Modern day covers vs. Golden/Silver Age covers... ?
Do you prefer the more straight forward, less-related-to-the-inside-story splash covers we mainly get these days, or the more Golden/Silver Age style over the top, extaggerating-the-inside-plot covers?
I think as long as the image on the cover invokes some kind of emotion or has some lasting impact on me it doesn't matter if it's gold/silver age or modern. There are great iconic covers from every era.
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Strangely...I maybe the only one to say that I'd prefer the Golden/Silver age covers. The reason is history and simplicity. It captures the images of the characters in great peril. You can see the expression of the good guy and grinning evilness of the bad guy. Many covers these days seem to focus on more extravagant images rather than acutally capture a summary of the story in the comic.
Oh, O.K. that's probably true, by the way if you haven't already don't bother with the prequels they are awful, Franks son should have left well alone.
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I read to the end of the Butlerian Jihad that was enough for me. I agree about his boys books not having the same kick. The original is always going to be the best. I know you're a mod here, but I know an excellent set of forums dedicated to Sci Fi books, films, movies and TV shows. It's one you sometimes reference in your front banner page news if you're interested, I obviously won't paste it's url here. it's also a bigboard. It's got lower traffic and generally is a bit more mature, you might like it.
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The art was better, the artist's egos were smaller. To me, those were the greatest covers ever.
Look at thor #250-350. Detective comics in the 70's. Fantastic Four in the 70's. SPIDERMAN in the 70's. Even some of the Superman comics. Brilliant, almost every single one of them.
80's-90's, well....they suck badly. Today's comics are more like actual hardcover book covers than comics, so....I don't like them.
Modern hands down, alot of newer comics are worth buying based on the cover art alone. I would say Golden/Silver age are comic covers done by comic artists while Modern covers are done by artists, who happen to work in comics, much more artistc merit to be sure.
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Jan 22nd, 2007 09:20 PM
I agree about his boys books not having the same kick. The original is always going to be the best. I know you're a mod here, but I know an excellent set of forums dedicated to Sci Fi books, films, movies and TV shows. It's one you sometimes reference in your front banner page news if you're interested, I obviously won't paste it's url here. it's also a bigboard. It's got lower traffic and generally is a bit more mature, you might like it.
