I have a problem with the cover I did for 'Red Alert' last year. It
sucks! I really hate it-- I was aiming for a sort of Lo-fi cutesiness,
deliberate amatuerishness kind of vibe. I guess that worked only too
well-- it looks like the kind of cover a child would design. I wanted to
produce something that would be dramatic and mysterious, and I was
re-reading an early issue of Savage She Hulk when I saw this page:
It's from the start of issue three
where Jen is having a nightmare about her first transformation into the
She-Hulk, and there's this wonderful montage image of the three thugs
from the hospital falling into Shulky's claw-like hands. It looks
awesome! And I immediately thought it would make a cool cover for Red
Alert too.
I've also been trying to make Red Alert look like something that's been sitting in a longbox since 1982. here's what I've been
wasting my time doing playing with recently:
And, because it's what you're all really here for, here are some of those money shots looking like they've been festering in a garage somewhere for 30 years:
