Maybe I just haven't had enough coffee yet, but this ghoulish idiocy really set me off -- by which I mean Elliot's complaint, not the variant covers. Variant covers were Turner's major artistic output for the last several years. Unless Elliot has some sort of damning evidence, proving that Marvel was somehow coercing Turner into churning out cover after cover while cackling all the way to the bank, claiming that they are somehow operating unethically by continuing to publish planned variant covers that were already drawn is paralogical lunacy.In Astonishing X-Men #26, there is a full-page tribute to Michael Turner. Along with a photo of him is the following quote...
"...His name is Michael Turner. The world is less special without him. We miss you and love you. 1971 – 2008”
How gruesome is it that the real way Marvel Comics is honoring [Michael Turner's] memory is by dangling his work as variant covers in a cheap attempt to coerce retailers to order more issues of Hulk #7 than they did for Hulk #1 ?
Look, I'm not a huge fan of variant covers, Marvel, or Michael Turner's art, in general. But it hardly seems like civilized behavior to use a tribute page run In Memoriam by a company that employed the deceased (and likely employs the bereaved) to take a shot at a mildly annoying publishing practice that has been going on for ages, and in which the deceased was actively -- and for all we know, quite happily -- participating. Using a public expression of grief to take a shot at a comics company -- this is what makes the internet a lovely place to wake up to in the morning, isn't it?
I definitely haven't had enough coffee yet.
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