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SI Has Comic Book Cover; Ads For Wild X-Ray Specs in Back
Big League Stew found this 5/21/2008 on www.walkoffwalk.com [flag]
Looks like Sports Illustrated is taking a break from regular old photographs and using inspiration from some of those newfangled comic books the kids are all agog about nowadays. Hey, what's that naughty man doing to Derek Jeter? Okay, that's an awesome rendering of an obvious fantasy world by DC Comics guy Mark Bagley . Remember folks, it might only be May 21st but that SI ... [link]

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SI turns the Tampa Bay Rays into comic book heroes
Published 5/21/2008 at Big League Stew
... Chalk buying the reprint before the end of the day. (And here I thought watching the preview of the new 90210 — Michael from The Wire as a BH brat? WMD in the halls of West Beverly! — was going to be the best thing I'd see all day.) For a related discussion topic, can anyone remember any other good SI cartoon covers? The only ones that come to my mind are both Michael Jordan-related (here and here). (A big BLS head nod goes to Walkoff Walk 'cause I saw this there first.)

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