There is a veritable cornucopia of new comics hitting stands each week. While readers often know exactly what it is they’re most interested in (those in the know have got their pull-list sitting in their comic shop’s ever-reliable hands), there is something to be said about going against that old truism and Judging a Book by Its Cover.
Some truly astounding cover art hits each and every week, and these are the ones that caught Colin’s eye the week of March 19th, 2025.
Batman and Robin: Year One #6
Variant by Wes Craig
This Robin and Batman beat-em-up is somehow a great spotlight of Two Face, who’s being knocked backward by Robin’s blow. Craig captures the gnarly half of his face in great, comic detail — that wide open eye, that grimace. The Year One series invites the sort of iconic, bombastic cartooning of an artist like Craig, whose work on Deadly Class hyperstylized just this sort of action (and whose Kaya shows off a more fantastic world’s worth of cartooning chops).
Catwoman #73
Variant by Frank Cho
A deeply classic-feeling Catwoman image from Frank Cho this week, leaning heavily into art-deco design and chock-full of cats. Selina looks prototypical here: this is Catwoman, a perfect illustration of what she looks like in the modern era (no matter how many alterations to the costume there are). This feels poster-ready.
The Creeping Below #3
Cover by Vanessa R. Del Rey
What a big, gruesome pile of bones! Can’t tell you thing one about The Creeping Below — it’s not a series I’ve followed (or even really knew about) — but this cover presents a chilling horror book quite clearly. These are victims of something haunting, and this is a lush dumping ground.
Detective Comics #1095
Variants by Bruno Redondo
More iconic Gotham work. Bold, clean-lined, and really making use of its simplistic color palette, the image sums up Bruce Wayne and Batman pretty clearly: a man forever clinging to moments of his childhood.
Out of Alcatraz #1
Cover by Tyler Crook
This classic movie poster aesthetic is killer — I would want this Criterion Collection on my shelf, for sure. I love the weathering — fold marks, stains — that place the vintage of our image and, perhaps, the era in which our story takes place.
Power Rangers Prime #5
Variant cover by Bon Bernardo
Continuing a series of lovely, iconic, color-saturated Power Rangers Prime variant covers (one character/color an issue for the whole series so far), Bernardo continues a delightful stylistic trend in which characters’ simple color schemes bleed into a matching background. The Power Rangers are as perfect a pairing for this style of cover as can be — they are nothing but color-coded.
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