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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Barack Obama was not only endorsed by Savage Dragon, in 2011 he also received the rare honour of appearing with the British Dennis the Menace in The Beano.
For a rough ride...
The British version of MAD from 1982 featuring Prince Charles, now King Charles III.
And he would have wait forty years to ascend the throne! In fact, some thought that he never would!
With the current prices for a fast food meal, I wonder how large his "kingdom" is today. Then again, considering the recent E. Coli scare in the Quarter Pounder's onions at McDonald's, brown bagging it is far safer! (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
I suspect that the subordinate clause in your second sentence is not necessary.
Lois Lane #11
The first time I believe that Doom achieved world domination. Coincidentally 11 characters not counting the Doom apparition.
Nope, it was this time!
This book isn't out yet, but it's sort-of an homage to Byrne's cover above.
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