variant covers Archives

Monty Nero writes, A couple of weeks ago Image dropped the news they're only doing store specific variant covers for trade collections Their statement paints variant covers for regular monthly comics in a rather negative light, so I thought it might help to outline another perspective As a writer and comic artist for a creator owned[...]

Dark Horse Comics reveal two variant covers for Archie Vs Predator #2 for us this morning, and they stem from the minds of Robert Hack and Dustin Nguyen no less The first issue of the comic, which arrives April 15th, has already been announced to have variant covers by Eric Powell and Francesco Francavilla The[...]

The 40 page first issue of the new Image series Descender arrives on March 4th, bringing together the powerhouse team of Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen, a

You can find out more information on those events by checking out Conquest Comics on Facebook. Here are the 3 variant covers mentioned above: Conquest Comics in Bayville, New Jersey, my own local comic shop, has an exciting event coming up to celebrate and launch their variant Spider-Gwen cover of issue #1 by Adam Hughes in[...]

Adding to the list... an exclusive Star Wars #1 cover for Bampf by Mike McKone

We also take a look at variant covers, and how they affect the overall numbers. DC COMICS August wasn't terrible for DC on the creative side of the charts, but the low editorial numbers continue to bring down their overall total In August 2014, DC Comics put out 77 new comics featuring 692 credited creators, 626 men[...]

They describe it as: "Fallen gods, weaponized orgasms, quantum physics, sex-addicted technowizards, and a boy on a quest to save his dying sister." Does it need much more of a description than that? Wow. The book has an all-star line-up of 10 covers and variant covers, and we're going to present them all here for you,[...]

Here we go folks!!! Magneto #1 John Cassaday variant, New Warriors #1 J Scott Campbell variant, Superior Spider-Man #27.NOW Mark Brooks variant, All-New

For those playing along at home, the LEGO Marvel Super Heroes video game will be coming out in a few weeks and the company has been putting out a series

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDl03VUbH2E Courtesy of a friendly retailer, the look of DC's 3D Covers for Villain's Month - Week Three!

Marvel has done rather well with its Skottie Young Variant covers of late, sold by Marvel at a ratio to the standard comic, featuring baby and toddler versions of the Marvel characters Some go for quite a bit on eBay, such as Deadpool #1 for $30, Fearless Defenders #1 for $16, Iron Man at $20,[...]

Here are Marcos Martin's Spider-Man Through The Decades variant covers for Amazing Spider-Man #692, designated the fiftieth anniversary issue of the title That's the original Spider-bite, the death of Gwen Stacy, the symbiote costume that would become Venom, the Clone Saga and the New Avengers. BuzzFeed chats to Steve Wacker about the 50th anniversary andissue 700,[...]

From Lee Bermejo, Salvador Larroca, and  Ariel Olivetti come three variant covers for Fear Itself #7.1, #7.2 and #7.3 that will sell more than calling them Fear Itself: The Aftermath. And we seem to get three separate weather patterns as well Raining, snow and a sunny day with a little cloud cover Really., these variant covers[...]

Aaron and Mike from A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, and presenters of A Comic Show for Bleeding Cool every week have a very special message to their customers, all comics consumers, other retailers and publishers. And I think it's one that Bleeding Cool owners Avatar Press aren't going to like… No! More! Variants!!! He's making a stand[...]