Review: Cover Run: The DC Comic Art of Adam Hughes
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If you’ve ever glanced through the shelves of a comic book store, chances are you’ve seen the beautiful art of Adam Hughes who has drawn characters from Wonder Woman to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Cover Run: The DC Comic Art of Adam Hughes assembles many of his covers for your viewing pleasure.
The title gives away that the art is his, but in Cover Run Hughes wrote everything included in the book including the introduction, the narratives of the covers, and his own biography. Hughes’ covers are eye candy enough to justify a coffee table book, but he gives the reader additional insight into many of his covers throughout the years. Hughes shows and tells us about his evolution as an artist.
Cover Run includes extensive collections of the covers of Hughes’ two main leading ladies: Wonder Woman and Cat Woman. It is through these characters you can see the most definitive changes in Hughes’ style. In his narratives of highlighted covers, Hughes answers what has to be the most annoying fan question of all time - “What were you thinking when you drew that one (insert character name here) cover?” and in reading we don’t have to be embarrassed that we actually want to know the answer. Hughes also shares gems throughout the book in the form of unpublished sketches and covers. He also shares insight into covers that he was ultimately unhappy with and why.
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