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Kirk G
11-15-2006, 06:28 PM
Pardon if this is obvious, but a few questions have struck me about the format of the Civil War covers.

The format for many of the covers and tie-ins have been half the cover in some blank color and the upper half a "painted art" picture depicting key figures or development in each book.

It occurs to me that there may be some theme as to which book have which color blocks on their cover. Has anyone noticed a pattern? Is it like "red state, blue state" or more subtle, like "Pro registration, flipped to anti this month...."

Also, have there been certain colors on ALL books one month...then next month's theme is all another color. Example: September, all covers are blue. In October, past Spidey's reveal, all covers are red. In November, all covers are yellow when Clor appears... etc.

Or, is there any thought to this at all?

I'm not saying there is any rhyme or reason. I'm just wondering if anyone has thought about this or dealt with the idea before?:cool:

Also, I was trying to figure out, between the reprints and the original covers, and the varriants, just which were which? I assume that the half color covers were supposed to be the originals, and the full covers are the variants, right? Reprints have black and white sketches for artwork, right? Or am I wrong...?

bulbasteve
11-15-2006, 11:59 PM
Here is what Tom said:

Additionally is there a reason behind which color is used for the bottom half of the cover, or is it more of a complimentary effect?

It's mostly a complimentary effect, but we worked out a whole chart beforehand so that the colors would be consistent for the characters.

shadowfaxter
11-16-2006, 12:30 PM
I'm really dazzled with all the artworks of the CW Covers...I wish I could view all of them in PROPER ORDER Though.....can somebody upload them altogether up to #5 so that I'll be able to print out the covers? Anybody know which site I can find all the pictures for all the CW covers being released? Thanks!:)

Kirk G
11-16-2006, 01:41 PM
Does this mean that all Fantastic Four issues will have a complimentary blue bottom?

And all the Cap issues will be the same color? Or do they change, based upon the content of the picture above?

Magneto Rocks
11-16-2006, 02:03 PM
As said above-

For example:

amazing Spider-Man- Red

Captain America- Red

Fantastic Four- Blue

New Avengers- Red

Wolverine- Blue

Young Avengers/Runaways- GReen

and so on.

However, the number and the colour of the word "War"- basically the stuff on the white section- of each main issue rotates between blue and red each month.

bulbasteve
11-16-2006, 02:53 PM
I'm really dazzled with all the artworks of the CW Covers...I wish I could view all of them in PROPER ORDER Though.....can somebody upload them altogether up to #5 so that I'll be able to print out the covers? Anybody know which site I can find all the pictures for all the CW covers being released? Thanks!:)

Newsarama should have all the pictures in there listing of the monthly solicits. So search around there and you should be able to get em all.

Maybe Wizard too...don't they do some recap of Civil War?