DEFCON 4 Variant Cover

This is it!!

I wanted to wait 'til some other art that is due me came in before I posted this, but who knows when that will happen.

(I wanted to save the best for last...)

I have been wanting a piece of Michael Golden art for forever.

I've dug his work since I first saw it in Micronauts #7 when I bought it at a 7-11 near where my Mom's mom and brothers lived.

Bought it solely for the Man-Thing cover.

(bought every comic book with a monster/dinosaur in it back then)

For those of you that are wondering (with good reason) why such a big deal for a DEFCON 4 cover from Wildstorm and why trade away my Jim Lee Ghost Rider page for it.

You're right;

- You must not have been looking very hard!!

- There are ton (TON!) of covers by Michael Golden available out there!! Affordable ones, too!!

- There HAS been a pile of art in general available by Michael Golden for quite a while!!

Look... I love Michael's art.

I just never saw/have seen anything that spoke to me.

The stuff that does/has?

I could never afford.

Then this popped up on Burkey's site.

I had to have this;

- I saw this in person at a local 'con YEARS ago that Michael attended regularly.

- It's one of the first variant covers that Wildstorm ever did.

- It's a Wildstorm COVER by MICHAEL GOLDEN!!

- Has most all the staples of what makes Michael... Michael.

Action. Mech. Guns. Eyes. (and most importantly) a "Golden Girl"!! (my term. use at your leisure) Only thing it doesn't have is a skull somewhere.

This sucker is AMAZING in person.

Detail is CAR-A-ZEE!!

Can't find any artist white!!

(or his signature G for that matter. HELP!)

So stoked to own this.

Thank you to Dave Kopecki and Mike Burkey!!!

The 3way trade/cash deal was Dave's idea and I am so happy my first page of original art is in Dave's hands.

Goes nicely with his X-Men #8 collection for sure!!

Later, gang.

HAPPY COLLECTING!!

EDIT: The page I sent to Dave for the 3-way was used by Dave to obtain another Campbell Grail for his collection!! So... A win-win-win!!