy Skottie's covers.

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Nice choices.

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Hellboy's cover is my favorite it's packed with a handfull of characters.