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I was inspired by Fred Hembeck to try my hand at one of these as a warm-up exersize.

Here is my latest comic cover redo. In this case, the cover appealed to me because of the floating head motif -- a common design solution in comics. It was the 90's -- a time of gimmicky covers with things like reflective foil elements.

I noticed that this artist gave many of these iconic characters hairstyles similar to celebrities of the time period. This made this piece ripe for parody!
Here I have redrawn the cover in pen and ink. I noticed that the villainess emanates beams of light. The heroes caught in that beam are fearful or hypnotized. These were abducted by the Redemptress. Those who are not are fierce and angry. They're ticked off because their friends were kidnapped.



Here I've made a copy of the drawing and hand colored it with Crayola markers. To be honest, the story was not that great -- but a really fun cover!
Bonus Question: Which non-Marvel character has been inserted in the lower left section? (Five points).

jeje aweasome cover redos they look fantastic and the anwser from your question its Mighty Andar !!!

Abayo,
Marchino

Wow, hand-colored with crayola markers!?!?!! Amazing work!

Yes, I buy as many different sets as I can find. Tropical colors, bold colors, etc. I have a big bin of them. Crayolas are the best. I imagine there's an expensive kind that are better, but for my budget, they are good. Even if they begin to get dry, you can dip them in water and they come back to life for a while.

The latest in my comics "re-covery" project.

fantastic covers Andy talking about cover redos, a friend and i we are doing a comic about a pathetic superhero called Seboman and the first cover of the comic its a tribute to the comic Hulk #1 by Jack Kirby the comic its more about comedy than other thing so here is the cover:

http://marchino.deviantart.com/art/Sebo ... -106001683

its take us a lot of time and it have a mistake we put C instead a S on the title....we have send the idea to some editorials they never respond or accept ( we were expecting that )

I like the cover. I don't read Spanish, but it made me laugh. Submitting to publishers can be very discouraging. There is some really, really great comics that can't find publishers.

The great thing about self-publishing is that you can print your book anyway, if you want. There are a whole bunch of them, but I've been pretty happy with Ka-Blam. You can get as few or as many of your books as you want. It can have as many pages as you want -- 4, 20, whatever. They will post it on their site, so if someone sees it and wants to order it, they will print on demand.

Keep up the good work!

Here's the latest. The comic cover design strategy is: Someone comes ripping through the cover from the inside of the comic. In this case, Hawkeye seems to be annoyed because, presumably, he has used his manners and crawled around the front cover in the proper manner.

LOVE the Fantastic Four cover redo! They've been my favorite comic super hero team since the late 70's!! Great job!

Thanks Tru, the FF is probably my favorite superhero team. I have bought it off and on, depending on who's writing and drawing it. It's really good, right now, I think.

The latest installment in the Comics Recovery Project is the Cover of Infinity War.




The cover design strategy employed here is one I call A Bunch of Heroes Standing Around Doing Nothing. It's actually used a lot in comics of the last two decades. Yes, they're just loitering, but the looks on their faces say, "As soon as we're done posing for this picture, we are really gonna kick some butt!"

Wolverine here seems to be saying, "Listen here, bub! I hope you bought your tickets -- for the GUN SHOW!"

Sketchbook comic re-interpreting an old Marvel Story. I call it "That Darn Beyonder".