Image comics for June 2012: only one cover caught my eye this month. This is the cover to Saga #4, drawn by Fiona Staples. If you haven’t read the first issue, you should: it’s a great comic book, and Staples is doing a great job on interior art as well.

I think this is a pin-up from Savage Dragon, documenting the alternative Dragons from different dimensions/realities, drawn immaculately by Art Adams, but I don’t know anything else about it or the issue it appears. Not that it matters when it looks this good.

Image comics for March 2012: this is the cover for Tellos Colossal Vol. 2 HC, drawn by the late great Mike Wieringo. Any excuse for an image by Ringo.

Image comics for March 2012: this is the cover to The Manhattan Projects #1, the new series from Jonathan Hickman and Nick Pitarra. I really like the design for this: a bold visual and good use of a limited colour palette.

Image comics for March 2012: a few covers that caught my eye. This is the cover to Saga #1, drawn by Fiona Staples, the new series written by Brian K Vaughan. A woman with wings, breastfeeding her child, while holding a gun, in the arms of a man with horns and a sword: I shall enjoy reading this book when it comes out.

SDCC 2011 news keeps coming: this image is the teaser for Saga, the new ongoing series by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples, which will be published by Image next year. A sci-fi epic but about a family, it sounds intriguing and looks good (Staples provides the art for this teaser).

Image comics for October 2011: I do like a cover that tells a story through splitting the image down the middle. This is the cover to Red Wing #4 by Nick Pitarra, and it certainly hits that button in a clean and powerful fashion.

Image comics for October 2011: I don’t know what the book is about, but the cover by Francesco Francavilla to Pigs #2 is excellent. The use of symmetry and symbols and simple colour is extremely effective.

Image comics for October 2011: a selection of the covers that caught my eye. This is the Matt Wagner cover to the CBLDF Liberty Annual 2011, the regular fund-raising comic for the charity. In my opinion, you can never have enough Grendel images by Wagner.

Image comics for October 2010: this is the cover for the new printing of Mage: The Hero Discovered by Matt Wagner. This is one of my favourite comic books of all time, the story of the improbably named Kevin Matchstick in modern day discovering that he is the reincarnation of King Arthur. It’s a wonderful story of discovery, understanding responsibility, sacrifice, friendship and magic, with a baseball bat as Excalibur. It’s great to see it back in print again.

Image comics for October 2010: this is the Jim Lee cover for Liberty Comics 2010, the benefit comic for the Comic Book Defense Legal Fund, where a host of great creators come together to make a great book for a good cause. You should buy the book and help them out; I know I will.

Image comics for September 2010: this is the cover to Science Dog Special, drawn by Cory Walker, which collects the back-up strips from Invincible. Firstly, it’s a great cover by Walker. Secondly, Science Dog: what a brilliant idea.

The Image solicitations for September are up, so we have the cover for Invincible #66, drawn by Cory Walker, written by Robert Kirkman. It’s good, obviously, but I think I like it because it’s upside down. It makes it more ‘spacey’ somehow …

A quick detour from the August solicitations: Robot 6 provided the two covers for the Hero Initiative benefit book (I liked the Matt Wagner Grendel cover) that will be coming out later this year. There will be a new American Flagg! story by Howard Chaykin and Art Adams will be recreating three classic Marvel covers, among others. And it’s for charity. A win-win situation.