COVER GALLERY: 2004

Alex Ross' busy years continue, or is it that he was just taking a break?






















On February 8, 2004, Julius "Julie" Schwartz, prominent editor at DC Comics passed away. He had been an editor of all sorts of titles, including Superman and Batman, and instrumental in the creation of characters such as Adam Strange and the Flash family of characters. As a tribute to his creative genius, DC came out with 8 one-shot specials as a tribute to him. They were called DC Comics Presents and they featured Julie as a supporting character alongside the heroes of this publisher. Two covers of these one-shots were painted by Alex Ross in clear reference to 1960's covers, the Flash cover is a bit simple, yet it shows a nice use of forced perspective. The Mystery in Space cover has a bit more detail and makes that goofy rocketship on the cover look more realistic and serious.


CRISIS ON MULTIPLE EARTHS VOL. 3: Continuing with the collections of stories from the Justice League of America comics from the 1960's, this volume reprints justice issues-91-92,100-101-102,107-108,113. It's strange that Alex painted the cover to volume 1 but not #2, and now he does #3 and later #4. Anyway, the cover continues with Alex's penchant for drawing as many characters possible on a single cover á la George Perez; this cover has a nice composition of characters, too bad the captions obscure some of them, this cover would work best as a poster.


IN MY COLLECTION: Only, DC Comics Presents: The Flash