The Faces of Glory - Alan Moore's Glory #2 [Finch Variant, Avatar Press]

Another cover that really hearkens back to the 90s for me. It really does have to be Finch's artwork, and the formative effect it had on comics at the time. But that's not all I should be talking about with this picture. There's a reason David Finch is considered one of the top illustrators of that era, and it's because he makes a character move. Have a look at the first couple of issues of New Avengers v.1. The sense of motion, of giant bodies in small spaces, of bodies flying through the air (both of and not of their own volition). The same, I think is true of this picture. Where Glory is coming from, and where she's landing, we don't know, but we definitely know that she's moving between places.

This might seem like a small thing, but there's plenty of artists out there who draw figures as if they're frozen in place, and the human body never is.

This is the David Finch variant of issue #2 of the Avatar series. I really do think Finch manages to mesh the two costumes, original and current, really nicely here.