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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I think I'd rather concentrate on the "...and Other Leaders" part of the theme today...
Yes, much better.
Hard to think of anything to say today. So here's some Nixon to cheer us up.
It's none of my business what happens in US politics since I'm a UK citizen, but I have to admit to feeling a little saddened when I woke and turned on the TV this morning.
I'll therefore post a cover celebrating our former sovereign.
There will never be another one quite like her, will there?
Scrooge McDuck meets a version of Teddy Roosevelt!
The Scrooge backstories by Don Rosa made for some excellent comic reading.
I got both trade paperbacks!
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