Oct 07
I want you to listen to me, very carefully! Wolf howls up to the sky while a dragon flies in the background with a knight on its back. Again in the foreground a bowl cut man stands, his hand grasped firmly and suggestively around his sword. If you want to see your family again you will draw what I tell you.
October 7th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Oh I do love this cover. It’s almost perfect. If only they had put a magic orb or lightening in there. hehe
October 7th, 2009 at 10:45 am
ooo… lightening coming from the sword! That would be perfect.
Is it just me or is the wolf a bit, well, fat. Clearly too many doggie treats there.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
That wolf does look like its eaten a few too many pies, I don’t think its howling… its yawning.
The bowl cut is awesome, lightning on the sword would easily bump it up another star. The font is offensive but not Webber offensive.
(I’ve actually read this series (better covers though), Its a very good story and well written)
October 7th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
I have also read it and enjoyed it very much. I never really saw him as having quite such an amazing bowl cut and the wolf was generally a bit leaner and meaner in my imagination.
In fact i’m rather glad I hadn’t seen this cover when i read the books as it might have changed the whole experience for me and not really in a good way…
October 7th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Does anyone else see this? This cover contains two instances of the word “ass” and one “arse”.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Your right… there is a lot of ass on that.
Hold on… does anyone else notice…. if you link up the wolf’s ass… with the mouth of the dragon… a random space in the sky..and the sword hand of that guy.. then the wolfs mouth!!!! Sweet lordy….
October 7th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
I heard that if you take the original painting and scratch away at the cloud at the lower left tip of the pentagram you’ll find…. A FULL MOON!
October 7th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
I have this book and the it has all those elements in the story, but the cover really doesn’t fit at all. How’d they do that?
October 8th, 2009 at 9:01 am
That truly is awful. It’s the tones of the colours which are setting my teeth on edge…never mind wondering why he is holding the blade of his sword. That must be one dull sword if he can do that and not shred his fingers.
October 8th, 2009 at 10:23 am
Maybe it’s just an ornamental sword. It has it to try and look tuff!
May 2nd, 2010 at 1:39 pm
The cover is at least reasonably appropriate, if poorly executed. What’s baffling is the “Author of Fool’s Fate” strapline—which is a later book in the same series, so highly unlikely to be a good way selling someone on buying Assassin’s Quest…
May 11th, 2010 at 2:44 pm
I wonder why the last foot or so of the sword blade is discolored (also yup I’m American so ignore my American bastardization of English spelling conventions :). Is that supposed to be blood, or a lighting effect? Also is it just me or is that blade not entirely straight? It looks like bowl-cut guy is bending it? Perhaps this is the legendary +5 “Rubber sword of annoyingly whacking your enemies on the backside”
April 27th, 2011 at 12:14 am
That’s a guy?!? Oh great, until I started reading the posts, I thought that was a girl!
April 29th, 2011 at 10:57 pm
Ladies and gentlemen: you are looking at the most generic Generic Fantasy cover in existence. Kneel in awe before the cover! Submit to its sublime generic-ness!
January 29th, 2014 at 10:19 pm
Bowlcut: ‘My friends, I’m taking you on my latest quest. Take a guess at what we’re doing.’
Dragon: ‘Oh! Oh! Are we going to snatch a fair maiden from a castle and hold her for ransom?’
Bowlcut: ‘Not quite!’
Wolf: ‘Er…sniff someone’s posterior? Urinate on everything? Eat raw meat?’
Bowlcut: ‘No! None of that!’
Dragon: ‘Oh, no…’
Wolf: ‘…don’t tell me…’
Bowlcut: *dramatic pose* ‘We’re going to assassinate someone or something!’
Dragon and Wolf: ‘Not AGAIN!’
April 23rd, 2014 at 3:58 pm
Dragon and Wolf:
Valdereee, Valderaaaa, Valdereeeeeee, Valderah-hah-hah-hah-hah-hah
Bowlcut is bending a bronze sword over her own shoulder in frustration and quietly humming ‘Tom’s Diner’ to herself.
April 24th, 2014 at 7:18 pm
Farseer?!? Doesn’t seem to notice that dragon beside him that’s for sure!
April 25th, 2014 at 12:29 am
@SI — I just noticed somebody has the secret password to post pictures in comments.
April 25th, 2014 at 11:05 am
@Bibliomancer – it’s easy. All the cool kids are doing it..
(edit: turns out I’m not one of the cool kids..)