Fantastic images ( )

I own most of the comics that have their covers featured in this book, and it is nice to have them collected in one place and sorted by characters and themes, especially since it saves me hours of lifting and shifting comic long boxes to track down my copies. There is a ton of great art (and more than a smidgen of cheesecake) here. Adam Hughes carries the day, which makes me interested in tracking down a copy or Kindle download of [b:Cover Run: The DC Comics Art of Adam Hughes|7964050|Cover Run The DC Comics Art of Adam Hughes|Adam Hughes|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1320565692s/7964050.jpg|11890907].

The author takes it upon herself to fill out the book with a history of the characters pictured, which results in a lot of laughable summaries of decades of plot developments as characters emerge, fall in love, die, resurrect, marry, get retconned as single, die, resurrect, pass the mantle, take the mantle back, die, resurrect, die, resurrect, etc. She at least has the decency to wink at the reader as she gets to the most outrageous and unfortunate points in the twisted continuity of the DC Universe. ( )

Please read my review here: http://realbooks4ever.tumblr.com/post/103001401114# ( )

Please read my review here: http://realbooks4ever.tumblr.com/post/103001401114# ( )

This is a brief overview of the history of women in DC comics. There are chapters devoted to Wonder Woman, Lois Lane, Supergirl and other cousins of Superman, Gotham Girls, women from DC’s adult comics, and other heroines. The important thing here is the covers; all in color and some full page. ( )