So, since the year is winding down.
How about have ourselves a 2015 cover thread?
Stuff that has really impressed over the past months?
And I'm gonna be posting those from a certain series.
These were done in several groupings.
This is the "Portrait" category.
>>77922836
Best cover of the year hands down.
>>77922851
Well, that series was fantastic all around.
This is my favorite of the Portrait variants.
Brown Jenkins is one mugging piece of work
The "Pantheon" series.
This is a somewhat untraditional way of rendering Cthulhu.
More upright snake than humanoid.
That is a huge Dagon.
This is just obscene
Ia! Ia!
I have no idea what this one is meant to be.
Azathoth is the coolest of the gods.
>>77922871
I didn't read Providence, but Brown Jenkin is supposed to be a huge rat with human face and hands, what's this?
>>77923324
He's still that....this is just his human/dreamform that he uses to fuck with people
>>77923339
Oh, OK. Did Nyarlathotep show up too?
Casanova: Acedia #4
>>77923388
No, not yet - but his mother had a cameo, and the Starry Wisdom cult is a big part of the series.
I was impressed by the first four covers of Island.
Not so much the sixth.
>>77923414
I'm definitely gonna check out this series when it will get published in my country.
Pic related was my favourite DC cover this year.
>>77923422
Emma and Farel's covers are gorgeous
The "Women of HPL" covers are less impressive, but have one or two standouts.
>>77923487
That's an awesome cover, yeah.
The best one of this category - it's really spooky how Wilbur is about to off her.
>>77923510
I was really partial to Gael's cover, to be honest.
>>77923422
>>77923550
Farel and Gael, hands down.
>>77922836
As good as the Portrait and Pantheon covers are, I'm a sucker for the Dreamscape wraparounds.
This one is last but not least.
>>77923760
You gonna post those? Cause I was about to haha.
The Dreamscapes are grand.
>>77923760
The Dreamscape Wraparounds are great because the Dream Cycle gets no love in the mainstream.
>>77923833
Go for it Des.
Poor Ib.
They just wanted to worship their lizard god.
>>77923842
Sarlem, Nathachusetts
It's kinda astounding that Burrows is doing all of these variants.
>>77923863
Burrows work on Providence is incredible. Easily the best in his career. He finally dialed-in his line weights to a point where everything doesn't look so wispy and sparse. I'm sure Moore's scripts aren't lacking on detail either.
>>77922836
I wasn't fond of Jacen Burrow's art in Neonomicon, but he's really growing on me. For whatever reason his work in Providence is so much stronger.
>>77922847
So what Lovecraft thing was this guy a reference to?
>>77923881
>>77923894
Burrows has always been Avatar's sort of "star artist", but I've never been impressed by him other than him being serviceable. Really just flat.
But the detail, tone, and structure of his covers/pages in Providence are his surprising.
Moore has had good collaborators, and Burrows seems to want to match up at last.
Kitties!
>>77923905
It's in the file name - the human villain of The
Horror at Red Hook
>>77923894
>>77923906
Oh yeah. I'm even looking at his first Crossed volume right now and even though I can't distinguish exactly what's different, there's a deliberate maturity to his work on Providence that is just amazing.
Hah goddang I wanted to read the actual series.
Also wanna re-read the Fall of Cthulhu, but can't find it online anywhere.
>>77923918
My mistake.
>>77923921
There's more weight, the coloring/shading is more subtle, and all sorts of minor things that add to a bigger whole.
It's difficult to describe, yeah, but it's night and day.
>>77923922
>goddang I wanted to read the actual series.
I think the storytime I did is still up in the archive.
Hands down
>>77923946
Nice! Thanks Dave.
The last and best category are the "Weird Pulp" variants, also done by Burrows, but with painted colors by Dipascale.
>>77923955
Godzilla in hell is pure fun
>>77923946
Dave I got to tell you, I was a bit dismissive of Providence in the storytime, but I've had a while to think about it and the more I do the more I like it. It's really stuck with me, so thanks again for the storytime.
>>77923968
>>77923991
Fucking avatar and their 9.99 variants. Why is it always the DiPascale covers too? Those Badlands Art Deco/Patrick Nagel-style covers are so god damn sexy.
>>77922998
Oh, I get it.
This is the best one out of those.
Honestly looks like an actual cover.
>>77924016
Yeah, no problem. I had low hopes for it to begin with, but each issue makes me fall harder for it.
Moore has said he's not trying to be definitive, but in a weird way he kinda is.
>>77924040
Hahah that's why I'm waiting for the HC - they're included in the back anyway.
And this is the last of the vairants.
I skipped a small few, but they're not as striking haha.
Already some other good choices in this thread, and in the year as a whole, but this is the strongest bunch I've seen in a long time.
>>77923101
Tsaggottua (spelling is arbitrary) the froglike god of the black abyss.
>>77924040
Finding a crossed sexy makes me feel quite uneasy.
>>77923991
You know what, I think this may be one of the most 'pulp' covers in the thread, as in - it captures the bourgeois paranoia that pulp horror stories set and written in the industrial early 20th century, which neatly ties into those very themes Moore explores in the book; the America beneath. It's no mistake the protagonist of Providence (as well as many Lovecraft ones) is a middle-class guy wandering around the North-East getting spooked by all the weird shit the working class are into, like worshipping horrible extradimensional gods and whatever.
>>77924501
also these are not out yet but I really like them
>>77924539
forgot pic
>>77924552
>>77924562
the new dr fate also had nice covers
>>77924717
I don't really care for the art in a lot of older comics but something about modern interpretations of it, like this and those Deadpool issues, looks really good
There were a lot of nice Spider-Gwen covers
Great cover for a shitty comic.
A damn fine variant
>>77923534
I love this one, the vaginal/birthing/loss of innocence symbolism is just so well done, and that surreal sense of dread from wilbur's reflection is just... Damn. Really just knocking it out of the park, Providence.
>>77924172
Crossed fashion show when?
>>77923101
"Deep One"; Shadow Over Innsmouth...?
>>77925108
STANDING
