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Dave and CJ pick their favorite comic book cover art, and they are incredible. These are covers out on October 29, 2025! See them here as we break them down.
They discuss:
DISNEY VILLAINS: MALEFICENT VOL. 2 #1 (Paulina Ganucheau)
RADIANT BLACK #38 (Marcelo Costa)
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Come on.
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Moving on to our next segment. Judging
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by the cover Junior, our favorite cover
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art that'll appear next week. And let's
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go to you CJ. What is your favorite
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cover out next week? My favorite cover
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is Radiant Black issue 38 by Marcelo
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Costa who is introducing a new character
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called Replicant Black.
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Replic Replicant Black.
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Yes, Replicant.
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Interesting.
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As you can see, he kind of looks like
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Ray Black only has a trench coat and a
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more high-tech costume. What I love
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about this is it kind of looks like a
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big superhero moment.
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You know, he's lifting up stuff. He's
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reaching out to a person, but it kind of
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feels ominous because again, we don't
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know much about this guy. All we know is
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he has our similar radiant black and
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judging from the solicitation, he is
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supposed to be Chicago's new hero, but
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as we know, looks can be deceiving,
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especially in this book. So
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yeah, he may not be the hero people
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think he is or
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but yeah, I love a good twist on certain
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superhero tropes and I think part that's
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part why I love Ray Black because it's
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the way things you wouldn't expect like
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a Marvel or DC book,
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right?
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Yeah, it's Yeah, this looks really good.
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I want to know more about this guy.
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There's a lot I like about this. Like I
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like that there's a little doll that the
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girl has that's I'm assuming is radiant
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black. I'm not sure exactly,
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but also the use of blue in the hand and
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how it engulfs the hand completely and
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then it kind of zaps around as if
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they're using electricity to move all
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this rubble. Uh, and then the the use of
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of fire is really nice to juxapose with
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that blue electricity.
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It kind of it kind of goes with that
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thing. It kind of flips me it kind of
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looks menacingly if you check your head
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one way and heroic if you look at it the
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other,
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right? It's almost like um what's his
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name from Authority. If he didn't have
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the helmet, he'd look like Midnighter.
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Yes.
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Because he even got he's got like the
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ribbed uh sides which I think Midnighter
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might have had. Maybe not. I don't know.
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That's something definitely Brian has
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done. No, great cover, man. Nice pick.
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What's your pick?
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Uh I really like the Disney Villians
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Male Maleficent volume two number one by
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Paulina Goodo. Um, Maleficent covers are
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always really I mean the first issue
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that Dynamite put out was had like a
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million really good covers. This one
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also is just gorgeous. Uh, the use of
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first of all the use of color here. It's
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very Disney already just by using these
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colors, the purple, the light green, but
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also the the deep uh yellow eyes. It's a
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great justosition with the shadow on her
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face. your eye just is kind of swirling
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around as if you're you're following the
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the um smoke, but also like her fingers
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going down, the shadows going this way.
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I mean, if you were to have Paula
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Paulina put this on um a sketchboard and
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she just showed you all the lines of
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direction, I think there was a lot going
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on when it came to like where your eye
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wants to go. And it's just swirling,
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swirling, swirling. It's beautiful. It's
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it's simple yet not. And uh I would even
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buy this at the store. I think it's a
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very cover for the issue. I'd just buy
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this for the cover. It
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Maleficent is one of my favorite
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villains because she just has this
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presence about her and Paulina gets that
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in the kind of feels very menacing and
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yet enthralling. You can't help but look
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even
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look at the like the light coming off
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here. It's almost like there's a mist
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with the red here in the book. Oh my
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god, it's so beautiful.
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Crazy. She She's just a great artist.
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Oh yeah, for sure. Yeah, she was doing
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Powerpuff. She's writing now more. It's
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great.
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Come on.