Ever had an urge to see Wolverine in pointillism? Had an itch to go SNIKT, Edward Gorey style?
Well, now’s your chance — Marvel has announced that in honor of Wolverine’s 35th anniversary, April will be Wolverine Art Appreciation Month!
“This is a huge year for Wolverine as he proves why he’s arguably one of the most popular characters in the world,” said Marvel EiC Joe Quesada in a press release. “He’s not just popular with fans but also with artists, as evidenced by how many of today’s top comic artists jockey for a chance to draw him. This got us thinking: what if Wolverine had been around for hundreds, if not thousands, of years? What great, classic artists would want a crack at drawing a Wolverine cover?”
Sounds like a great issue of WHAT IF…? But this is no dream — it is a reality! See below for some samples, and if you need more of the Canadian Cutlerist, click here for a preview by the Washington Post!
Here’s a complete list of where you’ll see an all-classical, all-different Wolverine:
AGENTS OF ATLAS #3
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #590
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #592
CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND MI13 #12
DAREDEVIL #118
EXILES #1
GHOST RIDER #34
HULK #11
INCREDIBLE HERCULES #128
MOON KNIGHT #29
MS. MARVEL #38
RUNAWAYS #9
SECRET WARRIORS #3
UNCANNY X-MEN #508
WAR MACHINE #5
WOLVERINE: FIRST CLASS #14
X-MEN: LEGACY #223
March 19th, 2009 at 11:14 am
LOVE the Magritte ones !!
March 19th, 2009 at 11:15 am
And Dali too…nice.
March 19th, 2009 at 11:46 am
Oh man, this is hilarious. I would actually buy a coffee table book of these.
March 19th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
God! I freakin’ can’t stand Wolverine and as much as I try and avoid the character, I still get him shoved in my face all the time.
Y’know, it’s not like there aren’t plenty of Wolverine comics that they could have put these on instead of books that have absolutely nothing to do with the idiot.
Thankfully they are giving us a list of what books will have these absolutely pointless and unrelated covers so I can have my online vendor NOT pull any of them.
March 19th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
As a retailer, it would’ve been nice to have been given a heads up that that’s what these variants were about. We only saw the Exiles and Captain Britain ones in the Diamond Dateline from Tuesday (since those covers are on FOC today), and the rest I’m seeing here for the first time. Obviously, this was the plan for these all along, so an obvious paragraph in Marvel Previews explaining the deal with these (not the art mind you, just “Wolverine inserted in various classical masterpieces”) would not only have allowed us to order with full disclosure, but maybe allowed us to hype up these variants to customers that are Wolverine, art and variant cover fans. I shouldn’t have to come to Newsarama for an explanation of what I’m ordering from my top supplier.
March 19th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Absolutely retarded.
March 19th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
some of those look really awesome.
March 20th, 2009 at 12:16 am
Have they released artist info for who actually did these covers? I mean, the Gorey one is obviously Skottie Young, the Warhol one is probably just Frank Miller run through photoshop, and I’m assuming the Van Gogh one is Laura Martin going off the signature, but who did the rest?
I’m especially curious about the Picasso and Dali ones, they’re stunning approximations of the original artists’ styles.
April 18th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Sweet
June 26th, 2010 at 9:27 am
We only saw the Exiles and Captain Britain ones in the Diamond Dateline from Tuesday (since those covers are on FOC today), and the rest I’m seeing here for the first time. Obviously, this was the plan for these all along, so an obvious paragraph in Marvel Previews explaining the deal with these (not the art mind you, just “Wolverine inserted in various classical masterpieces”) would not only have allowed us to order with full disclosure, but maybe allowed us to hype up these variants to customers that are Wolverine, art and variant cover fans.
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