Dec 13
Click for full imageTom Noir Comments: Presumably the tagline refers to the title font and not to Mr. Pancake Ears here.
Published 2002
And that’s the end of, “Tom Noir Week!”
Thanks to Tom for all the covers, there’s still about a month more waiting!
(Average: 8.55 out of 10)
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December 13th, 2013 at 9:06 am
Quark on Meth. Yeah, nothing could stand against that.
December 13th, 2013 at 10:07 am
Good thing they added the word “against”. What’s Nelson’s Column doing in the Coliseum?
December 13th, 2013 at 12:21 pm
Faux brush strokes, the sign of quality. The left L and the right L look significantly different as a result of the bowing of the font.
December 13th, 2013 at 12:36 pm
least effective use of the ‘kubrick stare’ ever. intimidating that is not.
December 13th, 2013 at 1:15 pm
Indeed, nothing can stand against… Baen!
December 13th, 2013 at 1:16 pm
Excuse me, is this the way to the Nosferatu dental hygiene convention?
December 13th, 2013 at 1:52 pm
David Drake Killer
Qu’est que c’est?
Bad-bad-bad-bad-bad
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
Better run run run run run run run away
December 13th, 2013 at 2:12 pm
N.B.: This is another one of those covers that’s a bit too much for an ordinary camera. In addition to being eye-gougingly orange, it was shiny and sparkly. Take THAT on the bus!
December 13th, 2013 at 2:40 pm
@Tom: is that a challenge??? đ
December 13th, 2013 at 2:41 pm
Nothing on Earth could stand against it…because it was tilted ridiculously far forward and on fire!
December 13th, 2013 at 3:36 pm
@Tom & Dead Stuff – Maybe that should be our next challenge, taking “action” pictures while reading. On the bus… up a mountain… cause that’s where I like to read my copy of Hunters of the Red Moon.
December 13th, 2013 at 3:53 pm
The circus maximus background adds a nice touch of culture to another ‘classic’ Baen cover.
December 13th, 2013 at 4:57 pm
Never seen Wagner w/o Frazetta, seems sacrilegious. But it IS Baen after all.
December 13th, 2013 at 5:58 pm
@GSS Admin – I just happen to have a photo of me reading one of my favorite books on my subway commute to work:
http://tinyurl.com/rxissubway
December 13th, 2013 at 8:11 pm
@Bibliomancer:With all respect and admiration sir, I feel compelled to note at this time a rather serious, well, obsession as it were, with one very specific anthropomorphosized feline. Now I will not take this in the rather logical direction and posit that you are yourself a ‘furry’, as I believe they are known among certain deviants. I believe that it is just as likely that you reside with a varying yet always large number of domestic feline companions, all of whom bear clever appellations such as Sir Claudin DeBols, Nimblepaws the Duke of Purrrl, Lady Pawline Saucytail Moondancer, and so on. On the other hand, should you perchance be an actual Kzin, I feel compelled to point out that I have always found the description of your ears as ‘like pink parasols’ to be a less than subtle attempt to diminish your natural fearsomeness. Indeed, it is an insult, and you should you be an actual Kzin, should feel honour bound to thrash one Mr. Niven. I believe he resides somewhere in the American state of California. No doubt your fine intelligence and internet skills will serve you well on your bloody mission of righteousrevenge .
Yours sincerely, Bob Roberts.
December 13th, 2013 at 8:18 pm
My immediate response: “David Drake is dead???”
My second response: “Richard Wagner had a great-grandson who writes schlocky sci-fi books for Baen??? (Figures…)”
My third response: “Is this really a genuine Baen cover? The dude in the picture doesn’t carry a gun! Humbug!”
December 13th, 2013 at 8:20 pm
KILLER
Nothing on Earth Could Stand Against Jerry Lee Lewis
December 14th, 2013 at 1:22 am
Why is his chin blue?
December 14th, 2013 at 2:45 am
@DSWBT: sorry, that’s an artifact of the camera trying to cope with the epicness of this cover.
December 14th, 2013 at 4:53 am
KARL EDWARD WAGNERââŹâ
WANKER LED DRAG WAR
December 14th, 2013 at 5:49 pm
@B. Chiclitz. Awesomely excellent.
December 15th, 2013 at 12:53 am
I just spent more time than I should have trying to find the particular species of New World Leaf-nosed bat that served for the model of dentation for our friend here.
A. fraterculus, A. planirostris, A. rosenbergi, L. aequatorialis, or maybe D. rotundus.
Sorry to say that none fit perfectly. And its eyes are much too far above its nose.
Then I remembered that I really didn’t care.
December 17th, 2013 at 5:28 am
@Bibliomancer14ââŹâUnbeknownst to you, I was on that same subway car, and heard you, contemplating your bevy of babes, chortling under your breath:
I HAZ TIKKET TO RYDE!!
December 17th, 2013 at 2:04 pm
@ B. Chiclitz — All my little foxes love the big pussy cat! Me-Ow!
December 19th, 2013 at 2:42 pm
A Meth-Head Called Paddington.
December 30th, 2013 at 1:57 pm
Meet the next Great White Republican Hope.
January 8th, 2014 at 3:23 pm
Hey that’s the same face I carved on my pumpkin last Halloween.
February 10th, 2014 at 8:17 am
“WASSAAAAAP??”
June 2nd, 2015 at 4:43 pm
The working title they gave to the art department was The Accused But Innocent of Murder Until Proven Guilty In a Court of Law.
November 10th, 2015 at 9:26 pm
“If you have the time, I’d like to talk to you about Jesus Christ.”
December 4th, 2015 at 12:29 am
…queen?