#variant cover

[geekynerfherder]

'Grendrid' by Jenny Frison.

Variant cover art for 'Briar' issue #5, published May 2024 by Boom! Studios.

[momachan]

Batman/Superman: World's Finest (2022) Vol. 1.

[dailydccomics]

Lantern Mullein by Stjepan Šejić

[soranatus]

Hey, I think the new Power Girl and Wonder Woman variant covers might be AI

look, I’m no artist, but I think I’m pretty decent at spotting AI “art” when I come across it. There’s usually just this weird look about it that causes me to raise a metaphorical eyebrow, and if I look closer, I can find the inconsistencies in it a real artist wouldn’t make.

Both of these variants were made by Daxiong, I’m not familiar with their artwork and tried looking them up and their usual style is very different than what they had this time around.

Let’s start with the Power Girl cover:

At first glance it looks fine, but if you look closer you can spot the inconsistencies

There are these weird ribbons? or hair? just popping up from her head and belt that kind of connect but are just confusing to look at

The belt itself is very inconsistent

The hair ends differently in places compared to the rest of it

There are lines in weird places

And for the Wonder Woman cover, I admit, I don’t think I spotted as many, but there are still areas where it looks weird

The lines on her “W” belt are inconsistent

The lines on her armband/gauntlet thing are all over the place with no coherence

And the symbols on her shield don’t really look like anything and they just fade away

Like I said, I’m no artist, but this looks like the work of AI to me.

I hope I’m wrong, I don’t want to see people using AI “art” at all, let alone professionals in the comics industry. But if this is actually AI, I don’t think people should buy these covers if the “artist” didn’t even think it was worth their time to actually put effort in and make them.

[dcladies]

Wonder Woman #9 variant cover art by Julian Totino Tedesco

[riotsandcomedy]

Nubia: Queen of the Amazons #4 variant cover by Joelle Jones and Jordie Bellaire

[sideshow-tornado]

[wwprice1]

Wow! Michael Cho absolutely killing it with this upcoming variant for Wolverine 38! Incredible homage to the cover for Uncanny X-Men 210!

[f4nd0mlife]

Batman / Superman: World's Finest #25 variant cover by Jamal Campbell

[balu8]

Batman #124

Cover by Filya Bratukhin

DC

[midnight-3r]

nightwing #103 variant cover by travis moore

[ultrameganicolaokay]

Wonder Woman #9 by Tom King, Daniel Sampere and Belén Ortega. Variant covers by (1) Stjepan Šejić, (2) Julian Totino Tedesco and (3) Irvin Rodriguez. Main cover (4) by Sampere. Out in May.

"The ultimate test! As Sovereign’s grip on Wonder Woman’s psyche tightens, she retreats into the arms of Steve Trevor. Will their love for the ages prove victorious over the web of Amazon lies weaved in Man’s World? Plus, Trinity lets the dogs out!"

[dailydccomics]

city boy Nightwing art by Jamal Campbell

[soranatus]

Titans (2023) #9 variant cover by Joshua Swaby

[arcadebroke]

[sadiewayne]

Nightwing 105 Dan Mora variant (2023)

made me some new phone wallpapers using one of dan mora's iconic nightwing covers because it's dan mora and how can you not love it (and the size wasn't right to let me do this)