It’s that time again! Each week you’ve been voting on your favorite cover in our Upcoming Comics post, and now we’re bringing those winners together into one poll to decide which comics will compete in our Best Cover of 2016 cover poll at the end of the year. I guess you can essentially look at this as a Semi-Final round, before moving to the finals!
How this works: The top cover of each week for the months of April, May, and June are featured below, as well as the winners from variant cover polls. Along with them, I’ve included some Wild Cards. The Wild Cards will consist of covers that performed really well in their week’s poll, but just barely missed the top spot. Along with each cover, we’ll recognize the artists of the cover, the week it won its poll (or just barely fell short), and the percent of votes it received in its initial poll. As always, you will be allowed to vote for as many covers as you’d like. The poll will be open for one full week, and then voting will close. We will then announce the top eight covers in our October Solicitations post.
Check out the covers one more time, then get to voting!
Justice League: Darkseid War Special #1
Superman #51 by Mikel Janin – April 6th (22%)
New Suicide Squad #19 by Juan E. Ferreyra – April 6th (21% – WILDCARD)
Batman/ Superman #31 by Nathan Fairbairn, Karl Kerschl, and Yanick Paquette – April 13th (22%)
Batman/ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #5 by Freddie E. Williams II – April 13th (22%)
Catwoman #51 by Josh Middleton – April 13th (19% – WILDCARD)
Action Comics #51 by Karl Kerschl – April 20th (26%)
Batman #51 by Greg Capullo, Danny Miki, FCO Plascencia – April 27th (50%)
Dark Knight III: The Master Race #4 by Rafael Albuquerque – April Variant Cover (19%)
Batman #51 by John Romita, Jr., Klaus Janson, and Alex Sinclair – April Romita Themed Variant (30%)
Midnighter #12 by ACO and Romulo Fajardo, Jr. – May 4th (18%)
New Suicide Squad #20 by Juan E. Ferreyra – May 4th (18%)
The Flash #51 by Joe Prado, Ivan Reis, and Alex Sinclair – May 4th (18%)
Batman Beyond #12 by Elmer Santos and Philip Tan – May 4th (18%)
Batman #52 by Greg Capullo, Danny Miki, and FCO Plascencia – May 11th (33%)
Titans Hunt #8 by Hi-Fi and Paulo Siqueira – May 18th (26%)
Robin, Son of Batman #12 by Ramón F. Bachs, Patrick Gleason, Mick Gray, and John Kalisz – May 18th (22% – WILDCARD)
DC Universe: Rebirth #1 by Gary Frank – May 25th (32%)
Justice League #50 by Brad Anderson and Jason Fabok – May 25th (28% – WILDCARD)
DC Universe Rebirth #1 by Ivan Reis – May Variant Cover (83%)
Batman #52 by Rafael Albuquerque – May New 52 Themed Variant (34%)
Detective Comics #52 by Francis Manapul – May New 52 Themed Variant (32% – WILDCARD)
Batman: Rebirth #1 by Mikel Janin – June 1st (71%)
Detective Comics #934 by Eddy Barrows and Eber Ferreira – June 8th (69%)
Batman #1 by Matt Banning and David Finch – June 15th (27%)
Detective Comics #935 by Eddy Barrows and Eber Ferreira – June 22nd (48%)
Grayson Annual #3 by Mikel Janin – June 29th (47%)
Dark Knight III: The Master Race #5 by Brad Anderson, Klaus Janson, Andy Kubert, Frank Miller, Alex Sinclair – June 29th (43% – WILDCARD)
Detective Comics #934 by Rafael Albuquerque – June Variant Cover (21%)
Detective Comics #935 by Rafael Albuquerque – June Variant Cover (17% – WILDCARD)
Batman #1 by Tony S. Daniel – Batman #1 Variant Cover Poll (13%)
Batman #1 by Lee Bermejo – Batman #1 Variant Cover Poll (11% – WILDCARD)
Batman #1 by Ed Benes – Batman #1 Variant Cover Poll (10% – WILDCARD)
Batman #1 by Gabriele Del Otto – Batman #1 Variant Cover Poll (9% – WILDCARD)
Batman #1 by Tyler Kirkham – Batman #1 Variant Cover Poll (8% – WILDCARD)
Happy voting!
