Bryan Hitch makes another DC variant cover appearance with this cover for Action Comics #10:
Thought #1: So, America’s Got Talent is six issues, right? So we’ve got, what, until San Diego before DC announces a special Bryan Hitch-illustrated project, do you think?
Thought #2: Isn’t it kind of amazing how iconic the t-shirt and jeans look already is for Superman, less than a year after it debuted? How did that happen?
May 8th, 2012 at 9:27 am
The t-shirt and jeans look feels way better than the anime-fanfiction costume they’ve been using. Yuck!
May 8th, 2012 at 10:45 am
Because the alternative sucks.
May 8th, 2012 at 10:46 am
It makes me wonder if the JLA tail is wagging the DC universe body (again)–something along the lines of “Superman wouldn’t be cool enough to hang with the JLA in jeans and a t-shirt, so we have to have him in ugly space armor, because everyone in the JLA wears stylized armor.”
May 8th, 2012 at 12:29 pm
The other costume isn’t but superman rediculas running around this way. Drawing nice but change how stupid superman looks.
May 8th, 2012 at 12:53 pm
“How did that happen?”
By having Superboy run around in a variant of it for years and setting the precedent, it didn’t seem at all jarring when introduced. That’s how.
May 8th, 2012 at 3:02 pm
exactly my thought aaron. and superman looks like superboy on that cover.
May 8th, 2012 at 3:22 pm
I agree that Superboy set the precedent and that helped.
But I have to say that it’s the cape that makes it for me. It’s just so child like. It attaches a real sense of innocence to Superman.
May 8th, 2012 at 4:57 pm
I initially read “iconic” as “ironic,” and was seeing Hitch’s Supes going “Yeah, I picked up this tee at Salvo on half-off blue-tag day? It is SO pre-Crisis!”
May 8th, 2012 at 5:42 pm
because super ran around with it for years therefore setting a tone….
are you a complete idiot graeme or do you do this on purpose?
May 8th, 2012 at 7:15 pm
That face is dumb.
May 9th, 2012 at 3:57 am
Why the hell are you guys writing about this nonsense when you could be making EVEN MORE lists about the Avengers! There still more blood to be squeezed from that stone guys!!
May 9th, 2012 at 11:14 am
I don’t like the t-shirt tucked in – it looks nerdy and anal (plus wouldn’t it come out when in action? or is extra-long?). Superboy’s t wasn’t tucked was it?
Hitch is generally really good. This cover isn’t.
May 9th, 2012 at 12:03 pm
That’s Superman? Where’s Murphy Anderson when you need him?
May 9th, 2012 at 3:50 pm
shall we count down to Scott Lobdell writing this title in the future in due time? Alright. 1..
May 9th, 2012 at 4:59 pm
How can that be Superman?! Where’s the frown lines and furrowed brow? He’s smiling?!
May 9th, 2012 at 8:02 pm
Hitch’s art has just looked terrible lately. Is he inking his own pencils or is he just rushing his work?
June 21st, 2012 at 1:18 am
How can that be Superman?! Where’s the frown lines and furrowed brow? He’s smiling?!