Mark Spears Covers

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Hmm… Fifth print variant?

man he needs to pump the breaks. he’s digging his own grave… pun intended. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Agreed. Dang

According to Spears he did all these covers between 2023 and early 2024. The publishers are dumping them on us. Spears has been focusing on Spawn 77

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Not sure the publisher is dumping on us as much as the stores are dropping the variants.

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Spears should release every possible cover he can and make that money. He’s not getting rich in this biz, and if he’s in demand, go full speed. I would do the same.

Now, that doesn’t mean we need to keep buying them. And, will that probably hasten his decline in popularity? Maybe. But, to be honest, his work feels a bit like a one trick pony, so I think people will get over his work soon enough regardless.

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If full speed means putting out “exclusive” covers through backer kit that end up on Dynamite comics in 8 different shades of red and dropping multiple printings of comics through retailer exclusives that train track is going to run out. On the other hand if he slow played this his train could run for a long time to come.

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Agreed. I don’t understand why he’s rushing to dump so many covers immediately – is it just a mini-series that’s almost done, or is Monsters meant to be ongoing? No faith anyone will stick around for future issues?

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I think he said 1-8 were reprints of his Kickstarter. All new artwork/story will begin with #9.

He’s not if they’re already finished works from a few years back. It’s just easy money for him right now, using up existing art pieces… I’d be doing the same thing. I could see waiting longer between releases backfire just like dumping them all quickly onto the market… there’s just nothing else exciting going on so collectors and flippers are holding onto what’s hot and working on sales, once something else comes along, collectors get easily distracted and move on…

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Well these came in today.

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This one looks good, I might get one for the PC.

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This is an interesting cover…two covers combined into one, and foil.

And it seems Lunar isn’t offering this…only Diamond which likely will be closing shop on 4/1…wonder if this will even ship…

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They have done that on every issue.

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