I don’t care about Marvel’s Civil War series at all, for the most part. But I have a practical question about the covers for the series. Since the artist really only needs to draw half of a cover, do they get paid half the going rate for a cover?
What an awful trade dress for the covers, by the way. In many comic stores, a cover like this makes it very difficult to know what comic you are looking at: the title would be obscured by the comic below. I always have trouble finding comics that have their covers altered in some way (usually for special events). Nextwave has awful covers if you judge covers by the ability to draw your eye: the logo is always in some different spot and usually hard to read. Plus, all the covers (to me, at least) seem to be too similar to one another.
I’ve already mentioned on of my cardinal rules of Marvel comic buying: if I have to buy another comic to make sense of the story, then I just drop the comic. Another rule I have which applies to all comics I buy is that if I buy the same issue of a comic twice because I can’t even recall the cover (much less the story), then I drop the comic. I haven’t had that problem in many years, though both Firestorm and Green Lantern Corps: Recharge have come close.
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