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AIPT Comics Podcast Episode 374 - Judging by the Cover Jr. best covers out April 15, 2026
Apr 14, 2026
Dave and Chris unpack their favorite comic book covers out on April 15th!
Dave: Lobo #2 (Lee Bermejo)
Chris: Narco #2 (Daniel Hillyard and Dave Stewart)
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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, out next week. I really liked Lobo
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number two by Lee Burjo, a variant cover
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that I uh will share now. Uh Lee, always
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good. I don't know how this I don't know
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how artists like him have time because
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the dude is pumping out a cover for
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every Amazing Spider-Man issue or most
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of them and uh all leading up to 1000
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and he has time to do these Lobo covers,
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too. Like, how much time does it take
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him to make one of these? Like, it's got
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to be a week, right?
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>> I would Yeah. I have no idea how this
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man manages his time, but he clearly
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does it.
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>> I have not read the issue, so I don't
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know if this is actually a scene from
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the book. I'm gonna say probably not,
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but uh Lobo is doing some sort of
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wrestling move. I don't know anything
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about wrestling. Anyone who likes pro
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wrestling,
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>> elbow drop.
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>> Anyway, uh his muscles look very
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realistic, but also the robot is
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obviously a Lobo robot, but all of its
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gears and whatnot very visible. Sorry,
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>> a lobot.
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>> Oh, very nice. And there's a little
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creepy alien dude in there like angry,
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which is a fun uh touch. It's like,
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>> who is that from? TMNT. Is it Crang?
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>> Kang.
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>> Crang. Thank you,
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>> Kang. Crang.
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>> Crang. Let's Google it. Let's Google it.
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>> God, I hate when we have these Google
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segments.
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>> Crang.
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>> Damn. Was I right or you?
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>> I was right.
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>> Okay. Uh, yeah. I just I think there's a
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lot to look at and take in. And I I
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think it's cool that Lobo isn't front
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and center for a cover. You know what I
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mean?
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>> Yeah. I loved the first issue. I thought
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it was such a cool kind of Yeah, it was
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definitely a a novel direction for him
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and
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>> yeah, this this one is cool.
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>> Was my one I think it was like a second
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10 out of 10 for the year.
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>> Yeah.
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>> What is your favorite cover of the week?
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>> My favorite cover is Narco number two.
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Uh, as I have made clear in interviews
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and reviews, like this is definitely a
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different one from kind of uh Doug
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Wagner and Daniel Hillard, the uh genius
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creators behind vinyl and plush and uh
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plastic, some other stuff. Um, this one
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was meant to be kind of more of a
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thriller and a little more subdued,
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which obviously it looks like that's not
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the case when you have a woman bleeding
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on a man in handcuffs. But, you know, I
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I think even if this is extra bloody,
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there's just kind of this weird dreamy
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ethereal quality. There's a lot of like
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deep emotion, I think, baked into this.
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It it definitely like
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gives us that tinge of the bloody and
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the weird, but like makes it clear to me
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that like they're still kind of
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dedicated to that mission of, you know,
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let's not tell the same story we've done
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before. let's, you know, do something
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that's a little slower, uh, that kind of
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takes its time that maybe focuses more
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on people interactions as opposed to
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just like, you know, an excuse to see
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people get murdered. So, uh, it's I I
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think a cover with layers and I, you
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know, anytime that you get to see a, you
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know, a Hillyard cover, I think it feels
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special and different from the art,
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which is already great. And this one
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just feels like um it's such a great
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preview and it it works on so many
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levels.
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>> It's almost like she's sweating blood
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the way it's coming out.
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>> Yeah. Yeah.
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>> And the Pop-Tarts. Interesting.
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>> Yeah. Pop-Tarts are a motif of this.
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>> When I first saw the cover, I didn't
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even notice it until like a minute into
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looking at it.
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>> Yeah, it did take you I was like, "Oh,
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that's a weird floor pattern." Then I
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was like, "Oh, wait. It's the It's the
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right right." Yeah. I haven't read the
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issue yet. Uh, so I don't know what the
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hell's going on in the in the
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>> Yeah, pretty cool cover. I like the
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blood.
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>> Well, that's it for Judging by the
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cover, Junior.
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Come on.