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 am now forced to see this cover in terms of certain recent scandals involving the dark side of hockey culture.
On weekends I try to have some fun with the monthly theme whenever possible. In this case, to enjoy the slopes you have to get to the slopes, so you might as well travel in style. (Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
Betty and Veronica #157
One of the books that turned me from a casual comic reader( mainly DC ) into a dedicated collector and Marvelite.
Jughead has also encountered some issues on the slopes.
It must be awesome to live in Riverdale. In one issue, they're surfing on the beach. in the next, they're skiing in the mountains. In the next, they're camping in the woods. Caves, haunted houses, high-end clothing stores, malt shops -- you name it, Riverdale had it.
And if you live in a superhero universe, it's not enough that you have accidentally acquired fantastic superpowers. No, often without even trying, you keep finding yourself in the most chiroptera-guano unhinged circumstances imaginable.
Plus, if you are a "scientist," you are a scientist of EVERYTHING. Like the Professor in Gilligan's Island, you understand everything from quantum physics to the physical engineering of dishwashers, and can make anything out of coconuts.
The other day we watched some of Falling Skies, where there is a history professor, who knows the history of EVERYTHING.
Sounds like Southern California.
Since the theme is Winter Sports, I've been looking for comic book covers with curling on them, and coming up empty. (Even though Captain America's sheild looks like a curling house!) I'll keep looking, but for now, it's eluding me. Anyone else seen any?
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