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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Ultra is kind of weird... but so are his adversaries!
This isn't an alien, but all the cool kids are posting totem pole covers...
You can't get much more non-humanoid than this! In "The Strange World Named Green Lantern" from GL #24 (October 1963), a wonderfully bizarre piece of SF, Hal encounters and makes friends with a sentient planet!
One genre I truly love is Science Fiction and since today is Science Fiction Day... (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Tellus and Quislet ushered in a new era for the Legion of Super-Heroes having non-humanoid members!
Call it a hunch but I don't think a colossal cube creature is indigenous to planet Earth.
World's Finest #13. Be sure to recycle all those 1938-39 comic books.
It's Body and Mind Wellness Day! This guy could certainly use some of that, though the FORBIDDEN RITUALS produced some memorable non-humanoids:
Who knew there were so many totem pole monsters lurking out there
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