The Comic Book Collection by Kernie

[Fidi]

Impressive work on the Superman artworks. You've mad a lot out of these old images!
Your title treatment also looks fantastic on every single cover.

Outstanding collection and I admire your passion to continue this one cover by cover by cover.

[Kernie]

Kernie's Weekly Cover Update #12: Arrow: Season 8 plus revised Seasons 1-7!
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So here's why I am not a gambling man...

Back in 2012, when Arrow first aired it's series premiere, I watched it and I wasn't terribly impressed. It was a lot of things at once... trying to do gritty, street-level action like The Dark Knight, trying to be a CW romance (between Oliver/Laurel/Tommy), trying to do Lost-style flashbacks, and trying to be some sort of corporate family drama (with all the Queen family scandals). I'll be honest, I expected it to last one season... maybe two at the most. So, I didn't put a lot of effort into my cover for Season 1... using just the standard title treatment, retail keyart, etc.

And then... Arrow became a big hit primarily in its much-improved second season. It introduced Grant Gustin as Barry Allen and spun-off into The Flash. Then came Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Batwoman, and eventually even retconned Black Lightning, Lucifer, and Constantine (among others) into its multiverse.

So, as Arrow came to a close with the recent eighth and final season (and since I have a lot more time on my hands during quarantine), I decided that the show that started the CW Arrowverse deserved a little more than my indifferent template from back in 2012.

At this point, I like to make my covers as custom as possible. I created a brand-new 3D Title Treatment and 3D logo, along with custom keyart for Seasons 1 & 2 (which were previously just a copy/paste of the retail art). The remaining seasons got a few minor tweaks and adjustments to their keyart, and the template itself got a new, brighter color scheme. One of the main things I'm also trying to revise across a lot of my old covers is the color behind the Episode List/Special Features. On some old covers, I made it too darn dark, to the point where it's tough to read the black text on top of it. Some changes are being made for contrast purposes. I hope everyone likes the changes and considers them an improvement (and my apologies for causing some people to do some reprinting).

I plan to make similar adjustments to the other three major Arrowverse series (Flash, Legends, Supergirl, maybe even Constantine) as I upload their recent seasons. With these revisions, you'll find that I'm making the templates for all of the shows more consistent with one another. I'm also doing some things behind-the-scenes within the PSD files that will make adding new seasons much easier for myself.

With all that out of the way, here are this week's covers!

Arrow: Season 1 - Blu-ray Edition (available in 10mm & 15mm)
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Arrow: Season 1 - DVD Edition
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Arrow: Season 2 - Blu-ray Edition (available in 10mm & 15mm)
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Arrow: Season 2 - DVD Edition
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Arrow: Season 3 - Blu-ray Edition (available in 10mm & 15mm)
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Arrow: Season 3 - DVD Edition
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Arrow: Season 4 - Blu-ray Edition (available in 10mm & 15mm)
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Arrow: Season 4 - DVD Edition
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Arrow: Season 5 - Blu-ray Edition (available in 10mm & 15mm)
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Arrow: Season 5 - DVD Edition
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Arrow: Season 6 - Blu-ray Edition (available in 10mm & 15mm)
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Arrow: Season 6 - DVD Edition
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Arrow: Season 7 - Blu-ray Edition (available in 10mm & 15mm)
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Arrow: Season 7 - DVD Edition
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Arrow: Season 8 - Blu-ray Edition (available in 10mm & 15mm)
Somebody gave me some grief last year when I excluded Mia Smoak (Katherine McNamara) from the Season 7 cover. I was behind on watching the show so I didn't realize the significance of the character or the stunning human specimen that is Katherine McNamara, so I fixed that oversight on the Season 8 keyart and put her on the spine as well!
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Arrow: Season 8 - DVD Edition
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Enjoy and see you next week!

[cas]

wow wow wowow amazing thank you so for all the work, what a cool updated on the old covers love it wow wow wow and another sets done wow wowowowo

[ctaulbee]

Great update Kernie and thanks for the insight as well he says as he quickly googles Katherine McNamara in a separate tab...

[bazzah]

Amazing set. Amazing artwork. Amazing title treatment. Amazing work Kernie!

And amazing google search for Katherine McNamara, thanks CT

[redt8tr]

Outstanding update Kernie!

[sauron]

Excellent work Kernie and I agree Kat McNamara is stunning!

[Kernie]

QUOTE (ctaulbee @ May 16 2020, 01:59 PM) Great update Kernie and thanks for the insight as well he says as he quickly googles Katherine McNamara in a separate tab...

QUOTE (Bazzah @ May 16 2020, 02:06 PM) And amazing google search for Katherine McNamara, thanks CT

QUOTE (sauron @ May 16 2020, 04:07 PM) Excellent work Kernie and I agree Kat McNamara is stunning!

Thanks guys! But I'm not paying to replace any keyboards from all of your frenzied googling!

[Jazzy]

Excellent and impressive work Kernie

[JollyRoger]

Excellent finish for thi series! Loving the custom TT and logo as per usual!