Are Marvel’s Young Guns variants just glorified trading cards?
DC Comics Reveals New Costumes For Catwoman & Supergirl – with a swoosh and armpit windows
Catwoman and Supergirl are getting updates to their costumes, though it’s unclear if both announcements happening on the same day was a coincidence, or signals more to be revealed soon. I have an automatic bias against superhero costume redesigns, because it means my carefully researched infographics are instantly outdated. And I’m especially wary of any […]
By Its Cover #5: We Believe In Textless Covers (Part 4) – Textless Goes To The Movies
This is the third season in a column that judges a book by its cover. Catch up on the current season, or view the complete archive. We’ve looked at textless comic covers and textless album covers, but what about other media? Video games, to my knowledge, have yet to do a textless cover outside of reversible covers, […]
By Its Cover #4: We Believe In Textless Covers (Part 3)
This is the third season in a column that judges a book by its cover. Catch up on the current season, or view the complete archive. So, what was the first textless comic cover? I speculated two weeks ago that it might be Darkstar #1, and asked readers to let me know of any earlier ones. Lo and […]
By Its Cover #3: We Believe In Textless Covers (Part 2)
This is the third season in a column that judges a book by its cover. Catch up on the current season, or view the complete archive. I hope you’re not tired of me talking about textless covers yet, because I’ve still got so much to say! This week: the textless wraparound cover. Maybe the two most […]
By Its Cover EXTRA: The New Look Of DC Variants
This is the third season of a column that judges a book by its cover. Catch up on the current season here, or view the complete archive. I’ve been writing about covers the week after release, because it’s easier to spot last-minute changes, but I was curious if people would rather I wrote about them […]
By Its Cover #2: We Believe In Textless Covers
This is the third season of a column that judges a book by its cover. Catch up on the current season here, or view the complete archive. I forking love textless covers. Can’t get enough of them! So when Image Comics announced they were doing a series of textless variant covers as part of a […]
By Its Cover #1: What Comics Can Learn From Movie Posters
This is the third season of a column that judges a book by its cover. Catch up on the current season here, or view the complete archive. Welcome to BY ITS COVER: LEGACYBIRTH, where we return with our original format, but update the logo for 2018! But before I get to the comics, lets look […]
The Deadpool Movie Isn’t Faithful To The Comics, And I Approve
A lot has been said about how the new Deadpool movie is true to the comics, but not as much focus has been put on how different it actually is. This isn’t too surprising, given that it’s nearly impossible to retell a serialized story as a two-hour self-contained one without changes being made. Those changes […]
All-New By Its Cover Special (Season Finale)
This will be the final installment of By Its Cover for 2015. Don’t be alarmed, it’ll probably return in 2016. Having a day job at a major online Halloween costume retailer means the second half of my year is always busier than the first, which makes it a little harder to keep up. While each column might […]