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Hi Tom! Really looking forward to AVENGERS #41 today, but it got me thinking about tribute/homage covers. It's a cool cover, but clearly only long-time readers will get it, similar to, say, McKelvie's newly released SPIDER-GWEN variant. At first blush, it seems like a angle of "continuity porn", or playing to the established base, but I can also see how creators would want to do love letters to their favourite pieces. How does the process around deciding to homage come about?
First off, that’s not a homage cover, that’s the actual cover to ULTIMATES #1–the same one Bryan Hitch drew 14 years ago.And so long as the image still works on its own–which most of the most homaged covers do, since that’s what makes them memorable–then it still works regardless of whether you understand the larger context. But if you do, you get more.I also take issue with “continuity porn”. I think complaining about stories or comics referring to the past in a community in which 95% of the questions I get here are about whether a favorite character will soon appear again, how some recent story contradicted some facet of an earlier story, or whether one character is stronger than another character is maybe deliberately wearing blinders. Continuity is a storytelling tool, just like any storytelling tool. It can be used poorly or it can be used well.
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