May 30
Good Show Sir Comments: We must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!
Published 2013
Good Show Sir Comments: We must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!
Published 2013
May 30th, 2016 at 10:46 am
“Ringo is sure to satisfy the most demanding action junkie. The book’s not bad either.”
May 30th, 2016 at 10:52 am
Just a little off the hem and adapt the neckline to… oops, overdid it.
May 30th, 2016 at 11:04 am
Why are there disembodied hands at lower left? Is she inside one of the boxes from A Tale of Two Clocks, and someone’s spinning her round as a joke?
May 30th, 2016 at 11:10 am
Meanwhile, Janea, a high-dollar call girl, stripper and High Priestess of Freya when she isn’t fighting demons, must contend with a spiritual journey of her own. It’s a journey into Janea’s acceptance of herself in all her dimensions (and what dimensions they are!). Where to locate one’s true inner essence? At a science fiction convention, of course.
So, does the cover show her act or her journey? Because it certainly shows her dimensions, and certainly DOES NOT show a convention!
May 30th, 2016 at 1:50 pm
‘She’s also big-breasted, but not as a stereotype. They’re essential to her personality and to the dynamic development of her character.’
https://statelymcdanielmanor.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/book-review-princess-of-wands-and-queen-of-wands/
The above refers to the main character, not the one pictured on the cover.
May I suggest a new tag – dynamic development – .
May 30th, 2016 at 2:32 pm
Another fantasy warrior-babe about to cut her leg at the hip.
May 30th, 2016 at 3:19 pm
Why does Khachaturian’s Sabre Dance keep playing in my head?
May 30th, 2016 at 3:52 pm
@BM: you too, eh?
I appreciate how the lady on the Grave Matters spine is staring in shock.
May 30th, 2016 at 3:56 pm
@fred: without a trace of irony, that review to which you linked could be titled Madonna-Whore Complex: The Series.
May 30th, 2016 at 9:36 pm
Are you sure this isn’t a picture from an abstract modern dance performance?
May 31st, 2016 at 1:33 am
A radical rethink of ‘Gone With the Wind’, where a ninja Scarlett shreds some curtains, causes a tornado and makes the fabric stick to her with static.
May 31st, 2016 at 2:09 am
@ Anna T. – The interpretive dance tag. Thanks for reminding me!
May 31st, 2016 at 4:29 am
The Rani Reaps the Whirlwind!
May 31st, 2016 at 7:16 pm
There is a very funny vignette playing out here, probably set up deliberately by mischievous GSS Admin—the expression on the face of the woman on the spine of Grave Matters, staring as though in disbelief at that ridiculous red tattery dress, thinking, like, “She’ll do anything to get sheeped!” while the woman on the spine of Fury of the Demon just turns her head away in disgust.
May 31st, 2016 at 8:36 pm
“This dress is wrong! Wrong! Wrong! I hate it!!”
June 2nd, 2016 at 2:39 am
At first glance I thought this was a woman underwater being attacked by a tornado of thin fish, or maybe pink eels…not too sure this makes more sense.
June 7th, 2016 at 12:32 am
This is as good an excuse as any to link to Jim Hines’s cover-posing posts from a few years ago, given that “Queen of Wands” is one of the ones he takes on…
http://www.jimchines.com/2012/01/striking-a-pose/
http://www.jimchines.com/cover-posing/
November 6th, 2016 at 9:06 am
@Scott B. Ah, but clearly Jim Hines is just jealous of our heroine’s ability to sabre-strip ambidextrously whilst twirling and levitating. Who wouldn’t be?
November 18th, 2016 at 3:32 pm
Wait, why isn’t she the Queen of Swords?
November 21st, 2016 at 9:31 am
The job was taken.
November 21st, 2016 at 11:43 am
Silly me!