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Cover of the Week: Excalibur #4

Saturday, November 7th, 2009
Excalibur (1988 series) #4 by Alan Davis & Paul Neary

Excalibur (1988 series) #4 by Alan Davis & Paul Neary

After Frank Miller’s Dark Knight and Moore & Gibbons’ Watchmen, superhero comics became darker and a little bit “too” serious”

In response to that DC’s Justice League and Marvel’s Excalibur put some humour in the business.

Cover of the week: Los reyes Elfos #1 by Victor Santos

Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Los Reyes Elfos #1

Los Reyes Elfos #1

Victor Santos’ Los Reyes Elfos (The Elven Kings) is a 2 issue miniseries (later reprinted in a softcover) self-published in 2000 under the label 7 monos.

On the personal side, I have to say that I didn’t see the series’ potential when I was offered to “invest” on it. But it was a big success in the Spanish comics independent market and gave a big push to Victor’s career, helping him to to keep working and evolving constantly up to reach a very high level as shown in works like Mice Templar or Filthy Rich.

Definitively, a work that has to be known…

Cover of the week: The Question #1 by Bill Sienkiewicz

Monday, June 8th, 2009
Question (1988 series) #1

Question (1988 series) #1

Dennis O’Neil and Denys Cowan’s  The Question was one of those memorable series showing how 1980’s was the period in which American mainstream comic-books started targeting broader audiences, creating series and formats for more adult readers.
The curious thing about this cover is that doesn’t matter how good the Bill Sienkiewicz’s cover was it wasn´t used for the Spanish edition of the series

Cover of the week: Plastic Man #3 by Kyle Baker

Monday, June 1st, 2009
Plastic Man #3 (2004 series) by Kyle Baker

Plastic Man #3 (2004 series) by Kyle Baker

No words needed.

Cover of the week: Legends of the DC Universe #11 by Kevin Nowlan

Saturday, May 30th, 2009
Legends of the DC universe by kevin Nowlan

Legends of the DC Universe by Kevin Nowlan

Let’s start this section displaying one of those comics I bought just because the cover was amazing.

Legends of the DC Universe was a very heterogeneous series, with only a few high quality issues, but most covers were very good.

Actually, you will see many of them in this section…