COVER GALLERY: 2007

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #12: This is a fan-favorite cover! It depicts the Justice League as Alex has never painted them before, and that means with new characters. Yes, this isn't the classic JLA that Alex is so fond of doing, this is 2007's Justice League, with the redesigned costume for Hal Jordan and new team members such as Red Arrow (he was in Kingdom Come, wink, wink) Black Lightning and more. The 2 interlocking covers produce one image that is very energetic and vibrant. These 2 covers appear as one, tilted sideways, image on the 2nd printing of this issue.
BLACK ADAM #1: This is the variant cover to this issue which spotlights the Shazam villain, which became popular after the events in the Final Crisis and 52 mini-series from DC Comics. The image is incredible and shows how much Alex loves the (Captain) Marvel family of characters, and how much he loves to paint really menacing villains. It's superb!
THE ESCAPISTS HC: This hardcover volume collects the Dark Horse Comics series of the same name, created by Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay, who are themselves characters from Michael Chabon's pulitzer-prize winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay yes it's hard to understand but any way, this is a character from a fictional 1930's - 1940's "Golden Age" of comics and the cover reflects this by using the old comics' printing method of colored dots in the background, it's a pretty clever gimmick and makes the cover stand out, yet Alex already used something similar for the cover of Astro City #21. Anyways, it still looks quite nice although it's not one of my favorites.

HEROES HC#1: The Heroes hardcover volume No.1, is a collection of the web-comics that appeared online during the TV show Heroes' first season; so why pay for something that is on the net for free? For the kick-ass Alex Ross cover, that's why! Look at that cover, all the characters are there in that awesome composition and their likenesses are dead-on, well except maybe for Claire (Hayden Panettiere's character) she looks waaaay too old (and more like a "femme fatale") in this picture to be just an innocent schoolgirl / indestructible cheereleaderlike like she is on the show. But it's a great cover nonetheless.

IN MY COLLECTION: Everything except for the Escapists hardcover book.