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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Showcase #12 was the last tryout, immediately followed by Challengers of the Unknown #1
Someone thought the basic gag was too tip top not to recycle:
There just aren't too many snowmen on the covers of comics I read. Here's a character who is "snowman adjacent":
There just aren't too many snowmen on the covers of comics I read.
The Liberty Legion inclded Jack Frost, sort of a frozen Sub-Mariner.
Unfortunately I missed yesterday, so here's a double feature to make up for it, courtesy of the Grand Comic Database.
You mean you three can't build a better snowman than THAT!
In my head-canon DCU, the eternally-young Wonder Woman enjoys her friendship with Superman and Batman, but she can't help thinking that she had more fun when she hung with Alan Scott and Jay Garrick.
Even if they sucked at making snowmen.
Where the hell is Reggie?
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