Jul 14
Click for larger imageGood Show Sir Art Direction: Don’t bother painting a cover. Try to push the new Star of the Guardians action figures.
Published 1991
(Average: 7.00 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Art Direction: Don’t bother painting a cover. Try to push the new Star of the Guardians action figures.
Published 1991
(Average: 7.00 out of 10)Loading...
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July 14th, 2021 at 9:38 am
“Hey – your clothes squeak like mine!”
July 14th, 2021 at 10:54 am
“Luketh, I am your mother.”
“That’s not true, that’s impossible!”
“Search your not-at-all-Star-Wars feelings, my son. In your heart, you know it’s true.”
“NOOOO!!!”
July 14th, 2021 at 1:08 pm
No matter where she goes, there Tracy Hickman is.
July 14th, 2021 at 1:58 pm
They really did rip off the weapons from Han and Luke.
Those sneakers are pretty awesome, but white is a bad color for a dungeon.
July 14th, 2021 at 2:00 pm
So Margaret Weis is the star of The Guardians?
July 14th, 2021 at 2:41 pm
The game runner began mashing up Traveller and D&D elements, much to the confusion of the player characters.
July 14th, 2021 at 2:56 pm
Welcome to Madame Tussauds Wax Museum Annex of Forgettable Sci-Fi Characters: Star of the Guardians Basement Cavern!
July 14th, 2021 at 3:17 pm
What idiot builds a ramp with a side slope.
July 14th, 2021 at 4:44 pm
I guess “drawing a practical holster for your weapon” is as hard as drawing feet.
July 14th, 2021 at 5:06 pm
Quite apart from the whole ‘she brought a rapier to a gun-fight’ aspect, how exactly is she holding this weapon? Are the hilt and blade at 60 degrees to the grip?
July 14th, 2021 at 5:18 pm
Looks like a Death-Match-level game of Freeze Tag.
July 14th, 2021 at 7:03 pm
Their faces and clothing are lit from the foreground, but their boots are casting shadows in the opposite direction back towards the light source? Huh?
July 14th, 2021 at 7:16 pm
The King’s Sacrifice is always a less-than-brilliant chess move.
July 14th, 2021 at 7:31 pm
@fred: not to mention it seems to terminate in a clump of stalagmites. (One of which, now that I look at it, seems to have made a break for freedom and jumped over the bottom of the picture frame.)
July 15th, 2021 at 2:56 am
I’m always saying the covers look like the artist emptied out a toy box to do the cover, and at last I AM VINDICATED! Hope they weren’t mint in box Star Wars action figures.
So this is before Poser and other similar CG abominations… which means someone got paid to actually paint this.
I see Youll has appeared a number of times here.
@fred: The same one who decided using action figures with so little change was a good idea?
Or else the action figures are on a raked stage.
(I did one am-dram show with a partially-raked stage and the group never had one again thanks to complaints from the entire cast. Those whose roles didn’t require the elevation were lucky. I was not one of them.)
@Tat: I’m just trying to figure out how her not-a-lightsaber fits into that scabbard/holster thingy. Either it retracts, in which case the Escher-esque hilt doesn’t stay in it, or it’s a real blade, and it sticks out and trips and cuts her.
July 15th, 2021 at 3:10 am
@GSS ex-noob: she keeps it in her hair.
July 15th, 2021 at 8:15 am
“I use DarkSide Superlift to bring out the Sith in my hair. DarkSide – because you deserve it.”
July 16th, 2021 at 2:25 am
Her true evil was destroying ozone layers all over the galaxy with her hair spray.
July 16th, 2021 at 2:48 am
I will give credit where it’s due and note that this artist has a lot of talent. The textures, detail and lighting are remarkable.
But I suspect that the artist wasn’t very interested in the subject matter. This just feels like work to pay the rent and he’d rather be painting something else. To really be great at this sort of thing, you have to love the genre.
July 16th, 2021 at 7:06 pm
No, sir, I didn’t see you playing with your dolls again.