dmstarz's favourite marvel comic cover no186
I think this is a very bold idea for a cover - but maybe that's partly because I'm a father myself. Often the dialemmas our superhero friends confront in comics are surreal or just so darned big so that they truly do not have an emotional resonance with us. But a decision to lead a comic, aimed more at younger Marvel readers, with the image of a young girl falling from a huge bridge? That should cause a few gasps from the readership. The vulnerability of the girl, the shock of the parents... all well drawn out. I guess the proviso to all this is that we know the child will be okay but, still, my opinion is that this engenders much more of a sense of terror than any Galactus cover ever could.
I have ranked this cover no 186 as part of a long term project I am producing on my own blog 'marvel-ous' on blogspot.com re: my favourite marvel comic book covers. Please visit http://dmstarz.blogspot.com and check out the other covers that have made my top 250.