she is on cover A
Oh. Oh thatâs awful. Man, the rest of the covers for issue 1 are so good. That looks like bad clip art.
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Itâs not terrible, just not a 1:25 type of cover.
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Not a terrible cover.
The lightsaber (or whatever shes holding) is terrible.
Well, retailers shouldnât be buying quantities just to get the incentives, they should be buying what they know they can sell on each and every book. If they qualify for the ratio variants, thatâs just bonus as theyâre still spending cover price for them (if they buy them). Any shop chasing variants as a consumer is running their business in horrible fashion if you ask me⊠
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Well, had I seen that cover yesterday, I surely wouldnât have paid $20 to get it. I wouldnât have paid $4 for it. Their unused concept art is so great. This feels like cutting room floor level quality.
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Now thatâs a 1:25.
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This is why good ol poyo always statesâŠ
Smart guy⊠you all should listen to him more oftenâŠ
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If a store is only a few copies (less than 5) away from qualifying for the 1:25, they will usually up the order as the extra 1:25 will cover the cost. This one is a shite cover that will not sell, which Marvel knew and is the reason they did not post anything until after FOC. I bet the orders would have been much lower for the book if they had posted it a day or two in advance as owners would not have topped up and collectors would not have ordered it.
At least the regular covers should sell and the stores will be able to cover the cost of the fugly Sway 1:25s that do not sell.
I believe that image is for one of the novels.
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Sorry I wasnât paying attention , whos smart and we should be listening too?
novels and comics have used same art before
Lets not pretend that ANY of us know what Marvel (or any publisher) is thinking or doing. That is straight speculation 
As far as i know, they solicate and pay artists to do covers based on what the marketing team wants and directs (I imagine its the same scenario as a retailer exclusive). Sometimes the art isnt ready or made it through approval process and gets released later on. I dont think (i hope they dont) they hold cover art back intentionLly (except when its intential âclassified spoiler coverâ)
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Sure but not all shops will or should do this. If I was a retailer, I wouldnât budge. If I knew I could only sell 20 copies and thatâs including a few shelf copies, meh⊠All too often shops have the âvariantâ boxes where plentiful ratio variants never sell at the jacked up prices⊠Then when they have huge blowout sales, you get them at 75% off or more and I still pass on most of them in the past. My main shop sells all books at cover price. If they get it, they get it and if itâs not in some subscribers pull folder, itâs on the shelf. Initially I use to just buy cause theyâre ratio, all too often they end up being worthless. I learned my lesson, only buy if I like the cover art cause for selling for profit, you gotta just list the damn thing one the way to your car in the parking lot to make any money from it.
Also, what one thinks is subpar artwork, others may like or even love. Peach comes to mind, we got some haterz out there while having people loving her artworkâŠ
I donât actually mind that cover! It tangentially reminds me a bit of Kehinde Wileyâs work (this is less patterned in the background, to be sure), though I probably canât adequately explain why⊠itâs just the first thing I thought of when I saw the cover.
EDIT: so that you donât have to google it, Kehinde Wiley is the (mostly portrait) artist who did President Obamaâs portrait and has a style that incorporates lots of bright colors and patterns with African American visual vernacular elements. Theyâre really striking pieces (thereâs a great one at the Art Institute in Chicago!)
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That looks more like a bad 2nd printing
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This feels like the conversation Meatwad and Carl have at the beginning of the song âA.T.H.F.â on the Danger Doom album. Meatwad is rapping (or, trying to) and Carl says:
Whereâs the keyboards and the tambourine and the guitar
And you know, I mean, the stuff that like white people like
We had a piano
Somethinâ bad ass, like, uhh, I donât know
Like uh, REO Speedwagon or somethinâ
Which is all to say, we should consider that this cover might have an audience in mind that both Marvel and Sway want to create for. Thereâs, for example, clearly a target audience in mind with, uh, Dejah Thoris or Vampirella variants.
If there was a significant market for the variant, then store owners would not have reacted so strongly against it last night. I am willing to bet they get customers trying to cancel their 1:25 pre-sale orders now.