Ok, how about this for an idea. We take it in turns to post a favourite (British spelling) comic cover every day. This went really well on the comic fan website that I used to frequent. What we tried to do was find a theme or subject and follow that, until we all got bored with that theme. I'd like to propose a theme of letters of the alphabet. So, for the remainder of October (only 5 days) and all of November, we post comic cover pictures associated with the letter "A". Then in December, we post covers pertaining to the letter "B". The association to the letter can be as tenuous as you want it to be. For example I could post a cover from "Adventure Comics" or "Amazing Spider Man". However Spider Man covers can also be posted when we're on the letter "S". Adventure Comic covers could also be posted when we're on the letter "L" if they depict the Legion of Super Heroes. So, no real hard, fast rules - in fact the cleverer the interpretation of the letter, the better, as far as I'm concerned.
And it's not written in stone that we have to post a cover every day. There may be some days when no cover gets posted. There's nothing wrong with this, it just demonstrates that we all have lives to lead.
If everyone's in agreement I'd like to kick this off with one of my favourite Action Comic covers, from January 1967. Curt Swan really excelled himself here.
Discussion and voting on future monthly themes takes place on the "Nominations, Themes and Statistics for A Cover A Day" thread. Click here to view the thread.
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While I have certainly distanced myself from my past experimentations with AI imagery, I admit that I'd read this comic.
*sight* Okay, one more foray into the devil's tools, since I have some credits left on an account that's running out. Here's page 14:
Amazing! I'm guessing AI could probably generate the whole comic (including the ads). Is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or have I been watching too much 'Star Trek'?
Perhaps, but I can think of things other than AI more likely to bring it about.
I recommend highly Cory Doctorow's The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence—Before It's Too Late.
It's a super, intelligent, though perhaps not definitive look at AI and a number of related issues.
I'd also give it a look.
I think Rick McCollum would be the perfect artist.
Morbius was a pretty hip (Living) Vampire!
The end of September (2026), but also the end of Star Wars (September 1986).
My transition cover between September and October's themes, featuring Maynard G. Krebbs stand in Norville "Shaggy" Rogers and a traditional Halloween icon. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Showcase #34 and Brave and Bold #34. The first appearance of the Silver Age Atom and the second appearance of the Silver Age Hawkman.
This "#1000" (see discussion of Marvel's math elsewhere) variant has Spidey smelling a rat:
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