“Alien – The Inkjava Collection” by Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, Elliot Goldenthal, John Frizzell

For today’s custom covers series I once again ventured back into my all-time favourite film universe: the dark and gritty realms of the Alien franchise. Although a slightly altered version of it… It’s not like I haven’t already spent enough hours of my life with these creatures, but I just can’t help it. The Xenomorph still amazes me in all of its various life forms. This whole fictional world exerts a strange fascination on me and I’m certainly not the only one, given the staggering wealth of fan-artwork that can be found on the web. One of those devoted fans is…

“The Alien Adventures” by Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, Elliot Goldenthal, John Frizzell

January 8, 2018November 13, 2019 Categories: Custom Covers · Guest Entries · Mockups · Tribute CoversTags: Alien · Alien Resurrection · Alien3 · Alien³ · Aliens · Elliot Goldenthal · James Horner · Jerry Goldsmith · John Frizzell16 Comments

I just need to use this post to talk about a very special series dear to my heart. I’m talking about a series that every young lad can remember watching every school day morning, waiting anxiously for each new, exciting episode. I am, of course, talking about the children’s classic, Alien. Alien was a stable in the early 80’s to late 90’s children’s animated block for ABC. Who could forget the action-packed yet surprisingly family-friendly adventures of our ass-kicking protagonist, Ridley, her on-again-off-again love interest Lt. Licks, her annoying little sister Mute, and the mysterious but reliable cyborg Castle as…

Lost Covers, Vol. 2

April 2, 2015September 10, 2020 Categories: Alternates/Rejected Covers · Custom Covers · Remakes · Singles/EPs · Tribute Covers · Vinyl CoversTags: After Earth · Alien · Alien Resurrection · Anthony Partos · Atticus Ross · Buck Sanders · Don't Be Afraid of the Dark · Gone Girl · Hans Zimmer · Hobbit · Howard Shore · Interstellar · James Newton Howard · John Frizzell · John Murphy · John Paesano · John Williams · Jupiter Ascending · Jurassic Park · Looper · Lost Covers · Marco Beltrami · Michael Giacchino · Nathan Johnson · Nightcrawler · Remixes for Licensing · Sam Petty · The Battle of the Five Armies · The Book of Eli · The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo · The Maze Runner · The Rover · The Social Network · Trent Reznor2 Comments

HQCovers recently surpassed 100000 views and I thought I’d take this opportunity to have a little resume and see where I’m from, where I’m at and where I’m going. The Past I started creating soundtrack covers in 2006 after I bought the iPod Video, the first one to handle cover artworks. High quality scans were a rarity back then, so I began making them myself in glorious 500×500 pixels! And because I’m a kind person I shared them via the now defunct Amazon customer image galleries. Some of them are still online, for example here’s a nice one that shows my early typewriting skills. After some time I had a…

“Alien Resurrection” by John Frizzell

April 2, 2015August 28, 2018 Categories: Alternates/Rejected Covers · Custom Covers · Original Covers · Remakes · Vinyl CoversTags: Alien · Alien Resurrection · John Frizzell1 Comment

Alien Resurrection may be the most laughed off entry in the Alien franchise. Rightly so, but it also did a few things right. Here’s a short listing in no particular order: The visuals, with cinematograper Darius Khondji in his heydays, the film gave us some great visual shots of the Xenomorphs. Some setups seemed to be there just to give Khondji an exclusive to create amazingly choreographed scenes. This is partly also due to… The writing, which may be the spiritual predecessor to Joss Whedon’s Firefly, using the smugglers crew as a rough cut of what years later became the crew of the Serenity. That’s a pretty…