Copycat covers?

[thekamisama]

We were at the local comic store Saturday for their anniversary sale. Picked up a few half price trades and got lots of early Uncanny X-Men back issues and alternate cover comics for only a buck a piece. Most of what I got in single floppy comics will end up as sale books or trade bait when I hit the dirt mall again in the spring

Comments

[lurkerwithout]

As Bully the Little Stuffed Bull shows its not that uncommon...

[thekamisama]

No doubt that homage covers are almost standard practice in modern comics, but this is an odd image to see repeated in less than two months by the same publisher.

[philippos42]

Visual language, babeh.

And I really don't know who those DP characters are.

[thekamisama]

hmm didn't post the reply...

Anywhoos I think it is the new look versions of Mento and Elasti Girl.

[full_metal_ox]

The image of the sailor kissing his girlfriend also figures in the recent NIGHT AT THE SMITHSONIAN (the hero and a magically-animated Amelia Earhart mannequin stray into the famous photograph, with confusion ensuing.)

[thekamisama]

Somehow I now want to see this image recreated with Amy Adams and Hillary Swank both dressed as Amelia Earhart.

[klaproth_1]

It's called "referencing." Everybody does it.

[thekamisama]

Which maybe why I said that my son easily notices homage and swipe covers...