Comments on: Firestorm by Ethan Van Sciver – Possible Future Cover?

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:48:08 +0000

Sweet Merciful Crap! That’s bad ass!

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:27:57 +0000

I’ve got convention sketches on DC board. Francis Manapul said he gets it free (or atleast cheap), so he just brings a stack with him. Same with the blue pencil, some of them will use it if that’s just what they’re used to. I do hope you’re right though.

Rizzope’s got me thinking now- Ethan *can* actually write, I used to love his Cyber Frog comic way back when. Hmmmmm….

By: Firestormfan89

Firestormfan89 — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:59:36 +0000

That is an awesome sketch! It reminded me of something that happened at MegaCon in Orlando last month. During the DC Nation panel Dan Didio asked the question “What superhero is most underused or has the most potential?” Geoff Johns answered Firestorm citing the incredible visual appeal of a guy whose hair was on fire and when the question came to Ethan he also said Firestorm. I wonder if they know something they’re not telling us. Ethan was very secretive about his next project. Here’s hoping!

By: brandon leonard

brandon leonard — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:59:06 +0000

very nice, but its old school Ronnie….unless its like a throw back variant i don’t think this is the cover. I don’t think that DC would re-launch a title and have it feature a past version of firestorm. it would be like launching superman with the cover beig in his red and blue spit forms doesn’t make sense lol

By: Spinks

Spinks — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:47:37 +0000

Damn, this does look a like a cover…. and an awesome one at that. Nice find.

Spinks

By: Rizzope (Jason)

Rizzope (Jason) — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:23:03 +0000

I find your post to be most interesting and yet another piece of the puzzle that I’ve been trying to solve. I’ve been suspecting that something is going on with VanSciver and Firestorm for that last couple of weeks. Ethan VanSciver is a friend of mine on Facebook and over the last couple of weeks I’ve seen some interesting posts. He posted a drawing of his “Favorite DC Heros to Draw”, which had Firestorm as the most prominent character on the page. Then a couple of days later Ethan posted that he had just purchased 103 issues of Firestorm comics off of Ebay. Now why the sudden interest in Firestorm? He’s a great artist but I’ve NEVER seen him do anything Firestorm related the past that wasn’t a paid commission piece. Most likely he’s doing some art for a Firestorm book but is he possibly writing something? I know DC has of late encouraged many of their artists to do some writing. Tony Daniel, David Finch to throw a couple out there, and Maybe Jeff Lemire but he’s already a writer/artist. Also Etahn VanSciver has been known to write a thing or two like the very amusing article he used to write on Newsarama a couple of years ago. Hmmmmmmm? Just thought I’d throw my random clues and speculation your way. Thanks Shag!