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...Matt Groening's official cover for "Bizarro Comics...
...Comics had a code name for their "Bizarro Comics" project, it should have been "Faust." This deluxe, hardcover book brings together many of alterna-comix best talents to write and draw stories using the many superheroes, like Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and Aquaman, owned by mainstream behemoth DC (owned by AOL Time Warner, the same parent company as this website.) Would there be a price to pay for playing with the big, bad money? Sure enough, a whiff of sulfur may fill your nostrils as you plunk down your...
...Curtesy of Dan Clowes Dan Clowes' rejected, original cover for "Bizarro Comics." Click on it for a larger view in a separate window...
...would be "loathe" to work for DC's comics division ever again. DC remains mum on the reasons for its rejection, saying only that, "due to a difference of editorial opinion, DC Comics felt that the cover Dan Clowes created was different from the one we envisioned for Bizarro Comics." Clowes' version appears with this article so you can judge for yourself why DC may not have liked it. Perhaps they didn't like their properties portrayed as woeful and mundane: feeling low and worrying about taxes...
...quality of work in "Bizarro Comics" definitely reaches the higher, but still limited, level set for it. But readers looking forward to radical reinterpretations of American icons may feel suckered by a bait and switch. Others readers drawn in by the superheroes will be missing out on the truly uninhibited voices they could have been introduced to. DC just needs to have the courage of their convictions...