Monday Night Murals: Whoops

Published May 4, 2010 at 1:27 a.m.

As Scots superhero Iron Brew once observed: the best-laid plans of mice and Marvel sometimes gang oft algey, and I think we all know how painful that can be. In other words, sometimes interconnecting cover murals don't quite work out the way they're planned. Can you spot the ~~addicental mistale~~ accidental mistake in the mural below?

Covers of Exiles #56, 55, 57 (February 2005), art by Jim Calafiore and Mark McKenna

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In their eagerness to publish an Exiles mega-three-issue-event, all during one single month, Marvel made one fatal flaw*: they published the interconnecting covers out of sequence. Issue #55 wound up in the middle of the triptych, not #56. Whoops! Well, hey, that's the way it goes on alternate Earths where black is white, up is down, and Stan Lee is Dick Giordano. What a strange, weird, alien world that is!

*Flaw not actually literally fatal.