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The last time we checked in on J. Michael Straczynski and Shane Davis' Superman: Earth One, a young Clark Kent had just arrived in Metropolis only to be confronted by a mugger. While Clark didn't necessarily let it ruin his day (thanks to heat vision), our exclusive preview from DC Comics shows how the power of flight can wash away even the angst of a farm-raised alien adjusting to a bustling burg. Earth One's take on Superman's origin has so far been characterized by its cover image and initial preview, which depicts a pretty moody Clark Kent in a hoodie and jacket, revealing his signature "S" shield underneath. Clark seems a little depressed as he searches for a purpose in the world, but the new preview seems to imply his apathy is a temporary itch that he can scratch with a quick flight into space. Maybe he's identifying with Neil Armstrong's famous quote following his mission to the moon? "It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."
It's nice to see that Superman's power levels are in line with what many fans might characterize as tradition. As an origin story set on Earth, Earth One probably won't see Supes do much space travel, but a Superman who can kick it in space without a dorky breathing apparatus is always a good thing.
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Judging a Book By Its Cover: 3 Comics We Loved at First Sight
Contrary to popular belief, you should judge books by their covers. These days, covers are a marketing tool meant to sell you a comic. Since companies want you to buy their books, their job is to come up with the most appropriate, or attractive, cover to get the job done. Companies want you to judge books by their covers. The problem is that covers for comics, and particularly superhero comics, tend to be a little lackluster. You get an action pose, a logo, and that's about it.
So what makes a comic book cover good or bad, and what makes the best ones great? After the jump, we're taking a look at three series that got it right: Invincible Iron Man, 7 Billion Needles, and Sin City.
A "good" cover can come in a wide variety of styles, designs, and types. If a cover makes you interested enough in a book to want to buy it for non-ironic reasons, that's probably a good cover. If the art is ugly, for whatever value of "ugly" you subscribe to, then it's probably a bad cover. If a cover fills you with questions unrelated to the content of the book ("How does her back bend like that?"), then it's also probably a bad cover. There are precious few hard and fast rules for covers, and a few of the greatest covers of all time have undoubtedly broken all of those rules.
These three series experimented with the format and expectations of their stories and genres and managed to come up with something that is striking, interesting, and notable on the shelves. They showed a foresight and willingness to take chances that can depressingly rare at times.
(Row 1: Sin City: The Hard Goodbye, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, and Sin City: The Big Fat Kill. Row 2: Sin City: That Yellow Bastard, Sin City: Family Values, and Sin City: Booze, Broads, and Bullets. Row 3: Sin City: Hell and Back.)Generally, when comics covers are released online, you get the raw image before the company's production team has a chance to add a logo, issue number, and UPC over the art. When these redesigned covers for Sin City were solicited, my first thought was, "Wow, what a weird choice. I don't know if I like these at all." They look almost unfinished, somehow. The last wave of Sin City trades were perhaps over-designed, but these seem like a step too far in the other direction.
Viewed in print and in their proper context, though, these covers are striking. There is no logo, no issue number, and no title on the cover, just a splash of Miller's art on a perfectly white canvas. The name and volume number have been left on the spine, of course, but the plain cover is stark and captivating. The lack of trade dress actually works in the favor of these covers, as they are forced to live and die by their art alone.
The contents of the books aren't immediately obvious, but not in a way that makes you not want to look inside. The cover to A Dame to Kill For, featuring a bruised and bloody Ava, is haunting and interesting, with the barest of lines suggesting the outline of her body. The cover to Booze, Broads, and Bullets breaks with the stiff black and white of the other covers to add an eye-catching splash of red in the shape of Plastic Man's tunic.
These covers work by going against conventional wisdom. Rather than dedicating an entire cover to high-octane figure work, a fancy design, or even just the name of the book, the covers are selling Miller's art. The interiors are just as black and white as the exterior, and the depictions of the characters is more or less how they are treated in the books.
Superhero comics are a tough area to experiment in. The fans have certain expectations when it comes to long-running series, and the publishers are primarily interested in profits first. Cape comics are not really where you go to do the comic book equivalent of a thirty minute improvisational jazz solo.
Despite this, an arc of Invincible Iron Man centered around the rebirth of a more classic version of the character featured covers that went against tradition. While there were other covers that followed tradition (featuring scenes such as "Hero Laying On A Bed," "Hero Flying Through the Sky," "Villain Posing," and "Heroes Teaming Up To Do Something"), the great covers were the ones that didn't.
These covers jettisoned the Iron Man logo, which was about to be plastered in front of several million eyes thanks to Iron Man 2, and anything even resembling bootjets. Instead, they went for something a little more abstract. The covers relate to the story inside the comic, but generally in a figurative way. The unified trade dress, bold use of a single color, and grouped concentric circles gave the story arc a fascinating look and elevated these covers beyond the run-of-the-mill "Iron Man Shooting Lasers" type of cover. While it was made specifically for this story arc, rather than being a full replacement, it was beautiful while it lasted.
7 BILLION NEEDLES: Peter Mendelsund
Salvador Larocca and Rian Hughes, designers of the Invincible Iron Man covers, focused on a design that didn't look like anything else on the shelves. For 7 Billion Needles, Vertical Inc. went in a different direction. Science fiction has a rich history, and 7 Billion Needles is an adaptation of a classic story. Rather than working up a cover with a cool pose or an explanatory image, designer Peter Mendelsund embraced an aesthetic that once represented the finest of paperback fiction.
Around eighty years ago, Penguin Books was making a huge name for itself with its cheaply priced paperback novels. They used a distinctive design to build their brand. They used one color (decided by the genre or type of book), bold text, and a unified design across the line. You can view several Penguin Group covers over the years on this informative history of the franchise.
For 7 Billion Needles, Vertical contracted a cover that was reminiscent of those classic novel covers. It's an homage that is designed to tickle the part of your brain that may be familiar with Penguin's books and attract the part of your brain that isn't familiar. Even without knowledge of the history of book publishing, the covers look good. By emulating a strong design, but adding their own twist with the cover images, Vertical created a fresh cover.
The back cover, not pictured, is similarly striking. Rather than being crammed with quotes from critics or a detailed plot summary, the back cover features six sentences in large text. One sentence is a catchphrase ("The hunt is on!"). Three sentences are plot summary. Another sentence explains the history of the book, and the final sentence gives you the high concept of the series: "7 Billion Needles is emotionally intelligent science fiction in a compact four volumes." The same economy of space that informs the design of the cover also informs the back of the book, which is spartan almost to a fault.
All of these covers look good, and are testaments to originality and experimentation in the modern comics industry. They work with nontraditional themes, explore new ways to use cover space, or make references to the past to create a connection that otherwise may not have been made. Rather than being judged as good covers or bad covers, it is perhaps more effective to term these effective covers. They get the job done, and admirably so.
What comics in your collection had cover art that made you feel like you had to look inside?
First Look at Chris Evans in His Captain America Uniform and New Movie Images Surface
"I can't believe was almost too chicken to play Captain America," said Chris Evans in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, on sale this week. The Captain America: The First Avenger star confesses to some serious apprehension before finally accepting the role of Marvel's most patriotic superhero, but as you can see in EW's first look at Chris Evans in costume, he's a virtually perfect (at least physically) embodiment of Captain America. "At the time, I remember telling a buddy of mine, 'If the movie bombs, I'm f--ed. If the movie hits, I'm f--ed!'" After declining the part three times, Evans took a meeting with Marvel execs and Johnston and was dazzled by their plans for the movie. He still felt wary about suiting up for Captain America - but then he had an epiphany. "I was just scared," he says. "I realized my whole decision making process was fear based, and you never want to make a decision out of fear."
EW's shot of Chris Evans in costume comes after a number of leaks and teases. We saw a more or less complete costume shot last month in photos of Evans' stunt double performing as Captain America on the film's set in London, and Evans as a plainclothes Steve Rogers with some fake feet. Although released costume designs show Captain America in his complete outfit -- including cowl -- we've yet to see Evans all masked up.
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This Saturday October 30, Rutland, Vermont will host its 51st Annual Halloween Parade. The attraction is the largest and longest-running Halloween parade in the United States -- and it owes its birth to comic books. The parade got off its feet thanks to Tom Fagan, a local reporter and super-fan of comics. With each year that he ran the parade, more comic creators got involved, creating an ahead-of-its-time cosplay showcase that eventually made its way to the pages of Marvel, DC and beyond. In fact, Rutland holds the distinction for inspiring the first crossover ever between Marvel and DC Comics. ComicsAlliance spoke with legendary comics scribe Steve Englehart -- one of the architects of that landmark crossover and the man who wrote more Rutland stories than anyone -- as well as with parade organizers to learn about the complete comic book history of Rutland's Halloween Parade.
HOW IT STARTED
Following the first Rutland Halloween Parade's lackluster showing in 1959, a motivated Tom Fagan went to Rutland's Recreation Department, where -- as he later remarked to Alter Ego magazine -- communicated, "We should have a theme for this. Because it's Halloween and these are creatures of the night, you should have Batman as parade marshal to lead off the parade."
Fagan was allowed to shape the parade in his vision, starting in 1960 with a Batman float. Soon, as Fagan recalled, "I wrote letters to Detective Comics saying Batman was now the leader of the Rutland Halloween Parade and we were establishing a tradition."
Alter Ego
It wasn't long before Fagan's correspondence as a fan turned into an even friendlier relationship with the creators of his favorite comics, much to the benefit of the parade. "As a long-time contributor to comic book fanzines, Fagan began to form relationships with several staff writers at DC Comics in New York City, ultimately inviting them up to Rutland to join in with the festivities," said Dom Cioffi, Marketing/Outreach of Rutland's PEGTV.
RUTLAND'S COMIC BOOK DEBUT
After visiting the parade, comic book writer Roy Thomas was inspired to set a story there. In Avengers #83, "Come On In, ...The Revolution's Fine!" (Dec. 1970), Tom Fagan -- dressed as Nightwing of The Defenders -- invites the Avengers to be his guests of honor at the 11th Annual Parade. The parade is attacked by the Masters of Evil, who hijack Fagan's float. The fight turns into a three-way battle when the Lady Liberators enter the fray. The issue was not only set at the parade, but also featured appearances from Roy Thomas himself, along with wife, Jeannie.
The next year in Batman #237, "Night of the Reaper!" (Dec. 1971), creators Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams were inspired to craft a story set at Rutland. In the tale, a vendetta between a concentration camp survivor and a fugitive Nazi plays out in the backdrop of the Halloween parade. Batman and Robin try to stop the violent bloodshed that ensues, as innocent revelers dressed up like the Caped Crusader and the Boy Wonder get caught in the middle. Dick Grayson attends the parade with his friends -- comic book creators Alan Weiss, Bernie Wrightson and Gerry Conway. Batman's fight spills into Tom Fagan's mansion, where Denny O'Neil, Len Wein and Mark Hanerfeld are in attendance.
THE FIRST EVER MARVEL/DC CROSSOVER
As more comic book creators ventured north, their stories about the parade grew grander. Englehart explained: "[Tom Fagan was] just a real friendly guy... [and] areal friend to everybody. He could get you caught up in his enthusiasms and share yours... Denny and Neal [said] 'this is a cool evening' and they drew that story, wrote that story and made it look like a cool evening. So next year it's like 'let's just go.'"
Along with Len Wein and Gerry Conway, Englehart made comic book history by writing the first Marvel/DC crossover (albeit unofficially) by setting it at the Rutland Halloween Parade.
In Englehart's Amazing Adventures #16, "...And the Juggernaut Will Get You... If You Don't Watch Out!" (Jan. 1973) Gerry Conway, Steve Englehart and Len & Glynnis Wein come across Hank McCoy a.k.a. the Beast, on their way to the Rutland Parade. The blue-furred mutant finally gets to town, just in time to stop a rampaging Juggernaut, who has lost control of his powers. He attempts to steal Englehart's car but in intercepted by Beast, and disappears into the woods.
Then in Len Wein's Justice League of America #103, "A Stranger Walks among Us!" (Dec. 1972) the four comic creators make their way to the mansion of Tom Fagan, who is sporting his best Batman costume. The Phantom Stranger leads the Justice League to Rutland, on the suspicion that Felix Faust is attempting to take advantage of a weaker dimensional state and summon ghosts to our reality.
The JLA meet up with Tom, who asks them to ride in the parade. While waving to the crowd, Faust's plan kicks into effect, and the JLA must contend with a town full of citizens gaining the powers of their costumed characters, including Glynnis Wein, who turns into Supergirl. Len, Steve and Gerry go after Glynnis, while the Phantom Stranger intervenes to save the League. With his plan foiled, Faust escapes town -- by stealing Englehart's car.
Finally in Gerry Conway's The Mighty Thor #207, "Firesword!" (Jan. 1973), Tom Fagan has switched into into an authentic-looking Nighthawk costume, but has fallen under the mind control of Loki, who is summoning Absorbing Man to destroy the town. Thor, Sif and Hildegard intervene to defeat Absorbing Man and Loki, blinding the trickster god in the process. Loki hears the Faust-driven stolen car of Steve Englehart and rushes after it, but his blind state leads him right off a cliff. Len, Steve and Gerry locate the missing (and now human again) Glynnis, who doesn't quite remember what just happened.
Meanwhile, comic fans had their mind blown after reading the very first DC/Marvel crossover. For Englehart, Wein, and Conway it was the chance to try something new. As Englehart told ComicsAlliance, "I guess the first year, the comic book guys were just a handful amongst the revelers, but the second year there were a whole bunch of comic book people who thought it would be a good idea to go to Vermont for Halloween. Len Wein, Gerry Conway were up there with me, Glynnis Wein was up there -- Gerry and Len and I got sitting around talking about the whole Rutland thing and we figured Denny had done an interesting story and we wondered could we do something interesting with it, and somehow out of that came the crossover."
Most amazingly to Englehart, the crossover idea had modest, yet imaginative motivations. As he elaborated: "The idea of doing a crossover between Marvel and DC, I'm not sure anything like that had been done before, but it certainly seemed like a radical concept and we knew that we had to be subtle (laughs) and each story had to stand on its own, but we really worked it out. It's really worthwhile to read those stories back to back to back -- It didn't matter to us that one was at DC and two were at Marvel -- I think it was us being creative, thinking what would be really cool to do and the spark of all that was the Rutland parade which was really cool and it deserved something cool."
THE LEGENDARY COSTUME PARTIES
Alter EgoIn addition to the parades, the comic-friendly after-parties were another legendary component of the Rutland Halloween experience. Dom Cioffi from Rutland admitted: "Ironically, the earliest parades were known more for the late night parties than for the actual downtown processions. Fagan's friends, both local and from out of town, went to great lengths to build interesting floats and highly involved costumes, but the after-hours parties are where most of the 'trickery' occurred."
As one of the costumed revelers, Englehart has vivid memories of the parties, which took place in an old mansion: "It's not all that unusual today if you go to a comic book convention today, you're going to see a lot of people in costume. But in the early '70s, that was not a common situation. And even at conventions, [they] were a lot more button-down. So on Halloween night, well after midnight, walking around this mansion in Lovecraftian Vermont and seeing Dracula and the Hulk and Wonder Woman walking around. t was a unique situation and on Fagan's end, handled extremely well."
KEEPING A TRADITION ALIVE
Steve Englehart has a unique distinction of writing more stories set at the Rutland Halloween Parade than anyone else. For him, the motivation was simple: "It continued to be fun, and after awhile... [I thought] there should be a Rutland parade story every Halloween.I thought Tom Fagan was a very cool guy; I thought what he was doing was very cool. I just wanted to remind people of it and thank Tom for it, for a little while longer." MEMORIES OF THE PARADE
Although Fagan passed away in 2008, the parade has endured as his legacy. As the Rutland Herald wrote in its October 23 issue that year, "Tom Fagan was a number of things during a lifetime of newspaper reporting, raising a family and assuming legendary status in the comic book community. But in Rutland, where the 76-year-old lived before his death on Tuesday, he was known as 'Mr. Halloween' -- the man who helped create an All-Hallows-Eve procession of ghosts, ghouls and costumed greats in the 1950s that endures today as the biggest Halloween parade in the state."
Englehart still reflects fondly on not just the parade and the season, but on the positive effect that came from seeing so many comic book fans out in attendance. As he explained: "This is Halloween night, so it has its own vibe to it and seeing all these people having a wonderful time, but all in costume, and good costumes. These were pretty much homemade costumes. You weren't just able to drop down and buy yourself a Captain America costume at the store like you could do today. People got into it and as young comic book people we appreciated it and really vibed off of people who got into it. My memories of it are just the panorama of it, being on the main street of Rutland and seeing floats go by and the cars and the costumes and the Halloween vibe and little kids watching and candy to be had. I remember the whole thing, the spectacle of it -- And afterward, we'd get to the mansion and party until dawn and crash (laughs)."
WHAT TO EXPECT THIS YEAR
The Rutland Halloween Parade begins at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 30, followed by the Center Street block party. Curious fans can tune into PEGTV.com later in the week to watch the full parade online. As for what costumes and attractions to expect this year, according to Cioffi, "The float creators always try to one-up each other. It drives their creativity and pushes them to produce better material. But each year's floats are kept under cover by the creators who maintain strict codes of silence. So no one knows what to expect."In addition to the parade, the weekend will be filled with activities including: the Hathaway Farm corn maze, Deadnberry Mortuary haunted tour, Fright Nights at The Wilson Castle, the Bones Brothers Band, Holiday screenings, Campus Trick-or-Treating, Pumpkins in the Park, the "Running Scared 5K" road race, and more.
Special thanks to Cindi Wight, Rutland Recreation Director, Dom Cioffi of PEGTV Marketing/Outreach, Marcy Galligan and Steve Englehart. Englehart's two novels 'The Point Man' and 'The Long Man' are available from Tor Books. For more information, check out SteveEnglehart.com.
Photographs by Al Bradford. Reprinted from "Hi, I'm Your Host, Tom Fagan!" by Roy Thomas in Alter Ego: The Comic Artists Collection from TwoMorrows Publishing (March 2001).
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Saturday 30 OctoberBy Jacob T. LevyNeutral
I'm pretty sure that JLA #103, the middle book in that crossover, had Marvel within it, too. Yes, people turned into the superheroes they were dressed as (Buffy style)-- and most of them were barely-veiled Marvel characters, with a thunder god and a star-spangled soldier and so on.
ReplySaturday 30 OctoberBy Jen VaughnNeutralExcellent job, Erik!
About an hour away in White River Junction, the Center for Cartoon Studies just opened an art show featuring most of the comics and some sweet vintage photos of the Rutland Parade. Our gallery hours are Saturdays from 10am-2pm!
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