Re-Covered: Avengers #1

Daring to Re-Do Kirby?

Covered was a fun (but now defunct) website where artists could submit their interpretations of classic comic book covers. One of my submitted reinterpretations (right) was the cover of Avengers #1 (1963), originally drawn by Jack Kirby and inked by Dick Ayers (left):

Part of the fun participating on Covered was the freedom of approach, ranging from staying relatively close to an original cover’s layout or, alternately, blowing it all up with a different emphasis, a new camera angle, or adding other comical elements and Easter eggs. Guess which approach I took? Since we don’t see his face on the original cover, I thought it would be fun to not only show Loki’s face, but also to invert his confidence level in the face of that rapidly approaching “tidal wave” of superhero wrath.

BTW: This is my first post featuring my cartooning, which I plan to feature each week (sometimes for all subscribers, sometimes just for paid). Hope you enjoyed it!