Apr 01
And now for the real cover:
Click for full imageYou might remember seeing this previously on Good Show Sir: Sunrunner’s Fire
Stutzman comments: So here is the Australia cover for that very same book (found in a used bookstore in the US), which is hideous beyond words. Same general elements: dragon, wizardly dude in robes, rocks. The execution, however… oh, my eyes.
Thanks very much to Stutzman!
(Average: 6.73 out of 10)
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April 1st, 2010 at 12:23 pm
Telegraph review: Medievil Village People.
The concert on Skull Mountain got off to a shaky start. The improved YMCA lacked choreography of previous versions. The wizard got the Y down pretty well, even throwing in some lightning bolts to spice it up (injuring several members of the audience). Unfortunately, the dra-GON went with a C…
April 1st, 2010 at 12:41 pm
Is that camera flare, or is the dragon actually wearing a sort of Afro of shining magical energy?
April 1st, 2010 at 1:12 pm
The wizard does get bonus points on this one for having baby skulls on his belt.
The dragon kinda reminds me of something Godzilla would fight. If one ever watched such things.
April 1st, 2010 at 8:29 pm
Proving once again that art direction at mainstream publishing houses and Mad-libs are exactly the same thing.
May 3rd, 2010 at 4:04 am
That’s a shame, because I actually quite like the American cover.
May 3rd, 2010 at 11:37 am
“Book 3 in the epic Dragon Prince series”
The Usenet group rec.arts.sf.written used to have an in-joke about SWORD OF THE DRAGON PRINCE being the perfect Extruded Fantasy Product novel title.
June 15th, 2013 at 6:05 pm
The artist painted a competent dragon…erred in the foreshortening of the head…said ‘Fuckitall, I give up’ and never did anything with the wings. That’s my interpretation.
Also, how could the artist paint good dragon’s talons, and then foul up the sorcerer’s hands? Shouldn’t there be a ‘Hands 101’ class you take in art college? ‘Applied Hands’? ‘Hands Hands-on’?
And what are those things on the wizard’s belt? They can’t be skulls. Are they masks? Masks made from skulls? Isn’t it hard to walk around with them on his belt?
Heh, ‘low-lying fog’. That dragon fellow must have an upset stomach!
June 15th, 2013 at 8:42 pm
An epic dragon prince? Eh?
“How cool was that dragon prince?”
“He was frickin’ EPIC, man!”
June 17th, 2013 at 9:57 pm
A decent book that didn’t deserve such a terrible cover. But then again, that does seem to be one of the standard categories on this site:
1. Book that didn’t deserve horrible cover (this one)
2. Book that so richly DID (“Virtual Mode”)
3. Cover that serves as a warning: WHATEVER VIBE YOU ARE GETTING FROM THE COVER EXPECT MORE OF IN THE BOOK (“Dagger’s Point”)
4. No correlation whatsoever between quality of cover and what’s in the book (“The Second Experiment”)
June 17th, 2013 at 10:00 pm
Although categories 1 and 2 are probably freely interchangeable according to the eye of the beholder/reader.
June 19th, 2013 at 9:42 am
“Marvellous lack of talent…”
“Impressive arrangement of botched grammar…”
“Fascinating, in the manner of a train wreck…”
October 23rd, 2013 at 10:23 pm
@TagWiz :Skulls-A-Poppin’ tag candidate? Yes?
February 2nd, 2014 at 2:34 pm
Rarrr!! Wheeeeeeee!!!
Can’t stop laughing at this.
February 3rd, 2014 at 2:33 pm
“Yo, wizard dude, I’m down here man.”
February 3rd, 2014 at 3:28 pm
Surely a prima facie case of BEHIND YOU!
February 3rd, 2014 at 5:17 pm
You can have a free Perspective Problems as well Tat, looks like a scene out of Mortal Kombat.
(psst, thanks FöM)
February 3rd, 2014 at 10:28 pm
Ah, that cover reminds me…didn’t Bruno Mars and Anthony Kiedis appear on stage together last night?
September 14th, 2015 at 8:06 pm
I can’t help thinking that dragons should be something a bit classier than mere giant snakeheaded iguanas with wings plus a tail that resembles the rest of the snake..