Mar 09
Click for full imageA collection of fantasy stories? Well I know what they’ll want. A huge barbarian with a ponytail swinging his axe at randomly placed wood. Hmm, you’re right, needs thickened out. Throw a stereotype wizard/fireball combination in there and some damsel with a sword.
(Rating: 6.25 out of 10)
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March 9th, 2010 at 10:25 am
Traincrash lettering aside – Frazetta, where are you when we need you?
March 9th, 2010 at 11:38 am
Yea, I mean we can’t even make out a visible bum crack on that women back there.
I’m also not sure one can twist that way.
March 9th, 2010 at 11:44 am
“With a careless swipe of his double-headed axe, Dongor the Overenthusiastic managed to slice his own torso in half.”
March 9th, 2010 at 2:24 pm
Wow! ‘…fans of the genre will welcome these new outings.’
I love outings…will there be sandwiches or should I bring my own thermos?
March 9th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Maybe if you had a ThunderCats thermos and a Transformers lunchbox you might get away with it. But only if the outing was in a bus. More precisely, a yellow bus.
I really hope that cover came with a pair of 3D glasses, it’s too perfect not to be in 3D.
March 9th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
“Masters of Fantasy”? That’s stretching the definition of both those words to the breaking point. A more accurate title: “Hacks of Cliche.”
March 10th, 2010 at 8:24 am
I think the University of London should offer a ‘Masters of Fantasy’ programme. You’d end up with the letters ‘M.F.’ after your name, which could only be good.
March 10th, 2010 at 8:25 am
Also, shame on you, Good Show Sir commentators, for mocking the physically deformed fellow in the front! Such people are underrepresented in Heroic Fantasy art. Diversity should be celebrated. Although he’s not so much a hunchback, as a bizarrely over-muscled hunchside.
March 10th, 2010 at 10:19 am
If a Masters of Fantasy program ever exists… I’m right there.
And you are right Adam. We should be ashamed of ourselves.
Hunchside… hehehehe
March 10th, 2010 at 9:05 pm
Obligatory Pratchett quote: “I’ve never been at large. I’ve always been at hunched.”
(You just need to make the characters fifty years older and the stonework more ornate and it would be a relatively not-awful cover for _Interesting Times_. But anyone who didn’t get Hamish in his lethal wheelchair in there would be wasting a cover…)
May 12th, 2010 at 5:49 am
I’m almost certain that this picture was lifted from the front of a 2nd edition AD&D player’s guide.
December 13th, 2010 at 9:48 pm
“HULK SMASH PUNY FONTS!”