A couple of days ago, Johanna Draper Carlson pointed out the ’80s teen-movie theme running through Jason Pearson’s covers for Marvel’s The Loners miniseries: Issue 1-The Breakfast Club; Issue 2-Ferris Bueller’s Day Off; Issue 3-Pretty in Pink. Today, with the release of Marvel’s July solicitations, that thread continues with Issue 4 and 1985’s Weird Science.
Now I have Oingo Boingo stuck in my head …
April 17th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
man I wish Jason Pearson was doing a book right now….I love Karl Moline but it would be so sweet to see Pearsons interiors on the Loners…
April 17th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
YMB asked Cebulski about this last week.
http://www.yourmomsbasement.com/archives/2007/04/last_minute_edi_1.html
April 17th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
We can only assume that 5 and 6 will be “Sixteen Candles” and “Some Kind of Wonderful”…
-Steve!
April 17th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
We’ve known about this since issue one. C’mon ppl, get with the program.
April 17th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
No outrage over the fact that these covers are plagarized art?
Must be it’s okay because it’s Marvel.
April 17th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
They’re not plagiarized; they’re obvious homages/parodies.
April 17th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
The characters are in roughly the same positions. Other than that, there are lots of slight posture differences (enough so it’s clearly not traced), different clothes, different faces, different expressions, and different backgrounds. The differences massively outweighs the similarities, so it’s not plagiarism.
April 18th, 2007 at 6:05 am
So, no chance of a Back to the Future cover?
April 18th, 2007 at 11:54 am
Yup, issue five is Some Kind of Wonderful and issue six is Sixteen Candles.
I guess it’s too much to hope for a variant so we can do Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
April 18th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
What, no Weekend at Bernies?
April 19th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Not homages, direct ripoofs.
But it’s okay bacause it’s Marvel. If it were for an independent company, people would be screaming.
April 19th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
It being Marvel has nothing to do with it. The covers are obvious, acknowledged nods to ’80s teen movies; they’re intended to mimic those posters.
That makes them homages, or parodies.
April 19th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
No, those are pretty much homages. It’s not like they’re being subtle about it, it’s obvious to anyone who sees them what they are. If it were an indy company, people would still be praising them for being a little clever.
Weekend at Bernie’s would’ve been brilliant. Maybe the trade will have a sketchbook section with rejected cover ideas?