What are the greatest homage covers ever created?

[dekeuk]

 

With a nice BATS #227 being sold in another forum right now, it got be thinking about the best homage covers. This one might be at the top of my list.

 

Feel free to join the party by posting the original cover and the homage cover so we can compare them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[dekeuk]

 

This one is more parody than homage, but it always cracks me up when I see it

 

 

 

 

 

[bronze_rules]

 

 

 

[bronze_rules]

but really though...

 

[fc]

to the OP.. i think you nailed it with your example. good selection.

[Blind Owl]

 

 

[Blind Owl]

 

 

[dekeuk]

 

 

 

 

 

The physical limitations of these covers is all wrong.

 

None of these superheroes has an arm wingspan long enough to grasp a car from both edges at once.

 

 

[Duffman_Comics]

 

None of the covers show the character's left hands grabbing anything.

 

They are superpowered, so maybe just grabbing a chunk of floor pan left of the drive shaft?

 

 

[dekeuk]

 

None of the covers show the character's left hands grabbing anything.

 

They are superpowered, so maybe just grabbing a chunk of floor pan left of the drive shaft?

 

 

 

Maybe, but the ASM cover also has the wrong wheel coming loose, based on the point of impact. No way would the passender side front tire pop off like that. Look where the fender is dented. Driver side wheel might come off.

 

 

 

 

 

[kahml]

I think the correct (passenger side) wheel has come off.

 

Spidey isn't crashing the car - he's trying to put out the fire in an already crashed car - by putting it in the fountain.

 

Sorta kinda ruins the homage, but that's my take on it.

 

Larry

 

[kdoginohio]

Close enough?

and these? Seperated at birth?

[comicalgems]

Close enough?

and these? Seperated at birth?

 

How can he do an homage to himself? I think he just wanted everyone to be sure to know that THIS character Spawn is a Todd McFarlane. Seems really self-serving.

 

That Wolverine 55 cover is pretty awesome. That's the first time I've ever seen it.

[dekeuk]

 

 

 

How can he do an homage to himself?

 

 

 

Leave it to McFarlane to pay homage to himself

 

This is the same guy who paid $3 MM for McGuire's Home Roid ball ........ ummmmmm I meant Home Run ball

 

 

 

[joe_collector]

Leave it to McFarlane to pay homage to himself

 

Byrne does it all the time.

 

[dekeuk]

Leave it to McFarlane to pay homage to himself

 

Byrne does it all the time.

 

 

 

I wonder if he got 2 paychecks for this back to back beauty:

 

 

 

 

[comicparadox]

 

None of the covers show the character's left hands grabbing anything.

 

They are superpowered, so maybe just grabbing a chunk of floor pan left of the drive shaft?

 

 

 

Maybe, but the ASM cover also has the wrong wheel coming loose, based on the point of impact. No way would the passender side front tire pop off like that. Look where the fender is dented. Driver side wheel might come off.

 

 

 

 

 

Let's say it together: "suspension of disbelief".

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.

[Chespirito]

 

 

Oh no..don't go there, these covers I freakin think are awesome, and the contrast on using the same pencils, were original...yes go ahead and give slack about it..I said it, original.

[kdoginohio]

Didn't Byrne do a re-creation of FF #1 during his run?

[dekeuk]

 

 

Oh no..don't go there, these covers I freakin think are awesome, and the contrast on using the same pencils, were original...yes go ahead and give slack about it..I said it, original.

 

 

I like the covers too ............ good way to compare the 2 costumes that dominated the story lines in the mid to late 1980's

 

But I still wonder if he got 2 paychecks?

 

Wasn't McFarlane getting paid huge record amounts of money (for an artist) by Marvel before he left?