Welcome to Issue 3 of 3-Ring Bound
on April 4, 2011 at 12:07 amNOW DECLASSIFYING:
OPERATION:
Prologue – Issue One – Issue Two
Issue Three: 066 - 067 - 068 - 069 - 070 - 071 - 072 - 073 - 074 - 075 - 076
077 - 078 - 079 - 080 - 081 - 082 - 083 - 084 - 085 - 086 - 087 - 088 - 089 – 090 – Cover
- Notes -
Here we have the first reveal of the cover to issue #3 of Operation 3-Ring Bound! Keeping many of the themes going from the covers of issues 1 & 2, we have, hopefully, a fair representation of all the major aspects in issue 3. We decided to focus on the Eben07/NinjaDan split, emphasizing the literal opposite directions they travel in that issue. We hope you enjoy it! When the actual cover gets its text, you may be surprised that it looks a bit different than previous Eben07 covers. We’re getting rid of the operation name as the title of the book and replacing it with the Eben07 text logo in order to establish a better shelf continuity. It should finally help make Eben07 to look like a bona fide comic book.
You may notice that in the bottom right hand corner D. Bethel wrote “apologies to Jim Lee” because this cover is openly inspired by Jim Lee’s cover to X-Men issue #7 from 1992:
We expect this issue to be available for order in early October, just in time for APE. So, keep your eyes out and stay tuned for the exciting conclusion in issue #4!
Sweet!
just learned about Jim Lee due to a manga I was reading (awesome btw) called Eatman. since Jim-Lee did some cover drawings \ prints etc for it.
(hero guy that eats anything and re-uses it later through his body parts, weapons, vehicles you name it!)
I haven’t heard of Eatman. It sounds very interesting. Thanks for the recommendation! Jim Lee was a huge early inspiration for me, and as a sort of shout-out, his work from the early 1990s’ X-Men books was a huge inspiration on different aspects of how I drew this storyline (especially the backgrounds he drew during the 4-issue story arc that introduced the now classic X-Men villain, Omega Red).
I never would have thought of Jim Lee if you hadn’t mentioned it (don’t think I made it past Claremont’s last issue of that X-MEN series). I just associated it with Ditko’s depiction of Peter Parker’s face turning half-Spidey whenever his Spider Sense went off. Either way, good stuff!!
Damn I have to get this comic again. Still working on recovering my whole collection I lost a couple years ago! Oh agony!