Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words
Or, where does homage end and cheap, lazy rip off begin?
posted by Marionette at 10/06/2005 08:30:00 AM
Thursday, October 06, 2005
Or, where does homage end and cheap, lazy rip off begin?
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19 Comments:
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Ha! Oh, yes, I noticed too. Le sigh.
Oh well. Jock can't do every cover...
Such a cliche, but I can't lie, when it's done well I'm a sucker for it. What was the very first cover using it? Was it the Avengers issue with the first Squadron Supreme appearance?
I dunno...sometimes, I think cliches are used because they ARE so effective.
Like the Pieta cover.
With that being said, very funny image!
For those that aren't getting the joke I should explain that when I visited my local comic store today I noticed that both New Thunderbolts (Marvel) and Outsiders (DC) published the same day were using the same classic cover image.
One short trip to the Little Shop of Photos and the two were combined into a single image as a comment on the overuse of "homage" covers.
To Johnny Triangles: I can't be sure, but the "original" that comes to mind is this one here:
http://www.defdave.com/comics/html/featurecov16.html
This is probably the second or third Marvel comic I ever read, back when I was but a rabling, and it still wakens fond memories. And I love that the internets let me find a scan of the cover online in under two seconds.
Okay RAB, I was thinking of this cover here, from Avengers #70 in 1969:
http://www.plexico.net/avengers/covers/avg070.jpg
Wow, they were already paying homage to that cover a year later...
Fantastic Four #73, April 1968:
http://image2.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/30929984076.73.GIF
Maybe I'm just stuck in the Silver Age, but don't the roots of this go back to at least here?
http://www.dcindexes.com/covers/jla/jla56.jpg
I saw both of these covers today and hadn't noticed the similarities until you pointed them out. This is beginning to become a pattern.
Let's see how many of these we can come up with!
X-Factor #5
This is the first one I ever remember seeing.
Not to forget the animated version in the opening titles to the X-Men cartoon where they cut it just as it looks like everyone is going to crash into each other and fall over.
I've noticed that the Silver Age DC ones seem to be a full-fledged sprint toward each other with motion lines. The Silver Age Marvel ones seem to be a bit more "posey" and seem to be the type ripped off the most nowadays.
As I write this, Xiaolin Showdown is on the telly, and they do this in the opening credits for that.
I seem to remember a lot of X-Men covers in this format, ussually with an alarmed-looking Xavier in between the two groups, waving his arms ineffectually.
Heh. This reminds me of May when Astonishing X-Men and Teen Titans both featured intense-looking bald guys on the covers.
This is the one I thought they were riffing on: http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/1571/400/1571_4_053.jpg
They make it easier and easier to pick out the shitty comics.
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