Every Wednesday is new comic book day and hundreds of comic books hit local comic shops and the digital market. While many readers pick books based on the creative teams involved or the stories and characters contained within, each comic is trying its best to grasp the consumer's attention with its cover.
Each week, we will be highlighting some of the best comic book cover art from the past week's releases and discussing the artists involved. Here's what caught our eye this week.
First up is Batman #48 by Danny Miki & Greg Capullo. The current story Batman is involved with deals with the villain Mr. Bloom, who is incredibly creepy and Capullo and Miki's cover gives off that tone as well as the feeling of defeat. This art team always produces stunning and memorable covers.
Star Wars #15 by Mike Mayhew makes the list this week. The artwork he did inside this issue was just as great as the cover. We're exploring the time between Star Wars Episodes III & IV, so we're getting a version of Obi-Wan Kenobi we've never seen before and Mayhew's depiction of the character tells us everything we need to know about him.
Silver Surfer returns to a new series featuring a great cover for his introductory issue by Mike Allred and Laura Allred. The Allred's have a very distinct style that hearkens back to another era of comic book art, all while giving it a temporary feel. There's a ton to look at on this cover, but the eye always leads back to Silver Surfer on his board.
Captain Marvel #1 had a stunning variant from Adam Hughes this past week. It's cool to see this new series get kicked off in style with Hughes taking the reigns on this cover, showing off Carol Danvers flying through space. The shading and color here are real standout aspects of this piece of art.
The new Street Fighter Unlimited series from Udon has been producing a lot of great covers. This week, we're highlighting the 1:10 retailer incentive cover by Edwin Huang. What's really cool about this cover is that it pays homage to X-Men: Alpha, which was the start of the classic X-Men story "Age of Apocalypse."
Finally, Isaac Goodhart delivered this cover for Postal #9. This is another cover that pays homage to another piece of art, and Goodhart puts his own spin on the classic painting "The Runaway" by Norman Rockwell. Obviously, the Postal version of this piece is a whole lot bloodier and sinister than the original painting.
That's it for this week. If there's a cover you loved, let us know.
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