@TW: according to the infallible Wikipaedia, the authors of this tome include:
Glen Cook
Ben Bova
Edward Bryant
Stephen Kimmel
Janet Gluckman
Joan D. Vinge
Robert Frazier
Victor Milan
James Tucker
Lynn Mims
Jeffrey A. Carver
Allan Bruton
Kevin Christensen
The Butterfly Crotch Demoness didn’t make the cut for the 2016 Doom reboot but she is rumored to be in the sequel. At least the concept art found a home.
OR
Concept art has come to light revealing that “The Venture Brothers” had been originally planned to be much, much darker. Shown here, Dr. Girlfriend (her costum now a succubus) has murdered her rival arch villain The Monarch and celebrates as his lair burns.
I’ve no idea what gives with the fishnet body stocking, but I bet it’s uncomfortable. Also, to the admins: I think we have a new censor beacon, to go along with the sheep, dolphins and C.S. Lewis – the fireproof monarch butterfly!
@Anna T.—I fear that monarch isn’t quite as fireproof as it would like to be. Judging from the wings, it appears he might not have gotten soaked with enough flame retardant before the photo shoot.
Since when does “interior design” get a credit as big as “edited by”? And being on the left, it’s top billing over CarD! Does this mean the book looks pretty inside but the content is meh?
Agreed that the monarch butterfly is the new Space Sheep, but WTF does it have to do with dark dragons? Indeed, WTF does anything on this cover have to do with the topic (except maybe the fire)?
@TW: Aw, c’mon, you can cut and paste from DS’ comment.
I looked on Amazon: this is the MMPB cover. The trade paper cover is an actual dragon, in shades of black and gray. The reviews are extremely meh. A guy who’s a big OSC fan gives it 2 stars, and informs us that one of the authors is in fact OSC under a pseudonym.
There are no “Look Inside” views for us to gaze upon the undoubtedly stunning interior design.
Apparently the were-Chihuahua has gotten his way, as here Sirens (closely related) are shown as dark and evil instead of all cutesy. Fighting back against the Mermaid Conspiracy.
@DSWBT: Makes sense he’d have one of his stories on the cover, even if it doesn’t really match the book concept.
Apparently one of the non-CarD stories has lesbians, whoda thunk?
(I would; men like him think lesbians are just straight girls pretending, but gay men are the menace to society which is why he keeps writing about them…)
Wait, wait, wait, so we’re 23 comments in, and NOBODY has yet begged for the application of the LITERAL “devil’s dumplings” tag? (OK, OK, half-literal.)
@TW: really?! Tell me, what do you think of accelerated versus delayed character transformation as a character mapping algorithm for phylogenetic tree analysis?
All right, everyone! Hup hup! Time to do your part. As of today, GSS is number one for the search string demon muskrat vixens but only number eight for Butterfly Crotch Demoness. Let’s get to work, people, we have a long way to go.
Edit: although we are the only hit for that exact phrase…
Is Butterfly Crotch Demoness (aka Flaming Butterfly Woman) supposed to be a dragon?
Wearing dragon’s wings as a souvenir of her little crime spree?
Floating in front of a dragon?
Floating in front of an oddly-designed throne?
Floating in front of a Batman symbol?
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April 20th, 2017 at 11:37 am
DRAG-SHOW OF NO-PANTS.
April 20th, 2017 at 11:41 am
NEVER trust interior design tips by Michael Goodwin. They all involve setting your house ablaze or inviting in the insects.
April 20th, 2017 at 11:44 am
@TW: according to the infallible Wikipaedia, the authors of this tome include:
Glen Cook
Ben Bova
Edward Bryant
Stephen Kimmel
Janet Gluckman
Joan D. Vinge
Robert Frazier
Victor Milan
James Tucker
Lynn Mims
Jeffrey A. Carver
Allan Bruton
Kevin Christensen
April 20th, 2017 at 11:54 am
@DS – New policy. If I don’t feel like typing a bunch anthology authors, they don’t get tags.
The Last Dangerous Visions wore me out.
April 20th, 2017 at 11:54 am
Could you turn the central heating down? Overdoing it a bit.
April 20th, 2017 at 11:58 am
Well, if you’re a dog it’s probably heartworm.
April 20th, 2017 at 12:50 pm
Butterfly Kings Guard. Not a good choice for royal protection as it turned out.
April 20th, 2017 at 1:32 pm
At least she’s wearing hot shoes.
April 20th, 2017 at 1:45 pm
@TW: Cheek! What is coiled in those hidden places in your heart???
April 20th, 2017 at 1:46 pm
Glow-in-the-dark pasties.
April 20th, 2017 at 1:51 pm
I checked the hidden places of my heart. I found a few pennies, a paper clip, and some lint.
April 20th, 2017 at 1:56 pm
Praise for the highly-praised Dragons of Light:
“At least it’s not Dragons of Darkness“—Orson Scott Card
April 20th, 2017 at 2:39 pm
For a brief moment I thought that glowing censorship butterfly was the work of the admins.
But no, it is the unsubtle creation of whatever artist spawned this oddity.
April 20th, 2017 at 3:57 pm
The Butterfly Crotch Demoness didn’t make the cut for the 2016 Doom reboot but she is rumored to be in the sequel. At least the concept art found a home.
OR
Concept art has come to light revealing that “The Venture Brothers” had been originally planned to be much, much darker. Shown here, Dr. Girlfriend (her costum now a succubus) has murdered her rival arch villain The Monarch and celebrates as his lair burns.
April 20th, 2017 at 4:20 pm
I’ve no idea what gives with the fishnet body stocking, but I bet it’s uncomfortable. Also, to the admins: I think we have a new censor beacon, to go along with the sheep, dolphins and C.S. Lewis – the fireproof monarch butterfly!
April 20th, 2017 at 5:34 pm
‘An’ I’m too sexy for this party, too sexy for this party, no way I’m disco dragon…’
April 20th, 2017 at 6:54 pm
@Anna T.—I fear that monarch isn’t quite as fireproof as it would like to be. Judging from the wings, it appears he might not have gotten soaked with enough flame retardant before the photo shoot.
April 20th, 2017 at 7:16 pm
See? Balrogs DO have wings!!!
April 20th, 2017 at 11:18 pm
Dark and hidden and coiled and cloven
The dragon from Ipanema goes walking
And when she singes, each one she singes goes ‘AAAAARGH!’
April 20th, 2017 at 11:58 pm
Since when does “interior design” get a credit as big as “edited by”? And being on the left, it’s top billing over CarD! Does this mean the book looks pretty inside but the content is meh?
Agreed that the monarch butterfly is the new Space Sheep, but WTF does it have to do with dark dragons? Indeed, WTF does anything on this cover have to do with the topic (except maybe the fire)?
@TW: Aw, c’mon, you can cut and paste from DS’ comment.
I looked on Amazon: this is the MMPB cover. The trade paper cover is an actual dragon, in shades of black and gray. The reviews are extremely meh. A guy who’s a big OSC fan gives it 2 stars, and informs us that one of the authors is in fact OSC under a pseudonym.
There are no “Look Inside” views for us to gaze upon the undoubtedly stunning interior design.
April 21st, 2017 at 12:02 am
@GSS lepidopterist: that may be from ‘A Plague of Butterflies’ by, of all people! Orson scott carD.
April 21st, 2017 at 12:02 am
Off-topic, yet on-topic: MERMAIDS. Well, sort of.
Apparently the were-Chihuahua has gotten his way, as here Sirens (closely related) are shown as dark and evil instead of all cutesy. Fighting back against the Mermaid Conspiracy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrtY7OnVlw8
April 21st, 2017 at 12:05 am
@DSWBT: Makes sense he’d have one of his stories on the cover, even if it doesn’t really match the book concept.
Apparently one of the non-CarD stories has lesbians, whoda thunk?
(I would; men like him think lesbians are just straight girls pretending, but gay men are the menace to society which is why he keeps writing about them…)
April 21st, 2017 at 1:01 am
Wait, wait, wait, so we’re 23 comments in, and NOBODY has yet begged for the application of the LITERAL “devil’s dumplings” tag? (OK, OK, half-literal.)
I don’t know what this world’s coming to…
April 21st, 2017 at 1:04 am
And the “devil woman” tag is just a gimme at this point…
April 21st, 2017 at 2:18 am
@Scott B – I should have saved this cover for Monday so I could spend the whole weekend adding tags.
@GSSXN – There is no “cut-and-pasting” in Tag Science. Each tag is individually curated.
Also, one look at the ISFDB page scared me off with, not just all the authors, but all of the interior art minions.
April 21st, 2017 at 2:02 pm
The only person EVER to successfully LARP Pokémon Go as Charmander.
(CWCID, my wife suggested that one.)
April 21st, 2017 at 5:16 pm
How many years of study and training does it take to become a fully licensed tagologist??
April 21st, 2017 at 7:03 pm
Tagologist? Please. More correctly I am a Taxonomic Engineer. I received my MSc in Taxonomy and Biodiversity from the Imperial College London.
April 21st, 2017 at 7:20 pm
@TW: really?! Tell me, what do you think of accelerated versus delayed character transformation as a character mapping algorithm for phylogenetic tree analysis?
April 24th, 2017 at 9:11 am
What is coiled in those hidden places in your heart? CHOLESTEROL!! (If you’re over forty, male and overweight.)
April 24th, 2017 at 9:13 am
Cher’s comeback tour was an overdone mess — and so was she.
April 27th, 2017 at 2:07 am
@Raoul: The Tag Wizard says that there is interior art…of what kind?
April 27th, 2017 at 6:07 pm
TFW u finish the epic quest of burning the castle but u have to wait for your home girls to give u a ride
July 16th, 2017 at 2:31 am
All right, everyone! Hup hup! Time to do your part. As of today, GSS is number one for the search string demon muskrat vixens but only number eight for Butterfly Crotch Demoness. Let’s get to work, people, we have a long way to go.
Edit: although we are the only hit for that exact phrase…
July 16th, 2017 at 4:44 am
*scratches head*
Well, it’s different. Usually, when a cover artist fails at depicting a dragon, it ends up being a dinosaur…
July 19th, 2017 at 3:05 am
Is Butterfly Crotch Demoness (aka Flaming Butterfly Woman) supposed to be a dragon?
Wearing dragon’s wings as a souvenir of her little crime spree?
Floating in front of a dragon?
Floating in front of an oddly-designed throne?
Floating in front of a Batman symbol?