As we all know, the titles of comics have to appear on the cover, usually right at the top. Every now and then, though, the cover artist does something a bit different and puts the Title in Shot, whether it's part of the scenery:
or even part of the dialogue:
Ah, dialogue on the cover. Why isn't there more of that these days?
Because if there was dialogue on the covers, they couldn't do the interchangeable generic covers that 90% of comics seem to have today...
ReplyDeleteArgh, Snell beat me to it. I love that if you show me a cover from "back in the day" I can tell you what happened in the story. Show me one of the "interchangeable generic cover" of the last four or five years and I would be hard pressed to tell you little beyond the title.....
ReplyDeleteSome fab examples, there. Ed Hannigan was a great one for integrating titles into his art, too, back in his Spidey days, especially. And of course, The Flash had a fair few, and Legion's The Great Darkness Saga was a corker.
ReplyDelete"interchangeable generic covers" eh? That bears a bit more investigating....
ReplyDeleteMore Titles in Shot to come, by the way, along with a whole bunch more cover memes!