DC New 52: Rejected cover to Sword of Sorcery #1 featuring Amethyst

by Mike Hansen

I’d love to know what non-creative executive made this decision.

Here’s the original pencilled cover to Sword of Sorcery #1, by Aaron Lopresti (who posted this on his Facebook feed today) – I got to see the original artwork at Comic-Con, and it’s terrific:

…and here’s the approved, redrawn color version (you can see the black-and-white version on Lopresti’s Facebook page):

…which features the main character leaping out at the reader, just like on the cover to the previous issue (#0, by Josh Middleton):

It could be worse. At least DC didn’t make the cover redrawn to look like this:

Sigh.