Someone Attacks Comic Book Cover Artist On Twitter, Gets Called Out By The Author For Wrong Facts

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We all know the classic idiom ‘never judge a book by its cover.’ Sadly, many people choose to ignore this sage piece of advice and make snap assumptions based purely on appearance, only to end up looking pretty stupid.

This was the case recently for Twitter user Anita Cox, who reached some quite astonishing conclusions from a cover pic for Everglade Angels, an upcoming graphic novel by Blake Northcott, Scott Lobdell and Roc Upchurch.

The picture in question is one of Northcott’s characters, a woman of, ahem, generous proportions in the chest area, wielding a baseball bat. Northcott commissioned the super talented Leila Leiz to do the cover because “she illustrates the female figure so beautifully, and I wanted a fun, sexy, 90s vibe for Everglade Angels.”

Image credits: QueenAnitaCox

From this image alone, Cox managed to speculate on Northcott and Leiz’s gender, nationality, location of beard, sexual activity, education and voting preference. Pretty impressive levels of projecting really, especially considering that her Twitter bio says things like “never hate, Anti comicHATE and “here to love + educate.”

In other words, Cox judged the hell out of this book by its cover!

Understandably miffed, Northcott decided to set the record straight. She posted a polite but firm reply which was in fact so hilariously passive-aggressive and revealing that it is a must-read.

Image credits: BlakeNorthcott

Someone get some balm for that burn! Northcott managed to drop in a few cheeky plugs for the comic during her sarcastic response, which does honestly look pretty awesome. You can check it out on Kickstarter here.

So Cox didn’t just fail spectacularly with her misplaced assumptions about Everglade Angels, she ended up giving it plenty more publicity in the process!

Perhaps there is a use for trolls after all?