“I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. Oh, and he had a cool drone with him.” – The Revelation of John
Of all the badness, what maybe gets me the most is that horse tongue.
I’m thinking the two in black might be female?
Having “The” in the title just makes it so awkward grammatically. Either leave that out and lean in to the pun, or put a noun on the end, as Tat suggested. I see upon further searching that the other edition didn’t have the “The”, so bad show, Del Rey.
I can barely recognize the four horsemen of the apocalypse in this cover. Death and War look too much alike and so do Famine and Pestilence, who look like they’re wearing short terrycloth bathrobes, and one has on a swimming cap. Did they just visit the public pool? And what does the Chrysler building have to do with any of this? And that random attack helicopter spewing black smoke?
@Tracy: apparently the book takes place in NYC, so the Chrysler Building is at least correct. I agree that the four horsepersons look way too much alike and not as scary as they should. The goofy horse tongue on Famine’s steed doesn’t help either.
@GSS ex-noob, @Tracy: Well, from the blurb it seems this may be some sort of “Sixth Column”[1] – type technological trick, so perhaps this is just the Beta version of the Four HorsePersons.
@Bruce: that’s a boss for you, always insisting you launch the software product on the date they want it, not the time it’s ready. I blame the Horseman of Publicity.
At least Orson Welles* believed no wine should be sold before its time.
*cf. @fred, #3 and the blurb; thus we go full circle. This is the way.
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November 24th, 2020 at 11:07 am
“I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. Oh, and he had a cool drone with him.” – The Revelation of John
November 24th, 2020 at 11:22 am
I can’t believe it’s not Baen*.
*Well, actually, I can – there are no random explosion, but otherwise.
November 24th, 2020 at 12:08 pm
I don’t think Orson Welles would have had Death wearing a jaunty plume, unless he cast Rita Hayworth in the role.
November 24th, 2020 at 12:14 pm
I can’t believe it’s not Baen.*
*”Well, actually, I can – none of the Horsemen have big boobs.”
November 24th, 2020 at 12:50 pm
@fred I think the grim reaper has boobs. And they may be fabulous.
November 24th, 2020 at 5:25 pm
Famine feels underdressed.
November 24th, 2020 at 5:29 pm
Armageddon Crazy. Ar U A geddon crazy?
November 24th, 2020 at 11:34 pm
Mick, would it kill you to include a noun?
November 25th, 2020 at 5:11 am
Of all the badness, what maybe gets me the most is that horse tongue.
I’m thinking the two in black might be female?
Having “The” in the title just makes it so awkward grammatically. Either leave that out and lean in to the pun, or put a noun on the end, as Tat suggested. I see upon further searching that the other edition didn’t have the “The”, so bad show, Del Rey.
And here’s the man himself:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/jul/29/charles-shaar-murray-tribute-mick-farren
November 25th, 2020 at 3:19 pm
2020: The Official Novelization
November 26th, 2020 at 5:04 am
I can barely recognize the four horsemen of the apocalypse in this cover. Death and War look too much alike and so do Famine and Pestilence, who look like they’re wearing short terrycloth bathrobes, and one has on a swimming cap. Did they just visit the public pool? And what does the Chrysler building have to do with any of this? And that random attack helicopter spewing black smoke?
November 26th, 2020 at 10:27 pm
@Tracy: apparently the book takes place in NYC, so the Chrysler Building is at least correct. I agree that the four horsepersons look way too much alike and not as scary as they should. The goofy horse tongue on Famine’s steed doesn’t help either.
November 27th, 2020 at 5:19 am
@GSS ex-noob, @Tracy: Well, from the blurb it seems this may be some sort of “Sixth Column”[1] – type technological trick, so perhaps this is just the Beta version of the Four HorsePersons.
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/342062.Sixth_Column
November 29th, 2020 at 4:16 am
@Bruce: that’s a boss for you, always insisting you launch the software product on the date they want it, not the time it’s ready. I blame the Horseman of Publicity.
At least Orson Welles* believed no wine should be sold before its time.
*cf. @fred, #3 and the blurb; thus we go full circle. This is the way.