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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My Dale Evans cover from March
Richard Willis said:
My last three for April
May 2021 - Big guns/Heavy weaponry.
Tank Girl starts May with bare arms, and a rather interesting large weapon:
Considering the probable weight of the weapons that Martha is carrying, I'm surprised she can even stand up, never mind "Go To War".
Here's the latest update to the spreadsheet and index of monthly themes, together with a reminder of the themes so far agreed for future months.
Perhaps surprisingly, there were more posts in Dog month than in Cat month. I suspect, though, that the greater number of posts reflects the debate about future themes, and some miscellaneous discussions, rather than the actual number of Cat or Dog covers posted. I suppose I could go back and actually count the number of on-theme covers, but even my mania for collecting statistics has limits!
These two kind of go together...
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