Cavalcade of Awesome

I love movies. Obviously. I also love comics. So when comic artists homage famous movies it really gets my nerd blood pumpin’.  So I thought I’d take a look at some of my favorite movie poster homages that can be found on the covers of some surprising (and not-so-surprising) comics.

FYI, these aren’t all of them.  I could probably do another full article of more homages.  These are just some of my favorites. You can click the images to make them BIGGER.

Star Wars / Spidey Super Stories #31 – Not surprising that there is at least one Star Wars homage cover out there, right? But did you expect it on Spidey Super Stories? The comic based on the Spider-Man skits from Electric Company?  I kind of love that this is out there.  Dr Doom as Darth Vader?!  BRILLIANT!

Adventures in Babysitting / Darkwing Duck v2 #17 – Adventures in Babysitting is an awesome movie.  Plus, it has one of the best posters painted by the great Drew Struzan.  I really love the Darkwing Duck homage plus it’s such a cool comic to do it.

Enter the Dragon / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles v4 #6 – There’s no more appropriate place for an Enter the Dragon homage than on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.  Plus, I think Jaime from Shezcrafti is gonna love that I included this one.  What a great recreation of the poster.

Alien / Deadpool #40 – Deadpool’s various series over the years have actually homaged dozens of movies.  This one is one of my favorites.

Aliens / Cable v2 #18 – Pretty straightforward homage of the James Cameron Aliens poster.

Animal House / The Boys #23 – Animal House is another iconic poster.  I’m only vaguely aware of this comic, The Boys, but they do a bang up job of recreating the original poster image.

The Exorcist / Justice League of America #27 – No idea what the storyline of this JLA comic is, but I’m interested in finding out why it uses the famous Exorcist image as the cover.

The Graduate / Deadpool: Merc with a Mouth #9 – I told you Deadpool recreated many different posters throughout his run.  Here’s a zombified version of The Graduate poster.

Jaws / Spidey Super Stories #16 – Another Spidey Super Stories cover appearance.  I love this comic and that its run had not one, but TWO movie poster homages.  Not surprising they were two of the biggest movies of the 70s.

The Rocketeer / Iron Man: Enter the Mandarin – I liked The Rocketeer movie, but I LOVED the poster.  And Iron Man replicates it perfectly.  And I think CT from Nerd Lunch will enjoy this one as well.

Scarface / Deadpool: Merc with a Mouth #4 – Last but not least, another Deadpool homage. This one of one of my favorite movie posters, Scarface. Say what you will about the movie, but this poster is badass.  I think Deadpool did an okay job recreating it.

Like I said, there are many more.  Maybe I’ll revisit this in another article sometime in the future.

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