Anyway, to Supergods. Here's the excellent US cover:
This uses the artwork by Frank Quitely from page one of Morrison's All-Star Superman series. Most comics (and movies) which retell the beginnings of various superheroes do so at wearisome length. Morrison knew that everyone reading a Superman comic already knew those basics, and summed them up in one page and four panels, getting it out of the way so that the fun stuff could start.
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And here's the UK cover.
I can see why people are spending extra to import the US version.
Next post: an uncanny similarity spotted by Welsh correspondent Miss Disco.
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Love Doom Patrol, and also The Invisibles. Am indifferent to the mainstream superhero titles. I have read one interview with Grant Morrison where he seemed to be seriously suggesting he had been abducted by aliens, despite the interviewer asking repeatedly, 'Are you sure it wasn't the drugs?', but I imagine he considers his public persona to be a variety of performance art. Will check out the book when I get a chance.
Looking at the images, before reading your fine post, I assumed that the UK cover was a promotional poster. Something simple to catch the eye - uninspired and uninspiring.
JW: You may be right--after all, this is the man who tried to get all of his readers to masturbate simultaneously in order to prevent 'The Invisibles' from being cancelled, however that was supposed to work.
Brian: I hand't thought of that, but yes--it does look like a poster or an ad, rather than a great cover.
that's how they should have tried to save the AIGA's 50 Books/50 Covers competition.
With a superpowered punch to the face?
no, with simultaneously masturbation.
Neither of them are great, although when next to one another the UK cover is very, very poor.
Sigh...
Chip Kidd should have been the man to design it.
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