Tmnt #18 (IDW)
 

...the covers for #18.

Cover A - Bates


Cover B - Eastman


Cover RI - Torres


Cover RE Dimension X - Eastman

This time I like all of them pretty much equally.

I'm psyched to have an interior artist whose covers I actually prefer over Eastman's! At least, for the two we've seen... This is going to be a good turtle month!

EDIT: These next 4 months are going to be good!

Hmm. The Eastman covers normally focus on a different story line than the A cover, but this is just a less exciting depiction of the Bates cover. Still nice art though.

And I frickin love the Nevermind cover.

Didn't we see all these covers already? I remember them all from other threads.

Nope, the Eastman one is hot off the press. The other two had been out for a tad though.

Oh man, I freakin' love the DimensionX cover!! :eek::teek:

It is great cover illustration.
especially Cover RI , parody of Nevermind CD cover.

What the crap!??!?

Where did this Dimension X RE cover come from? They aren't going to be making a ton of variants like JETPACK are they?!?!

Awesome covers. Gotta love the Nevermind parody. Bates cover > Eastman. I've been nothing but disappointed with Eastman's covers, save for the Splinter and Turtles pow-wow one. Even the annual is typical.

LOVE the parody cover!

i don't know donnie... Eastman's covers may be very typical and (as some have mentioned in the past) scratchy... but i like that they (somewhat) reflect some part of the storyline.

but on this particular issue... i'd have to agree. Bates's > Eastman's.
P.s. the Dimension X cover looks trippy but very Mirage-y.

Loving these covers.

anyone else bothered by Bates' raphael in cover A? it looks unfinished.

It does look like he is missing some detailing on the right side, but I don't think it was unfinished, just a stylistic choice.

I could be wrong though.

Donny too. It's pretty clear to me that he underestimated the necessary width prior to cropping. To fix that they'd have to stretch his work, lessening the quality. Drives me nuts too, Lampy.

if it went all the way up & down and wasn't just Donnie & Raph, it might have worked better... but just being the two turtles, make it definitely look... poor...

the reason Bates's Raph and Don are like that is because that's where the bleed margin is, when it's printed it won't show, that stuff will be cropped out. not all artists draw up to the edge because it'll just get cut off anyway, but solicits typically show the full image file with bleed included.

:twink:

oh ok... i thought it was the final draft of the cover already.
i kind of hoped they'd crop it out eventually before print. but wouldn't they be cropping out the entire left half of raph's body? either way... still an awesome cover. i'm not too bothered by don though. it's not as obvious as raph's.

i took a look at it again and yeah, it looks like there's not enough of Raph's body drawn to extend to the bleed/crop margin... hm, i don't know. the place where the other lines end is where the bleed will be, but Raph's stops short of that margin, not sure why. there are also some black-fills that look unfinished, so maybe it's all since been fixed. solicits have to be out 3 months in advance so sometimes tinkering and adjustments happen after the covers appear online. we'll see!

definitely an awesome cover, i love Bates's stuff! his Turtles look great and he's got a great sense of composition.