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Comic book legend Walt
Simonson^[1] has been in
the news quite a bit recently, first with the announcement of
his upcoming arc on The
Avengers^[2] with Brian
Bendis, and now with the reveal of a DC
Comics^[3] original
graphic novel that he has written and drawn, The Judas
Coin^[4].

Revealing the cover to the 94-page book on The
Source^[5], DC said it
"features characters from all across the DC Universe."

"The cover for The Judas Coin was designed and drawn with
inspiration provided in part by movie posters from the '60s and
'70s," Simonson exclusively told The Source. "In particular, I
was thinking of the posters of Bob Peak, who did such beautiful
work back then with montage. Peak was a master at creating a
strong central image and surrounding it with smaller, often
fairly loose images derived from various scenes in the movie."

"I make no claims to Peak's draftsmanship, but for a work like
The Judas Coin, comprised as it is of six separate but related
stories, I wanted a cover that would provide both a strong visual
image at its core, and a series of small drawings that would
reflect the structure of the book's interior. Batman and
Two-Face, eternal enemies, provided a good focal point. The
vignettes around them echo the individual stories within the
book."

The Judas Coin is set for release on September 18, 2012.

References

1. ^{^} Walt Simonson
   (stars.ign.com)
2. ^{^} upcoming arc on The Avengers
   (comics.ign.com)
3. ^{^} DC
   Comics (comics.ign.com)
4. ^{^} The Judas Coin
   (comics.ign.com)
5. ^{^} The Source
   (dcu.blog.dccomics.com)