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Title: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: Funt Solo on 19 January, 2021, 03:25:36 PM
Cover punnage is an art form, and "Hack to the Future" (from prog 1091) caught my eye yesterday as I was doing a bit of letterer indexing:

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/mediumres/1091.jpg)


If you want to post up a favorite all you need to do is paste the following URL into img tags and swap out the "???" with the prog number: http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/mediumres/???.jpg

Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: The Enigmatic Dr X on 19 January, 2021, 03:33:13 PM
Be Pure! Be Vigilant! Be... my valentine?

That one sticks in my head. Not sure what prog. Circa 614?
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: Funt Solo on 19 January, 2021, 03:39:25 PM
Quote from: The Enigmatic Dr X on 19 January, 2021, 03:33:13 PM
Be Pure! Be Vigilant! Be... my valentine?

That one sticks in my head. Not sure what prog. Circa 614?

561:
(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/mediumres/561.jpg)
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: BPP on 19 January, 2021, 04:04:09 PM
The Anderson 'She knows what your thinking' cheesecake one always made me chortle.
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: Dandontdare on 19 January, 2021, 07:47:20 PM
Not a tagline as such, but "um ... synthi sausage" sticks in the mind. (Pete Wells has a beautiful commission from Carlos of that cover with the sausage replaced by a Gregg's pasty - once he'd explained to him what a pasty was!)
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: Colin YNWA on 19 January, 2021, 08:16:01 PM
Zenith's Back.
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: Huey2 on 19 January, 2021, 08:39:32 PM
Prog 430: Ace Garp - You'll never warp alone
Prog 412: Hot Digital Dog
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: Funt Solo on 19 January, 2021, 08:45:55 PM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 19 January, 2021, 08:16:01 PM
Zenith's Back.

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/mediumres/590.jpg)

So, was this a coincidence or an homage?...

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/mediumres/1460.jpg)
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: Funt Solo on 19 January, 2021, 08:48:20 PM
Quote from: Huey2 on 19 January, 2021, 08:39:32 PM
Prog 430: Ace Garp - You'll never warp alone
Prog 412: Hot Digital Dog

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/mediumres/430.jpg)

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/mediumres/413.jpg)
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: Funt Solo on 19 January, 2021, 08:51:15 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 19 January, 2021, 07:47:20 PM
Not a tagline as such, but "um ... synthi sausage" sticks in the mind. (Pete Wells has a beautiful commission from Carlos of that cover with the sausage replaced by a Gregg's pasty - once he'd explained to him what a pasty was!)

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/mediumres/333.jpg)
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: Timothy on 19 January, 2021, 09:29:25 PM
ABCKOBEMSNAFUOK?
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: Funt Solo on 19 January, 2021, 09:35:01 PM
Quote from: Timothy on 19 January, 2021, 09:29:25 PM
ABCKOBEMSNAFUOK?

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/mediumres/399.jpg)

I never got BEM, though. Bug-Eyed Monster?
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: I, Cosh on 19 January, 2021, 10:08:31 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 19 January, 2021, 08:45:55 PM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 19 January, 2021, 08:16:01 PM
Zenith's Back.
So, was this a coincidence or an homage?...

(https://c.files.bbci.co.uk/56F6/production/_100326222_bowie-cover.jpg)
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: Funt Solo on 19 January, 2021, 11:14:51 PM
Quote from: BPP on 19 January, 2021, 04:04:09 PM
The Anderson 'She knows what your thinking' cheesecake one always made me chortle.

Took me a while to find this one:

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/megazine/hires/2.51.jpg)
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 19 January, 2021, 11:43:55 PM
Ironically, attached to the least sexy image of Anderson (and, arguably, the image that looks least like the character) ever committed to paper.
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: TordelBack on 20 January, 2021, 12:33:50 AM
Quick browse of Barney to get some wording straight suggests these things go in definite waves:

Rogue Playing Games? Dragons in Dungeons!
Mega City Mobsters: The Big Fish "You wanna end up inna tin, Sardini?"
Big Mammy Bops Chops,  Drops Cop!
Join us on Mutant Hospital,  when Strontium Doc says: "It's time for your shots,  Mr.  Scully! ".



ASIDE: I'm sure I've seen it mentioned before, but Robo-Hunter getting 6 out of 10 covers from 259-268 really stands out, not least because it's during The Apocalypse War!
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: Dandontdare on 20 January, 2021, 12:43:55 AM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 19 January, 2021, 11:43:55 PM
Ironically, attached to the least sexy image of Anderson (and, arguably, the image that looks least like the character) ever committed to paper.

but with the coolest of the free gifts! I've still got mine, but most of the paint's rubbed off
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: sixmo on 20 January, 2021, 02:23:58 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 20 January, 2021, 12:33:50 AM

Mega City Mobsters: The Big Fish "You wanna end up inna tin, Sardini?"

ASIDE: I'm sure I've seen it mentioned before, but Robo-Hunter getting 6 out of 10 covers from 259-268 really stands out, not least because it's during The Apocalypse War!

Ah here, Carlos was already lashing out episode after episode of the actual story. You couldn't ask for a load of covers too!

Sardini line is brilliant, by the way. One of the first that came to my mind.
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: davidbishop on 20 January, 2021, 07:09:44 AM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 19 January, 2021, 11:43:55 PM
Ironically, attached to the least sexy image of Anderson (and, arguably, the image that looks least like the character) ever committed to paper.

Not a bad line-up inside: Wagner & Gibson on Dredd; Rennie & Quitely on Missionary Man; R Morrison & MacNeil on Shimura; the marmite delights of Creep by Spencer & Cullen; plus the revolving door of artists on Anderson: Postcards From the Edge, written by Alan Grant.
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: abelardsnazz on 20 January, 2021, 08:03:39 AM
The Big Sleep: Dredd Makes Novel Arrest! "You're Booked, Creep!"
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: AlexF on 20 January, 2021, 09:56:27 AM
Quote from: TordelBack on 20 January, 2021, 12:33:50 AM
Rogue Playing Games? Dragons in Dungeons!
Mega City Mobsters: The Big Fish "You wanna end up inna tin, Sardini?"
Big Mammy Bops Chops,  Drops Cop!
Join us on Mutant Hospital,  when Strontium Doc says: "It's time for your shots,  Mr.  Scully! ".

I would've picked all these myself!
Have been scrmabling to find more recent classics but it's clearly a tricky thing to get right.
I'm fond of Prog 2037's 'Unexpected item in the fragging area', although it would've been even funnier if it was attached to a Future Shock about a hapless loser getting cross in an AI supermarket.

I do enjoy when the cover line is just a song or film title; Skip Tracer on 2171 takes the prize by referencing Police Academy 6, of all films.
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: Jim_Campbell on 20 January, 2021, 10:11:32 AM
My favourite in a lot of years is this one...

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/hires/1894.jpg)

It's a great play on words, made doubly clever by how appropriate the passage from which it's taken is...

Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills...
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: BPP on 20 January, 2021, 12:42:30 PM
Genius original and call back...

(https://comicvine1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/scale_large/0/9116/358141-19752-127672-1-2000-a-d.jpg)

(https://comicvine1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/scale_large/9/96686/1957907-2000ad_1746______john_williams_dcp_011_pagecover.jpg)



Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: BPP on 20 January, 2021, 12:50:25 PM
More recently

Frost / Nixon
Unexpected Item in Fragging Area
Faceboot
Homies under der Hammer
Trojan Hearse
From Here to Paternity
Abra Cadaver

(Guess the thrills without looking)
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: davidbishop on 20 January, 2021, 01:28:10 PM
KISS MY ASP!

or

DEATH FISH!
Sinister Dexter's
Seafood Die-T
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: Timothy on 20 January, 2021, 01:42:57 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 19 January, 2021, 11:14:51 PM
Quote from: BPP on 19 January, 2021, 04:04:09 PM
The Anderson 'She knows what your thinking' cheesecake one always made me chortle.

Took me a while to find this one:

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/megazine/hires/2.51.jpg)

I suspect that's not the one he had in mind. The line was also used on a Ewins star scan which may be being confused with the cover.
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: JayzusB.Christ on 20 January, 2021, 01:50:33 PM
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 19 January, 2021, 11:43:55 PM
Ironically, attached to the least sexy image of Anderson (and, arguably, the image that looks least like the character) ever committed to paper.

Very much like Frances Bean Cobain, but, well, obviously that wasn't the reference.  It must have been somebody famous though - during that Sampson run on Anderson she was always a celebrity photograph with blobs of yellow hair on top.

'Reagan and the Red Menace' was a good one; though I was a bit too young to get it at the time.
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: Funt Solo on 20 January, 2021, 03:47:45 PM
Quote from: BPP on 20 January, 2021, 12:50:25 PM
More recently

Frost / Nixon
Unexpected Item in Fragging Area
Faceboot
Homies under der Hammer
Trojan Hearse
From Here to Paternity
Abra Cadaver

(Guess the thrills without looking)

Okay, without looking...

Frost / Nixon - Low Life
Unexpected Item in Fragging Area - Grey Area
Faceboot - ??? - oh, wait - Judge Dredd
Homies under der Hammer - Strontium Dog
Trojan Hearse - Aquila or, more likely, Sinister Dexter
From Here to Paternity - ??? - should be Al's Baby, but you said recent, so...
Abra Cadaver - Aquila or Absalom
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: BPP on 20 January, 2021, 05:17:37 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 20 January, 2021, 03:47:45 PM
Quote from: BPP on 20 January, 2021, 12:50:25 PM
More recently

Frost / Nixon
Unexpected Item in Fragging Area
Faceboot
Homies under der Hammer
Trojan Hearse
From Here to Paternity
Abra Cadaver

(Guess the thrills without looking)

Okay, without looking...

Frost / Nixon - Low Life
Unexpected Item in Fragging Area - Grey Area
Faceboot - ??? - oh, wait - Judge Dredd
Homies under der Hammer - Strontium Dog
Trojan Hearse - Aquila or, more likely, Sinister Dexter
From Here to Paternity - ??? - should be Al's Baby, but you said recent, so...
Abra Cadaver - Aquila or Absalom

3/7
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: Funt Solo on 20 January, 2021, 05:27:35 PM
Ones I know are correct:

Unexpected Item in Fragging Area - Grey Area
Homies under der Hammer - Strontium Dog

Frost / Nixon could actually be Judge Dredd - the whole Titan/Enceladus thing.

Hrmn...

Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: Funt Solo on 20 January, 2021, 07:19:21 PM
Quote from: BPP on 20 January, 2021, 12:50:25 PM
More recently

Frost / Nixon
Unexpected Item in Fragging Area
Faceboot
Homies under der Hammer
Trojan Hearse
From Here to Paternity
Abra Cadaver

(Guess the thrills without looking)

Obviously I'm too engaged with this, but I'll have another go...

Frost / Nixon - Judge Dredd
Unexpected Item in Fragging Area - Grey Area
Faceboot - Judge Dredd
Homies under der Hammer - Strontium Dog
Trojan Hearse - Slaine
From Here to Paternity - ???
Abra Cadaver - Ampney Crucis Investigates...
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: BPP on 20 January, 2021, 10:56:45 PM
5/7
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: Funt Solo on 21 January, 2021, 01:13:52 AM
Quote from: BPP on 20 January, 2021, 10:56:45 PM
5/7

I'm assuming it's Abra Cadaver that I'm wrong on (although my Faceboot is also a guess). The Paternity one has me stumped - I'm trying to think of parentage storylines and not getting far.

Still, I'll take 5 out of 7 as nae bad on a second try.

The ones I'm sure on, I'll be able to find pretty quickly...

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/mediumres/1942.jpg)

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/mediumres/2037.jpg)

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/mediumres/2081.jpg)

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/mediumres/1930.jpg)
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: BPP on 21 January, 2021, 09:12:20 AM
A solid effort. Since no-one else is playing...

Stone Island

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/mediumres/1553.jpg)

The ten-seconders

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/mediumres/1839.jpg)


Dredd
(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/mediumres/1847.jpg)
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: AlexF on 21 January, 2021, 09:33:57 AM
Aha - that 'faceboot' pun makes sense now that I see the font they used for it.
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: BPP on 21 January, 2021, 10:11:38 AM
Slightly disappointed the recent Simp story didn't inspire a TWITter STORMing cover.
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: TordelBack on 21 January, 2021, 12:49:49 PM
Quote from: BPP on 21 January, 2021, 10:11:38 AM
Slightly disappointed the recent Simp story didn't inspire a TWITter STORMing cover.

Damnit.
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: Funt Solo on 21 January, 2021, 06:06:21 PM
Just posting up some of the ones people have mentioned that were easy to find:

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/mediumres/525.jpg)

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/mediumres/2171.jpg)

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/mediumres/429.jpg)

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/mediumres/507.jpg)

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/mediumres/539.jpg)

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/mediumres/467.jpg)

(http://www.2000ad.org/covers/2000ad/mediumres/550.jpg)
Title: Re: Favorite Cover Lines
Post by: Huey2 on 21 January, 2021, 10:20:20 PM
415: Bright eyes, burning like fire.
438: Warning:Nem at work.

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