Best Comic Book Covers This Week

Every Wednesday is new comic book day and hundreds of comic books hit local comic shops and the digital market. While many readers pick books based on the creative teams involved or the stories and characters contained within, each comic is trying its best to grasp the consumer's attention with its cover.

Each week, we will be highlighting some of the best comic book cover art from the past week's releases and discussing the artists involved. Here's what caught our eye this week.

Alex Ross' iconic realistic style makes the best covers list once again. This time, the art featured graces the cover of Amazing Spider-Man #7. Here, Spider-Man takes on Cloak and Dagger in Chinatown. Ross' colorwork is phenomenal here and he packs a ton of detail into this cover.

We're moving away from an incredibly detailed piece of work to something that embraces minimalism. This is the cover to Vision #4 by Michael Cho. It's simple but appealing. The minimalistic use of color and detail is what really makes this stand out.

In the month of February, legendary artist Neal Adams is creating variant covers for some of DC Comics' biggest series and this past week, his cover for Green Arrow #49 pays homage to some of his earlier work on Green Lantern #76. Working with Adams on this cover is Jim Lee and colorist Alex Sinclair.

Joe Golem: Occult Detective's cover feels straight out of the pulp era. David Palumbo put together this cover for this Dark Horse Comic and the shading and lighting work on here are wonderful. The overall piece has a haunting feeling to it as well.

The final issue of the DC mini-series, Batman Europa, had a stellar variant cover from artist Jock this past week. Jock puts the face of Joker inside the body of Batman. The way the colors appear on Batman's body looks exceptionally cool.

Finally, Julian Totino Tedesco's variant cover for Spidey #3 was a great piece as well. Tedesco's style has this very Norman Rockwell feel to it, as a teenage Peter Parker's backpack is open and his classmates see the Spider-Man costume contained within.

That's it for this week. If there's a cover you loved, let us know.