“Quick, while we distract him by playing magical basketball, you sneak up and punch him in the foot”
@Feà röfMusic, I really wish you hadn’t pointed out the “bulge” issue. Now I’m going to have to drink until I suffer memory loss, and that’s going to make it hard to get up for work tomorrow :-)..
Other than the children being dressed oddly for the typical dragon-related setting, and the rampant font problems detracting from it, this is really nice art. Surprisingly wingless dragon, though…
Texting is so 2003, these days it’s all about viewing GSS on any and all mobile devices in your posessions.
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Why do I get the feeling the kid in the background has .Just. Now. Realized…
‘Whoa. Dragon.”
*move very, very, very slowly. he is after your friends, in their short pants displaying those tasty drumsticks. if you are lucky he won’t eat Jason’s watch. you know you want it. shhhhh.*
Young Ewan McGregor in the foreground: “This is not the T-Rex you are looking for.”
Girl: “It’s a bloody dragon, you fool. And stop waving your hands.”
Young Ewan McGregor: “See? The Force is strong with me.”
Oh, and apropos nothing: It seems that the NSA surveillance program has decided that the tags, taken together, indicate with 51% possibility that we are all terror suspects.
So I’m wondering:
Why isn’t that enormous “ting” on her hand properly tagged?
What’s up with the font?
Is it me, or does that dragon have an unpleasantly smug look about him? Can’t see why. Not much of a dragon, IMHO; don’t even have wings.
Dragon guard: a cup or shield, incorporating a rigid asbestos material, worn to protect the genitals from focused streams of flame. Most often found in sports involving adolescent dragons.
Terrobang!
Terrobang!
I know it sounds a bit bizarre!
But interrobang!
Terrobang!
That’s how conditions are!
The question mark is always on the left side!
The exclamation’s always on the right!
In short there’s simply not
A better use of dots
Beneath two punctuation marks
Than there in-ter-ro-bang!
@Dead Stuff With Big Teeth: You don’t happen to find yourself wandering RoyalOak, Michigan by any chance? I have a teenage niece who lives there. She hates the whole Twilight/Romantic vampires notion. She has said to me more than once, “Vampires are not cute. They are not charming or sexy. They are psychopathic walking corpses. The smell like Dead Stuff.”
Just now occurred to me to wonder how she could possibly know that.
Well, you know how it is…out to walk the doggie…chat with the neighbours…leave home for work…find yourself in Royal Oak, Michigan & not smelling so fresh…have to back up and start it all over…
This is CLEARLY a hybrid of two book covers that was whipped up on the fly because the artist was behind schedule. Which explains the dragon’s wings: It got them amputated due to “Artistus Lateus” disease.
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June 11th, 2013 at 9:59 am
Idris grew too big for Ivor… He’s devoured Jones the Steam and Dai Station… Now he’s coming for YOU!
June 11th, 2013 at 10:27 am
Is it just my maldjusted ( and possibly damaged) mind, or does that girl have a, uh, ‘inappropriate’ bulge in her shorts?
And what is a magicker? Anything like a magician? Or is tbat an adjective to describe a state of ‘more than magic’?
Last question. Is there a dragon in the story, or it just on the cover because of the author’s name?
So many questions today. I am curious oranj.
June 11th, 2013 at 10:31 am
Oh wait, the title is NOT “Thu Pragon.Guand.” Siily of me, ignore part three of the above.
June 11th, 2013 at 11:38 am
“Quick, while we distract him by playing magical basketball, you sneak up and punch him in the foot”
@Feà röfMusic, I really wish you hadn’t pointed out the “bulge” issue. Now I’m going to have to drink until I suffer memory loss, and that’s going to make it hard to get up for work tomorrow :-)..
June 11th, 2013 at 11:40 am
Magicker is another name for magickian.
What about the much-neglected BEHIND YOU! tag? A whole generation fought and died in two world wars for that tag, and now it’s barely even remembered.
I reckon those kids were originally just making shadows of rabbits on the wall, but somebody has Photoshopped in a dragon.
June 11th, 2013 at 11:42 am
Bottom left: ‘Ah, I can’t vault over the logs, there’s a bloody dragon in the way.’
Isn’t the dragon going to rip up his lips with teeth digging into them like that?
June 11th, 2013 at 12:45 pm
I think if soccer involved more dragons it would finally get Americans interested in it.
June 11th, 2013 at 1:16 pm
That moment when you miss an epic high five… and try to recover it… unsuccessfully…
June 11th, 2013 at 1:18 pm
Ok! Every pair up with their dancing partner. Jenny and Dean, you’re together. Samuel, why don’t you pair up with GROGRETHIAN THE DEVASTATOR…
June 11th, 2013 at 2:08 pm
Thank goodness the Dragon Guard is there to protect that poor defenseless dragon!
June 11th, 2013 at 2:49 pm
Other than the children being dressed oddly for the typical dragon-related setting, and the rampant font problems detracting from it, this is really nice art. Surprisingly wingless dragon, though…
June 11th, 2013 at 4:17 pm
If this book was written in 2013 each teen would have his or her face buried in a cell phone texting, oblivious to the approaching doom.
June 11th, 2013 at 4:43 pm
Texting is so 2003, these days it’s all about viewing GSS on any and all mobile devices in your posessions.
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June 11th, 2013 at 5:15 pm
Why do I get the feeling the kid in the background has .Just. Now. Realized…
‘Whoa. Dragon.”
*move very, very, very slowly. he is after your friends, in their short pants displaying those tasty drumsticks. if you are lucky he won’t eat Jason’s watch. you know you want it. shhhhh.*
June 11th, 2013 at 5:40 pm
Girl to boy: “We don’t have to outrun the dragon. We just have to outrun that kid in the long pants.”
June 11th, 2013 at 6:26 pm
Wonder Twin powers…activate!
June 11th, 2013 at 6:56 pm
Young Ewan McGregor in the foreground: “This is not the T-Rex you are looking for.”
Girl: “It’s a bloody dragon, you fool. And stop waving your hands.”
Young Ewan McGregor: “See? The Force is strong with me.”
June 11th, 2013 at 7:24 pm
Can’t make out the blurb text… does it read
“Could Jason untangle the arm magic before the dragon ate his gym class?”
:-S
June 11th, 2013 at 7:26 pm
Oh, and apropos nothing: It seems that the NSA surveillance program has decided that the tags, taken together, indicate with 51% possibility that we are all terror suspects.
If anyone here should suddenly disapp
June 11th, 2013 at 8:00 pm
So I’m wondering:
Why isn’t that enormous “ting” on her hand properly tagged?
What’s up with the font?
Is it me, or does that dragon have an unpleasantly smug look about him? Can’t see why. Not much of a dragon, IMHO; don’t even have wings.
June 11th, 2013 at 8:32 pm
@A.R. Yngve—I think the blurb says: “Could Jason find the key to the oarlock before Biff and Buffy got caught?”
However, they’ve changed the blurb for the current kindle edition to:
“The Magickers is America’s answer to the Harry Potter series.”
Oh yes, that’s much more better, Good Show Sir!
June 11th, 2013 at 9:07 pm
For what its worth. The blurb reads:
“Could Jason find the gateway to safety before the Dark Hand brought ruin upon them all!”
… and yes, grammarians, that is a bang, not a query!? (what is the ASCII for the interrobang?!)
June 11th, 2013 at 10:02 pm
Dragon guard: a cup or shield, incorporating a rigid asbestos material, worn to protect the genitals from focused streams of flame. Most often found in sports involving adolescent dragons.
June 12th, 2013 at 3:37 pm
So glad someone found a use for some of my 80s clothes.
June 12th, 2013 at 10:44 pm
For Bibliomancer #22:
‽ Unicode U+203D INTERROBANG (subject to availability).
⸘ U+2E18 INVERTED INTERROBANG
June 13th, 2013 at 12:44 am
Terrobang!
Terrobang!
I know it sounds a bit bizarre!
But interrobang!
Terrobang!
That’s how conditions are!
The question mark is always on the left side!
The exclamation’s always on the right!
In short there’s simply not
A better use of dots
Beneath two punctuation marks
Than there in-ter-ro-bang!
June 13th, 2013 at 1:54 am
@Dead Stuff With Big Teeth: You don’t happen to find yourself wandering RoyalOak, Michigan by any chance? I have a teenage niece who lives there. She hates the whole Twilight/Romantic vampires notion. She has said to me more than once, “Vampires are not cute. They are not charming or sexy. They are psychopathic walking corpses. The smell like Dead Stuff.”
Just now occurred to me to wonder how she could possibly know that.
June 13th, 2013 at 3:05 am
<_<
>_>
Well, you know how it is…out to walk the doggie…chat with the neighbours…leave home for work…find yourself in Royal Oak, Michigan & not smelling so fresh…have to back up and start it all over…
June 14th, 2013 at 12:27 am
Darn. Neal beat me to it.
In other news…I’m starting to think we need an “Interpretive Dance” tag.
June 14th, 2013 at 5:13 am
Just a warning: if you don’t play Dodge-Magical-Ball by the rules, Coach will eat you.
June 14th, 2013 at 9:15 am
Nice! “Interspecies Romance” gives me uncomfortable flashbacks to Mass Effect 3, but “Interpretive Dance” I can live with.
December 11th, 2013 at 4:53 pm
Remember kids, baby dragons may look cute, but they grow up to be trouble!
June 24th, 2015 at 10:08 pm
I feel that this girl’s sudden discovery of her latent magic abilities may have come a moment too late.
June 25th, 2015 at 11:43 am
Mix it up:
THE MAGICK GUARD
The Dragoners #3
THE TEEN DRAGON MAGICKER GUARD
The Shortpantsers #3
THE DRAGONMAGICK
The Guardickers #3
THE ICKY DRAGON
The Guardian Readickers #3
August 24th, 2015 at 11:25 pm
This is CLEARLY a hybrid of two book covers that was whipped up on the fly because the artist was behind schedule. Which explains the dragon’s wings: It got them amputated due to “Artistus Lateus” disease.