Women of Marvel March!

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edited March 2015 in MPQ General Discussion
Hi All,

Miles from Demiurge here to announce an upcoming change. March is Women’s History Month and in celebration, Marvel has commissioned a number of variant covers for its comics this month, drawn by some of the most talented women working in comics today.

We’re excited to announce that we’re joining in the celebration by using these variant cover images in Marvel Puzzle Quest. This change will run for the month of March. (Though let us know which ones you love and we may be able to keep some of them around!)

The characters that are getting special edition covers are:

Captain Marvel (Modern) (cover by Aufa Richardson)
Deadpool (It’s Me, Deadpool) (cover by Sara Richards)
Invisible Woman (Classic) (cover by Colleen Doran)
Rocket & Groot (Most Wanted) (cover by Erica Henderson)
Spider-Man (Classic) (cover by Ming Doyle)
Squirrel Girl (Unbeatable) (cover by Gurihiru)
Star-Lord (Legendary Outlaw) (cover by Sana Takeda)
Thor (Goddess of Thunder) (cover by Stephanie Hans)

These changes should be live shortly. Hope you enjoy the fantastic artwork!
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  • Trisul
    Trisul Posts: 887 Critical Contributor
    edited March 2015
    Very cool. Sana Takeda is one of my recent favorite artists.

    Is it okay to post the covers here in this thread as well?

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    EDIT: Permission granted, here we go.
    EDIT2: I've made two polls where we can aggregate our response.

    Captain Marvel, Deadpool, Invisible Woman, Rocket & Groot

    Spider-Man, Squirrel Girl, Star-Lord, Thor

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    Captain Marvel (Modern) (cover by Aufa Richardson) Thanks Suzumebachi/devilyevon!
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    Deadpool (It’s Me, Deadpool) (cover by Sara Richards)
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    Invisible Woman (Classic) (cover by Colleen Doran)
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    Rocket & Groot (Most Wanted) (cover by Erica Henderson)
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    Spider-Man (Classic) (cover by Ming Doyle)
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    Squirrel Girl (Unbeatable) (cover by Gurihiru)
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    Star-Lord (Legendary Outlaw) (cover by Sana Takeda)
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    Thor (Goddess of Thunder) (cover by Stephanie Hans)
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  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Great idea! Was hoping to see Chynna Clugston's name on the list, but a good crop none-the-less.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Gurihiru did an absolutely adorable Squirrel Girl cover.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I love this idea and it's a great way to show how talented women in comics are without being too heavy handed. Nice work!
  • CrookedKnight
    CrookedKnight Posts: 2,579 Chairperson of the Boards
    Nifty! Nice choice of art, too. In particular I would not complain for one moment if this was the Invisible Woman's permanent cover.
  • Trisul
    Trisul Posts: 887 Critical Contributor
    edited March 2015
    (deleted, put covers in post #2)
  • bdksni1
    bdksni1 Posts: 103
    Gotta say i love these alternative covers. Great artwork congrats.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    My opinions on which ones should stick -


    Captain Marvel (Modern) (cover by Aufa Richardson) - indifferent It catches her at a different angle, is better artwork, but references a different character design.
    Deadpool (It’s Me, Deadpool) (cover by Sara Richards) - god, no What is this mess??
    Invisible Woman (Classic) (cover by Colleen Doran) - yes Hopefully the MPQ guy can redraw our own IW to look a little more like this one!
    Rocket & Groot (Most Wanted) (cover by Erica Henderson) - no Nothing against the artwork but it takes too much of the focus off of R&G (much like why i hate the SG cover)
    Spider-Man (Classic) (cover by Ming Doyle) - indifferent Same ol Spidey, different environment, good artwork
    Squirrel Girl (Unbeatable) (cover by Gurihiru) - god, yes Please anything other than the last cover. Cute artwork too!
    Star-Lord (Legendary Outlaw) (cover by Sana Takeda) - god, yes Because this is the Star-Lord artwork we deserve!
    Thor (Goddess of Thunder) (cover by Stephanie Hans) - yes Both covers are really good quality but this one just fits so much better for some reason.
  • Mawtful
    Mawtful Posts: 1,646 Chairperson of the Boards
    I really don't dig Erica Henderson's artwork on Squirrel Girl (both ingame art and the original cover). So I'm happy with the replacement art for the SG cover, and the Grocket cover made me realise that my dislike wasn't just limited to Squirrel Girl. Sorry Erica, I just don't like your style!

    Covers for Invisible Woman, Thor, Captain Marvel, Star-Lord and Spider-Man are all amazing, keep those.
    And at the rate at which Deadpool's cover is changing, you might as well just keep on changing it every 6-8 weeks.
  • MrMadeULook
    MrMadeULook Posts: 73
    I hope after this month ends that the Starlord and IW covers can stay. Also love the SG cover icon_e_smile.gif
  • rednailz
    rednailz Posts: 559
    Some really cool and unique covers in there. On more than a couple occasions better than the original cover art they are replacing. It also highlights the "new" marvel (although I'd still like to see some more classic silver - copper age marvel covers) and showing cool art. A welcome change from the trend of just slapping up a new cover that has the largest solo picture of the hero possible even if it's terrible, terrible art (we all know the ones I mean)
  • rednailz
    rednailz Posts: 559
    Mawtful wrote:
    I really don't dig Erica Henderson's artwork on Squirrel Girl (both ingame art and the original cover). So I'm happy with the replacement art for the SG cover, and the Grocket cover made me realise that my dislike wasn't just limited to Squirrel Girl. Sorry Erica, I just don't like your style!

    Covers for Invisible Woman, Thor, Captain Marvel, Star-Lord and Spider-Man are all amazing, keep those.
    And at the rate at which Deadpool's cover is changing, you might as well just keep on changing it every 6-8 weeks.

    Why not change him up randomly to keep with the 'personality' of DP. He does have quite a few fun covers, and antyhing is better than a big picture of his head.
  • GritsNGravy
    GritsNGravy Posts: 114 Tile Toppler
    Keep the new Star Lord. Others should revert. Though in general this is really cool!
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I love the new Invisible Woman cover- the wonky anatomy on the old one always bothered me- and I really like the new Squirrel Girl and Star-Lord covers. Have to say that while I like the new Captain Marvel and 4* Thor covers, I kind of prefer the old ones.
    Overall though, I love this idea, the more diversity the better!
  • Wobby
    Wobby Posts: 286 Mover and Shaker
    rednailz wrote:
    Mawtful wrote:
    I really don't dig Erica Henderson's artwork on Squirrel Girl (both ingame art and the original cover). So I'm happy with the replacement art for the SG cover, and the Grocket cover made me realise that my dislike wasn't just limited to Squirrel Girl. Sorry Erica, I just don't like your style!

    Covers for Invisible Woman, Thor, Captain Marvel, Star-Lord and Spider-Man are all amazing, keep those.
    And at the rate at which Deadpool's cover is changing, you might as well just keep on changing it every 6-8 weeks.

    Why not change him up randomly to keep with the 'personality' of DP. He does have quite a few fun covers, and antyhing is better than a big picture of his head.

    This all echoes my feeling exactly.
    Also apologies to Erica. I don't know why I feel this way, but I also didn't like her two covers.

    Surprised that I enjoy new Squirrel Girl but it turns out it was the old art.

    Maybe some awesome forumite who has access can post some more of Erica's art so we can render a more informed opinion?
  • Cable_eel
    Cable_eel Posts: 33 Just Dropped In
    It seems rather poor timing that 3 of the 8 new covers (or out of 5 possible three ***'s) apply to characters that are going to be vaulted for the month of March:
    Captain Marvel (modern)
    Deadpool
    Spiderman
    Why not unvault them while you're featuring them?
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I love it. It would be nice to be able to choose a variant cover when we have duplicate characters.

    Just an idea.
  • CrookedKnight
    CrookedKnight Posts: 2,579 Chairperson of the Boards
    Henderson has a very cartoony style; what you see in Unbeatable Squirrel Girl is generally what she does. See Subatomic Party Girls, which she did before getting the Squirrel Girl gig, or her tumblr for more examples. While I like her comics I agree her work looks very odd wedged into the otherwise uniform MPQ house style. It's not like Doreen runs around fighting Kraven the Hunter as drawn by John Romita in the Squirrel Girl book.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    i love this additions.
    Hope you do this more often, well not that often.

    As for the covers, i would like the squirrel girl one to stay. The star lord one is also one that have to stay, plus sana takeda's work is always welcome.

    Again, thank you for the updates. icon_e_smile.gif
  • Der_Lex
    Der_Lex Posts: 1,035 Chairperson of the Boards
    I like both the covers for Star-Lord and Captain Marvel better than the previous versions. The rest range from all right to meh, the only ones I rellay don't like that much are Spider-Man and Rocket & Groot.

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