Week of April 1 (no kidding)

Here we go with the best comic covers of this week. It is the week of April Fools Day but none of this is a joke.

Bronze Medalist

Sand and Twitch Case Files #1

Cover art by Kevin Keane and Todd McFarlane

The background characters from the Spawn universe have their own book and the pair of them standing before the darkness of Spawn and the red cape. The rain was a nice touch.

Silver Medalist

Antarctica #10

Cover by Willi Roberts

The finale of this Image book sports a beautiful cover with red and black tones. The form stands out as does the title in its vertical line.

Gold Medalist

Deadpool #1

Cover Art by Inhyuk Lee

Beautiful foil variant cover of the brand new Deadpool series. Is this the 90s? No because every fifth comic does not have a foil cover. It makes the ones we get all the more special. This is a stunning cover with the return of the Merc with a Mouth.

Week of March 25

It is another NEW COMIC BOOK DAY and I have the three medalist for this week’s best covers. All three this week are independent issues. The Marvel books this week were fine, but these three stood out more than the others.

Bronze Medalist

Feral #1

Cover art by Trish Forstner & Tony Fleecs

There is actually a really fun variant cover for this book too that probably would have made this list. The blood red jumps off the cover and the cartoonish looking cat stands out in this strange environment. Looking forward to seeing what this is like.

Silver Medalist

The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos #8

Cover Art by Nick Robles

The book continues with the story of Adam Frankenstein and the cover pops very well, especially with the border around the outside.

Gold Medalist

Zorro: Man of the Dead #3

Cover Art by Dan Panosian

What a beautiful black and white aesthetic to this Zorro cover featuring our main protagonists. This is truly a stunning cover that took the gold medal by a long stretch this month.

Week of March 18

Welcome back to the medalist for this week. Some great books this week. It was a tough choice.

Bronze Medalist

Something Epic #8

Cover art by Szymon Kudranski

The return of this awesome book comes with a beautiful cover that looks kind of like a fowl that we know. Love it.

Silver Medalist

Star Wars: Visions #1

Cover Art by Takashi Okazaki

Another Star Wars book that I do not collect, but that I picked up heavily because of the cover art. Not solely, but it certainly helped. The beautiful black and white cover with the red lightsaber and purple print was stunning.

Gold Medalist

X-Men Forever #1

Cover Art by Mark Brooks

What an amazing image on the cover of this new X-book. Jean Grey with what looks like a blood pattern surrounding her that is absolutely iconic.

Week of March 4

It’s late this week because of Parent/Teacher Conferences so we’ll jump right into it.

Bronze Medalist

Torpedo 1972 #1

Cover Art: Eduardo Risso, Dan Panosian & Fritz Casas

The first cover medalist from Ablaze Publishing. There is a cool use of pictures and the gun in the background.

Silver Medalist

Thanos #4

Cover Art: Leinil Francis Yu & Sunny Gho

A kick ass Thanos just dominating the cover of this issue. The final issue of this limited series that reunites Thanos with his love, Death.

Gold Medalist

Pine & Merrimac #3

Cover Art: Fran Galán

This is a beautiful cover featuring Boom! Studio’s new hit series. The flames stand out on the this cover, making the entire book all the more interesting.

Week of February 26

It is that time again this week to name the three top medal winners for the favorite comic cover of the week at EYG. Always some fun books with some outstanding art work.

Kicking things off…

Bronze Medalist

Amazing Spider-Man #44

Cover art by John Romita Jr., Scott Hanna & Marcio Menyz

I really like the reflection of Spidey in the Madame Masque mask as the Gang War continues in the main spider-title.

Silver Medalist

Newburn #15

Cover Art by Jacob Phillips

The main standout for this cover is the color pattern. The whole orange and black motif really makes this dramatic cover look awesome and unlike most comic covers you see.

Gold Medalist

Ice Cream Man #38

Cover Art by Martin Morazzo & Chris O’Halloran

Todd tried to get me to buy the variant cover of this issue, but he had no idea that I had already chosen this as the cover of the week and had no intention of changing to the other variant. I love the humor of this cover while also highlighting the unsettling nature of the series.

Week of 2/19

It is another week of NEW COMICS from Comic World. It was not quite as large of a week as last week, but there are some great books.

Here are this week’s medalists….

Bronze Medalist

The Six Fingers #1

Cover Art by Sumit Kumar, Lee Loughridge, & Tom Muller

One of the new Image Comics books that fall into the shared universe of Neo Novena. Last week there was The One Hand. Now we have this mystery. The cover is really creative.

Silver Medalist

Deer Editor #2

Cover art by Sami Kivelä

Look at this cover. You have a deer-man tied to a chair with someone dressed in a nice outfit. I love the color scheme with the black and red and slight blue tint. Nicely done from this Madcave book.

Gold Medalist

Bone Orchard: Tenement #9

Cover Art by Andrea Sorrentino

Just look at that beautifully creepy cover. Worms and an apple. I love the color scheme too… and it looks very much like the gold medal that it was just awarded.

This was the second time Andrea Sorrentino placed on the medal stand (previously winning the silver medal for Tenement #8).

Week of February 12

Three Marvel books in the medalists this week. There were some solid independent book covers too, but the finals are all excellent.

Bronze Medalist

Blade #8

Cover Art by Elena Casagrande & KJ Diaz

Blade is fighting against more than just vampires. How about some glowing green ghosts? This cover looks awesome with Blade standing like a bad ass.

Silver Medalist

Vengeance of the Moon Knight #2

Cover Art by David Finch

Khonshu is in the background as we get the mysterious new black suit ‘Moon Knight’ along with Hunter’s Moon. Great cover.

Gold Medalist

Fall of the House of X #2

Cover art by Pepe Larraz & Marte Gracia

Polaris in a green shine really stands out of the cover with the giant head of a sentinel (maybe?)

Week of January 29-Feb. 2

It is time once again to pick our medalists for the favorite covers of the week. I had narrowed the comics this week down to six contenders. That was better than last week, even with this being the fifth week of January.

Bronze Medal

Deadly Hands of Kung Fu: Gang War #2

Cover Art by David Aja

Deadly Hands: Gang War #1 was a winner of this award last month and this time the cover makes the podium at the bronze level. 

Silver Medal

Spine-Tingling Spider-Man #4

Cover Art by Juan Ferreyra

Another series that was a former winner of this award, Spine-Tingling has had some of the best covers of the year so far.

Gold Medal

Avengers Inc. #5

Cover Art by Daniel Acuña 

The final issue of Avengers Inc. has one of the most interesting and beautifully designed covers. There is a raw feel to the art that really works for the series. 

Week of January 22nd

I have made an adjustment to the Favorite Comic Cover of the Week. Starting this week, I will place a Top 3, giving a Bronze, a Silver and a Gold Medal for my favorite cover of the week.

BRONZE MEDAL WINNER

Boom! Studios

Slow Burn #4

Cover Art: Matt Taylor

Another great use of color gold and silver. 

SILVER MEDAL WINNER

Image Comics

Bone Orchard: Tenement #8

Cover Art: Andrea Sorrentino

Love the design of the maze ahead of the face on the cover. The colors are a great blend too.

GOLD MEDAL WINNER

Marvel Comics

Resurrection of Magneto #1

Cover Art: Stefano Caselli & Jesus Aburtov

Variant Cover

Virgin Cover

This is an absolutely beautiful cover, using the negative space to show the red Magneto suit. This is the cover B of the new mini series from Marvel Comics.

Week of January 17th

This week’s EYG Comic Cover of the Week comes from an EYG Hall of Fame legend. Someone who specializes in doing amazing covers. Covers that are always painting quality, and this is the first time that this EYG Hall of Famer has won the cover of the week.

Fantastic Four #16

Cover art by Alex Ross

Week of January 10th

This week’s comic cover of the week is also my favorite issue of the week because it is one of the most creative and original comic I have seen in a long time. 

Swan Song #6

Cover art by Martin Morazzo

This is the final issue of this six-issue mini-series. 

The cover itself, as well as the issue, is a parody of Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends poetry book and was a crossover with Ice Cream Man.

Week of January 1st

I had three choices this week I had a tough decision on my hands. 

Ghostlore #7

Boom! Studios

Cover Art by Reiko Murakami and Vincenzo Riccardi

Issue title: ”Babe at the Threshold“

This week I have added two runners-up because both of these were close to actually taking the crown, and to be hones, I may look at them tomorrow and think that I made the wrong choice. Those runners-up were Vengeance of the Moon Knight #1 (by David Finch) and Captain America #5 ( by Taurin Clarke).

And a special this week… Back-issue cover of the week.

I purchased several back issues today and my favorite cover of those were the following: 

Deathlok #29

Cover art by Kevin Kobasic and Greg Adams