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A collection of fantasy stories? Well I know what they’ll want. A huge barbarian with a ponytail swinging his axe at randomly placed wood. Hmm, you’re right, needs thickened out. Throw a stereotype wizard/fireball combination in there and some damsel with a sword.
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March 9th, 2010 at 10:25 am
Traincrash lettering aside – Frazetta, where are you when we need you?
March 9th, 2010 at 11:38 am
Yea, I mean we can’t even make out a visible bum crack on that women back there.
I’m also not sure one can twist that way.
March 9th, 2010 at 11:44 am
“With a careless swipe of his double-headed axe, Dongor the Overenthusiastic managed to slice his own torso in half.”
March 9th, 2010 at 2:24 pm
Wow! ‘…fans of the genre will welcome these new outings.’
I love outings…will there be sandwiches or should I bring my own thermos?
March 9th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Maybe if you had a ThunderCats thermos and a Transformers lunchbox you might get away with it. But only if the outing was in a bus. More precisely, a yellow bus.
I really hope that cover came with a pair of 3D glasses, it’s too perfect not to be in 3D.
March 9th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
“Masters of Fantasy”? That’s stretching the definition of both those words to the breaking point. A more accurate title: “Hacks of Cliche.”
March 10th, 2010 at 8:24 am
I think the University of London should offer a ‘Masters of Fantasy’ programme. You’d end up with the letters ‘M.F.’ after your name, which could only be good.
March 10th, 2010 at 8:25 am
Also, shame on you, Good Show Sir commentators, for mocking the physically deformed fellow in the front! Such people are underrepresented in Heroic Fantasy art. Diversity should be celebrated. Although he’s not so much a hunchback, as a bizarrely over-muscled hunchside.
March 10th, 2010 at 10:19 am
If a Masters of Fantasy program ever exists… I’m right there.
And you are right Adam. We should be ashamed of ourselves.
Hunchside… hehehehe
March 10th, 2010 at 9:05 pm
Obligatory Pratchett quote: “I’ve never been at large. I’ve always been at hunched.”
(You just need to make the characters fifty years older and the stonework more ornate and it would be a relatively not-awful cover for _Interesting Times_. But anyone who didn’t get Hamish in his lethal wheelchair in there would be wasting a cover…)
May 12th, 2010 at 5:49 am
I’m almost certain that this picture was lifted from the front of a 2nd edition AD&D player’s guide.
December 13th, 2010 at 9:48 pm
“HULK SMASH PUNY FONTS!”
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:02 pm
I have the horrible feeling that that ripped barbarian in front is a lady, not a dude.
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:06 pm
“Hojo – toh – OHHHH – NNNOOO!! “
March 20th, 2012 at 2:24 am
Possibly a bad impression of a Pratchett-ficton-dwarf-lady. Er, without the beard.
No, no, it just doesn’t work.
The only explanation that fits is that he’s Mr. Apollo.
You know – – –
Five years ago I was a four-stone apology…
Today I am two separate gorillas!
That torso can’t be linked to the legs by any kind of regular human anatomy.
April 17th, 2013 at 10:03 pm
Masters of Fantasy eh… I’m really interested in reading a story by this “more” bloke
May 29th, 2013 at 4:17 am
@Tag Wizard: Sir, third solid candidate for a weird pecs tag. I believe this provides ample evidence to support your most excellent idea.
June 14th, 2015 at 6:39 pm
Nothing captures reader excitement like a good quote from ‘School Library Journal’!
June 14th, 2015 at 8:33 pm
Blurb Quote: “…fans of the genre will welcome these new outings.”
Finally! Who’s being outed in this book? Will the truth about Conan’s “male friend” be revealed? Are we going to be honest about Elric’s Spa and Sauna Club? They’re naming names, people!
June 15th, 2015 at 12:55 am
It’s called “Masters of Fantasy” but three of the five authors whose names are being dangled in front of us on the cover are women.
June 15th, 2015 at 8:54 am
Yeah, Tat, but if the title read “Masters & Mistresses of Fantasy”… kinda clunky, no?
I suggest the non-discriminatory title CHAMPIONS OF FANTASY… or even better, AUTHORS OF DISTINCTION IN FANTASY… or SUPER FRIENDS OF FANTASY…
[The men in white coats arrive]
June 15th, 2015 at 12:30 pm
@Tat Wood: Yeah, that’d go over well: Mistresses of Fantasy.
Weber Drake, Lackey Norton: Moon more
*surprise vagpunch*
May 26th, 2024 at 6:56 am
“Moon More” *what?* Or is that *who?*
May 26th, 2024 at 7:50 pm
@ARY, Anon: it’s not quite as clunky as the honest title would have been – ‘Fantasy Authors Not Ashamed to Write for BAEN’. Or maybe ‘The Best We Could Get Without Kompromat’.
May 27th, 2024 at 12:31 am
I am stunned by the barbarian’s pose. He looks like a doll with a ball joint waist that swivels over too far, and a head that does the same. It’s another case of raiding the toybox for models.
And rampant font abuse. The ‘w’ in Fawcett especially annoys me. It’s backwards.
@Tat: Too true.