Would John Wayne Approve of Cowboys & Aliens?

July 6, 2011

Another big storm blew in last night. Rained pretty hard. Overcast this morning. Pool looks like a plugged up toilet. No joke.

Been noodling a cover idea for our next issue. We're going to be featuring the new Cowboys & Aliens movie that opens on the 29th of this month. My first rough, done yesterday at lunch, incorporated John Wayne from "Red River", only with the wrist deal on that Daniel Craig wears in Cowboys & Aliens:

This morning, I whipped out another version, this time utilizing another publicity still of the Duke with the crashed alien spaceship in the background and a question:

"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees."
—William Blake