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Dave and Alex pick the best comics covers of the week!
Dave: The Deadman #3 - Cover D Tyler Boss
Alex: Uncanny X-Men #33 Alexander Lozano '80s Storm Variant AND Batgirl #22 Cover B KyuYong Eom Variant
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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. We're going to talk
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about our favorite cover art now. What
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do you got?
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>> I have two.
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>> Oh, again? Do you just always pick two?
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Is that how it works for you? Is that
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how it works?
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>> Well, I had picked five and I asked my
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husband to help me narrow them down and
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we could only narrow it down to two.
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>> So, it's your husband's fault. Great.
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>> Exactly. Blame Zack. Um
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First one is the next uh cover in
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Alexander Lozano's
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>> That's three weeks in a row.
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>> Yes, 80s variants. Clearly we [ __ ]
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were gagged and gooped for 80s uh
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comics. This is Storm. Um I First of
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all, I love how like young she looks. He
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made her like into like a teen punk. Um
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and then I'm
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I love the details. Uh like the
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uh graffiti Africa with like the Black
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Panther fist and Remy was here
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acknowledging her like weird close
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friendship with uh Remy when he was
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still in the Thieves Guild. Yukio is
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spray painted on there. Life and Death,
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one of her most famous comics. Um I just
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think it's sick. She looks like punkier
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than ever and her mohawk looks more like
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lightning than it does in a lot of
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depictions of like the lighting straight
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mohawk. It's It's very electric.
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>> Would you say she's more punkier than
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Punky Brewster?
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>> I'm not going to respond to that because
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the answer is obvious.
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>> Okay.
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>> [laughter]
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>> And then else What else YOU PICK? WHOA,
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you Are you gooning? Are you straight
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gooning right now?
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>> This crazy
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gooning of me. Um I just like
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[clears throat] love
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depictions of like really gorgeous
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depictions of like wet hair and
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clothing. It's like so impressive to me
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when an artist can like successfully
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depict
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moistness.
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>> [laughter]
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>> I am not even reading
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>> I'm not even reading Batgirl.
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Let alone number 22. I've not read
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number one. So like miss me with that
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fake fan ac- cusation. It's true. I am
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just looking at this cover.
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I've always appreciated Cassandra Cain,
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but I've not read any of her All In
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Batgirl. I just think this cover's
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gorgeous. These terrifying like
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zombified
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all white skeletal versions of her and
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then she's just looking sultry as [ __ ]
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>> [snorts]
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>> laying on top of them.
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>> She's muscular, too. Look at this arm.
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>> Well, yeah, isn't she one of the only
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fighters that can beat Bruce?
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>> Mhm, that's true.
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>> Hand-to-hand.
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>> Also, her like cape is somehow like
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woven into these things, these bodies.
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>> yeah, caught in between them. It almost
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looks like an oil spill that they're all
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falling into.
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>> Yeah, that's cool.
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>> [ __ ] knows how it's going to uh
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fit into the events of the comic, but
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it's a very gorgeous cover.
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>> I got to say Batgirl also has really
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good main covers. This This week's issue
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also has a cover where her head is
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exploded into like these pink flowers.
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>> Yes, really beautiful.
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>> very artistic covers for most of the
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Batgirl books, which is
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>> Totally.
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>> really neat. You don't see that in the
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superhero book world too much.
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My
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favorite cover is Deadman number three
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by Sorry, hold on one second. Tyler
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Boss.
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Um yeah, so
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>> I didn't say who drew uh that was Q
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Hayoung Eom who drew the uh Batgirl
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variant. I'm surprised that you picked
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this Deadman one. There was like I mean
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a lot of cool ones but there was one
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really [ __ ] up cerebral one.
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>> Yeah, Deadman's had some really great
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covers and we're only three issues in
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but um I just like the story being told
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on this one.
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Uh
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we've got Deadman just sort of floating
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in this
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very 80s horror movie vibe background
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like Jason in in New York or whatever
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where like
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>> Yeah.
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>> you got the sewer smoke coming up and
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getting lit very nicely by the yellow
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and oranges of the lights. Um and then
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we've got ghosts
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floating go all seemingly going down the
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road like they're it's traffic.
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>> But they're like ghosts that are like
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sheets. So
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>> fish. [laughter]
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>> Uh just so bizarre and there's like a
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yeah it's cute but also so bizarre
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because like look at the red eyes are
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very creepy there.
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>> No, very creepy.
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>> And it's the composition is very not
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like standard at all. Our main character
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is tiny in the background floating like
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a weirdo.
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And and then our focus kind of gets
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drawn around in this sort of circle
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where the circus poster Deadman and then
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these ghosts kind of float around. It's
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it's quite interesting. So it's very
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unique. Uh
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it's not like your standard Alex Ross,
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you know, painting per se but I like the
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I like the storyline.
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>> Come on.
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