Everybody looks very skinny, maybe they’re angry because they don’t have enough food. Supergirl’s dot-black-accentuated-nipples are an odd choice for a free comic book day release.

Also, Supergirl looks like Debbie Harry. I think she’s singing “Rapture” during it. “Superman went back up to space, where he won’t have a hassel with the human race. And you hip hop.”

- Supergirl’s neck is disgustingly thick and long. Her expression is just embarrassing.

- Even with foreshortening, Superman’s giant-ass head isn’t doing it any favors and serves to make his body look scrawny and strange. Even if that perspective is possible it’s not communicating the kind of stance and strength of Superman as a character.

- The extra short sleeves on his shirt make it look like he’s wearing someone else’s outfit.

- The amount of reflected light in his hair makes it almost look grey and old.

- All of the line art has been painting over or faded back except the yellow superman symbol on his cape, so it’s popping forward quite oddly.

- The belt buckle is ‘tangenting’ hard with the Superman symbol to make it look like he has a lumpy large nipple. add in that brutal tangent of the flying woman standing on his shoulder and it’s a full-on WTF.

Hah, who are you fooling. Yes you can believe it! I mean we’re almost on a roll this week. Two days left; can DC announce something else that’s brain-dead, for the hat trick?

I can’t tell if those are hairs or someone doodling on the art.

To paraphrase the Joker, DC pulled a boner.

And yes, Ugly Cover is Ugly.

I know that I truly and finally have “Event Fatigue,” the real deal, because seeing this announcement, and seeing yet another cover, featuring yet another grimacing, yelling (in space!) superhero (Superman, himself, of all people)–I say, seeing these things, I experience a gaping, sucking, painful void in my stomach. If not for the balance given by the positive news, as I choose to take it, of the Superman and Batman: Year One projects, I would find this to be a dismal week for comics, indeed.

But I like Evan Dorkin’s and Tim O’ Neil’s posts better.

Well, what does anyone expect with the usual rates artists get from comic book publishers these days? I don’t think most of them can afford the really good artists anymore… they have to save as much as they can on everyone else so they can pay Alex Ross and Marko!

Maybe it’s a comp.

I’ve always thought Jones’ work was overrated anyway.

What I want to know is, why are they flying away like that, shouldn’t they all be warring with each other? Hello, it’s called War of the Supermen? Like, punching and shit? That’s Flying Lessons of The Supermen, up there. Cruising With The Supermen. Not a war. aI’ve seen war on TV,nd that’s not war. That’s…I don’t know what it is. It just isn’t war.

And speaking of the War of the Supermen, shouldn’t DC be worried that there will be complaints that the book isn’t called War of the Superpersons? I sure hope Superboy isn’t in it, because that will mess up continuity for weeks, because, I mean, after all, really now, come on, I checked Wikipedia, he’s a Super-boy, not a Super-Man.

I’m not buying it if Superboy is in there because it just ruins the suspense of disbelief, y’know?

Hold the phone — why are they all making those faces? Are they upset because they’re not at war? Are they practicing their “war faces”? Without a mirror? I guess with super-vision they could be using mirrors on distant worlds, okay, you got me on that one, that’s a good point there. But they look like they’re all screaming along with some Slayer or Cannibal Corpse song or something like that that makes singers look like that when they sing along, all angry, like war. I’m not up with that concept at all, that’s like mixing genres. I think DC’s making a big mistake there.

(sorry Chris, I’m tired and punchy. I’ll stop now)

Seriously, though, what’s with Superman’s right arm, anyway? And no Bizarro Superman? Pfft. Wrong.