DC Comics Best Covers of the Week 4/19/17

Late Night Cover Judgment

Whoops! The day got away from me,  but there's still a few hours left before midnight...at least for me. And that's what counts! So let's get this uninformed critique ball rolling.

First, I'd like to give a DIShonorable mention to the variant cover of All-Star Batman #9. It's a great cover by the super talented Chris Burnham, well-colored and nicely balanced, but nowhere in this issue does kaiju R'as Al Ghul threaten a prostrate giant Batman with the Washington Monument, so this is a bait-and-switch! For shame! The only way to make up for this would be write this actual scene into a future comic book. It's only right.

This cover is a lie.

All-Star Batman #9 variant

Chris Burnham

 

Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye #7 variant

Robert Hack

Why yes, I would like to read your pulp novel about Superman and Cave Carson fighting eyeballs with bat wings. What's that? I've just named the title? Purely coincidental, I assure you. I was enraptured by the cover image.

Deathstroke #17

Bill Sienkiewicz

I'm not sure if it's the incredible watercolors and composition of this cover, or the fact that I once had a giantess fetish, but I really enjoy this cover. That diffused lighting effect is doing something for me too. Just a great image all around.

Batwoman #2

J.G. Jones

Okay, this is a cool cover, but it could have been better if the character in the occupied less space, perhaps by being even closer to us or being closer to the ground. I know she's important to the actual story, but this composition would have been a lot more stark and spooky.

Super Sons #3

Jorge Jimenez and Alejandro Sanchez

The color palettes and sizes of the characters in this book make this almost a gimme, but the composition is really good and everything about this cover screams "read me!" The red-faced Kid Amazo at the top provides a nice capstone to the zig-zagged action happening up front. Nice job.

Trinity #8

 Clay Mann

Whoa. I don't know if Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are fighting a Spectre meteor or what, but this cover is really drawing me in. It's the red and blue against a green background, I expect, and that big burst in the center. Really good composition. Excuse me while I worship this image and establish a major religion around it.