ASK CHRIS #213: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WRATH OF GOD
By Chris Sims
Q: Just re-read Gotham Central and it got me wondering, what’s the deal with the Spectre? — @BatIssues
A: The deal? Son, the deal is that he was on what is quite possibly the single most metal comic book cover of all time.
Good God almighty, just look at that thing. An entire city is in flames and the flames are rising up over the skyscrapers and forming dinosaurs, and the Spectre, whose legs are also made of fire, is riding the dinosaurs and staring at the reader like he’s daring you to just try reading that comic to see if there is any possible way that could actually happen in the story — which, incidentally, it doesn’t. Still, that cover… I seriously just showed that thing to a baby and by the time I got back from putting it away in my long boxes, that baby was playing drums for Slayer. True story.
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