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A variant for the upcomingSuperman'78series has been revealed by creative person Mico Suayan . This cover pays court to Jim Lee ’s iconic fine art fromSuperman(1987 - 2006 ) . This is the 2nd Jim Lee court that Suayan has done for the latest Superman and Batman serial publication that pick up where films leave off .
Mico Suayan is a Filipino artist who has worked with DC Comics , Marvel Comics , and Valiant Comics . He has done variant covers and artwork forNinjak , Moon Knight , Absolute Carnage , Marvel’sAlien , andBRZRKR , among many others . Jim Lee is the current publisher andChief Creative Officer of DC Comics , though he is well known for his award - winning art .
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On Twitter , Mico Suayanshared his late variant cover charge for DC Comics . This fresh variant forSuperman ' 78 # 1mirrors the cover that Jim Lee did forSuperman # 204 in 2004 . Suayan ’s cover maintains the apparatus of Lee ’s original top , placing Superman on the left over side atop an eagle , looking towards the right , with Metropolis in the background . However , since this series takes inspiration from Richard Donner ’s 1978Supermanfilm , the titular submarine is draw as Christopher Reeve ’s characterization of the reference .
Suayan ’s top placesChristopher Reeve ’s Superman on a golden eaglein Metropolis , with the Daily Planet in the desktop . It spend a penny a few change , such as commit the Daily Planet higher in the ground and moving it over , and it turns the eagle atomic number 79 where it was silver before . These changes discern it from the original and provide a heightened realness that is more musing of the divine guidance the new series takes from the original film . It also give Superman ’s ness a unlike level of attribute , further canalise the realism of this loop . to boot , Suayan ’s signature is in thesame positioning as Jim Lee ’s on the originalwork .
dot # 204was the offset of the arc " For Tomorrow , " which had the hero dealing with the fallout of a million masses suddenly vanishing . This arc deal a lot with faith and Superman ’s sense of duty to the humans - push the limit of what he felt he should do to protect people versus if it was in reality beneficial to them . Jim Lee ’s screen for#204mirrored the cover he did forBatman # 608 in 2002 , which began the " Hush " arc . That cover has Batman atop a birdlike stone gargoyle with Gotham in the background . Suayan also did a translation of that cover , star Michael Keaton ’s Batman for theseriesBatman ' 89.The covers forSuperman # 204andBatman # 608are some of Jim Lee ’s most iconic work , fix Suayan ’s take on them a double-dyed blend of comic and film iconography .
Superman ' 78 # 1- which has the creative squad of Robert Venditti and Wilfredo Torres - releases on August 24 , 2021 .
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