“Can’t I just keep pretending I’m your son?”
“You’re not my son. Never have been. You’re simply the Best of the Week in Covers.”
Superman Unchained #1
1930’s Variant Cover by Bruce Timm
John Kricfalusi meets Max Fleischer in Bruce Timm’s homage to the earliest days of Superman. Jon Hamm and Ben Affleck aspire to that 5 o’clock shadow.
The Manhattan Projects #12
Cover by Jonathan Hickman
Certainly the most playful design yet for the familiar cover treatment and proof positive of its versatility.
Superman Unchained #1
Golden Age Variant Cover by Dave Johnson
War’s more fun with Superman by your side! Right, fellas?
Thor: God of Thunder #9
Cover by Esad Ribic
If the Norwegian Tourism Bureau doesn’t adopt this for their next big promotional campaign, somebody should be out on their duff.
OR
Good luck slipping this one through customs without setting off the METAL detector!
Half Past Danger #2
Cover by Declan Shalvey
Here we have a combination of elements most attractive to me and other humans. Those are raptors. That’s a shark. That’s a dude falling out of a plane, superimposed over a map to adventure. This is like the cover to a forgotten boy’s adventure classic unearthed from a great uncle’s moth crypt of a steamer trunk. Declan, you’ve outdone yourself.
Superman Unchained #1
Silver Age Variant Cover by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez
Is it just me or does this feel like a Valentine’s Day card you’d save for the classmate you liked best back in elementary school? Maybe it’s that Lopez’s iconic rendition of Lois and Clark harkens back to the omnipresent merchandising imagery of my own youth, but it’s always emerged as the consummate model. Coupled with George Reeves’ portrayal, it’s the reason I’ll always feel younger than the Superman character as well, no matter how old I get. In other words, the Superman that makes me feel like a kid again.
