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Re: The New Teen Titans 1980-1984: cover commentary
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Maybe the Flash cover gal is angry because she bet on the opposing team.
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34: Slade blows apart the 'happy family' Titans picture although they don't know it but now we do13: I also like the darkness although it doesn't quite match up. Beyond the thicket it looks like daylight, and even if the canopy of trees is very dense, would it be that dark? Also, for all the details of the foliage, the Titans' faces are somewhat nondescript, with Robin coming out cartoony. I knew almost nothing about the Doom Patrol, so there was no emotional or nostalgic impact on that score.
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I love the yellow and orange on the Dr Light cover. That must have really stood out on the newsstand.
The Trigon one is a bit busy for me. It's hard to know where to direct the eye. I like the way Wally seems to be protecting Raven though. I always forget that those two had sort of a thing going at one time. That relationship was like a shooting star - bright and intense for a brief moment and then hard to remember once it was over.
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3: Blac, I agree that the yellow/orange really makes the cover stand out. It's not a common cover color combo, and not one that is necessarily a favorite of mine, but it is striking. This is the only black logo, and even though orange/black tends to go Halloweeny, it looks good. The line drawings are subtle but add a lot --- imagine the cover without them and it becomes too plain, I think.
6: Another interesting color thing, although I'm not sure if interesting = good or bad. When I pulled the image I thought it was a scan of a shopworn cover, showing wear in the way that dark covers do. Then I got out my hard copy and realized no, that's the gray cloudiness or energy or whatever.
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Regarding #3's color choices: see the original and a reprint with some changes to the art
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Here's the same for #6. Great Hera! It looks like space is choked with moss.
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Wow! I had no idea they changed the colours in foreign editions of comics. I wonder what... Romeo Tanghal (was that the NTT colorist?) thought of that.
As for these versions - the new Spanish version of #3 is UG.LY! Hate it.
I sort of don't mind the orange/brown background on #6 but Trigon really should have stayed his own red color since he's meant to be the main focus and shouldn't be melting into the background.
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Blacula, the NTT colorist was usually Adrienne Roy. Romeo Tanghal was George Perez's NTT inker.
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That's right! Thanks FL. I had all those names floating around in my head but couldn't remember who did what.
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Originally posted by Leap Year Lord: I LOVE this cover ... as a kid it blew my mind ... that the cover was ripping off. Made it feel so much more real. And ... the action INSIDE was also mind blowing, the fight scenes were so clever.
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Hmmm. Both great covers but they don't stand out to me the way others by Perez do.
I think I'd have to say I prefer the Hyperion one because I'm a sucker for floating heads (though the fact that Wally's is slightly off-line bugs).
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Definitely the first one. It's got Paradise Island as a backdrop, and Kory and Donna fighting to 'save the ones they love' (which, presumably, are the boys watching from off-panel, making the boys the 'damsels in distress,' which is always fun!). The second one does benefit from having the entire team present, even if, typically for a cover, the speedster, the fastest flier and the teleporter are, as usual, in the back, not having caught up with the lumbering cyborg or the teen acrobat... What good is being able to run at a significant fraction of the speed of light if the kid who swings on a rope always gets there first?
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I don't have any criticisms of these two, but I don't LOVE either one, either. I prefer the more detailed background of #5 ----somewhat like #13, which is also semi-"dark). I don't care that much for floating heads.
Did Hyperion and Trigon go to the same Villain Posing College?
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Originally posted by Leap Year Lord: Did Hyperion and Trigon go to the same Villain Posing College? Same outfit, more or less, too. Strappy thing across chest, mostly to hold the cape on. Some flowy cloth over the junk. Sandals. You'd think being a god would come with a wardrobe allowance. I wonder if Trigon the Terrible is related to Hagar the Horrible? Or possibly Iago the Inadmissible?
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Villains hate wearing underpants! why? Because they're EVIL! They probably like to start sentences with because as well!!! (and use excessive !!!!!!!!!! )
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I took another look at #5. I like the way the curved decorative beams give shape to the cover and frame the logo. I'm liking this one more.
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These have already been up, of course...just wanted to see the detailed, 'semi-dark' ones side by side.
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Great Hera! I haven't cared for the previous examples of changes in other editions, but I figured it was a matter of personal taste in color. But this is a JUST A MESS. Hyperion looks like a gold statue and why the HELL is the sky green??
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Ooh, Nuevos Garfield can turn into orange cats, and not just green cats! Cool!
Foreshadowing of the NuDCU version of Beast Boy, who is reddish-orange? Or plaigerism! Dun, dun, dun-dun!
What the heck is Cyborg shooting out of his hand? He doesn't have energy blasters, just that sonic hand attachment thing... Huh.
Dark-haired Starfire is neat. I think I like the dark contrail better!
As for the previous cover, yellow Hyperion's lavender lightning is..., well, it just is. Yanno?
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Double post. Ignore the little man behind the curtain.
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Cyborg used to have a finger laser ... not sure if all of his fingers can fire blasts. maybe. Great Hera! I haven't cared for the previous examples of changes in other editions, but I figured it was a matter of personal taste in color. But this is a JUST A MESS. Hyperion looks like a gold statue and why the HELL is the sky green??[/QB] The sky is only green for the top 90% of the page ... which is even more bizarre ... also I think Paradise Island needs to deal with their pollution problem as they have turned the ocean BROWN!?!
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