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03-14-2005, 07:14 PM
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John Cassaday's cover of Kitty Pride and Colossus from ASTONISHING X-MEN #6 won Marvel's Cover of the Year contest. I know you've all seen the cover, but click here (http://marvel.com/coty/) to check it out. Here's the blurb Marvel has posted at the contests end:
Voting is over, and John Cassaday's Astonishing X-Men #6 is the winner! Keep watching this space for more information about the upcoming Wizard Magazine Postermania, and thanks to everyone — the creators, the staff of Wizard Magazine and of course you, the fans — for your votes!
What can I say. . .it is a great cover--not the one I would have picked as best of last year, but it is a good one. Still, I mist admit that I'm a bit disappointed in how Marvel ran the contest. It was cool seeing the brackets posted as the voting progressed, but I would have liked to have seen some kind of running tally that showed how many votes each cover garnered. It's also kind of vague about how the votes were weighted. The voting was done among creators and fans alike, so did my vote through an online poll count for just as much as, say, Bendis' input did? I'm guessing not. But Marvel not giving any indication of how the votes were scored gives me the impression that the COTY may have been pre-selected, in which case the victory of Cassaday's cover was a foregone conclusion.
In the end, I know it doesn't really matter much. I enjoyed going back through all the covers from last year, being reminded of the good, the bad, and the ugly. The contest was a really cool thing for Marvel to do. And that's the important thing, the way I see it.
So what do you guys think? Know of a cover from last year that you feel is more deserving?
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John Cassaday's cover of Kitty Pride and Colossus from ASTONISHING X-MEN #6 won Marvel's Cover of the Year contest. I know you've all seen the cover, but click here (http://marvel.com/coty/) to check it out. Here's the blurb Marvel has posted at the contests end:
Voting is over, and John Cassaday's Astonishing X-Men #6 is the winner! Keep watching this space for more information about the upcoming Wizard Magazine Postermania, and thanks to everyone — the creators, the staff of Wizard Magazine and of course you, the fans — for your votes!
What can I say. . .it is a great cover--not the one I would have picked as best of last year, but it is a good one. Still, I mist admit that I'm a bit disappointed in how Marvel ran the contest. It was cool seeing the brackets posted as the voting progressed, but I would have liked to have seen some kind of running tally that showed how many votes each cover garnered. It's also kind of vague about how the votes were weighted. The voting was done among creators and fans alike, so did my vote through an online poll count for just as much as, say, Bendis' input did? I'm guessing not. But Marvel not giving any indication of how the votes were scored gives me the impression that the COTY may have been pre-selected, in which case the victory of Cassaday's cover was a foregone conclusion.
In the end, I know it doesn't really matter much. I enjoyed going back through all the covers from last year, being reminded of the good, the bad, and the ugly. The contest was a really cool thing for Marvel to do. And that's the important thing, the way I see it.
So what do you guys think? Know of a cover from last year that you feel is more deserving?