Jan 24
JuanPaul Comments This guy’s duty is to save his own ass.
Published 2014
(Average: 6.64 out of 10)
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JuanPaul Comments This guy’s duty is to save his own ass.
Published 2014
(Average: 6.64 out of 10)Loading...
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January 24th, 2018 at 10:40 am
Well, I’m a fan of not being seen reading books with crappy covers and I’m also quite pleased I don’t own this.
January 24th, 2018 at 11:22 am
Yes, follow your dreams, reach for the stars, but keep your feet on the… stars?
January 24th, 2018 at 1:15 pm
Howdy, Duty!
January 24th, 2018 at 1:41 pm
This being BAEN I was expecting an Asscendant cover.
January 24th, 2018 at 1:50 pm
@fred – Book 1 of Manticore Ass-ended
January 24th, 2018 at 2:18 pm
“AAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!! That fucking star just ripped off the tip of my space glove! I’m dyyyyiiiiinnngg (to get off of this cover by any means necessary).”
January 24th, 2018 at 3:32 pm
He’s cosplaying Spidey but in a Supergirl pose. And if it’s ‘Honorverse’ shouldn’t he be dressed as Cathy Gale?
January 24th, 2018 at 4:04 pm
Looks like he has a bloody injury to his right ear. An earring pulled off in savage had to hand combat probably.
January 24th, 2018 at 4:43 pm
When I click on “Click for larger image,” I see the version of the cover in the photo. But when I click on the photo itself, I see a different version without the Baen logo or the blurb.
Also, Manticore sounds like a cross between a manatee and albacore, so it translates to “Tuna Fish Sea Cow Ascendant.”
January 24th, 2018 at 4:58 pm
“Fans of both writers should be quite pleased” = “could not possibly be more by-the-numbers if its life depended on it.”
January 24th, 2018 at 5:13 pm
Not only out standing in his galaxy, but in a galaxy by himself.
January 24th, 2018 at 5:18 pm
Dear GSS Admin—Really? Has it come to fart-jokes-as-alt-text? Ah, whither the high conceits, wither the rapier wit, the cosmi-comic wisdom? It’s the corrupting confluence of David Weber and Jim Baen, I know. Sad.
January 24th, 2018 at 6:09 pm
@ Tor – JuanPaul’s eyesight is failing and his submission was a bit off-focus. I went to Baen to get their image to see all the hi-res action.
@B.Chiclitz – “Brrraaapp!”
January 24th, 2018 at 8:35 pm
@Tag Wizard—Thank you for the polite reply. So I guess we’ll soon be seeing a “Farts-a-Poppin’ ” tag?
January 24th, 2018 at 9:16 pm
@B.Chiclitz – That was my “call to doody”.
January 24th, 2018 at 9:31 pm
Personally, I think he’s trying to grab on to the letter “O” before he flies off the cover. You can do it! I believe in….crap!
January 24th, 2018 at 10:26 pm
What I like about this site: the usually dry, understated, idiosyncratic British type of humor, plus the occasional fart joke.
January 24th, 2018 at 10:39 pm
@TagW 13, I was being watched. I had to move quick. They know all about us.
Maybe legalizing marijuana wasn’t such a good idea..
January 24th, 2018 at 11:54 pm
A cover from Baen’s Infamous Spot the Ball competition ?
… thou the ball could be very ,very far away .
January 25th, 2018 at 1:37 am
This is awfully low-key for BAEN!explosion.
Dude’s been eating too many beans. If it’s a jet-pack nozzle, it’s much closer than I’d want to my ass. And more jagged edges than I’d want near my spacesuit. The spacesuit also seems a little fussily detailed in construction.
Hopefully Mr. Spacesuit has a friendly ship just barely off-cover b/c that gadget isn’t going to get him far, and space is very big.
I’d keep both my hands on the controls rather than imitate a Kryptonian.
That blurb is very faint praise, isn’t it? “For those who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like.”
PS George Lucas is suing to get his explosion pattern back.
@fred (8): I thought it was a Ting! Bluetooth earpiece.
@Lillie (10): More polite than saying “Purest hack.” One wonders what appeared before the ellipse. “Illiterate and tasteless”?
@Tag W/Juan Paul: I bet that title was embossed. Was it?
January 25th, 2018 at 1:55 am
“… fans of both writers should be quite pleased …”
But what about Buffy fans?
January 25th, 2018 at 3:28 am
At least “fans of both writers should be quite pleased” is better than “both fans of the writers should be quite pleased.”
January 25th, 2018 at 7:58 am
“Fans of writers who are both the writers of the books should be quite pleased.”
January 25th, 2018 at 7:59 am
“On the other hand, writers who are fans of fans who are both writers and fans are not as pleased…”
January 25th, 2018 at 9:20 am
@ARY (24): that last one might also be true.
@Alice: I daresay Buffy fans should stick to Ms. Spencer’s work, not this.
January 25th, 2018 at 11:52 am
Super Mario called and he wants his Grand Stars back!
January 26th, 2018 at 4:17 pm
@gssxn yes, I believe it was embossed. But that’s nothing, I recently took a photo of a cover with embossing to rule all others.
January 27th, 2018 at 9:01 am
@JuanPaul: can’t wait to see that!
@Tag Wiz: add the “embossed” tag! (which I wish could be rendered in a drop-shadow font)
February 6th, 2018 at 2:35 pm
Some book covers are “armchair veterans” — showing off fake stars to make the impression that they have actually earned stripes for some act of valor…