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They have really fallen from favour now. Perhaps words just don't look that good on painted art (speech bubbles always look out of place to my eyes so what price the terror baron of dinosaur city?).

I think they are classic because i) they can have the same kind of compressed impact effect as a great headline, ii) they suggest what might ACTUALLY BE HAPPENING IN THE COMIC. The loss of them seems indicative to me of the idea that 'catching someone's eye' in a comic shop simply doesn't happen any more.

I don't know to what extent this is all true of the indie sector too.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't recall any "respectable" indie books w/ words on the cover. I think Milk & Cheese worked both captions AND dialogue onto their covers, which worked, bless them.

The worst was that year+ period in Marvel recently where they'd just have some generic heroic cover that had nothing to do w/ the contents, & then the name / chapter of the story arc (BALLOON BOBBINS, PART 3 OF 10) somewhere on the cover. FOUL! Esp. when Dorky Dorkington can't tell one Greg Horn cover from another, and ends up buying duplicates!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Most of the She-Hulk covers had nothing or little to do with the story (the Titania covers being the exception), but at least bore some sense of the tenor of the series.
No words though.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

The other worst was the month that DC had all their comics have just the star's face on the cover.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Huk, that's fine - Shulkie in an elevator with Howard The Duck and Forbush Man (or the dood w/ the pot on his head) = I KNOW WHAT'S COMING. Get some aspect of the series on the cover. Spider-Man clinging to a nondescript NYC brick wall = SHOW ME SOMETHING.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

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