Best Comic Book Covers for 2-12-16

Every Wednesday is new comic book day and hundreds of books hit local shops and the digital market. While many readers pick books based on the creative teams involved or the stories and characters contained within, every comic is trying its best to grasp the consumer's attention with its cover.

Each week, we will be highlighting some of the best comic book cover art from the past week's releases and discussing the artists involved. Here's what caught our eye this week.

Batman '66 Meets The Man From U.N.C.L.E. #3by Mike Allred was a fantastic piece this past week. Allred's style is from another era and the overall composition is really cool, having the reflection of the cast in the helmet. The colorwork on this cover is a real standout as well.

Julian Totino Tedesco has been doing some amazing-looking work the past year. On the cover for Red Wolf #3, readers are treated to this cool wild west meets the modern era action sequence. The color and shading are perfect for this piece, and who doesn't love someone getting lassoed?

Marvel is still releasing hip-hop variant covers, and this week, Deadpool #7 by Rahzzah arrived. The piece is based on the album Trill by Bun B. What's really interesting about this cover is how the fonts match the original album cover art.

Here's Darth Vader #16 by Kaare Andrews. Readers get a close and personal look at this iconic villain. It feels menacing and uneasy. Andrews really captures the comic book version of Vader well, and the way this cover plays with the dark and the light is phenomenal.

All-New, All-Different Avengers #5 by Alex Ross is a playful piece that hearkens back to classic Marvel Comics covers where someone is getting kicked off the team. We've seen that cover time and time again, but Ross ushers in this idea for a new age, with Kamala Khan leaving the group

Finally, Ninjak #12 by Keron Grant closes it out this week. It's a still piece that shows a ton of movement, almost giving it a surreal feel. The color palate Grant chose here is really nice, and the lighting around Ninjak makes the cover have an incredible pop.

What covers did you love this week?

That Deadpool cover is epic! Same goes for the shiny Darth Vader cover.

Not familiar with the Ninjak cover artist, but I dig it.

I feel like the speech bubble coming from Iron Man kind of ruins that Avengers cover.

The speech bubble from Iron Man is supposed to be a "tip of the hat" to older '60s and '70's comics, your right though, I don't think it made it's point

That Red Wolf cover is frikkin' AMAZING

Why is Ms. Marvel immediately getting kicked out of the Avengers?

You cannot really tell who the person is in the Ninjak cover by Keron Grant. Regardless, the entirety of the cover is good. My only complaint is the fact you can barely tell it is Ninjak in the cover.

Deadpool and Darth Vader covers are also nice, especially Deadpool.

Where is Red Wolf suppose to be now? Is he in a Wild West environment or in the modern Marvel Universe?

Because Vision has gone evil and is messing with everyone. Like pushing Thor through a time portal and leaving her without her hammer... which is great considering she is terminally ill.

LOL! Screw Jodi Foster!

Let me just pee on your pie there and make a random guess and predict her survival. :)

Modern day New Mexico.

@outside_85: Yeah, well we are talking about comic books. But thanks for the....imagery...

No worries :D

That Red Wolf cover is SICK!

Okay. Thank you for the clarifications. Vision's family is suppose to be influencing him right?

@ultimate_knight: More like his choice to have turned off his emotions. Not sure that has anything to do with the solo.

Wow, Kaare Andrews got skills!