Monday Night Murals: Callin' all my superfriends and puttin' you on notice

Does it count as a proper comic book cover interlocking mural if both parts come from different variants of the same comic book issue? Eh, whatever! Since today is Flag Day, I'm just happy to find a comic book mural with a bright red-white-and-blue American Flag stretching across it from sea to shining sea cover edge to shining staple. (Seriously, you need to get on this mural covers thing, Captain America creators!)

Covers of Justice League of America v.2 #1a and 1b (October 2006), art by Ed Benes, Mariah Benes, and Alex Sinclair
Click image to...um...well, super-size!

I';m not a huge fan of this era of the JLA, but ya gotta admit that's a nice image. Except, where's Booster and Beetle? Oh, wait, traveling through time and dead, respectively. Nevermind. And another question: if everybody who's anybody in the Justice League is in the picture, then who is handing out the membership cards? I like it think it's Snapper Carr. And if'n you wanna see it really big, and in the single poster-format from DC, why, all you need to do is click here. Now that's service for you! Why, it's so big you can see the All-New Atom! He's the one in the matchbox.

Which reminds me, why doesn't the Justice League have a butler? I think that maybe Alfred could do that on his days off.

This new Justice League of America series is chock-full of not only murals but also alternate and variant covers. Here's two other version of the #1 issue using the same art, one framed to fit it all in, the other giving us a nice widescreen cover.



Throughout the series there's several multiple covers to single issues that form interlocking images, but this one, with its sheer super-assembly of super-heroes, is my favorite. (And how about the understated way Power Girl isn't being displayed right out in 3D spectacle?)

Still, even tho' that's a pretty impressive assemblage, I still prefer this gathering of the JLA:



And here's a fun variation that makes me giggle like a schoolgirl!:



But the one that captures the power and the intensity of a buncha guys in spandex longjohns, without whom the DC Universe woulda kicked the bucket a dozen times over, is here:



Yep. In the words of Miss Gaynor Hopkins, we do need a hero. Actually, a whole league of them.