And when did you ever see Greg Horn’s covers on a high-selling title? MIGHTY AVENGERS, with Frank Cho’s art, is doing no better than NEW AVENGERS with Leinil Francis Yu - in fact, it’s actually the lowest selling of the three Avengers titles, although not by much. HEROES FOR HIRE has been distinguished by prominent cheesecake art from day one, and just look at its sales. There seems to a common assumption, both among publishers and among their detractors, that T&A sells comics. This raises, in passing, the controversial topic of the cover for issue #13. these sales are little short of atrocious.
Secondly was something I saw in the Beat: Heroes for Hire. As a cover, the image communicates that raped superheroines are something attractive to see, and that the value of female superheroes is entirely their sexuality. Within the book, the image would suggest that a rape, horrible and cruel, might occur. Which is why this cover is much more objectionable than a similar image would be if it appeared only within the book. As such, the image that appears on the cover not only communicates what happens in a given story but also why a reader would want to read it. The first is that some people seem to forget that a comic book cover is the first, last, and best advertisement for the comic within, especially for new readers. Especially since the trolls have come out to play, but one or two things caught my attention about the Heroes for Hire cover.
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