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Click to make ’em biggerBibliomancer Comments: Baen Got Back. ♬I like big books and I can not lie ♬
Published 2017
(Average: 7.26 out of 10)
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Bibliomancer Comments: Baen Got Back. ♬I like big books and I can not lie ♬
Published 2017
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August 2nd, 2017 at 11:12 am
Monster Hunter Badonkadonk
August 2nd, 2017 at 11:16 am
She: “Have you ever considered collectivism? In general, you know, the needs of the many outweigh the wants of the few…”
Monster: “Aaaargh!”
August 2nd, 2017 at 11:44 am
At last! The long-awaited sequel to that timeless fantasy classic Monster Hunter Alpha. And it scores higher on the Baen Scale too!
I wonder how many of these there are.
August 2nd, 2017 at 12:11 pm
BGM by monster hunters Sigue Sigue Sputnik, of course.
August 2nd, 2017 at 12:17 pm
Please tell me everything on the cover is embossed and not just the title font.
August 2nd, 2017 at 12:17 pm
Vampire Baker Retreat.
That’s a triple point score, isn’t it?
August 2nd, 2017 at 12:21 pm
I’m guessing Druuna doesn’t need a recoil butt on her ArmaLite AR-15 .
August 2nd, 2017 at 12:38 pm
Can’t think why Baen’s always the butt of jokes round here.
August 2nd, 2017 at 12:43 pm
Judging from the position of the prodigious posterior, the artist had a certain inclination. I just don’t know if it’s something I could look up to.
August 2nd, 2017 at 1:01 pm
@MisterBob: from our POV, the butt is built in as part of the equipment.
@Anna T: compare the (reasonable) portrait of an AR-15 here to the compacted depiction of its predecessor, the M16, which we’ve discussed previously.
August 2nd, 2017 at 1:05 pm
Goodness, if any GSS regulars live in the greater Austin metropolitan area, you can get behind today’s author at a book signing! That sounds like fun.
August 2nd, 2017 at 1:18 pm
Baens tribute to Frank Miller.
August 2nd, 2017 at 1:26 pm
Thank God!! Finally they’re at the same page, though it was a pain in the……
to capture this special angle of collectivism.
August 2nd, 2017 at 2:10 pm
Big guy must be packing the siege tower/battering ram combo.
August 2nd, 2017 at 2:20 pm
You know, for collectivism to work, it has to be established from the bottom up.
August 2nd, 2017 at 2:25 pm
There seem to be some chiropteran folks flapping around in the sky.
August 2nd, 2017 at 2:53 pm
Just noticed the big guy isn’t packing a jewel encrusted dagger ! Perhaps the artist hasn’t got the Guns Digest Supplement – Ornate Knives part 24 and he hasn’t even bothered to future proof the rifle with giant red laser wires kitsch – was the baen editor on holiday ?
August 2nd, 2017 at 3:02 pm
Big guy needs a manicure before he goes into battle with this supermodel.
August 2nd, 2017 at 3:12 pm
“I like a woman with an arse you can park a bike in and balance a pint on.”
August 2nd, 2017 at 5:41 pm
@DSWBT: Well, at least the gun is the right size, in comparison to the woman. Maybe.
Otherwise, this cover is so emblematic of your average Baen cover that it simply bores me. I mean, come on, where are the explosions? There are some Baen covers with explosions – could’ve made this more interesting.
August 2nd, 2017 at 6:51 pm
@Anna T. – I shudder to think what an explosion coming out of this cover would look like.
August 2nd, 2017 at 11:51 pm
For BAEN!pew pew this is positively restrained. No orange, no cleavage (er… no front cleavage), only shades of gray. No ‘splosions, no Manly Men, and only one not-ridiculous gun.
I give the artist props for correctly depicting that a woman with Sir Mix-appeal also has thunder thighs, not scrawny little stems like many artists depict.
However, the damsel doesn’t have her weapon in firing position, and doesn’t seem to be looking at the monster. Monster is about to big hand her big butt. Terrible situational awareness.
It is however missing the “This is the thin-skinned, big-ego’d, insecure right-wing cry baby who started the whole Puppy shit that tried to ruin the Hugos” label, which it ought to have as a warning.
(Seriously. F him repeatedly with all his giant weapons inserted into his version of the prominent anatomical section of this cover.)
August 3rd, 2017 at 12:05 am
Anthony Scaramucci and Sarah Huckabee Sanders react to the hiring of General John Kelly?
August 3rd, 2017 at 12:12 am
This here is much Baenier:
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=395
@DSWBT: I didn’t even see the guy hiding in the corner till your comment. He’s definitely The Mooch, on his way out. If there were bushes, he’d be Spicer.
August 3rd, 2017 at 8:40 am
@GSS ex-noob #22 and Bibliomancer. Is the cover grey, or silver and a victim of its own CCD-flooding brilliance (as usual)?
It’s pretty thought-provoking, actually, this cover. Raises all kinds of interesting questions. Like-
Is the monster cross-eyed?
Why are its horns crooked?
Is the damsel planning to smack in the monstrous family jewels with her gun?
Has she previously whacked it on the head, and that’s why the monster is cross-eyed with crooked horns?
Is all the above the reason for her confident little smirk?
August 3rd, 2017 at 11:12 pm
@RachelJ: No, you can make out the background bats in amongst the gray-brown sky. The silver CCD killers usually come out solid black/gray, no cloud details. This cover really is that dull.
Don’t know why she’s smirking — that critter looks pretty dangerous still, and her eyes seem to be fixed slightly behind her, on the tip of the barrel of her rifle. Which is not pointing towards the monster! At least the guy in the corner is aiming at the monster.
My gun-fu is limited, but I know that pointing the business end towards the threat is how the damn things work. Also funner and safer.
August 4th, 2017 at 6:13 am
Monster Chiller Horror Theater Presents Monster Hunter Siege—Thursday at 9 on SCTV aaaawwwwoooooo!!!!
August 6th, 2017 at 8:05 am
@BC: Really scary, huh kids?
SCTV would probably do a swell adaptation of this, actually…
August 16th, 2017 at 2:09 pm
So many wonderful comments.
(“Monster Hunter Badonkadonk” just floored me. :-D)
December 15th, 2017 at 6:39 pm
OK, what the hell is the blonde Kardashian sister looking at? The gigantic angry monster right in front of her isn’t interesting enough to hold her attention??
February 10th, 2022 at 10:13 pm
Monster Hunter
Crack of BOOM!
February 10th, 2022 at 11:47 pm
I don’t want to start a frenzy of excitement here at GSS, but the recent Milla Jovovich film Monster Hunter features an actual cat person, just like ones on book covers.
February 11th, 2022 at 3:04 am
@THX: Not based on these books, thankfully.* Milla (and the cat people) deserve better.
What sort of cat people? Furry, or extra-furry? Normal cat colors, or something completely unnatural?
*Which no doubt hurts Larry’s famously tender fee-fees. Must have pouted and stomped his feet every time an ad for that came on.
February 11th, 2022 at 9:29 am
@GSS xn: He was a basic ginger moggy person, not extra-furry. He was a chef or something, imagine the amount of cat hair you would have to be picking from your tongue after one of those meals.
February 12th, 2022 at 2:53 am
@THX: I have enough cat hair in my cooking just from the ambient (counting the people who owned the house before, there’s been 40 years unbroken cat occupation). Can’t imagine how bad a cat chef would be, and it’s not like you could put him in a full-body hairnet.
Perhaps if the fillum comes on basic cable on a lazy afternoon, I will look upon the mog.