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Tom, whats up with the misleading covers recently? Cable&X-Force 7 had Cyclops looking all ominous on the cover, and yet it was a pretty good father/son tale. and All New X-Men had Cyclops and Havok fighting to the death, and yet it was a story all about good fraternal moments. Do you guys think we'll only buy books about aggression and destruction?
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Two answers to this: sometimes you want to surprise the readers with an interaction, so you cloak it in how you solicit things (especially because you see the cover and read the solicits three months before the book comes out.) And sometimes you only have so much information about what the story’s going to be about that early, so you generate a cover based on what you know. I don’t happen to think that either of the two covers you point to are terribly misleading–both of them deliver on what the cover promises in some fashion. There are other covers we’ve done, in some instances on books I’ve put out, about which I don’t think you could say the same.
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