Once Upon A Geek - Blue Devil #8 (Jan 1985)

Oh, that's not fair.

There's a lot of cool stuff in this issue.

Ah.

Well, first off, all right, so this perspective is amazing.

I mean, this is an incredible layout.

So, yeah, you're a good, I don't know, 20, 30 feet above this mobile, like you said, it looks like an elevator, mobile bank that's being moved.

And so you're looking down at the trickster as he's trying to cut with the ridiculously large shears.

You're looking down at that.

I love that part of it.

And the ground is really clever how Paris did this.

There's enough depth.

detail so that you can tell the height and the danger but there's not enough to really distract from the drawing so really your eye never really strays from trickster and blue devil and the uh the positioning of the bodies is really really well done you know trickster leaning back but he's kicking danny in the face danny pulling off the booty it just it looks brilliant i i cannot say enough good things about this cover did you like it though you gave a description but did you like the cover

Yeah, no, it's a cool cover.

And what's nice, too, is since Paris is just focusing on the cover, we've had a lot of nitpicks.

Like we've liked the cover, but the background colors were too muddy or the background was too detailed or the background wasn't detailed enough, blah, blah, blah.

And it's like we just don't have any problems with this one.

Everything on this cover works.

The coloring works.

The perspective works.

The backgrounds are filled in well.

It's one of his best covers in terms of just pure construction.

It tells a story, right? I mean, it's telling a full story right here on the cover.

So that is, I mean, it almost makes me wonder, like, you know, Ed Hannigan was known for doing cover layouts back then, around probably a little earlier than this, actually.

But Ed Hannigan used to do a lot of DC layouts and then someone else would draw it.

It's such a brilliant layout that it just makes you wonder what inspired him to think of this particular position.