Hey CHU! A lot of covers this week, and maybe a sneaky spec here or there. Enjoy!
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COVERS
Fun Basketball theme variant from Young.
Mora did something similar for Batman #140 (Christmas Card variant) with “child-like” renditions of Batman characters. But this one is more fun, I think. Hard to pass on his Batman covers.
A cool homage to J.C. Leyendecker’s “Santa’s Lap” from The Saturday Evening Post (1923). Great throwback. Cover of the week.
The critically acclaimed BLA`
Ito keeps getting regular A covers for Marvel lately. Well deserved.
Little disappointed this mag increased its cover price to $3.99. Aside from the content, it’s had some great covers. Steve Epting & Rico Renzi delivers this one. Pre-order it saves a few bucks, though.
Red Hood variant covers have done well in recent years in the aftermarket. Could this be the next one to follow suit?
NOTABLE REPRINTS
In case you don’t feel like paying up for the first print.
Surprised this doesn’t come with a foil variant. Must not have looked good in foil.
NEW ONES
SERIES PREMIERE- GIANT SIZED FIRST ISSUE! In 1999, time broke and the CALAMITY CREATURES arrived. Creatures from a desolate tomorrow, it took mankind no time to start battling them, and even less time for it to turn into the largest for profit sporting event since the UFC: Creature Corps.
Dusty Gotem was 14 years old when he became Creature Corps world champion… and then walked away in disgust. Seventeen years later, he’s in hiding—until a time quake strikes and leaves his mother injured with massive medical bills. There’s only one way to save her: reunite his team, and become Creature Corps world champion again. Let the games begin. Created by CURT PIRES (FIREBORN, LOST FANTASY) and JOK (51) CREATURE CORPS is a fresh and irreverent remix on the creature battling phenomena of the ‘90s mixed with the sharp ultraviolent satire of The Boys.
COVER B: BOOSTER BUNDLE – contains a polybagged secret cover of CREATURE CORPS #1as well as one of five random trading cards from the CREATURE CORPS TCG. Including a chance to win a holofoil chase cards!
A lot of covers and gimmicks with this one. A lot of hype too…so not sure it’ll be under-ordered. I’m a little disappointed the Flops ashcan didn’t make it to NYCC, but highlighting the regular cover here for the Flops fans of CHU.
Dynamite opens The X-Files once more! When wild accounts of young people manifesting strange telekinetic powers begin popping up on social media, newly reinstated Special Agents Mulder and Scully are tasked with getting to the truth and debunking an urban legend before it can take hold. But they’re not the only ones looking, and when a shadowy group of neo-conspirators shows the same interest, we learn there might be more of these “gifted” people… and that the origin of their powers is extraterrestrial in nature. The alien threat has only metastasized. Now, shadowy actors within the government plot with powerful special interests outside of it in a race to secure “alien” secrets related to biology, disease and even everlasting life. All with Mulder and Scully stuck between the unbelievable and the seemingly miraculous truth.
PICK OF THE WEEK
INTRODUCING…BAT LAD?! A MYSTERIOUS NEW LEGIONNAIRE WHO WAS INFLUENCED BY A DIFFERENT SUPERHERO FROM THE PAST! Cosmic Boy and a ragtag group of space pirates are tasked with kidnapping Princess Imra from the Kingdom of Titan. And the only person who can stop them is…Bat Lad? Welcome a boy and his uncontrollable shadow monster to the world of Legion!
It’s what if Spider-Boy was paired with the Venom Symbiote…but wearing Robin’s costume and Venom was a Bat instead of a spider. And it was 1000 years in the future.
Could be a big flop…could be something that catches on. What may hurt cover A a bit is that the two are featured better on the variant cover (shown below).
…Also Bat-Lad’s first “front” cover, as he was on the back cover of issue #1.
