This year, Gotham Calling will continue to celebrate comics’ potential for awesomeness at the beginning of every month. To shake things up, however, instead of three jaw-dropping splash pages at a time, we’ll spotlight five kickass covers.
To be sure, many of these covers are better than the comics inside, whose stories don’t always live up to the premise on display (the inside art isn’t even necessarily by the same artists). Yet not only are the covers neatly designed, unabashedly weird (it’s often up there in the title!), and able to convey a whole set-up in a single image, they are also a testament to comics’ rich history of making us dream, quickly conjuring up a whole world of thrilling possibilities unconstrained by budget or by what is conventionally considered good taste…
