With me being a very visual person, I tend to want to get things that look nice. The first thing of a comic book you see is obviously the cover, so if I see a nice one that I want to have; I mostly don't even really care about the content of the book, I just want it cause it looks nice.

Now I know that this puts me directly in the position that the comic book publishers want me to be in with all the variant covers and visually appealing things they release. But I just can't help it. If I see a comic book with a great cover, I'll probably buy it if I have the money.

The cool thing is that sometimes if you buy a book like that, it actually turns out to be a great story and then you might have discovered a new series you want to keep reading.

Now with these 2 books that I picked up this week, that's not the case. I don't really care about the content of these books, I just love the color and the illustrations. These 2 covers were New York Comic Con exclusives and the one with the girl at Rikers Island (Grimm Fairy Tales # 78) is limited to 500 copies and the other one (Grimm Fairy Tales: Godstorm # 1) to 750.

In the end these are just nice to look at and a nice visual addition to my collection, hell, I might even frame them and put them on my wall.

I see this happening a lot in the future, I just can't turn down a good looking cover.

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