11/06 - Dynamiting the Competition

With some delay on my part, here are the sexiest covers of this first week of this tempestuous November. I guess by now it just goes without saying that there's not much to expect in terms of sexy covers from the majors. Just as it happened last week, DC didn't rate a single cover. Shame on them. Adding insult to injury, this is one week that sees the printing of one of Harley Quinn's titles, an (almost) surefire assurance for covers that leave one's libido positively salivating. Maybe next month.

It is also no surprise that in a week that sees both Red Sonja and Vampirella on the stands, Dynamite literally blows the competition out of the water. First and foremost, with the sublime and supinely erotic cover for VENGEANCE OF VAMPIRELLA #2 by Lucio Parrillo. This is an incredibly sensual Vampirella, drawn in such an exquisite way that not even the claw-like hands or the membranous and sickly-looking wings diminish its sinister seduction. And those hypnotically luscious buttocks make sure one hardly notices such aberrant appendages. Buzz's variant cover gives as a blood-clad, blood drained, Vampirella pin-up that wiold look good in any white stucco wall.

As to RED SONJA #10, Joseph Michael Linsner offers us what looks like a zero-gravity Red Sonja, demonstrating one of the most desirable effects of imponderability over the female anatomy.

Absent DC, Marvel takes the chance to present us with three sexy covers (maybe one should say mildly sexy covers, after Dynamite's) the best one being Yoon's cover for WEB OF BLACK WIDOW, at a time when the covers for #4 and 5 are already announced and guaranteed to make the selection here. At a close second comes X-FORCE #1, with two buxomy classic Marvel characters: Domino and Rachel Grey. Last from Marvel comes the cover by David Finch and Frank D'Armata for SAVAGE AVENGERS #7, which I must confess I hesitated before including here. Elektra is one of the sexiest characters from the Bronze Age of Marvel, and her pose here is suitably striking (pun intended)...however, there's something in the proportions of the figure that somehow seem to be a little off. But, hey, boob-lover that I am, I decided to throw the vote in favor of the defendant.

Finally, we have two covers from Valiant's LIVEWIRE #12 - although the main cover is not unsexy, the variant fashion-cover by Kevin Wada strikes a note of unusual exotism that makes it my choice - and one cover each for Zenescope's GRIMM FAIRY TALES 2019 HOLYDAY SPECIAL and Action Lab's AMALGAMA: SPACE ZOMBIE #2, both of which are included with the solely aim of completism, as they are typical products of their respective labels.

Covers for: Vengeance of Vampirella by Lucio Parrillo and Buzz; Red Sonja by Joseph Michael Linsner; Web of Black Widow by Junggeun Yoon; X-Force by Dustin Weaver; Savage Avengers by David Finch & Frank D'Armata; Livewire by Kevin Wada and Stacey Lee; Grimm's Fairy Tales Holyday Special by Geebo Vigonte; and Amalgama by Winston Young.