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 Folie à Twenty-Twos!
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COVER MADNESS! Choose one per matchup -- no ties -- on your opinion of the cover merits alone. Click images to see larger versionsPrevious editions, for perusal and/or catch-up: Elevens, Twelves, Eights, Tens, Twenty-Nines, Eighteens, Fifteens, Fives, Nines, Seventeens, Nineteens, Sixteens, Sixes, Twenties1. TEEN TITANS vs. NEW TEEN TITANS   2. BIG TOWN vs. HOWDY DOODY   3. LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES vs. ELEKTRA   4. TRUE LIFE SECRETS vs. PICTORIAL ROMANCES  
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1. TEEN TITANS
2. BIG TOWN
3. LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES
4. TRUE LIFE SECRETS
Still "Fickles" to my friends.
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1. NEW TEEN TITANS - love the dramatic pose and the Titans relatively smaller and falling back
2. BIG TOWN - make me mildly curious to read it
3. ELECTRA - I want to vote LSH which is a good cover, but the pose and background and overall depth and detail of Elektra appeals to me more
4. PICTORIAL ROMANCES - neither are a big draw for me but number one feels fairly standard and I want to know what happens in number two, even if I hope it results in both characters getting their comeuppance.
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5. X-MEN THE HIDDEN YEARS vs. FANTASTIC FOUR   6. FEATURE COMICS vs. THE FUNNIES   7. ANIMAL ANTICS vs. FUNNY FOLKS   8. HIT COMICS vs. BIG SHOT COMICS  
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5. X-MEN THE HIDDEN YEARS
6. THE FUNNIES
7. FUNNY FOLKS
8. HIT COMICS
Still "Fickles" to my friends.
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1. TEEN TITANS vs. NEW TEEN TITANS 2. BIG TOWN vs. HOWDY DOODY 3. LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES vs. ELECTRA 4. TRUE LIFE SECRETS vs. PICTORIAL ROMANCES 5. X-MEN THE HIDDEN YEARS vs. FANTASTIC FOUR 6. FEATURE COMICS vs. THE FUNNIES 7. ANIMAL ANTICS vs. FUNNY FOLKS 8. HIT COMICS vs. BIG SHOT COMICS
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1. Teen Titans. There's a story hook to it, that the fall of the New Teen Titans can't match. Nice vertical split between the worlds on original flavour titans too.
2. Big Town. Clever of the criminal mastermind to have been hiding out in the sports section of that newspaper all along. It's a Bee for effort for Howdy.
3. Electra for all the extra detail, that doesn't overwhelm the character. The steam rising to allow space for the story title gets points.
4. Pictorial. The domestic tension of the three of them living together, and probably all looking to bump the other two off at some point.
5. Fantastic Four. It looks like she was fired rather than the usual FF quitting. But there's more of a story, and family drama, than the X-Folks trundling off into a Sunfire effect.
6. The funnies. Nice to see the female character play the gag.
7. Funny Folks. While the other cover is good, Folks wins as it not only shows the guy trying to re-enact being at the game, but also that he never pays to get in.
8. Big Shot. For a bite already have been taken out of our lead, but also for the snow on the logo and it's angle offset against the slope the characters are on.
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
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5. X-MEN THE HIDDEN YEARS - I was temoted to give it to F4 because the cover says something whereas the X-Men doesn't, but artistically the X-Men wins out.
6. THE FUNNIES - standing back I prefer Feature as Funnies seems a bit bland but it does a much better job of portraying the joke. Also I don't want that cop on my beat.
7. FUNNY FOLKS - for the better joke. Made me snort.
8. HIT COMICS - great visual imagery (and bonus points for that image on "Hit" comics.
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1. TEEN TITANS. NTT is well-done -- bonus points for BB's Big Dot motif. But TT is exciting! The contrast between the 2 sides, the logo slashing through at an angle! The right kind of extra. PS on the NTT: 2. BIG TOWN. The bee blends in on HD, making him look like a crazed butterfly guy. Odd. 3. ELEKTRA. I don't like either central figure, but the pearlescent effect of E's white costume stands out, and that credenza or whatever. Hmm, now I'm thinking about how back when I was getting into comics in the 80s that I didn't anticipate talking to people on computers about fictional furniture. I think Elektra was dead at the time, which leads us to.... 4. There's just too much to unpack on True Life Secrets, even apart form the Charlton tendency to apply makeup like a six-year-old. Not that PICTORIAL ROMANCES is a default win, oh no. That's MATT BAKER!! And you want to read that story!! Both comics are in the public domain and can be read at the Digital Comic Museum: True life Secrets Pictorial Romances. Do the covers reflect the contents? Well....
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5. Yep, I'm giving it to FANTASTIC FOUR over the X-men though FF is pullling an X-men ( 138). I like the colors more. 6. FEATURE COMICS. The more-or-less same gag isn't much. Feature gives you a package to look at, anyway. 7. ANIMAL ANTICS.8. BIG SHOT by default. I don't like the figure style on Hit.
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9. LOVELESS vs. DAZZLER   10. LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES vs. GODLAND   11. X-FACTOR vs. GANG BUSTERS   12. DOOM PATROL vs. BOOSTER GOLD  
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9. DAZZLER - just perosnal taste. Dazzler is pretty standard and Loveless is innovative but it just doesn't appeal to me.
10. LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES - Great mix of faces. Godland is okay but that's all.
11. GANG BUSTERS - I was going to go with X-Factor even though it isn't one of my favourite Walt Simonson covers but then I saw the story Gang Busters was telling so well.
12. DOOM PATROL - tough one, both great covers. Pretty much a coin toss but Doom Patrol is perhaps a little more intriguing
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9. DAZZLER. I think I'm in the same general space as stile. I probably like the art on Loveless better, but I like the bright-n-shiny on the (nothing special) Dazzler cover more at the moment.
10. GODLAND. I don't know what the LSH cover is trying to tell me AND I'VE READ IT.
11. X-FACTOR. Them funky-flexin phalanges!
12. Despite the fact that of the two I'd probably read Doom Patrol, BOOSTER GOLD image is sharper.
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9. DAZZLER
10. GODLAND
11. X-FACTOR
12. DOOM PATROL
Still "Fickles" to my friends.
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Don't Stop Peelieving
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Sidebar: Not having easy access to my copy of the Baxter LSH 22 (see: Lazy Hippie), who is the character slice shown between Universo and Dawnstar???
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Sidebar: Not having easy access to my copy of the Baxter LSH 22 (see: Lazy Hippie), who is the character slice shown between Universo and Dawnstar??? That's super-memorable Legion villain The Restorer!
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Don't Stop Peelieving
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...Yeah, I got nothing. Definitely not a character I remember.  Thanks, though! 
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9. Loveless. Cons on the run, an escape car ready. But at each others throats. Is it over loot? Escape plans? More of a story than some costumes hitting each other (although it was referenced when they were both on the team together).
10. Godhead. A mammoth Kirby artefact in space is going to have some cosmic backstory. Legion cover not at all bad though.
11. Gangbusters. Crime's fingerman has a giant finger. Watch Gim Allon secure election victory for his mom, through any means necessary.
12. Doom Patrol. Cliff's head is reflective, while Termy's is not. Plus the resigned pose compared to acme action one.
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
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...Yeah, I got nothing. Definitely not a character I remember. Thanks, though! You remember. Rokk brings back lots of damaged 20th century furniture back after fighting Brimstone in Legends, and passes it all to The Restorer in an all non action issue of Baxter Legion.
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
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...Yeah, I got nothing. Definitely not a character I remember. Thanks, though! You remember. Rokk brings back lots of damaged 20th century furniture back after fighting Brimstone in Legends, and passes it all to The Restorer in an all non action issue of Baxter Legion. That sounds more interesting than the actual story!
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Were the real clues here all along?
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And what about this guy : 
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13. MAGIC COMICS vs. DON WINSLOW OF THE NAVY   14. OZARK IKE vs. CHILI   15. WORLD'S FINEST COMICS vs. COMIC CAVALCADE   16. MY LITTLE MARGIE vs. KATY KEENE FASHION BOOK  
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9. LOVELESS vs. DAZZLER 10. LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES vs. GODLAND 11. X-FACTOR vs. GANG BUSTERS 12. DOOM PATROL vs. BOOSTER GOLD 13. MAGIC COMICS vs. DON WINSLOW OF THE NAVY 14. OZARK IKE vs. CHILI 15. WORLD'S FINEST COMICS vs. COMIC CAVALCADE 16. MY LITTLE MARGIE vs. KATY KEENE FASHION BOOK
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13. MAGIC COMICS
14. OZARK IKE
15. COMIC CAVALCADE
16. KATY KEENE FASHION BOOK
Still "Fickles" to my friends.
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