Issue 6? There is no Issue 6. Issue 7: No pooftas.
26 comments on “Upcoming FALLEN ANGEL covers”
Very neat. I liked the last one best, neat juxtaposition of the fine drawing and the other bit.
cool
Is there any reason that you try to prevent the user from saving the pictures locally?
Emphasis on try to prevent.
Don’t know what you’re talking about, Ralf. I just tried saving all three images and it worked fine. Must be a local system issue.
Glenn:
Any reason why the links did NOT work when I tried to access them?
Those are really nice covers. I especially like #8.
Rob
Hey, what does it say in the background of issue 8’s cover?
–A Curious but Self Hating Jew
This are quite sweet, but is DC following Marvel’s trend of having non-plot-specific covers. That would be uncool.
Ralf: Wasn’t try to prevent downloading, was trying to keep bandwidth usage low by not having the images load in every time someone accesses the page for the next ten days. Download away.
Lee: No clue. What browser are you using? Do you have javascript turned off?
No, I assure you, the covers are generally specific to the plot. You just have to actually read the book to understand them.
PAD
Cool. Looks like Spider-Man and the Spectre will be guest-starring. 🙂
Er, I can read the Chai at least…Never learned hebrew w/o the vowels.
I was referring to the part of the html that has the window close as soon as focus is lost.
Yeah – why the onBlur=”window.close()”? Hardly fatal, but irritating nonetheless.
Lee,
If you do have javascript enalbled but are using a pop-up blocker that would also diable the link. Just hold down the key that toggles the pop-up blocker while accessing the link.
You just have to actually read the book to understand them.
The nerve of some people. I mean, actually have to read a comic. Sheesh.
Travis
The background of cover #8 is an old-style medical diagram of the human heart. At least I think it’s a human heart.
They look great to me. I think Fallen Angel covers are the perfect mix between being relevent to the story and the “Marvel portrait style”.
Looking forward to this weeks FA!
My goodness! Covers actually related to the comic book inside! This could change everything!
(I’m getting really bored with the covers on Marvel’s comics that are just small posters. I think it’s great that DC hasn’t changed from its way in this regard, among others.)
New poster here. Thanks, Peter, for the opportunity.
If cover art is supposed to be the “hook” to get a new reader to take a book home, then, striking as C7 is, I don’t think it works. Certainly, it’ll stand out on the shelf, its two-color cohesiveness matched up against the multi-hued chaos of its neighbors. But its overall affect on me is distancing.
I experienced that same emotion by cover 3 of FA. FA was presented intriguingly on the first three covers, but with such minimalists settings that I found it repetitous & off-putting by # 3. (The greenish background on one, as I remember it, didn’t help, either.) What cover 7 ultimately reminds me of is those late-1950s movie posters with their black-on-white, sharp-edged images. High style with no emotional resonance.
And that type of presentation is a sharply disjunctive from the covers that came before and especially with covers 8 & 9. With those, the art is into a full “Society of American Illustrators” mode, which is where I think it should have been from the beginning. The “reader /viewer” can easily start running out possible story angles in his/her mind while reaching for the book. Especially Cvr 8 serves to “humanize” the main character, whom the “viewer /reader” can identify as such from her active stance and her juxtaposition with the title running overhead. Oh, and two women in an interpersonal exchange! (A subtle marketing ploy towards current “Strangers in Paradise” readers?)
It’s Cover 9 that seems to me to fully convey the interior’s possibilities. The layered effect of the text in the background, FA’s hand/body action in the middle, and the single word/letter in the foreground creates, for me, a dynamic depth. Action contained and expressed within and through literateness. With both of these covers, I felt an immediate connection to the story possibilities and so a positive emotional pull.
Now, if I could only “read” the background text or had some idea of what the Hebrew “word/letter” meant, I’d likely have a great “Ah-HA!!” experience, something like what I had with the ALS cover on Supergirl. I’m hoping it won’t be considered a Real Spoiler if some one (the Kindly Author, per chance?) would explicate the text?
I’m guessing “Life” or “Death”.
To Glenn and Brian G.:
It was the pop up blocker!
Covers look great with blocker off.
Can’t wait till the issues come out to read Peter’s scripts.
Thanks again.
Lee 🙂
Evil javascript! Evil!
BTW – whatever happened to the original [dark] cover of #1? Never going to use it?
Um, this may be a question I should know the answer to, but why no issue 6?
Beth:
There is an issue six. It’s just that that specific issue is too far into production to ‘preview’ the cover.
“It’s just that that specific issue is too far into production to ‘preview’ the cover.”
Uh…no. The cover has been available for many months via Previews.
The images are strong and impressive. They should certainly stand out among the competition. And unlike the earlier issues,there don’t seem to be any children threatened by demons. (Although, as events turned out, those covers were indicicative of the content of the books.)
The one thing I don’t understand is issue 9. It will hit the store shelves long after the holiday season. So the image of a dreidel where the markings have fallen off may not have the intended chilling effect.
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Very neat. I liked the last one best, neat juxtaposition of the fine drawing and the other bit.
cool
Is there any reason that you try to prevent the user from saving the pictures locally?
Emphasis on try to prevent.
Don’t know what you’re talking about, Ralf. I just tried saving all three images and it worked fine. Must be a local system issue.
Glenn:
Any reason why the links did NOT work when I tried to access them?
Those are really nice covers. I especially like #8.
Rob
Hey, what does it say in the background of issue 8’s cover?
–A Curious but Self Hating Jew
This are quite sweet, but is DC following Marvel’s trend of having non-plot-specific covers. That would be uncool.
Ralf: Wasn’t try to prevent downloading, was trying to keep bandwidth usage low by not having the images load in every time someone accesses the page for the next ten days. Download away.
Lee: No clue. What browser are you using? Do you have javascript turned off?
No, I assure you, the covers are generally specific to the plot. You just have to actually read the book to understand them.
PAD
Cool. Looks like Spider-Man and the Spectre will be guest-starring. 🙂
Er, I can read the Chai at least…Never learned hebrew w/o the vowels.
I was referring to the part of the html that has the window close as soon as focus is lost.
Also, fyi, there is a non-sketch version of #7 available at http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0310/21/fallenangel7.jpg
Yeah – why the onBlur=”window.close()”? Hardly fatal, but irritating nonetheless.
Lee,
If you do have javascript enalbled but are using a pop-up blocker that would also diable the link. Just hold down the key that toggles the pop-up blocker while accessing the link.
You just have to actually read the book to understand them.
The nerve of some people. I mean, actually have to read a comic. Sheesh.
Travis
The background of cover #8 is an old-style medical diagram of the human heart. At least I think it’s a human heart.
They look great to me. I think Fallen Angel covers are the perfect mix between being relevent to the story and the “Marvel portrait style”.
Looking forward to this weeks FA!
My goodness! Covers actually related to the comic book inside! This could change everything!
(I’m getting really bored with the covers on Marvel’s comics that are just small posters. I think it’s great that DC hasn’t changed from its way in this regard, among others.)
New poster here. Thanks, Peter, for the opportunity.
If cover art is supposed to be the “hook” to get a new reader to take a book home, then, striking as C7 is, I don’t think it works. Certainly, it’ll stand out on the shelf, its two-color cohesiveness matched up against the multi-hued chaos of its neighbors. But its overall affect on me is distancing.
I experienced that same emotion by cover 3 of FA. FA was presented intriguingly on the first three covers, but with such minimalists settings that I found it repetitous & off-putting by # 3. (The greenish background on one, as I remember it, didn’t help, either.) What cover 7 ultimately reminds me of is those late-1950s movie posters with their black-on-white, sharp-edged images. High style with no emotional resonance.
And that type of presentation is a sharply disjunctive from the covers that came before and especially with covers 8 & 9. With those, the art is into a full “Society of American Illustrators” mode, which is where I think it should have been from the beginning. The “reader /viewer” can easily start running out possible story angles in his/her mind while reaching for the book. Especially Cvr 8 serves to “humanize” the main character, whom the “viewer /reader” can identify as such from her active stance and her juxtaposition with the title running overhead. Oh, and two women in an interpersonal exchange! (A subtle marketing ploy towards current “Strangers in Paradise” readers?)
It’s Cover 9 that seems to me to fully convey the interior’s possibilities. The layered effect of the text in the background, FA’s hand/body action in the middle, and the single word/letter in the foreground creates, for me, a dynamic depth. Action contained and expressed within and through literateness. With both of these covers, I felt an immediate connection to the story possibilities and so a positive emotional pull.
Now, if I could only “read” the background text or had some idea of what the Hebrew “word/letter” meant, I’d likely have a great “Ah-HA!!” experience, something like what I had with the ALS cover on Supergirl. I’m hoping it won’t be considered a Real Spoiler if some one (the Kindly Author, per chance?) would explicate the text?
I’m guessing “Life” or “Death”.
To Glenn and Brian G.:
It was the pop up blocker!
Covers look great with blocker off.
Can’t wait till the issues come out to read Peter’s scripts.
Thanks again.
Lee 🙂
Evil javascript! Evil!
BTW – whatever happened to the original [dark] cover of #1? Never going to use it?
Um, this may be a question I should know the answer to, but why no issue 6?
Beth:
There is an issue six. It’s just that that specific issue is too far into production to ‘preview’ the cover.
“It’s just that that specific issue is too far into production to ‘preview’ the cover.”
Uh…no. The cover has been available for many months via Previews.
http://imagescommerce.bcentral.com/merchantfiles/4693553/fallen.jpg
The images are strong and impressive. They should certainly stand out among the competition. And unlike the earlier issues,there don’t seem to be any children threatened by demons. (Although, as events turned out, those covers were indicicative of the content of the books.)
The one thing I don’t understand is issue 9. It will hit the store shelves long after the holiday season. So the image of a dreidel where the markings have fallen off may not have the intended chilling effect.