Comic Cover… Of The Year!
Felicitations, fellow fans of fantastic festive fiction, and welcome to our astonishing award for the most outstanding comic cover of space year 2022!
That’s right, the magical mansion of mystery – Precinct1313 has re-materialised back unto your physical plane after an extended stay in the Phantom Zone, where it lay unfettered as it recharged it’s mystic batteries. And, phew! we’re back just in time to share our absolute fave comic cover of the year, and with so many cool and compelling covers released this annum it’s been a rather difficult decision, but we ultimately landed on this pictorial piece of perfection, the Batman #1066 watercolour variant by the dynamic Colleen Doran.
This absolutely astonishing piece of art from Colleen recreates Herbert Draper’s classic oil painting – The Lament For Icarus – the opulent oil painting, first unveiled in 1898, depicts the deceased Icarus surrounded by lamenting nymphs and currently resides in the Tate Gallery, UK. Colleen’s vivid and vivacious variant of this cover is exquisite, re-creating Draper’s original vision perfectly, depicting a dying Batman surrounded by a bevy of Batgirls – Babs Gordon, Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown.
Many congratulations to Colleen for this year’s standout cover, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t, at least, provide a visual tour of some of our other fave covers from this year that were considered for the coveted title but didn’t quite match the ingenuity of Colleen’s standout piece.
Harley Quinn’s Plundering of DC Comics’ Past…
Bruno Redondo’s Outstanding Run On Nightwing…
DC Comics’ Pride 2022 Covers…
Happy Holidays!
(All art and imagery copyright – DC Comics)
Posted on December 24, 2022, in Comics and tagged Batman, Comic Cover Of The Week, DC Comics, Precinct1313, Wonder Woman. Bookmark the permalink. 7 Comments.
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What a cover!!
You never disappoint, Bruce!
Happy Holidays, my dear friend.
Keep dreaming and creating.
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It’s absolutely wonderful isn’t it, Happy Holidays right back at you, my friend! 🙂
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Cool roundup of covers to end 2022, Bruce. That Colleen Doran artwork is outstanding! Wishing you and the Precinct all the very best for 2023 😊😎
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Thank you, my friend. Yeah, Colleen’s piece really was the standout in a year of absolutely cracking covers! Happy New Year, good sir.
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Daaaang, that IS a really spectacular cover! Love the Batman/Harley ones too though! Nice selection! 🙂
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Yes indeed, it’s an absolutely wonderful cover by Colleen, definitely worth of the top spot this year! 🙂
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