Apr 11
Kelly’s Art Direction: Hmmm, a desert nomad with a magic ring and a crazed glare, an aged but fierce warrioress wearing chain-mail long underwear beneath a tunic slit to the waist, and a princely sort who seems to be counting on the other two to protect him since he hasn’t yet drawn his weapons…
Published 1984
April 11th, 2011 at 8:38 am
Clearly they have just walked in on someone naked. The guy in the middle is just shocked, but the other two are loving it!
April 11th, 2011 at 8:40 am
AND
“Something there is that feeds on magic..”
Maybe someone could help me out, I haven’t had coffee yet but that… does it make sense?
April 11th, 2011 at 8:45 am
I like that they got Yoda to do the strap line “Something there is, yes, that on magic feeds, uhmm.”
Otherwise, it looks just like some random D&D campaign…
April 11th, 2011 at 9:21 am
Madame, as an officer of the Paris Gendarmerie, it falls to me to order that you remove your veil immediately… Ah, Monsieur Sinbad, I didn’t recognise you with your face covered. Please accept my apologies.
April 11th, 2011 at 10:16 am
“Is this the right place for the auditions for Son of Son of The Sheik?”
April 11th, 2011 at 12:59 pm
I actually read this book ages ago and have no recollection of its merit, BUT I do remember that Wrede’s “Daughter of Witches” had equally dramatic cover art by the same artist with shiny lens flare… http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/977775.Daughter_of_Witches
April 11th, 2011 at 1:58 pm
“Something there is that feeds on magic…”
Yes, everything sounds more profound if you speak Fantasy. Try it in your daily life:
– “Looking for the car keys I am, help me find them you must.”
– “Poop there is in Baby’s diapers, your turn to change them there is indeed.”
April 11th, 2011 at 2:01 pm
Sinbad is saying “Halt or I will bedazzle you with my genuine, cubic zirconium ring!”
April 11th, 2011 at 2:06 pm
I’ve heard of these guys before: A bunch of mindless jerks who’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
April 11th, 2011 at 2:30 pm
“That’s the one, Officer! The one in the green. She killed my fifth-level paladin.”
April 11th, 2011 at 4:02 pm
I’m still trying to figure out what the top line means:
“Something there is that feeds on magic..â€
Huh?
April 11th, 2011 at 5:46 pm
“Is there something that magic feeds on?” asked the Prince.
“There is! Something feeds on that magic.” replied the nomad.
“Feeds on magic? There? That…is…something.” purred the blond tressed warrioress.
April 11th, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Something there is that feeds on magic…
THE SEVEN TOWERS OF DYSLEXIA
April 12th, 2011 at 3:24 am
I love the look on all three adventurers’ faces.
Guy in gray robe: “Duh”
Guy in white: “Du-uh”
Guy(?) in green: “Duuuuhh”
April 12th, 2011 at 10:05 am
”with this ring, dyslexics untie”
April 13th, 2011 at 1:01 am
Wait, wait… is that nomad really Charlie Sheen? I think he is shouting “I’m Winning….”
June 26th, 2011 at 1:52 am
About average computer game box art for 1984
July 2nd, 2012 at 8:40 am
Anyone else noticing something extremely weird going on with the aged green knightess’s legs’ posture?
July 2nd, 2012 at 11:50 am
What, no comments on the veiled guy’s, er… sword hanging between his legs?
For his sake, I hope they’re not about to run for their lives.
July 2nd, 2012 at 12:00 pm
Nah, I think the magnificent gleam of his wedding ring and the old woman’s sexy dance will be sufficient to scare the enemies away.
October 15th, 2014 at 10:24 pm
@HepC: everything is flat. All three are standing, and acting, in the same plane.
If magical the third dimension is, something there is that feeds on magic…
(Did you see what I did there? Did you???)
October 16th, 2014 at 8:19 pm
I’ve read this book, and I can confidently state that none of the characters look like these three.
Also, the old lady knight looks like she’s in desperate need of a toilet. Sinbad in the middle has some real impressive jewellery. And, of course, let us not forget Prince in Grey’s ludicrous facial expression.
And, who thought it was a good idea to have Yoda write the tagline at the top? Or rather, to have the tagline written in imitation-Yoda? Only Yoda gets to talk like that. No one else.
November 7th, 2017 at 3:55 am
They all seem to have the same face. This happens on several of his covers.