The Comic Book Collection by Kernie

[Bunny Dojo]

That's a really impressive lineup, the reinvigorating power of your Cover of the Year win is very much on display. As Sauron said, constructing 25 covers period is pretty incredible, and you make it look like a walk in the park (particularly on your G.I. Joe comic reworking).

Your cover for "The Peanuts Movie" and title treatment on the "G.I. Joe" cartoon series are particular standouts, but your sneaky Coming Soon text for Supergirl & Legends of Tomorrow steals the spotlight in anticipation.

[Kernie]

QUOTE (sauron @ Feb 15 2016, 03:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

WOW Kernie! How do you find the time to do all these covers! 25 of them is more than I have done in the past 3 or 4 years

Isn't the Supergirl episode list this?

That's part of it. But there's going to be at least 20 episodes in Season 1, including the Flash crossover in episode 18. But thanks... if you find the other 5, let me know and I can finish the cover!

QUOTE (Bunny Dojo @ Feb 15 2016, 04:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

That's a really impressive lineup, the reinvigorating power of your Cover of the Year win is very much on display. As Sauron said, constructing 25 covers period is pretty incredible, and you make it look like a walk in the park (particularly on your G.I. Joe comic reworking).

Your cover for "The Peanuts Movie" and title treatment on the "G.I. Joe" cartoon series are particular standouts, but your sneaky Coming Soon text for Supergirl & Legends of Tomorrow steals the spotlight in anticipation.

Most of these were finished long before the COTY/LOTY results, but thank you... hopefully it'll invigorate me for the next batch! I have about half a dozen covers in various forms of completion, just waiting for episode lists, comic scans, keyart, or better posters to use for keyart (I'm looking at you, BvS).

And to be honest, the template is a huge time-saver, especially for something like GI Joe, where the colors, TT's, and back logos all remain fairly consistent. I don't mean to say it takes no time at all or that it is a "walk in the park" each time, but being familiar with updating the template speeds up the process. Every cover is different.

Something like the Peanuts Movie DVD cover took probably 4-5 hours (plus another 1-2 hrs. for labels and blu-ray conversion) because the resources were abundant and high quality, and the keyart was pretty much straight from the studio poster.

But then a cover like Agents of SHIELD S2, Gotham S1, or Daredevil S1, which all required a lot of cutting out characters, rearranging them, and countless other adjustments to make them all fit, could take between 10-15 hours to create the keyart and make all everything to go on the back.

Needless to say, I spend much more time on standalone covers (Hocus Pocus, Scream, Avengers, etc.) than I do for any one entry in the Comic Collection, which is why I don't do as many of those. The reason I've been able to do so many in this template is because I'm not reinventing the wheel each time, I just have to find new things to put into the template, which varies in time depending on the cover, but is still much easier than doing something from scratch.

[sauron]

QUOTE (Kernie @ Feb 15 2016, 10:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

That's part of it. But there's going to be at least 20 episodes in Season 1, including the Flash crossover in episode 18. But thanks... if you find the other 5, let me know and I can finish the cover!

Oh yeah you're correct! I think only 16 of the episode names have been announced as Episode 18 is called World's Finest

[Kernie]

Oh, what the heck... here's one more...

Agent Carter: Season 2
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Enjoy!

[Punisherchad]

All I can say, with tears in my eyes is, Yo Joe!

[Darksaber]

Fantastic, I like how you've kept the same style as Season 1, I hope your not backed into a corner when it comes to making Season 3 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, but we'll have to wait and see what you come up with

Thanks again and really well done

[cas]

wow wow fantastic

[merdec]

Excellent work. Second season of Agent Carter may be the last.

[Kernie]

QUOTE (Darksaber @ Feb 16 2016, 02:17 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Fantastic, I like how you've kept the same style as Season 1, I hope your not backed into a corner when it comes to making Season 3 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, but we'll have to wait and see what you come up with

Since it is sort of a companion show, I've been having the Agent Carter covers mirror the layouts of Agents of SHIELD. I'm currently planning S3 of SHIELD, looking at what sort of arrangement I can do with the available promo photos, and hopefully if/when Carter gets a third season, I'll be able to mimic that layout as well.

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QUOTE (merdec @ Feb 16 2016, 05:32 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Excellent work. Second season of Agent Carter may be the last.

I usually don't root for Marvel to fail, but that would actually be great. I was optimistic through Carter's first season, hoping they would give some worthwhile backstory to SHIELD's early years. It was a fun little story, but nothing amazing.

Season 2 of Carter has been a total bore for me. I can barely force myself to watch it. I am constantly wondering "why does this matter/why should I care?" Other than some loose (and unnecessary) setup for Doctor Strange, there's not much going on. We've seen that the movies don't reference or care what the ABC TV shows are doing, so it all feels kind of pointless (other than to continue slapping the Marvel brand on things).

It's becoming more and more difficult to make time for Marvel's ABC shows, especially when their own Netflix branch (Daredevil/Jessica Jones) and DC's awesome output (four nights a week! Supergirl/Flash/Arrow/Legends) are running circles around them.

[xshoty]

Like usual my friend you do a top job ! I especially like Peanuts, the color is awesome