Comedy Central Special, DVD/Blu-Ray Release

[Bruce the Duck]

Is that image a parody of something? It looks like it might be.

[OneWAY]

I would enjoy a still from the concert lined with Alpocalypse-themed art better, but I'm not going to push that argument too far since I'm really only looking forward to the actual content. The cover is pretty good for what it is.

Also, it really does look like it's a parody of something... but what it is escapes me.

[Big Spoon]

Ugh, why couldn't they have gone with a cover that was a shot from the concert? Or at least something better than that.

[FredHuggins]

Okay, you people have officially gone insane. That cover is fantastically awesome. It's not "animated," it's an ILLUSTRATION. For it to be animated the drawrings would have to MOVE. Good concert pics are a dime a dozen, and I appreciate that Al is giving work to illustrators. And just because a piece of artwork has a unique composition doesn't mean it's a PARODY, necessarily. It could just mean the artist drew something, y'know, UNIQUE.

Can anyone tell who the artist is? It looks kinda like a really good indie comic book.

[kimby]

Okay, you people have officially gone insane. That cover is fantastically awesome. It's not "animated," it's an ILLUSTRATION. For it to be animated the drawrings would have to MOVE. Good concert pics are a dime a dozen, and I appreciate that Al is giving work to illustrators. And just because a piece of artwork has a unique composition doesn't mean it's a PARODY, necessarily. It could just mean the artist drew something, y'know, UNIQUE.

Can anyone tell who the artist is? It looks kinda like a really good indie comic book.

I like it!

[Alinite27]

Yeah, it is definitely an illustration. Don't think it's a parody. I don't know, to me, it just looks a little too amateurish for the cover of a Live DVD because it does look like a comic. If I saw that in a store, and wasn't an Al fan, I would laugh at it and move on. However, if there was a really nice concert pic, or a collage of concert pics with Alpocalyptic art around them, it would intrigue me. I would, at least, stop and look at the DVD to see if it was something that I wanted.

[FredHuggins]

No, this would be amateurish cover art. Like it or not, whoever drew that CLEARLY knows how to draw perfectly well. What, comic books are an amateurish art form all of a sudden? Have you READ any comics in the last 25 years?

[Alinite27]

It's just my preference. I'd rather have a slick looking cover than a comic drawn one. Yes, it is a very well drawn comic cover. If it was an actual comic book, it would be fine. Not for a DVD.

[FredHuggins]

...But no matter HOW well drawn a "comic book cover" is, it could never POSSIBLY achieve slickness, is that what you're saying? We must compartmentalize EVERYTHING into neat little subsections of media, and never let them crossbreed, because DVDs must be kept PURE?

I'm sorry, it's just...I'll have you know my grandfather was a comic book in Germany in 1942, and the Nazi propaganda films sent him to die in a paper shredder thanks to anti-comicist sentiments like yours.

[Alinite27]

Haha, just my opinion dude.

Covers, to me, are designed to garner attention. And it will do that, but I have to stick to my first impression, a comic book cover doesn't belong on a DVD. Plus, this just looks too much like a comedy cover that would garner a reaction in a store, like, "Haha, look at what that Weird Al guy put out", then they keep on walking. Rather than a reaction with a slick picture that would garner this reaction, "Sweet! Look at what Weird Al does in concert! I have to see this!" Although, Al's DVDs don't stay in stores very long, at least not around here, so that may not be a factor.

Anyway, seeing this, I kind of wish that Al would come out with an actual comic book series. Whoever did this could illustrate it very well.