Comic book covers...

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?

Originally posted by Lucid Lui
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?

For Hilarity - Golden/Silver Age

For Bad-ass - Modern

I would like a mixture

I would like covers that are less-related-to-the-inside-story with over the top style, that extaggerates-the-inside-plot ✅ 😆

I don't like 60% of the cover being dead space just for the title (i.e. every CW tie-in).

But modern for me.

Meh ... I like whatever looks good ... plus I don't spend a lot of time looking at the cover of the book.

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.

Modern all the way, for me.

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.

Originally posted by WrathfulDwarf
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when my fear is gone I will turn and face fears path, and only I will remain."
-Paul Atreides

Surely the quote on your sig is the Bene Gesserit or Orange Catholic Bible and not Paul if I remember rightly.

Originally posted by By Crom!
Surely the quote on your sig is the Bene Gesserit or Orange Catholic Bible and not Paul.

In the book yes..in the film it's Paul.

Originally posted by WrathfulDwarf
In the book yes..in the film it's Paul.

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.

I'm currently reading this book

Which is okay so far...

Originally posted by WrathfulDwarf
I'm currently reading this book

Which is okay so far...

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.

Interesting....pm me a link and might take a peep. 🙂

70's era comic covers all the way!

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.

Originally posted by WrathfulDwarf
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.

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.

Originally posted by Deathstroke
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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So if I printed a comic, and it's cover had, say... a nearly drowned kitten on the front, you would buy it? ermm

Originally posted by SpunkySmurph
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So if I printed a comic, and it's cover had, say... a nearly drowned kitten on the front, you would buy it? ermm

He isn't an idiot! He is going to wait for the Omnibus that has the full drowned kitten on it. 😠

A lady walks up to a man who keeps banging his head on the wall and asks"why do you keep doing that?" "because"the man said "it feels good when i stop"

That man was digi