Category Archives: The Cover Up

An examination of cover art and what makes it good (or bad).

The Cover Up: Destruction – The Curse of the Antichrist – Life in Agony

By Jason | Published: August 13, 2009
"The Curse Of The Antichrist - Live In Agony", the new double live album from German thrash metal veterans DESTRUCTION, will be released in North America on October 13. The CD will be issued in Europe on September 25 via AFM Records.
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The Cover Up: Marduk – Wormwood

By Jason | Published: July 16, 2009
Swedish black metallers MARDUK will release their eleventh album, "Wormwood", before the end of the year via Regain Records.
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The Cover Up: Hypocrisy – A Taste of Extreme Divinity

By Jason | Published: July 14, 2009
There's a new Hypocrisy album coming out soon, and here's the cover art, courtesy of Blabbermouth.net.
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The Cover Up: Witchblade step by step

By Jason | Published: July 6, 2009
Comic Book Resources has a fantastic article written by John Tyler Christopher, and how he created the cover to Witchblade #129 for Top Cow Productions.
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The Cover Up: Anatomy of a cover

By Jason | Published: June 19, 2009
Dark Reign: Elektra #4 is supposed to ship on Wednesday. I found the cover during my meandering through the internet. I was appalled at how bad it was. Sure, this isn’t the first time I’ve seen a poorly laid out cover before, but I thought this might make good post fodder. Let’s look at the cover… I [...]
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The Cover Up: Executive Assistant Iris #4

By Jason | Published: June 9, 2009
I’ve been following Joe Benitez’s work since I first saw his art at Top Cow. I’m pretty sure I still have those two issues of Codename: Stryke Force he did. His work on The Darkness was some of the best that character’s ever had. After he wrapped up his Wraithborn series for Wildstorm, he had a [...]
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