DC Movie Poster Themed Variants For March
DC Comics came up with a rather ingenious ideas back in June of this year, when select DC comics got fully orderable and themed variant covers. The June selection all themed with Bombshell variant covers featuring select DC females in 40′s style bombshell/pin-up artwork. Unquestionably this helped a number of DC comics sell twice as many issues, with fans wanting both covers or complete Bombshell sets, even if they didn’t normally buy the comic one of those covers came on. It was great for retailers and the publisher alike, as fans pick up series they might not normally (sometimes even reading and following the series) or picked up multiple copies of series they already did. But thankfully this didn’t end in June, as July saw variants themed with Batman’s 75th anniversary. Unfortunately the quality on some of these covers seemed to fall as each month saw a new theme, quickly rushed out. August was Selfie themed variants, October had monsters, November was all about Legos, this month features wide angle shots all by Darwyn Cooke, January will have Flash’s 75th anniversary theme, and February 2015 will be all about Harley Quinn. If you’re wondering, September evaded the theme because of the Future’s End 3D lenticular covers already existing as a theme for the month. Now no complaints can be made about this months incredible theme, because Darwyn Cooke’s art is always great. Furthermore, it looks like DC brought out the bigger guns, creator-wise, for February’s Harley variants. But March might have everything beat, with a whole new level of quality and design, thanks to the recent announcement from DC.
Today DC unveiled the 22 themed variant covers for March of 2015, and they’re all spoofs on classic movie posters! Every last one of the 22-themed variant covers looks amazing, and I have no doubt in my mind that people are going to want to collect them all unlike any themed variants DC has put out before. Take a look at the covers below:
Justice League’s cover is the one that will stand out the oddest in this series of classics, with Emanuela Lupacchino doing a take on Magic Mike
Superman and Wonder Woman are Gone With The Wind in a gorgeous cover by Gene Ha
Action Comics gets a little Bill and Ted with a most excellent call back to the Reign of Supermen thanks to Joe Quinones
Batman oddly looks to a movie based off another company’s property, with Dark Horses The Mask, but wonderfully rendered with The Joker by Dave Johnson
Batman and Robin features two boys who lived…which one better fits the Harry Potter cover by Tommy Lee Edwards?
Aquman’s cover is probably what most people expected, in a nod to Free Willy from Richard Horie
Catwoman covers the Steve McQueen classic, Bullitt, in a nearly Steranko looking Dave Johnson cover
Wonder Woman knows where Sparta and Themyscria are in a 300 style poster by Bill Sienkiewicz
Green Lantern wears a helmet straight out of 2001 in a cover by Tony Harris
Green Lantern Corps’ members head to a Forbidden Planet in Tony Harris’ other GL themed cover
Batman/Superman pull off a hilarious Fugitive poster where Superman isn’t just faster than a locomotive…he’s replacing one! Fast thinking Tony Harris
Justice League United sees the Martian Manh-errr, Mars Attack a cover by Marco D’Alphonso
Harley Quinn gets a little Jailhouse Rock with the aid of Dave Johnson
Detective Comics enter the Matrix, where the Catwoman look hits perfectly under Brian Stelfreeze’s pencil
The Flash gets perhaps my favorite cover thanks to the movie choice, but I think Barry could’ve out ran the plane from North by Northwest. Still, solid choice Bill Sienkiewicz
The Teen Titans become like The Lost Boys thanks to Alex Garner
Grayson Enters The dragon via an incredible cover by Bill Sienkiewicz
Batgirl has a surprisingly fitting poster based off the classic Prince film, Purple Rain, by Cliff Chiang
Superman gets Super Fly with Dave Johnson
Sinestro goes West World in another cover by Dave Johnson
Supergirl goes down a Kandor-esque yellow brick road in a technicolor cover by Marco D’Alphonso that beats the original Wizard of Oz
Justice League Dark’s cover makes me want to say Deadman three times fast, in a Beetlejuice piece by Joe Quinones






















