graemem: As utterly unmoved as I am by the announcement that...

graemem:

As utterly unmoved as I am by the announcement that Marvel are reviving both the character Peter Parker and the series The Amazing Spider-Man a month before the release of a new movie titled The Amazing Spider-Man 2 featuring the character Peter Parker — I saw it described somewhere online as “the shocking news,” which amused me, because come on, people; this has to be the least shocking news of anything in comics today — I have to admit that this Marcos Martin variant cover is a thing of loveliness. Holy crap, that man is very, very talented.

Whoever colored it (Martin himself? His Private Eye collaborator Muntsa Vicente? I have no idea) deserves a lot of praise, too. This is a genuinely great, eye-catching cover. I hope Marvel skips their now-traditional red band branding along the bottom of this one when it’s released.

Yeah, this is really pretty! Way better than that nightmarish cover from Humberto Ramos. I’m not in love with the typography at all (kerning and letter-spacing and just general “nice-looking-ness” is sloppy as hell and mixing Helvetica and Futura seems kind of :/ …), but yeah, Marcos Martin is really good at drawing.

And like Graeme said, LOL at anybody that was shocked by this news. I am laughing, out loud, at you.

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