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2000 AD => General => Topic started by: James on 27 January, 2003, 06:33:12 PM

Title: Last week's cover
Post by: James on 27 January, 2003, 06:33:12 PM
I didn't come across any comments on last week's cover(Dredd/Aliens-Greg Staples). This concerns me as it is possibly the best cover I have ever seen. A classic in the making.

Greg Staples' work has evolved spectacularly over the years, and this latest effort is truly a masterpiece.

It's interesting to see all his(or anyone else's) covers all lined up to see how styles change and skills improve over the years. See link below.

Anyone care to comment?

Link: Greg's progress

Title: Re: Last week's cover
Post by: paulvonscott on 27 January, 2003, 07:34:19 PM
I liked the cover (and yer wallpaper), I thought the artist should have put the character first and avoided that chin (me and my chin problems).  Dred has a wiggly big chin and is unshaven.  It makes him look like a member of the special tramp division.  

I'm getting a bit irritated by artists putting their version of Dredd before a great Dredd pic, it happens a lot.  I'd rather they got it right before they started riffing off the basic concept.

It's drawn very well, but the background also does it no favours.  

I think I gave it a high vote even still.

Cheers

Paul
Title: Re: Last week's cover
Post by: Jared Katooie on 27 January, 2003, 07:44:36 PM
c'mon Paul! He's got to have some chin!

J.
Title: Re: Last week's cover
Post by: Queen Firey-Bou on 27 January, 2003, 09:38:52 PM
well if you'd been fighting aliens you'd not have time furra shave ! hopefully that fluff saved his manly chin from the alien drool.

a very classy cover indeed.
Title: Re: Last week's cover
Post by: Last of the V8's on 28 January, 2003, 12:38:19 AM
Twas a great cover but Dredds chin seemed wrong. Looked like a mirror image of the Alien chin. Maybe the point?
The Alien carapice was far too slim too, ( think I'm being a bit fanboy there , belive this will be a cover when the USA version hits the stands.
Title: Re: Last week's cover
Post by: Oddboy on 28 January, 2003, 05:51:15 PM
I saw somewhere in internet land the DH issue#1 cover, and it is the same art as this one.
Title: Re: Last week's cover
Post by: Marbles on 28 January, 2003, 06:05:06 PM
A really excellent, eye-catching cover. More like these please!