Dave and Chris discuss their favorite cover art coming out on November 5th! They unpack:
Amazing X-Men #2 (Stephanie Hans Variant)
Harley and Ivy: Life and Crimes #1 (Erica Henderson Main)
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Come on.
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Moving on to our next segment. Judging
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by the cover, a junior because senior is
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in the room.
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Daddy daddy judging
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longest running uh judging by the cover
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columnist at AIP. Longest running column
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as well. letting people know why cover
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art is great and which ones are great
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every week. Uh on this show we like to
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highlight it too because cover artists
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need credit too. It's a big part of
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selling comics and
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absolutely
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we love comics. Uh let's start with my
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favorite cover of the week. I really
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liked Stephanie Hans I know. I'm sorry I
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cut you off. I'm so rude. Amazing X-Men
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number two. Uh of course this is magic.
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Or is it? I don't know. We're going to
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have to read the comic to find out cuz
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dead.
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Uh this is the demonic version of of of
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uh magic. And anyway, uh the detailing
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here is really cool. The the jewelry on
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the horns is particularly cool. Uh, I
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think it it actually kind of is a
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character element, too, because she's in
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this form so long that she can like put
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hooks into her horns and wear it,
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but she's also like breathing out souls
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or skulls here. It's very Halloweeny.
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Um, if only it came out a week earlier.
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And uh the the waterc coloring in the
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background. Stephanie is getting better
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and better every year. Like she was
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amazing and stunning when she did die.
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That's saying a lot. uh to just get
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better from where she already was is
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mindblowing.
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It's and it's it's really cool to
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discover an artist early and then see
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them evolve and I'm very curious to see
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how her style evolves uh in the future.
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But uh what is your favorite cover of
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the week?
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My favorite cover uh is the Erica
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Henderson main for uh Harley and Ivy
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Life and Crimes number one. I mean I'm
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I'm always a sucker just for like any
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Harley and Ivy story. Uh, I I love that.
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That's my favorite kind of couple in all
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of comic stuff. But I just love the idea
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of
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kind of like giving us like a a sense of
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like not only how they've kind of
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changed over the years, but how kind of
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related and connected the two have been
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either as friends or allies or enemies
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or, you know, just random people in kind
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of the Bat family universe
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while they've been kind of changing. And
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it just feels like such a really solid
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kind of like history lesson translated
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into this really kind of cool visual
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with the, you know, stripes of time. And
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I that to me it just spells like
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success for a book because it's going to
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be something that, you know, hopefully
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goes deep into the kind of their their
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relationship and their what they've done
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and the thing that they've built. And I
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I just it's such a great
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seemingly simple probably really
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technically demanding but just like such
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a cool
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idea and such a great execution and you
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get such a deep sense of both
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characters. So I I'm excited. It's
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everything a charact like this should do
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which is just you know give you some
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idea of what the book is going to be and
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make you feel excited. So
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I am excited. tell the you know it's
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funny when I when I looked at this
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earlier today when you when you when you
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picked it I
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didn't immediately notice the striping
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this
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Yeah
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and and now that I'm looking at it is
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it's quite interesting
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I didn't even notice that at first
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glance and it's a it's a clever way to
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show this is exploring two different
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timelines
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Erica's so good always so good too
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super great
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another artist that's outside the box
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when it comes to superheroes But DC's
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Well, yeah. When you give them a chance,
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turns out they do great superhero work.
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