Best Comic Covers of the Week: 8/24/12

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This is a pretty awesome week for beautiful comic covers. When we were looking through our stack of new releases, we had a pretty difficult time choosing which comics to put on our list.

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First up though is Cory Walker''s cover to INVINCIBLE #94. I love the contrast in the two scenes depicted on this cover -- on the top portion of the image we see the series' main protagonist broken and beaten, and below we see two characters clearly in love. Not only is it great to see a range of emotions depicted on this week's cover, but Cory Walker's pencils are absolutely stunning. The colors on the cover are equally beautiful, too.

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THE WOLVERINE ANNUAL by Alan Davis is next up. Some of us are huge Alan Davis fans -- his style is incredibly unique and he really does a fantastic job on the cover to Wolverine's annual. One look at the image and you know it was drawn by Davis.This is a really intricate image with a lot of stuff going on, and Davis' attention to detail is evident here.

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My personal favorite cover for this week (and you may or may not agree) is Ken Garing's cover to his PLANETOID series. I am absolutely in love with this image. I love that the only real bit of color we see here is in the from at the very center of the page, who is perched before an industrial looking background. It's a breathtaking picture and creates this great contrast between organic life and synthetic. It seems like Garing really took his time when illustrating this image based on all of the details. I really love this image.

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Finally, we have Marcos Martin's cover's to the 50th issue of THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN. Considering they were all absolutely stunning, it was pretty hard to choose just one -- so we've created a gallery (below) showing them all off. We loved how each one is unique and each cover captures a different time period. This is some truly beautiful artwork.

We are sure we missed a few great covers this week, so be sure to post your favorites that didn't make our list down below!

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#1  Edited By zackattack529

i did like Planetoids cover actually, just not so much the story, it hasnt got me interested in 3 issues so i dropped it.

also i think an Honorable mention is Ultimate comics: Ultimates

iron man looks kool in that cover, movie quality.

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#2  Edited By Billy Batson

Seriously? No mention ofScalped #60? The most important issue of the year? Wow just wow.
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#3  Edited By Omega Ray Jay

Love that Planetoids cover, the 80's Spider-man cover was the one I wanted to get. didn't realise they were being sold as a set till I got in the store :/

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The Spider-Man ones were awesome, especially the venom one

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#5  Edited By Deranged Midget

The Spider-Man covers are fantastic. I'm stunned by the Planetoid cover as well.

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#6  Edited By LordRequiem

@Billy Batson: A comic book that features no superheroes or anything of the sort, just boring old gang crime. How could that possibly garner interest from anyone?

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#7  Edited By HollowInside

What? No Batman TDK №12?

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#8  Edited By RedQueen

That Planetoid cover....wow.

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#9  Edited By KRYPTON

Spider-Man FTW!!!

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#10  Edited By AWeekInGeekdom

I'm not reading Planetoid but it looks great!

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#11  Edited By Dark_Vengeance_

The Spider-man one beat the rest of them by far...

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#12  Edited By Zeeguy91

Cannot believe the Flash #12 is not up there.

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#13  Edited By BADJEREMIE

@LordRequiem:People love more men in tight who fight each others...is that right?

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#14  Edited By cincyducksfan35

PLANETOID!

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#15  Edited By kartron
@Billy Batson It's not about important issue right? It's just nice covers that the staff likes..maybe they did not like scalped 60 cover
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#16  Edited By Billy Batson

@kartron:

True but it's still better than any of the covers in the article.
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#17  Edited By JayMar89

i expected to see flash on the list also

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#18  Edited By ravisher

PLANETOID all the way man

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#19  Edited By Batnandez

You guys mad?

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#20  Edited By Lvenger

Those Spider-Man covers are simply wonderful.

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Retro Spidey !

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#22  Edited By Mrakbarman

Man, there should be a bigger list

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#23  Edited By Man of Lengend

you have got to be kidding me with that wolverine one

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#24  Edited By sturmritter

Planetoid is definitely some time consuming intricate artwork. I've always found environmental art to be the most time consuming, and yet some of the most important art in any frame. I also like the user posted flash cover. And Spider-man cover is also nice.

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I really loved all of the spidey variants!

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#26  Edited By xanthiss

Planetoid is the only cool cover. The rest suck. Really 50 years of Spider-man and maybe they could have gotten some classic Spider-Man artists to have a feature cover.

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#27  Edited By xanthiss

In fact I think this segment should post all the covers of the week and the fans should vote on the best.

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Amazing Spider-Man covers for me...but that Planetoid cover is pretty sweet too!

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I just came back from my local comic store and I couldn't find Amazing Spider-Man #692. Guess I'll check Midtown Comics.

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#30  Edited By mrzero1982pt2

@supermanfan122508: i hate those guys.

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#31  Edited By noj

what crappy picks this week. The only good ones were the Spider-man covers. The rest are very plain

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#32  Edited By mtrakos

that wolverine looks like sh*t.

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It's always the same artist or book every week. While they may be good titles, don't get me wrong, but it's a tad annoying when other awesome titles are ignored.

Maybe I'm just picky that way.

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#34  Edited By FacetiousBeard

I adore the Planetoid cover, it's one of my absolute favourites. Plus, y'know, Planetoid is decidedly awesome.

Quite like some of the Spider-man ones, but some of them are a bit naff.

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#35  Edited By ALittleTooRaph

I was going to have to fight someone if that Planetoid #3 cover didn't show up on the list this week... such a great cover!

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#36  Edited By mattwing87

I want to get the variant cover of the death of Gwen Stacy of ASM #692!

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#37  Edited By Grey56

@mtrakos: I was hoping someone would say it before I had to. The rest are admirable - the Planetoid being the most compelling.

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#38  Edited By Utandi

@ravisher said:

PLANETOID all the way man

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#39  Edited By EmmRoss

Ted Naifeh's Courtney Crumrin and Manapul's Flash covers this week were better than all of these, except for Planetoid.

Even people who don't read/like comics could appreciate that Flash cover as a gorgeous piece of art!

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#40  Edited By hunter5024

I think the red spiderman cover easily tops the rest. I don't read 616 spidey, but I need to figure out how to pick this one up just for that. Not really sure how to get variant covers though. I guess I'll just ask them at my shop.

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#41  Edited By Kal'smahboi

I actually really liked Superman's cover this week. Flash's was amazing.

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#42  Edited By SneakyBawls

The Gwen Stacy Spidey cover is the best. Greatest example of reducing a superhero to simply being human. And thanks to Sony's renditions of the character we'll probably never see that moment.

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#43  Edited By xanthiss

"NOOOOooooo Spider-man! Don't throw paper, choose rock...no wait scissors!" A vs X --- Rock? Paper? Scissors? You decide!

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#44  Edited By Queso6p4

@Zeeguy91: Gotta agree with you there. It is a nice one.

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#45  Edited By sora_thekey

Marcos Martin's "Death of Gwen Stacy" cover is my favorite.

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#46  Edited By TheWitchingHour

@Billy Batson said:

True but it's still better than any of the covers in the article.
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I agree. It definitely deserves to be listed. But I think the Planetoid cover is better and the Spider-Man anniversary covers are just as good.

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#47  Edited By feebadger

@Billy Batson said:

Seriously? No mention ofScalped #60? The most important issue of the year? Wow just wow.
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TESTIFY!

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#48  Edited By Grendel

@Billy Batson: No, it's not. Everyone of the Marcos Spider-man covers are better.

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#49  Edited By Billy Batson

@Grendel:

Not really...
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#50  Edited By KevinThomas

The top scene of the Invincible cover was done by Ryan Ottley. Corey Walker only did the bottom scene.