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Valiant covers for September 2012

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I wasn't sure if you guys had seen this:
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Bloodshot #3
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Harbinger #4
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A&A #2
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lol at A&A

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Rubiks-Q-Bert wrote:lol at A&A
Big +1. There is something about the style I don't like 100%, but the image captures the feel of Archer and Armstrong perfectly.

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It's really going to take some time for me to like the photo-realistic style they are using on Harbinger and much, much moreso on A&A. It's not quite photo-traced, but the line work and colors are much too photo-realistic. What's concerning is that this style is never successful in comics. I'm not sure why they've gone this route, but it will give potential buyers pause for sure.
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Love Esad Ribic`s work :thumb: hope we see a lot on these titles

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That A&A cover is great. Also looks like the first look at quite a few Harbingers on that cover. I can pick out Torque, Flamingo and Zephyr.
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Great covers! I think I like the Harbinger one the best.
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The coloring seems odd on the A&A cover. Looks like they got carried away with using too much red for the skin tones.

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BugsySig wrote:That A&A cover is great. Also looks like the first look at quite a few Harbingers on that cover. I can pick out Torque, Flamingo and Zephyr.
Bobby from King of the Hill is in there too. :lol:

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Blood of Heroes wrote:
BugsySig wrote:That A&A cover is great. Also looks like the first look at quite a few Harbingers on that cover. I can pick out Torque, Flamingo and Zephyr.
Bobby from King of the Hill is in there too. :lol:
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Blood of Heroes wrote:
BugsySig wrote:That A&A cover is great. Also looks like the first look at quite a few Harbingers on that cover. I can pick out Torque, Flamingo and Zephyr.
Bobby from King of the Hill is in there too. :lol:
Did you come up with that on your own? I posted that on another board yesterday. That's awesome if you also saw it independently. :lol:

(Also, the guy in the glasses is young Jerry Seinfeld.) :P

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The Harbinger cover looks great! I really hope the art inside the issues grows on me. The story in issue one was very good, but the art isn't my style though.

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:clap: Loving it! And yes, lol too at a&A! :lol:

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greg wrote:
Blood of Heroes wrote:
BugsySig wrote:That A&A cover is great. Also looks like the first look at quite a few Harbingers on that cover. I can pick out Torque, Flamingo and Zephyr.
Bobby from King of the Hill is in there too. :lol:
Did you come up with that on your own? I posted that on another board yesterday. That's awesome if you also saw it independently. :lol:

(Also, the guy in the glasses is young Jerry Seinfeld.) :P
Yes, I came up with that on my own. It's because that looks exactly like Bobby Hill.

Good call on Jerry Seinfeld. :thumb:

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BugsySig wrote:That A&A cover is great. Also looks like the first look at quite a few Harbingers on that cover. I can pick out Torque, Flamingo and Zephyr.
Let's compare notes, I want to see if I see what you see. I'll do it like row:column.

Zephyr - 2:1
Flamingo - 4:1
Torque - 4:3

Is that what you think?

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etos45 wrote:
BugsySig wrote:That A&A cover is great. Also looks like the first look at quite a few Harbingers on that cover. I can pick out Torque, Flamingo and Zephyr.
Let's compare notes, I want to see if I see what you see. I'll do it like row:column.

Zephyr - 2:1
Flamingo - 4:1
Torque - 4:3

Is that what you think?
See I kinda thought Torque might be 2:3. Just without the long hair. He has that *SQUEE* off at the world look.
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tchalla8 wrote:
etos45 wrote:
BugsySig wrote:That A&A cover is great. Also looks like the first look at quite a few Harbingers on that cover. I can pick out Torque, Flamingo and Zephyr.
Let's compare notes, I want to see if I see what you see. I'll do it like row:column.

Zephyr - 2:1
Flamingo - 4:1
Torque - 4:3

Is that what you think?
See I kinda thought Torque might be 2:3. Just without the long hair. He has that *SQUEE* off at the world look.
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etos45 wrote:
BugsySig wrote:That A&A cover is great. Also looks like the first look at quite a few Harbingers on that cover. I can pick out Torque, Flamingo and Zephyr.
Let's compare notes, I want to see if I see what you see. I'll do it like row:column.

Zephyr - 2:1
Flamingo - 4:1
Torque - 4:3

Is that what you think?
I thought Torque 2:3 also. Looked meaner and bigger.
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tchalla8 wrote:
etos45 wrote:
BugsySig wrote:That A&A cover is great. Also looks like the first look at quite a few Harbingers on that cover. I can pick out Torque, Flamingo and Zephyr.
Let's compare notes, I want to see if I see what you see. I'll do it like row:column.

Zephyr - 2:1
Flamingo - 4:1
Torque - 4:3

Is that what you think?
See I kinda thought Torque might be 2:3. Just without the long hair. He has that *SQUEE* off at the world look.
Yeah, I see that now. I was basically just looking for long hair. :P

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400yrs wrote:It's really going to take some time for me to like the photo-realistic style they are using on Harbinger and much, much moreso on A&A. It's not quite photo-traced, but the line work and colors are much too photo-realistic. What's concerning is that this style is never successful in comics. I'm not sure why they've gone this route, but it will give potential buyers pause for sure.
Yeah it's definitely challenging the status quo. Maybe Greg Land is the next exclusive :lol:

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ian_house wrote:
400yrs wrote:It's really going to take some time for me to like the photo-realistic style they are using on Harbinger and much, much moreso on A&A. It's not quite photo-traced, but the line work and colors are much too photo-realistic. What's concerning is that this style is never successful in comics. I'm not sure why they've gone this route, but it will give potential buyers pause for sure.
Yeah it's definitely challenging the status quo. Maybe Greg Land is the next exclusive :lol:

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Yikes! Can say this is not a cover I will be excited to buy.

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orbitalshift wrote:Image

Yikes! Can say this is not a cover I will be excited to buy.
That's....weird...
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tchalla8 wrote:
orbitalshift wrote:Image

Yikes! Can say this is not a cover I will be excited to buy.
That's....weird...
That's the pull-box variant to XO #5 by Phillip Tan.

I kinda like it :oops:
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I thought that was the unused Tan cover?


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