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Didn’t they try doing this with the Sentry (the Sentinel?) about a decade ago and it went no where?

Aha! He’ll be Star-Lord’s dad in the movie! “He was an angel…” – perfect Superman allegory!

Hyperion is hot with a beard!

“Will Hyperion be Marvel’s next star?”

Extremely unlikely!

-B

“Will Hyperion be Marvel’s next star?”

Sure — about the same time Red Wolf becomes the next Jason Bourne.

Wait a minute…

So people scream and yell about sexism in comics when a male draws Spider-Woman sexy, yet this cover of men as pieces of meat/strippers is just good fun? Where is the outrage? Why isn’t the internet screaming for the head of Emanuela Lupacchino or DC?

@tim

I don’t know, man. Lately I have been realizing that everything in life is hypocrisy.

So, which hero on the cover is the drug dealer?

No Suicide Squad? Shazam? Cyborg?

Catwoman would have been better with “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”

Does anyone know where the Wizard of Oz poster came from? It’s not iconic, and I can’t find anything except an advert.

Some of the artists aren’t well chosen. If you’re going to use a photographic or realistic poster, then the cover artist should have a clean, realistic style.
Batman & Robin, Green Lantern fail. Too sketchy.

Did any of the movie poster designers/artists get a design fee?
Credit?
An offer to recreate their iconic poster?

Too bad they couldn’t schedule this for February, during the Oscars…

Hmmm… two of the covers are based on comic book movies, neither of which are DC properties.

All but “Bill & Ted” are owned by WB.

Other/Better iconic posters:
A Christmas Story
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
Ace Ventura
A Clockwork Orange
Blazing Saddles
Singing in the Rain

@Tim
Well, for one thing, the guys aren’t massively contorted in order to expose and enhance their sexual characteristics, thus helping reducing them (and their gender) to that dimension of their being. Secondly, even if that were the case, such portrayals aren’t all that frequent and exist in a continuum of other accepted and expected ways to portray the male form. Which isn’t the case for the female one, which is what makes this cover all in good fun and the Spider-Woman (and countless others) one problematic.

That Justice League cover might be the gayest thing ever made, and I say that as a compliment.

Poor Tim, you contorted even more than I thought was possible in order to try to highlight a false hypocrisy. MRA unite, amirite? !?!?!?!

@ Wonder Woman #40 inspired by 300, with cover art by Bill Sienkiewicz
I’m sure it’ll look fine, but I’m disappointed that DC, even with a fun promotion like this, continues to head Wonder Woman in the direction of a blood-splattered, low-rent Xena. Kick ass women in battle are great, but it would be nice to see a lighter, fresher take every once in a while (like the recent Gilbert Hernandez story). Why not Wonder Woman in ‘Maleficent’, with Big Barda in ‘Thelma and Louise’ or even ‘The Princess Diaries’?

Wow. If I didn’t know any better, I’d guess that DC and the artists actually had some fun coming up with these covers. Huh.

@Jose de Leon – Might have been gayer; DC could have gotten the lovely Joe Phillips to handle it. ;) But yeah, these sound like fun overall.

@Charile Ryan
Is Big Barda in the Wonder Woman comic? (I’ve only read the first issue of the reboot.)

As for the movie posters you suggest, one is MGM, and the other two are Disney, owners of Marvel.
Since DC seems to have concentrated on WB properties (aside from Bill and Ted), those are unlikely to have been used.

Thelma & Louise would work, if the landscape is replaced with an island.

Some more suggestions:
Giant
Ben-Hur
The Right Stuff
Deliverance (Either the “eyeball” design, or the silhouetted procession)
Network (for Shazam)
Dog Day Afternoon
Barry Lyndon
Inception
Blade Runner

Hypocrite.

Love it! But Heidi? The greatest film of the 21st century? I too loved the strip scenes, but the major arch of the film sees one drugged out stripper induct someone new to take their place so he can take off with the new guys sister, to start life anew! What? There was no consequence to turning the girl’s brother into a drugged out stripper… I found it very concerning, and then they danced some more.

Straight white men don’t really have much to worry about – a poke here and there won’t hurt them.
I say this as a straight white man.

Insecure and clueless straight male trolls have plenty to worry about, but it’s mostly their own internal problems. The emotionally sound ones have little to fear.

And yes, that JL cover – nice as it is – could have been substantially gayer if Joe Phillips had done it. (He’s pretty busy these days, but it would’ve been worth asking him. Or Stephen Sadowski, or Phil Jimenez. For starters.) I’ve never drawn for DC, but I daresay I might even have improved upon the gaiety quotient a bit myself. :)

women are like children. they dont understand the double standard. dont get upset, let them have their candy, so they shut up and dont cry about it. also, if you dont make a fuss, you might get laid, and then who cares about any of this

Lois Lane could support a more hardcore take on Tintin-esque tales… the reporter who travels the world solving mysteries!

What an ugly logo for the 2 part mini series, but did enjoy the comic mainly because of Gray Morrow’s artwork.

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LOIS LANE artist Emanuela Lupacchino will be coming aboard as the new SUPERGIRL artist with issue #30! Now if only they could get a decent writer on that book…

I would LOVE to see Lois Lane and Cameron Chase team up. I would work on that book.

Here’s my pitch:
Lois Lane, girl reporter

Lois and Lucy are Army brats. Ages 13 and 9
Lois runs a blog where she hones her journalistic skills, while getting into situations ala Nancy Drew.

I would only buy this if she spent the entire time trying to trick Superman into giving away his secret identity.

“By Marguerite Bennett and Emanuela Lupacchino” is one way of putting it. The actual creative team is Bennett as the sole writer, Lupacchino as one of the FOUR pencil artists, and there are four inkers. So, Lupacchino’s either 1/8th of the artists involved, our 1/2 of the four art teams involved, depending on how you wanna look at it.

I’m all in favor of buying a Lois Lane comic but I’m not going to buy it *just because* it’s a Lois Lane comic, as this article suggests I should do. Is the book any good?

Took a look at this but it was too boring.

Silver Age Lois Lane or bust!

“Lois Lane could support a more hardcore take on Tintin-esque tales… the reporter who travels the world solving mysteries!”

There are actually dozens of similar comic series in Europe like that, many of them quite sucessful! Here is a couple of examples with female protagonists:

An all-ages series (by an actual former Hergé assistant)
http://www.cinebook.co.uk/index.php?cPath=189&osCsid=3489b70e43d759952ce60408b66aea5d

An adult one, by XIII writer Jean Van Hamme
http://www.cinebook.co.uk/index.php?cPath=169&osCsid=3489b70e43d759952ce60408b66aea5d

I don’t know why they don’t try the same thing in the US. Forget the monthlies, publish an european-style book every six months or so. Self-contained, 64 pages or so. Superman (both as Clark Kent and Superman) is a character, but it’s Lois’s book. Every three books or so, do a HC or TPB compilation for the bookstores.

That would work, I’m sure. Certainly work better than a bottom list monthly! They could do the same for Jimmy Olsen, with more SF-oriented stories.

Sue said:
“Hard to believe that for a character who had her own comic for 16 years, one that outsold Batman”

Did she outsell Batman at the height of Bat-mania, or just the “funny uncle” Batman of the Bat-Mite years?

Heidi said:

” If Lois could survive all the humiliations and bizarreness of the Weisinger Era surely she could still survive in the grim and gritty era.”

Well, what if she really sold BECAUSE of the humiliations and bizarreness of the Weisinger Era? Maybe that’s what the Lois of Today is missing: more of the old “I better teach this snippy broad a lesson” routine.

I keed, I keed.

@genephilips IN 1969 Batman was #9 and Lois Lane was #3 so post Bat-Mite and at the tail end of Dozier!Batmania

I liked it. Especially because of the longer form, that helped. I loved how they treated Superman. Yeah yeah sci-fi and all that, but “I remember when I began to have to cook” is the best line I have seen in a comic book in a long time.