Your Weekend Moment of Psychic Nosebleed Zen: Emma Frost
October 6th, 2006
 A new subject this week in my examination of psychic power-related nosebleeds: Emma Frost!
This image is from Emma Frost #1, by Karl Bollers and Randy Green. I know it looks at first like a fencing injury, but the blood on her fencing outfit is really the blood dripping down from her nose. This is from a scene when her mutant powers are first starting to manifest, mostly as headaches. As an aside, I always thought Emma Frost was a surprisingly well-done series. It’s a shame it had to be marred by cheesecake covers that had nothing to do with the interior story. |
October 8th, 2006 at 9:27 pm
That’s interesting to hear. I love the She-Hulk series, and feel like the exact same
Maxim cheesecake cover makes people shy from Slott’s smart and comedic story within.
Didn’t Horn also do the Emma Frost covers…hmmm…trendspotted.
October 9th, 2006 at 11:36 pm
I enjoyed the Emma Frost series very much, but those covers were downright embarrassing. I wonder how many readers they lost because of them? I receive my comics by mail so I order in advance, but if I was buying in a shop, I don’t think I would have picked it up.
October 10th, 2006 at 12:03 am
Good point about the covers on Emma Frost. I don’t know that I would use the word marred, but I am a guy.
It never occurred to me that he did the She-Hulk covers as well. I think they work in that tone is jokey or playful. Sure there’s sex appeal,
but I think that they work within the context of the series.
October 12th, 2006 at 1:10 pm
I stopped reading Emma Frost because my wife found the covers. Great book completely ruined by the packaging.
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