The worst album covers of all time made me miss the good old times of record shops. These books, however, just scare me. They scare me because, with the advent of personal digital book publishing, things are probably going to get even worse.
This morning, NBA 2K11 revealed its box art featuring Michael Jordan, billed as “the greatest cover of all time”. But there are many other athletes, also the greatest in their respective sports, who’ve graced a game’s cover. Here’s a sampling.
Here is Michael Jordan on the cover of this spring’s NBA 2K11. Cool image, a long time coming, but isn’t Muhammad Ali “the greatest of all time”?
Drew Brees, quarterback of the reigning Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints, has a couple of TV talk show appearances booked for Thursday and Friday. Know what else happens Thursday? EA Sports announces its Madden NFL 11 cover athlete.
What you’re looking at is half of the sixteen covers that will be shared out among Issue 73 of Games TM Magazine. That’s right, Games created a cover for each of the playable Street Fighter IV characters. Imagine Publishing thinks it may be the biggest split run ever done on a games magazine. I hope they reprint all of the covers as a poster.
Hit the jump for the full run.