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Post by foxley on Feb 26, 2020 14:56:26 GMT -5
Thanks for the votes all, and great covers for everyone. I just saw I won, as I never got a PM, so it will be a minute or two before I have a new contest up. -M Apologies, but the tiebreaker didn't come in till around 1 a.m. my time, and I can't send PMs while I'm asleep. 
Congrats, mrp.
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Post by tartanphantom on Feb 26, 2020 15:09:42 GMT -5
I considered this one. I like the bland expression on the face of the winged ghoul. I suspect they are playing Mille Bones  .  Very interesting how much the demon on that cover resembles Nikita Khrushchev... Particularly since the cover date on that book puts it smack dab in the middle of the era of McCarthyism. I'm betting that resemblance was no mistake. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2020 11:26:33 GMT -5
So, I conducted a sort of scientific experiment with this contest. I PURPOSELY posted a cover that I personally did not think was the best/winning cover, but...over at the CBCS site with a similar contest involving playing cards the cover I posted here won by a landslide with 28 votes!!! Yet at classiccomics.org the same cover received a mere 1 vote. So what exactly was different?? I have NO CLUE! At the CBCS site the Madame Xanadu #1 cover received 1 vote, The Westerner #16 received only 4 votes...so how can 2 separate sites vary in votes? Here is the link if you wish to compare... forum.cbcscomics.com/topic/11079/page/1/weekly-cover-contest-179---read-em-and-weep/ |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2020 11:37:11 GMT -5
How can 2 separate sites vary in votes? It's an obvious answer, but it happens in the same way that two different constituencies may have different politicians representing them. Where I live, it's a Labour seat; a constituency a mere 3 miles north is Conservative. Tastes vary. |
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Post by tartanphantom on Feb 27, 2020 11:40:22 GMT -5
So, I conducted a sort of scientific experiment with this contest. I PURPOSELY posted a cover that I personally did not think was the best/winning cover, but...over at the CBCS site with a similar contest involving playing cards the cover I posted here won by a landslide with 28 votes!!! Yet at classiccomics.org the same cover received a mere 1 vote. So what exactly was different?? I have NO CLUE! At the CBCS site the Madame Xanadu #1 cover received 1 vote, The Westerner #16 received only 4 votes...so how can 2 separate sites vary in votes? Here is the link if you wish to compare... forum.cbcscomics.com/topic/11079/page/1/weekly-cover-contest-179---read-em-and-weep/ applied to the fickle taste of comic collectors. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 27, 2020 12:00:00 GMT -5
So, I conducted a sort of scientific experiment with this contest. I PURPOSELY posted a cover that I personally did not think was the best/winning cover, but...over at the CBCS site with a similar contest involving playing cards the cover I posted here won by a landslide with 28 votes!!! Yet at classiccomics.org the same cover received a mere 1 vote. So what exactly was different?? I have NO CLUE! At the CBCS site the Madame Xanadu #1 cover received 1 vote, The Westerner #16 received only 4 votes...so how can 2 separate sites vary in votes? Here is the link if you wish to compare... forum.cbcscomics.com/topic/11079/page/1/weekly-cover-contest-179---read-em-and-weep/I'll say that while I love that Kaluta Madame Xanadu cover and under the right circumstances I might have voted for it, I didn't think it actually fit the parameters of this contest as I don't view tarot cards as playing cards. Mileage may very well vary, but that was at least part of my thinking. I'm pedantic that way. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 27, 2020 12:13:22 GMT -5
So, I conducted a sort of scientific experiment with this contest. I PURPOSELY posted a cover that I personally did not think was the best/winning cover, but...over at the CBCS site with a similar contest involving playing cards the cover I posted here won by a landslide with 28 votes!!! Yet at classiccomics.org the same cover received a mere 1 vote. So what exactly was different?? I have NO CLUE! At the CBCS site the Madame Xanadu #1 cover received 1 vote, The Westerner #16 received only 4 votes...so how can 2 separate sites vary in votes? Here is the link if you wish to compare... forum.cbcscomics.com/topic/11079/page/1/weekly-cover-contest-179---read-em-and-weep/I'll say that while I love that Kaluta Madame Xanadu cover and under the right circumstances I might have voted for it, I didn't think it actually fit the parameters of this contest as I don't view tarot cards as playing cards. Mileage may very well vary, but that was at least part of my thinking. I'm pedantic that way. I don't think you're pedantic at all, Slam. If you're like me, I have to resort to some criteria as a way to distinguish between what is almost always an outstanding group of entries. In this case, I went with the same idea as you did. I narrowed down the field to playing cards only, and then further narrowed it by winnowing out covers on which the playing cards were not as crucial or as central to the design or the storyline. And then I might decide based on which comic I'd've been likely to buy. And then in the next contest I might toss all that aside and just pick a cover I've always loved to much to vote against it. |
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Post by robot1a on Feb 27, 2020 13:02:33 GMT -5
 I thought we’d see at least one Flying Aces, but I guess I was wrong. |
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Post by Farrar on Feb 27, 2020 20:05:23 GMT -5
Prince Hal and Slam_Bradley, thanks for your comments. It was my fault for not stepping in (as the thread-starter) and gently reminding people of the topic, which I intended to be "playing cards...the cards with suits (diamonds, clubs, etc.), aces, queens, jacks, etc." By the time I checked the thread, many interesting entries had already been posted and I did not want to upset the apple cart. Mea culpa.
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Post by Farrar on Feb 27, 2020 20:06:55 GMT -5
So, I conducted a sort of scientific experiment with this contest. I PURPOSELY posted a cover that I personally did not think was the best/winning cover, but...over at the CBCS site with a similar contest involving playing cards the cover I posted here won by a landslide with 28 votes!!! Yet at classiccomics.org the same cover received a mere 1 vote. So what exactly was different?? I have NO CLUE! At the CBCS site the Madame Xanadu #1 cover received 1 vote, The Westerner #16 received only 4 votes...so how can 2 separate sites vary in votes? Here is the link if you wish to compare... forum.cbcscomics.com/topic/11079/page/1/weekly-cover-contest-179---read-em-and-weep/Hmmm, looks like an interesting contest! Thanks for the link, batsy. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2020 20:41:18 GMT -5
FarrarI know it's Invisible Woman, but the Metal Men fan in me ALWAYS sees your avatar as Platinum.
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 27, 2020 22:02:48 GMT -5
Prince Hal and Slam_Bradley , thanks for your comments. It was my fault for not stepping in (as the thread-starter) and gently reminding people of the topic, which I intended to be "playing cards...the cards with suits (diamonds, clubs, etc.), aces, queens, jacks, etc." By the time I checked the thread, many interesting entries had already been posted and I did not want to upset the apple cart. Mea culpa. No need for mea culpas at all, Farrar. This is for fun. No need to sweat the small stuff. 😊 |
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Post by Farrar on Feb 27, 2020 22:17:45 GMT -5
Farrar I know it's Invisible Woman, but the Metal Men fan in me ALWAYS sees your avatar as Platinum. Yeah, it's Sue from the FF's corner box in the late '60s, and I was trying to tweak it so it would be totally transparent except for the "invisibility" outline, but I couldn't quite achieve that effect.  So yeah, I see what you mean--it does resemble Tina! Luckily I'm a Metal Men fan too. One of my favorite Silver Age series! |
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Post by berkley on Feb 28, 2020 0:57:34 GMT -5
I'll say that while I love that Kaluta Madame Xanadu cover and under the right circumstances I might have voted for it, I didn't think it actually fit the parameters of this contest as I don't view tarot cards as playing cards. Mileage may very well vary, but that was at least part of my thinking. I'm pedantic that way. I don't think you're pedantic at all, Slam. If you're like me, I have to resort to some criteria as a way to distinguish between what is almost always an outstanding group of entries. In this case, I went with the same idea as you did. I narrowed down the field to playing cards only, and then further narrowed it by winnowing out covers on which the playing cards were not as crucial or as central to the design or the storyline. And then I might decide based on which comic I'd've been likely to buy. And then in the next contest I might toss all that aside and just pick a cover I've always loved to much to vote against it. Yeah, I'm much the same way: I sometimes arbitrarily reject covers on various grounds just to narrow the field down when I find it impossible to choose from amongst several I like. In this contest, I happened to rate Kaluta's cover highly enough in relation to everything else that I voted for it even though I agree that its questionable whether it meets the parameters. |
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Post by Farrar on Mar 1, 2020 17:19:24 GMT -5
So, I conducted a sort of scientific experiment with this contest. I PURPOSELY posted a cover that I personally did not think was the best/winning cover, but...over at the CBCS site with a similar contest involving playing cards the cover I posted here won by a landslide with 28 votes!!! Yet at classiccomics.org the same cover received a mere 1 vote. So what exactly was different?? I have NO CLUE! At the CBCS site the Madame Xanadu #1 cover received 1 vote, The Westerner #16 received only 4 votes...so how can 2 separate sites vary in votes? Here is the link if you wish to compare... forum.cbcscomics.com/topic/11079/page/1/weekly-cover-contest-179---read-em-and-weep/Okay, so I took a look at that other site's cover contest. A cover there receiving 28 votes doesn't mean 28 people voted for that cover; they use a different voting system there to arrive at those 28 "votes." There, people can vote for 3 different covers, with 3 points (votes) for the first place cover, 2 points for the cover they like next, and finally 1 point for their third choice. Whew!  Here, people cast one vote for a single cover. Anyway, comparing the submissions for the same topic (playing cards), while there was some overlap it was very interesting to see covers that didn't appear on both sites. (And IIRC in the past a member here had advocated for the 3 vote with varying values system; now I see where he likely got it from!) |
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So yeah, I see what you mean--it does resemble Tina! 
Here, people cast one vote for a single cover.